isboxer’s dev on blast
So Multiboxers are from now on going to get the Banhammers.
Will Untercutters in the AH Get punished aswell?, its just as big of a problem.
The new AH System allows peoples to stack all the mats into 1 Pile for peoples to use Buyout from.
Peoples does still Under-cut stuff.
Will this be fixed aswell?!.
THank you!!!
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Haha, suck it multi-boxers!
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I dont even multibox
This is the stuff I’m taking about
You know zero about me clearly but you are happy to assume the worst and eager to try to rub it in
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People keep writing that multiboxing is banned when it’s just isboxer that is, The same people are probably going to report every multiboxer and flood the ticket systems with pointless accusations.
This is what happens when Blizzard make simple statements without being really clear.
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boosting is a service, and thus a trade, you just don’t trade an item for gold, you trade a service for gold
isn’t that called prostitution though? pretty sure that’s frowned upon by most people.
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///10Chars
It’s the oldest profession, not sure why you think it’s frowned upon by most people.
I admit this is not one of the scenarios I never imagine Blizzard will make, I believe it was more probable for them to change herb recollection to make it useless to use multiboxing.
Many people just asked to not obey the rules and they want Blizzard to just ban multiboxers when those had not broken any rules, and that is wrong, the rules are the rules you like it or not, people shouldn’t be punished for doing something that is not againts the rules just because you don’t like it. When something is legal but it is wrong the right thing to do is what Blizzard did now, change the rules, and from that moment that action is not legal anymore and so anyone who uses this multiboxing software starting today could be banned because yestarday was legal and today it is illegal.
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Should have been banned in TBC… took you long enough to know what the player base did all them years its as close to botting as real botting, who ever thought 1 button = 7 actions was fine guess he’s gone from Blizzard 
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I don’t feel it was ever that bad back in the day - you saw it sporadically but that was more for a PVP thing, I don’t remember the AH being affected that much.
But I could be wrong.
It’s hard to argue against this in the light of the flocks of druids farming herb nodes that have been a PAIN for a year. Good riddance.
It wasn’t.
Multi-boxing is bad now because of character nodes, AOE looting, character specific mob loot and sharding.
One multi boxer can click on one node and get ore for every single character.
“Advanced” multi-boxers are even spreading their characters out across shards to mob farm.
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Your right but x5 Shaman+Windfury says should been banned back then hehe
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I promised myself I wouldn’t get caught up in this - I guess I’m just weak.
TL;DR - Not defending multiboxing, just trying to get as many people to understand how underwhelming this post is by blizzard and how little it does to fix the experiences that you as the players do not like around this topic.
Not completely false, 5 people - I yield I was too absolute - do you think 5x more players will be out herbing now? I wonder what the impact to that may be.
I think that It is still worth logging on 5 accounts, manually setting them to follow using a macro rather than the single follow me keybind included in ISS (4 key clicks vs 1 - I suspect from immediate to around 3-4 seconds setup time). Moving to a node, manually clicking on each window (remember, they can fit the windows dynamically in 1 screen and shift them easily with clicks or keypresses). This previously was a pain because you had to align the cameras correctly, tbh you’ll still loot the node 5 times in 3-6 seconds as you just need to start the loot and alt tab while the cast starts).
Then we’re back at square one, but with a slight annoyance to the mboxer, unless incorporating a non software or detectable approach to pushing a single keypress to multiple exes
This is hard to rebuttal to as your experiences are your own,
Workarounds: shard hopping, flying, warmode shifts all work around this for the single instances where someone is a bad apple. pvp combat feature I referenced also applies to world pvp with that in mind, (and I’m not just saying your bad here I swear)
I suspect that a single good player would be similarly impactful to your experience as this example was. You’d just have nothing to argue on.
Always could. Just to less profit vs time.
I empathise with your plight, this policy change will likely not change your experience unless blizzard announces game changes to help, not policy ones.
If you are a player, farming herbs / mining nodes on a single toon in order to fund the content you wish to participate in, you will benefit from this change.
