You guys are really defending the cheater who’s concurrently controlling 24 accounts at once and crashing players out of BGs? You think he’s actually using WoW’s APIs to control those 24 accounts at once, rather than highly complex 3rd party automation software to do that? You think that guy is an honorable member of the WoW community whose reputation has now been unfairly tarnished by this thread?
This is OBVIOUSLY a case of cheating and it should get attention from Blizzard. If WoW’s current ToS doesn’t classify this as cheating, then it obviously needs to get revised. The only people who keep defending these cheaters are probably multiboxers themselves.
Multiboxing in it self is currently not a bannable offence from Blizzard’s point of view.
However, disrupting other players is. These pictures does not show if the multiboxer was disrupting though, but if you know that he was disrupting the gameplay for everyone else, then I would suggest you to submit a ticket to customer support and report the player where you explain how and when it happened.
The only reason Multiboxers exist is to farm huge amounts of gold though resource collecting or boosting. That gold is also not to “buy” a Long Boi or WoW tokens for game-time. He/she is already running multiple accounts and paying multiple subscriptions to be able to do this. The money they spent on that could have been used to buy WoW tokens and traded for gold.
That gold is being sold for real money RMT in the real world, the same thing the Gallywix community was doing. Blizzard if you want to find and stop RMT start by looking at the multiboxers.
Well then, they don’t mind making a video clip and upload it on YouTube showing how they manually play without any automation, now do they? 25 accounts that is.
Forget the current WoW ToU for a second and ask yourself:
Is using 3rd-party automation software to control 23 additional WoW accounts, without requiring human input for each individual account and action to perform actions such as moving around, collecting resources (thereby getting potentially 23 times as many herbs or minerals and hindering other players from farming by immediately exhausting resource nodes), targeting enemies and casting spells (thereby being able to insta-kill people in PvP), something you consider cheating?
I think 99.99% of all gamers would agree that that’s obviously cheating.
If WoW’s ToU doesn’t clearly classify this as cheating, then Blizzard needs to update their ToU.
It’s not what the 99.99% of players think, it’s what Blizzard defines it as. Each keypress is going to each Warcraft login.
It’s not automation, it’s sending the keypress to each Warcraft. It’s like the difference between listening to a band live and listening to their Live CD.
Why, though? In my opinion, if multiboxing is allowed there’s no reason to ban botting. The only reason Blizz allows multiboxing is their own ineptitude. And this will have to change. Again - used to be you were only able to run 3-5 instances of the game before your PC ran out of RAM. So Blizz didn’t have to do anything. Now you can easily get a PC that can run 20 to 50 instances of the game. It’s not expensive at all. So it’s Blizz’s job to combat multiboxing now, when one person can control 50 characters simultaneously.
One person behind 5 characters is harmless. One person controlling a raid of DKs (check out Asmon finding the damage cap, DK stacking is actually broken) is wrong. And the problem isn’t the DK’s, it is the multiboxing.
And by the way, me and many others still insist that using any 3rd party tools to help with the input towards multiple clients is against the ToS, the same one banning botting.
PS: Blizz also stinks at catching bots. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them in dungeons even. People on the forums are always complaining about seeing the same bots running rampant for weeks or months.
There’s no difference. You can run 30 instances of WoW for 8 hours or run 10 instances 24/7, it’s exactly the same. Then again, you can run 30 instances 24/7, but there’s people who multibox 100+ accounts, so I guess the water’s getting muddy.
Get your head out of yourself. You’re seemingly the only one who’s fine with all the multiboxers, and you’re the only one defending Blizzard on this.
Laws and regulations are frequently changed when they don’t work. Pretty much all WoW players agree that multiboxing is cheating and therefore want Blizzard to change the ToU, which is basically what this thread is about. Stop protecting Blizzard on this.
Let me try and educate you. A multibotter plays one account and all the rest automatically follow him. A multiboxers inputs go to every instance of Warcraft and they control all the characters. If you say anything else then you are not correct and have no idea what you are on about.
Lol what?! You think there is no difference in 20 separate characters controlled by different ppl and one guy controlling 20 of them at the same time? Your logic here is just funny the difference is my friend that when you get hit by the same ability at almost exact same time it’s insta death for you. There is no way 20 random people could manage to do that in wpvp, you will probably die, but not in an instant and you have a chance to escape at least.
