It’s obviously going to have an affect in reducing the numbers. I don’t see the point of anyone denying that.
There will be some that persist, of course, and use other means that aren’t software dependent.
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And the ones that persist will be alot slower since they have to repeat every single click now manually. I do think that eventually they’ll get tired aswell since tabbing between multiple clients everytime you find 1 node will become tedious quickly.
By 1%? /10ch
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We can all just make up numbers and percentages. I’m not sure how that helps.
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Yeah, I know, but what do you think the number is? How much gold / materials is farmed by multiboxers with respect to bots? It might not be even 1%, quite frankly. It might easily be something like 0.01%.
As I said, it is puzzling to me why they did this policy update. It will have zero effect on materials / gold, that’s for sure. So I guess it was about some other specific complaints.
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Yay, good change before new expansion
That is your opinion and you are welcome to it. I don’t agree. My gameplay has been impacted by multiboxers who strip herb zones. If their number is reduced I will be able to find herbs and not have all nodes depleted before my eyes.
The most joyous time I had herbing this expansion was when a few of us got dumped into a new shard and there wasn’t a single multiboxing flock of druids. General chat was full of OMG I can herb, there are herbs everywhere. I only needed to do a few circuits and I had what I needed.
This thread is full of people who are pleased at this change because they suffer with the current systems. There isn’t really a lot of difference between a bot and a multiboxer these days. The same negative affects bots have on the economy and gameplay happen with the mass multiboxing we see today.
I look forward to seeing what positive impact the reduction in this type of gameplay will have for the rest of us.
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People - you included - suffer predominantly from bots, but since they also suffer a tiny bit from multiboxers they welcome this change and think it will fix material prices or whatever. It won’t. That’s it.
No I’ve suffered from multiboxers.
I have spent forever on these forums explaining to people that multiboxing is not necessarily botting. I’ve been accused of defending them, even supporting them etc etc.
Now in the most ironic way you are telling me that I’m not understanding the difference. You are barking up the wrong tree.
This change will make it a lot easier to ban both, as there is no working out if it’s a boxer or a bot. They will both be a punishable offense once the changes come in.
I don’t know why some want to be so negative about a positive change.
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I am not saying you are not understanding the difference, I am saying the influence on the economy is incomparable.
BTW, responding to what you added - the change will not make it easier to “ban both”, because multiboxing is still allowed, it’s just some specific software that isn’t. Multiboxing might get more difficult, true. But ban investigations won’t get easier one bit.
All in all, I simply don’t get the reason for the change. Maybe it exists. But I am not seeing it. I am not multiboxing myself just so we are clear.
You do not understand, bots are run with software, boxing with software is going to be against the rules when the change comes in.
So software dectected does not need an extensive investigation as to whether it’s legitimate or not. It’s a blanket ban/action.
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LOL, you seem to think that “detecting software” is somehow universal. As in, they “detect” that “software” was in use and now according to the changes in policy they will use that to say “you are a multiboxer” and ban you. In reality different software is detected differently. The entire change is simply them adding a couple more signatures for specific titles and versions of software that supports multiboxing.
How well they can “detect software” generically you can see from how many bots we still have. (We continue to have tons, they have these waves that clean them up but shortly after each wave they reappear in similar amounts, this is a stable cycle that has been going on for 10+ years now.)
Blizzard has generally banned botters in ban waves, they gather enough information on a particular botting programme(s) to catch all the cheaters in one ban wave.
If you report a bot and it successfully results in action you will get a thank you mail in game for your contribution.
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ban them! ban them all!!!
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The thing is there will still be multiboxing herbing druid bots, The thing about people who bot is they don’t care about tos. They make as much profit as they can before they get banned. All it’s doing is punishing random multiboxers who just did stuff for themselves with maybe the exception of the druids in surumar farming raw gold.
People don’t realise most multiboxers don’t act like scumbags, very few do. However the very few do it in such a way you all notice.
The rule doesn’t even apply to me. So not like I’m being biased. However I don’t think there is a need to punish someone using Isboxer to farm old raids and transmorg.
And that being against tos, did it stop the bots stealing your herbs? Now what makes people think a few lines of text added to the rulebook will make them stop?
Botting is probably the worst rule you can break on wow. Yet they did it and didn’t care. So I don’t understand how people think they won’t exist anymore?
The power of greed showed here, they need those multiple account subs f…n disgusting.
So basically what you’re suggesting is that we should do nothing and just let it all happen, because it doesn’t make a difference anyway, right?
What a ** take, honestly. It doesn’t matter how much you think it will help.
Its like saying we don’t need police because we have criminals with or without their existence anyway. Its beyond silly
I did not have bots depleting herb nodes, I had multiboxers deplete the herb nodes.
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i think needs to be applied to booster spammers too
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That wasn’t the point was it. There was something done about it. The same solution was used aka a rule wrote in the tos. It didn’t stop them. Also don’t call me that. I don’t appreciate people calling me that especially not to my face on the internet.
Multiboxing bots.