I would assume this is a minority of players, not majority.
If you are a player, making gold from quests / kills / lucky drops / ah flipping / old content farming / selling boosts / providing boosts / non mythic+ content that has trash drops / arena rewards / BG rewards (And specifically do not gather resource nodes on a single toon in order to fund your game.
You will be negatively impacted by this as you will instead purchase consumables using gold made from other means. I believe there are more players in this bracket.
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And remember - This policy change by blizzard does not stop botters (who already circumvent detection and punishment). They will continue to operate.
Multiboxing as a whole is not dead, and can continue with an efficiency loss (which I hope I’ve accurately captured in my description above). Nullifying a significant set of benefits what players are looking to reap.
New hardware, virtualisation and detection prevention methods will overtime become more widespread, the lower the risk to the player - the larger the uptake in the risk (Think about gold buying / selling for example).
I just need to clarify my stance before hitting reply here.
I think the game would benefit from the reduction of advantages gained from having money / better hardware. (You’ll still have a disadvantage so someone with lower ping and higher refresh rate within reason). What about the lads that have TSM, are they next?
I think it is unhealthy in the game that outside applications and hardware provide an individual with more resources per timeslice they have played. (Still achievable with big economy addons, logs, addons (such as weak auras) - where is the line?
I think it is not enjoyable to feel defeated by someone who has paid for the ability to easily dispatch you. (Still achievable from buying gold, buying boosts - getting power / gear - or simply put, I could say “Paying 1000g for every kill you get on player X in this Zone” and have purchased power so to speak).
I also think that these adversities will exist in the game not because of multiboxing, I think multiboxing exists in this game because of these badly designed game features which have half handily relied on the development of external software to polish and simplify unwanted game mechanics in order to mitigate the time required for blizzard to address the reason for these methods to be used in the first place.
You could argue that having a node lootable by more than one toon be the problem
You could argue that gaining an advantage to turning warmode on encourages players who do not enjoy pvp combat to be present.
You could argue that the reliance on consumables is negative to the game.
But instead, we accept blizzards symbolic change and expect our experiences to be improved, assume mboxing is nothing but a negative impact to us as individuals and pat blizzard on the back.
Let’s see what they do after this policy change - drop rates of herbs, detection of botters, enforcement of their rules.
This is the stuff that matters - we shouldn’t praise blizzard for words, but for action.
This is the big part, it fixes nothing - it just makes single key broadcasting for multiboxers against TOS, they have invested money, time and resources to start multiboxing - some have been doing it before single key broadcasting was even in the game.
Multiboxing is not against TOS yet, Blizzard is happy to take your money for more than one account, you can still do ALL the things you could do before. Just not with Mboxing software broadcasting a single key to all characters.
Be angry that this is blizzards solution that you feel you can’t enjoy herbing as a profession.
Be angry that blizzard have sat on this topic for the whole games existence and with all that time - this is the solution they announce.
I know I am
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Blizzard kind of went about this in a bad way, They could have made specific multiboxing rules. Would have been way better.
For example in the tos: When multiboxing you should not do the following:
- Farm multiple nodes with more than one character
- Sign up for any pve or pvp content with more than one character with pugs
- Disrupt towns and cities using multiple characters at once to gain advantage.
Just examples. You could add more or adjust them.
As I said in an earlier post people are saying multiboxing is banned, it isn’t. Isboxer is.
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i assume you’re a multiboxer because (surprise) only a multiboxer would be mad about multiboxing getting banned.
you’re like that guy who comes home from a late night out, with bloodshot red eyes, acting confused and disorientated and then have the gall to tell your mom that she didn’t see you smoke that joint, so she couldn’t possibly prove that you actually did.
if it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and looks like a duck, then there’s a good chance its a duck.
you are the duck in this scenario.
Reflects more on you than me dude
As I said, I’m not a multiboxer
I just have empathy
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It’s not banned though. What don’t you get about it? It’s certain software that’s been banned aka Isboxer.
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