World of Warcraft :Multiboxing Herbalism and Mining. Is this ok?

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Found a player mutiboxing gathering professions. I`m wondering if this is ok ,cuz it does not fell ok.

By mutiboxing 5 chars at one time he can make 5 times more materials then the rest of us, in the same amount of time. It does not feel fair :frowning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHQ1ldpHlI&feature=youtu.be

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He also pays for 5 Accounts, So… why wouldnt it be fair?

Gather 4 other friends and farm together, do get 5 subs and do it yourself, its still mad expensive

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Multiboxing for any reason is not against the rules.

Botting is against the rules.

There is a difference :slight_smile:

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with the amount of gold he`s making from mutiboxing professions , i dont think he spends a penny on subs.
If all of us would do the same thing, how would the game feel?

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Even if they are paying for their sub with the gold they make, someone is buying the token to sell for gold. Blizzard still make the sub money, one way or the other.

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Gathers with 5 pays 5, gathers with 1 pays 1, gathers with 10 pays 10… is there any difference?
If you wanna be really wow rich, grunt work is not the way, you need to be auction house baron

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the difference is the time you put in.

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I dont see how that comes into the equation

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Multiboxers may be annoying but take comfort in the knowledge that they eventually go irreversibly insane in the membrane with the strain of keeping track of multiple toons. They would be better off mining bitcoin.

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See, he pays 5x the cost of your sub, and because he does that, he also earn 5x ish more than you. Multiboxing is not against the rules.

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I can’t believe so many people defend multiboxers and say they arent botting. They follow one characters and the others automaticly are made to do the same actions. even if multibotters control one of their chars that means the other ones are practically bots. If they actually have wow running 5 times and play each char with a keyboard and mouse then sure. But we all know 4 chars are automated like bots to follow the controlled char

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Fairly sure it does not count as automated if by pressing W all of your chars move forward and by pressing X all of your characters use charge at a mob.

Bots on the other hand would have a set path to follow based on how the user sets it up and only pick up herbs and in case of being threatened they spit holy venom up to 25 feet.

The difference?
One still requires you to pay attention, to constantly play while the other allows you to go make dinner.

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multiboxing is scumbaggery is its purest definition but because blizzard make more money from it, its fine.
doesn’t matter that the vast majority of players hate it and players that do it, once blizzard get a few extra sheckels from it then its fine.

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I’m not defending anything. I’m pointing out they are different things.

What it comes down to is a multiboxer is a person pressing keys to control all of their accounts at once. A bot is an automated programme that requires no interaction from the account user. It will go out and perform actions without anyone sitting at the keyboard.

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I do this with 3 accounts, The amount of whispers I get saying “reported” is unbelievable. No matter how much you explain to them that it’s allowed they keep going on like you’re botting. I just ignore them now. I’ve never had a warning in wow ever. So yes it’s allowed and reports for multiboxing doesn’t work as it’s allowed.

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Multiboxing is the act of duplicating input to multiple game clients, which still requires human interaction. Operating Systems do the same thing. A /follow is use of intended game mechanics.

It really does not matter what way people argue, by the strictest definition of botting, it really is not botting at all and therefore not against the rules. If Blizzard were to want Multi-boxing to be against the rules, they would have to specifically state in their TOS that opening more than one client to duplicate input across them is not allowed.

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they are reporting you to finally force blizzard to accept that the vast majority of players absolutely hate multiscumbags and want blizzard to change the TOS to enable banning them.
Fingers crossed blizzard finally accept that there is huge hatred for multiscumbagging and ban it.

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Blizz should but won’t.
Devs went to great length with catch up mechanism to avoid people with less time to play to fall too much behind people who plays more causally and added huge gold sink, cut gold making and add huge commision to AH to deflate economy.
And yet multiboxing is allowed even if goes exactly against what they developed.
Subs greed is the only explanation.

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There is one Multiboxer on Draenor that has like 10 -12 Chars in one “box”, it may not be against the rules but that does not mean I do have to like these kinds of ppl… or like what they are doing.

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Its scummy as hell but its not against tos

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