I have to admit, dear Blizzard, that I feel like you are laughing into my face.
I am a farmer, I love to go and farm some herbs or ores to relax.
However, each and every day, i meet groups of 10 druids, absolutely obviously using bots, flying there for hours.
As there are for sure some logs for loots, why is this not trackable and instantly banned?
you answered to me: "This is because we always ban these in waves. "
so after they earn millions of golds, resend them to their main accounts, buy the auctioneer mounts for 5M golds⌠then, possibly, after a month of more farming and earning through real - money - gold - selling , they get banned.
Please, dont let the farming professions get even more frustrating and start doing something with the people using bots. Every single day, several groups.
And dont tell me to use reports, if it is against your own rules, you should yourself find a way to discover those on your own and INSTANTLY ban them.
Thank you,
Arwyn
Well a Multiboxer does not have to be a bot.
you cant really target a flower, so there is no ingame macro - or i could not find one for hours, that could loot something at the very same second without being targeted.
And alt-tabing on 10 accounts within 1 second does not really sound possible
i agree here, it shows up in your chat box whoever performs whatever on what node, but 10 different names pop up together the same second. That HAS to be a bot. Im tired of it. But blizz dont careâŚ
Sigh, here we go againâŚ
Those are not bots. Those are characters linked in what is called a multibox.
A multibox setup involves a person making several separate World of Warcraft accounts and running the game on each account simultanously. They are also using software that duplicates key presses. The end result is that the person is playing one character, and all the other characters are duplicating every action that âmainâ character performs.
Multiboxing is not viewed by Blizzard as botting because there is no scripting involved and there are no actions performed by characters without an input (keypress) from a human being. Multiboxing is not against the Terms of Service, is perfectly legal and is not punished by Blizzard in any way. By reporting multiboxers as bots, you are taking up the customer serviceâs time and making it harder for them to deal with actual bots and hackers, of which there are plenty⌠But none of them are in that 10-character train you saw herbing in Nazjatar. Because after all, just like you noted,
so those had to be multiboxers and not botters. Bots can only follow a script and need targetting macros to interact with game objects, they canât identify where to go and what part of the screen to click to pick up a herb. This means that bots are usually utilized to do mob farming in high-density spots where they can just perform a simple, completely automated âtarget X thing use Y ability loot target skin targetâ loop using macros, not for herb farming that requires following a complex route with variable, untargetable herb spawns. The essential difference between a bot and a multibox setup is that the former involves running a script and once that script is running, you can leave the PC and go on a trip to Las Vegas or wherever, while the latter involves a human being sitting at their PC and actually playing the game.
My advice is make an alch and get in touch with you local multi boxer. Set up an bulk buy deal at a discount and covert to pots and sell
isnt this actually the deffinition of something that is not allowed by blizzard? as per blizzard anti cheating agreement, they do not support âunauthorized third party programsâ. So a software that is copying and duplicating key presses officially allowed? if so, may i please get a list of these allowed softwares, listing the one you mention as well?
Thanks.
Third party software are allowed as long as they dont allow cheating, or automation in that case. (Same does for discord, youâre mouse driver or any software like that)
Multiboxing software does not do automation as definited by blizard.
From a clientâs perspective, you press one key, you have one action.
Btw, you dont need a software to multibox. You can also plug a keyboard to multiple computers.
âdo not allow automationâ - this is exactly the point - for me, having 9 characters automatically doing the same thing on 9 different accounts, when you only do it on the 10th - still an automation.
Alt tabing and doing it by yourself? okay, here you go, pay for the 10 accounts and alt tab how much you like.
9 characters automatically doing what the first does - still automation. even though you are doing it for the first only. the remaining 9 are pure automation, as they are only running on a software, not really on your action.
But you judge from a player perspective, the TOS is from a clientâs perspective. And if you take each client individualy, their is one keypress and one action, so no automation.
It doesnât matter if the input is broadcasted to multiple windows, from a windows perspective, you get one human input and you get one action.
Anyway, farming druids do not need input-broadcasting, it just make their life easier. If needed, they could round robin clic and just make 10 clic in like 2 sec to collect on all their toon without alt tabing.
well that is actually exactly the same. If you broadcast it to 1 window only, still the remaining ones do it automatically.
in other words, taking this method into the world of raids.
there is a boss, lets take some âdummy bossâ. you get first person to play 2 tanks. you get second person to play 5 same healers.
and you get third person playing 13 dmgers. they kill the boss, because they are all awesome and know the tactic and it is a dummy boss.
is this also an option? so blizzard would be absolutely fine with 3 people killing the boss for 20?
Anyway, still, i consider this an exchange of player´s opinions on reading and understanding the TOS.
Is there an OFFICIAL declaration somewhere, anywhere, that blizzard says - yes guys, feel free to do this, its fine by us?
Sure, you can see a lot archived here :
https://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/46453-Blues-on-Boxingwell, i may disagree as much as i like, i suppose this is official enough.
guess still gonna hate them, but at least no more reports from meâŚ
thanks for sharing.
Multiboxing software is allowed and authorized. No one gets banned for using it. I canât provide you with a list of allowed multiboxing software, Blizzard does not publish a list like that, just like they donât make a list of specifically âallowedâ addons.
No, multiboxing is not automation. For a behavior to be considered automation or âbottingâ by Blizzard, that behavior must involve in-game characters taking actions without ANY input from a player. Like I explained earlier: if a multiboxer presses a key and that keypress is duplicated, thatâs not considered automation because there is player input. If a person initiates a script that operates an in-game character automatically and the person can then go walk their dog or go ice-skating while their PC is running and the character is, for example, skinning mobs - thatâs automation because character actions happen with no player input.
There are people that have ran levelling dungeons while multiboxing. With how instanced content is designed, you can only multibox low-level instances or legacy content though, it would actually be impossible for three people to succesfuly multibox a current expansion raid or even gear-appropriate dungeon boss. But yes, itâs allowed. Itâs even allowed in PvP, though likewise, current combat and class design make it virtually impossible to get decent results. Gathering is really the last bastion of multiboxing.
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