A recent post from Blizzard has signed off on a ban on third party software that allows multiboxing – the act of emulating a single keystroke across multiple World of Warcraft clients. This will have a huge long term impact on the game which we’ll briefly discuss.
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I'm kind of torn on this. I flat out hate multiboxers, as someone who enjoys herbing. They ruin my experience. But…. I also understand that it's been a big part of the game for awhile, so there probably was another way to go around this. So…. I sympathize? But personally, I'm very happy!
Good.
Important note on this: the SOFTWARE is banned. You can still have multiple accounts, you just can't use third party software to control them.
The real question is why only now? Why not years ago when this started?
WOOT
It's fantastic. If someone wants to power level their alt and just /follow and alt+tab, have fun. Knock yourself out. So glad these botters are done.
HAHAHAHA Finally.
I am going to laugh so hard when i see the people that cheered to this news realize that multiboxing is not gone.The banning the soft mah dudes,not multiboxing per se.
https://youtu.be/jn2D2FAecoc
Great news.
I'm fine with them getting rid of it. But I also want them to get rid of DBM which is a third party addon that allows you to gain an advantage raiding. I also want macros gone which allow you to push one button to do multiple actions. Ex. /target "name" /cast "spell". Don't cry about what is actually cheating if you don't have the brain to think further beyond what you want. The reason people hate it is for two reasons: They can't understand how to do it or They don't have the money to get started.
Good call
This deserves more views 👍
Finally, Make Gathering Great Again!
I'm super excited about this. Now they just have to take care of the boosting services!!
I Have played since Vanilla. I HATE Multi-Boxing which is just honestly exploiting & Botting. 90% of the multi boxers I witness are obviously botting; it's that easy to see Nothing as ugly as Droods headbanging into trees. * Ban them all *
There will be very little economic change. Perhaps players can apply themselves. I have always made great money in game and have never multi-boxed.
Nobody farms 500k+ tidespray on their own, yet thats what is being posted on high pop realms all the time. Prices are so low on mats on Ravencrest EU I filled 3 guildbanks, well 4 sort of, and like 10 alts banks etc full of mats. And I could, and feel like buying more…This didn't even cost me anything kinda. Anyway Ive secured my gold i BFA, so im ready if Shadowlands messes with AH playing…But I doubt it, ill continue making millions just AH playing no farming.
This is very very good!
well time to find a new mmo
I remember being frustrated trying to gather mats in Nazjatar. I think that this is a good thing for the average player. If you gather yourself whether for sale or personal use it will be much easier. Prices will go up on the AH which is a good thing for those who sell mats. We have been taking a beating for years IMO.
Great change, sick of multi boxers taking over a zone.
This is awesome
Works fine still – WITHOUT breaking any of the new rules, since 2 days ago. NP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9-VsXbir0
Great news which is long overdue
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Well as a frequent victim of Multi-boxer PvPers, I can't be happier at this change. Bye Felicia, don't let the door hit your asses on the way out.
What about bots that play 3-5 chars at once without simultaneous input? Multi boxers have money. Botsbotsbots
I laughed, mainly because I remember that five boxer shaman that ganked us. Lol
Good, it's about time too.
Report all type of multiboxers guys!
I don't think this will stop multi-boxing, but it will slow it down a little which is a start.
They will just have their characters follow the main character and rather then sending all the inputs at once, the software will just either tab between the clients or move the mouse (if they are using tiled clients instead of overlapping clients) in a delayed fashion to emulate someone tabbing between clients. It's better than nothing and the small scale multi-boxers will probably stop, but I still think you will still see multi-boxers at popular farm spots and still see stacks of 10 druids draining your herb nodes. The software will evolve and the multi-boxer won't really notice much of a difference.
you dont need key broadcasting software to multibox and playing more than one account at a time and having toons on follow is still allowed. so multiboxing is not dead. Blizzards action is aiming at botters who abused the key broadcasting software.
I totally understand why bliz have done it. But what they should have done . Is told us they was stopping multiboxing when they announced shadow lands. Not let all the multiboxers buy 4, 8 16 or more and then stop multiboxing. And then refuse to refund shadow lands pre order if you paid with bliz balance
Only the software is banned Multiboxing is not. Multiboxing is not dead. Have you never heard of hardware boxing? This action only raised the bar of getting into multiboxing.
Multiboxing is not gone, just software solution is no longer viable.