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World of Warcraft - Blizzard Updates Input Broadcasting Software (Multiboxing) Policy | MMORPG.com
Today, Blizzard has announced that third input broadcasting software (such as levelbuddy) will no longer be tolerated in World of Warcraft. This type of software is often used for Multiboxing (one person playing multiple accounts at the same time), but can also be used for botting, all of which Blizzard believes to be detrimental to the game.
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I boxed for about a month way back, meh.
God this was a long time coming. Should be an explicit rule in every MMO-- no, every online game.
There's a few things. In PvP (World PvP, specifically) you're typically not equipped to stand against 5 mages who all simultaneously cast fireball. Multiboxers can also have a negative effect on PvE as they can essentially clear-cut mob spawn areas, denying other players (intentionally or not)
Why after all these years of allowing it, why now?
Blizzard's ideology is either super bipolar, or the situation's gotten so out of hand that it's forced them to rethink their policies on it.
I mean i'm happy they are finally not allowing it, but jesus.... why in the frick did it take them so long to get a clue?
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It also causes problems for others in PvE especially in areas with quest mobs in short supply that re-spawn slowly but IMO, that's peanuts compared to the PvP abuse.
It should be banned in all games with PvP... period.
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I'm fine with it being bannedi n pvp
Using any type of software that is not built into the game to multibox never should have been allowed in any MMO or online game period. Same goes for some mods. EQ2 is nigh unplayable without the EQmaps mod, but EQ1 had a mod called showEQ that was legit cheating.
My guess is that ActiBlizz finally decided the "multiboxers" were costing them more in lost subs than they were gaining from "multiboxer" subs.
Aside of pvp which should be obvious....one of the big issues in WoW would be multi-boxers running 10 characters and wiping out entire crafting mat nodes in one swipe (nodes allow multiple players to gather before despawning). In conjunction with botting this not only destroys the economy, but it does not allow other players to farm mats. And they would farm entire zones this way, probably botting as well. They got all the mats, you got nothing.
If you control them individually whatever, but the second you can perform one action with them all at the same time through one click of a button no way.
I don't like multiboxers but considering how long they have tacitly allowed it, it will be controversial.
Played D3 a lot while multiboxing. Same goes with Lineage 2 ( made my own custom script for that, because there is no software on the market to make it work for L2 ). I also tried a bit of WoW with it and..it was not my cup of tea.
Having said that, a lot of people commenting about Multiboxing have no idea how hard is to manage more then 3 boxes at once ( 2 is ...kinda easy ) and are jumping against it like it's ruining their gameplay.
Let me ask you something, how many Multiboxers have you seen while playing WoW and which literally ruined your game-play? I personally can't remember seeing more 2 to and I did played WoW a lot.
Let me ask you something else : How is a Multiboxer ruining your gameplay in WoW? PvP? Nope. PvE? How?
In Lineage 2, I kinda understand that it gives you a bit ( or a lot more ) advantage, because....reasons ( PvP mostly, but also PvE ), but I cannot see how it ruining your gameplay in WoW, D3, etc.
Like .. the below guy is against not only in MMO's, but every Online Game /facepalm
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
My script which is also working well with WoW and any other game out there, is .. undetected
Time to advertise it properly on google?
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
Most multiboxers don't need an additional PC but they could do so.
I tried a multibox for the first time on a private server that let multiboxers take advantage of the refer a friend XP bonuses.
Multiboxers can be a royal pain in the butt on PVP servers. Once you're out in the world, managing multiple accounts of the same class/spec is simply dependent on how you have your monitors setup. The main account does the targeting and the alts just use macros to attack the target.
I don't think I've seen any multiboxers use different classes and such. But yeah doing that could make it trickier, assuming the content required any type of microing of them which isn't really efficient.
First i'm wildly curious as to why "all of a sudden it's no?" right, like why now?
I boxed for an extremely short period becasue for me there is no benefit, i just wanted to try it out because you see so many others boxing, was curios, overall for my play style i enjoy one toon focus.
In game, i find it immersion breaking, and annoying af when you come across a boxer.
I'll leave the area and come back sometimes as they have the upper hand, literally plowing down everything in their path, tbh it feels unfair, i'm questing, enjoying the lore, the environment, then here come in a this f'ing obtrusive nightmare blob, looks dumb, immersion breaking.
When i boxed, it was intriguing to figure out and once i got gud, i lost interest. Overall probably boxed for a solid month then started to drift away from it at two months. There isn't (for me) much advantage to it. I did leave those 4 accounts subbed until i got all the raf rewards.
Soon as i got all rewards i canceled all 4 but think about it for those 3 months, that was 4 extra sub numbers for them and $$ right. This could be big drop for them.
However i'm still wondering why they are banning it when in the past they and all mmorpg's have never condoned it and in some statements have outright said it's ok?
Input director is excellent for multiple machines. I boxed EQ2 with it, for the same reasons as wow, and about as long, it's fun af to figure it all out, but once you have the luster fades fast.
WOW is a bit different since you need to pay a attention a bit more. So that wouldn't work.
Boxing is a bane to some extent, particularly on Classic where the population is stagnating. Tanks and Healers are hard to find normally. If more people are boxing and thus removing the need to PUG or invite a healer/tank, then it just makes it worse.
IMO of course.
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Also, is a pain in the ass for the Multiboxer to PvP too, which not many at all are doing it, mainly because if you have say .. 5 chars, and they all die, getting them back is well ...not fun at all.
Usually Multiboxers are doing PvE content, which again, does not affect any other player's gameplay!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
If you can manage 2, 3, 4... computers manually at the same time with no *help* then power to you.
I would almost find as impressive a feat as those grandmas playing 50 bingo cards at the same time.
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