people can't tell multiboxers and botters apart, making it so its "one action per character" is pretty simple to tell the difference with now. Still a great decision, do you want to pick herbs and make money? This change is for you. how about be able to not get wtfpwned in world pvp 'cause some guy comes out of stealth with 20 druids and one shots you with moonfire/starsurge?
Multiboxing isn't banned. You can still play on multiple accounts at once but you have to control them separately, which means alt-tabbing and doing stuff manually on each character. You cannot use software that mirrors the actions on your keyboard/main account and does the same to the other accounts. Which is good. I don't mind people multiboxing while for example farming world bosses or whatever. This doesn't affect the gameplay at all. But I am strongly against multiboxing while farming gold: picking herbs and ores and other gold farms. This does affect other people's gameplay, ruins the economy and is an absolute pain. How will this affect people doing it? Well, imagine alt-tabbing on your 16 accounts just to pick a flower. So good job Blizzard. I'm very happy with this decision.
What these two wowhead articles have shown today, is that the average human being still has trouble grasping information logically.
Does this mean when I see a group of 5+ characters all with variations of the same name moving around in perfect synchronicity I should report them for (more than likely) using input software?
So now with all the new information, no one has mentioned the elephant in the room. isboxer. I run 4 accounts to utilize the benefit of the window layouts and resolution help, I do not farm, I do not run dungeons as a team or anythign like this, I just utilize it for crafting, and doing one thing on one, while doing another on another. Is this going to be a problem for people like me? the simple joes?
Multiboxers are a plague. The other day I was in Drustvar and was wondering why the area I was in got laggy. I zoomed my camera around and there was a multiboxer on a ton of druids spamming spells.When I got mining/herbing all I see is groups of them going from node to node. I make it sometimes to a node, but most times I get to one and they always vanish. There are so many groups of them all going in different directions that it makes a normal player who is just trying to fly around not able to hardly get any. Then where they are running so many accounts doing it, they can spam the AH making the price whatever they want.F$%k them.
This basically just means accounts wont be banned but will become too laborious and inefficient to be worthwhile. If they continue to use broadcasting software they will be banned eventually.You now have to hide the fact that you're using input broadcast and genuinely have to fool blizzard into believing you're controlling all 40 accounts with manual inputs. It's completely unfeasible. You can multibox 2-3 accounts manually if you want to meme in world pvp on classic or something but large scale multiboxing is utterly dead.
Some pay for the account, others sustain themselves with gold farms and buying tokens for gold. The latter does not make blizzard money, only takes tokens from someone else by abusing a script to make more gold. The change on policy specifically targets the second kind of person which includes botters.
I came here to see the crybabies
I dont understand whats so confusing here, the original article made it pretty clear that using third party programs to facilitate multiboxing were going to be against ToS. It was never stated that multiboxing itself would be against ToS.