Multiboxers ruin the game and is against terms and conditions

[Ragnvaldr-les-clairvoyants]

Posted a topic here before and am doing it again. Impossible to farm any herb in Nazjatar. Multiboxers come and deplete all nodes. It’s exhausting and honestly gives way too many problems. Have seen a lot of responses regarding that so let me answer to those:

• no multiboxers dont make the price of zin anthid fall, in fact quite the opposite. Zin anthid on mys erver reached 150 gold/unit with only 2 sellers that were selling over 8000 units of zin anthid. 2 multiboxers have the monopoly on everything and therefore do their own prices . other people cannot even compete becasue of the depleted nodes 24h/24h. So no, it doesn’t benefit the economy of the server.

• No it’s not teh same as farming with 10 people on the map. I have been in a phase where there were 10 individual players farming zin anthid and i got three or four times in an hour the number of zin anthid I usually get when there is a multiboxer around.

• although it does not count as botting and blizzard deliberately chose to close an eye on this it is game breaking and is you are onw armode it is impossible to even compete with a multiboxer that will attack you on sight (happened to me many times)

• Finally, the worst kind are those that are serverhopping, and deplete nodes of our server to go sell the herbs on another.

This problem is getting out of hand and an increasing number of people is pissed about that. I am beginning to hope that all multiboxers get their account permanently banned while I know that it’s not an offense big enough to deserve that. Fix this during bfa or at least fix this for shadowlands.

Since vanilla i’ve been always farming my own material and now an external program with game breaking mechanics is making this impossible. How the hell is this still not banned?

quickly went over blizzard terms and conditions:
Harassment, “griefing,” abusive behavior or chat, conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others, deliberate inactivity or disconnecting, and/or any other activity which violates Blizzard’s Code of Conduct or In-Game Policies.

“any other activity that violates Blizzards code of conduct or in game plicies”: very well, let’s take a look:

Cheating

You are responsible for how you and your account are represented in the game world. Cheating in any fashion will result in immediate action. Using third-party programs to automate any facet of the game, exploiting bugs, or engaging in any activity that grants an unfair advantage is considered cheating.

Having 10 characters farming and depleting any node is an unfair advantage over any player, plus it uses a program that replicates and automatizes therefore all the commands used by teh player. This software is authorized by blizzard so i’m going to focus on teh unfair advantage.
Taking all the nodes depleting them for other players confers an unfair advantaage: with Warmode on having 10 players to kill only 1 is also an unfair advantage, therefore multiboxing SHOULD be considered as cheating by blizzard own temrs and conditions.

Behaviour

Behaviour that intentionally detracts from others’ enjoyment (such as griefing, throwing, feeding, etc.) is unacceptable. We expect our players to treat each other with respect, and promote an enjoyable environment. Acceptable behaviour is determined by player reports and Blizzard’s decision, and violating these guidelines will result in account and gameplay restrictions.

Now multiboxing that kill other single players on sight in warmode also violate the code of conduct. It is unacceptable that multiboxing is still authorized.

[Celz-aerie-peak]

Completely agree Ragnvaldr and have also raised a post about this, upon advisement from a GM - Bot Busting (happy to receive a bump to keep it active and on the radar)

Let’s hope that Blizzard listen and take action to rid the game of this for good!

[Malgrok-sulfuron]

The main issue here is the bad design of the gathering system. They should revert it to a “one-tap-per-node” or make it personal like FFXIV.

Multiboxing is perfectly fine with the TOS.
It’s not unfair advantage, and all the point you made about the “10 players vs 1 players” thing is irrelevant because the TOS is evaluated on a account basis, not a player one.

To quote a GM :
“We have drawn a line. You’re talking about automated behavior. Multiboxing is not automated. There is no automation. There is no great advantage, there is no illicit behavior, there is no overwhelming benefit, there is no automation.”

Belfaire, Blizzard Poster

https://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/38904-multiboxing-rules-and-semantics/#post341

[Ragnvaldr-les-clairvoyants]

Multi boxers have a whole set of unfair advantages that can go from wiping guild raids (wow classic) to controlling completely the economy, to faster levelling of all their characters because they can solo content that should be played in group. It is basically something that works around how the game is supposed to be played and just for that should not be allowed.
Secondly, the action on the first account is indeed player based, but on all the others it is still a software that automatises the movement or the action by reproducing the one of the player, it is still an indirect control method that is assimilable to botting.

Now I know that blizzard considers advantages on account base and not on player base but this is simply not how it should be done, more and more players are beginning to multi box rendering the game experience completely horrible for most players who play “Normally”.

The philosophy of people that multi box is basically to have more accounts to allow them to farm better, or kill better, or pvp better, or level up better, the whole thing is about getting an edge you wouldn’t have if you were playing the regular way. If it didn’t give an advantage people would not bother doing it. Therefore even multi boxers know that this gives them an unfair advantage, because that is the whole point of multi boxing.

I stand on my point and I see more and more people being pissed about this.

The issue of farming could be fixed with the gathering system, but it wouldn’t fix all the others (levelling, pvp), the real solution would be to ban multi boxing altogether, consider it as cheating and everyone should be able to play on equal footing, and if people want to farm more well just play more then, like everyone else.