This is utter crap, but multiboxing has been officially banned in WoW. I honestly thought they would never go this far, but there it is - multiboxing is gone from WoW.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...sting-software
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This is utter crap, but multiboxing has been officially banned in WoW. I honestly thought they would never go this far, but there it is - multiboxing is gone from WoW.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...sting-software
There's a new bliz post banning input broadcasting.
I'm really glad I delayed resubbing my accounts due to hurricane power issues, but I hate to see blizz going the way of ccp.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...sting-software
Just seen this - totally shocked! People farmed BFA to death and have killed it for us all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pithy
I'm a multiboxer and even I was getting annoyed at the people with 20-30 characters locking down areas. I knew this would happen with people abusing it.
I have expected this at some day in the future. And here we are. Seems Shadowlands is only to be enjoyed with one char.
Has anybody got a ban yet? Seen the change in policy - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...sting-software
This is caused by people farming the hell out of BFA.
Honestly I blame the 40+ multiboxers who terrorized players out in the the world or controlled zones so players can't complete quests or objectives. Even to a degree the 10+ boxers who could just about achieve the same tomfoolery. I knew the way that multiboxers of today have abused how lenient Blizzard was towards us would eventually screw us over. The hate just grew and grew as solo players got pooped on by the mass multiboxers.
Eh, will save me some money anyway, lately I have only been multiboxing once or twice a week with my teams and focusing on my main. Glad my main was never part of any of my teams. Was fun while it lasted, RIP.
Man, it really pisses me off. I'm disabled and the only way I could easily play was with multiboxing. I tended to get destroyed on just my main as I can't turn my character very well. I hope all the jackasses who went crazy with this are happy.
It was fun while it lasted. RIP
I will go solo char. Good i only bought ISBoxer for 3 months this time :)
Thanks to Lax, it was worth the money.
Well I'll be damned - I guess the people who were constantly panicking and insisting the sky is falling for the last 10+ years were finally right!
Now to figure out a mechanical/non-software way of doing the same thing :)
Probably someone should invent a keyboard with 5 usb cables.
completely killed the interest I had in retail and classic...... I dont know what I am gonna do now....
Damn
This 100%Quote:
Originally Posted by Generalbrock
Back when Blizzard removed follow from battlegrounds, that's when I stopped using my team for PvP and only killed players in self defense. I switched to PvE focus and kept my teams away from the public eye as much as possible. Nah, the software made multiboxing too accessible to the general masses, and inevitably you got some buttheads with serious epeen issues trying to stroke their egos by abusing multiboxing and terrorizing solo players. Was fun while it lasted, RIP.
Such things already exist, so that would be A solution if someone used multiple PCs.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmonz
Could just run multiple VMs on a sufficiently beefy machine and then just have them all receive input.
Between that and a combination of EMA and GSE you could get pretty close, it just raises the technical bar high enough that the players who are the most visible (yet, funny enough, least frequent) part of the problem will be just fine because they're already spending a ton, while the people who aren't particularly problematic will be unable to play much.
I'm going to guess that it'll be a very short hop to "no more multi-boxing, period" when Blizzard sees those unintended consequences.
For me, I'll at least check out Shadowlands, and if it's at all fun then I'll keep one account for a bit, but singleboxing just isn't a very interesting playstyle since everything gets analyzed and optimized to death. C'est la vie!
Fuck! Had a long ride but it's game over. Five Classic subs cancelled and saved me buying 5 of the new retail expansion.
I just bought my copies. I'm trying to get a refund now. Fingers crossed they'll let me refund the games and six month subscriptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by moog
Yeah, if players are going to circumvent this new rule with hardware solutions, Blizzard surely will adapt. Yet, this change will make multiboxing even more niche as it was, probably those very exotic implementations would not get onto blizzards radar.Quote:
Originally Posted by kate
Blizzard obviously does not want Multiboxing to be popular. And this is their solution.
In the link you posted, they will begin issuing warnings, which means, presumably, no bans yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdsp
Horrible news. I was really looking forward to coming back and trying to involve myself with the community more. :(
I'm not sure there's really another experience in gaming that's similar to the challenge of overcoming mythic+ keys with a 5-box, really sad that I'll never be able to enjoy that process again.
I knew it was getting bad.
I literally couldn't go anywhere without seeing large farming druid teams, stand still afk farming druid teams etc...
Not saying those are all multiboxers, but it really doesn't look good and is directly associated with us. I also feel this policy change is going to have zero affect on getting rid of these multi-botters and afk farmers.
You always hear how long it takes for blizzard to ban accounts etc. So by the time they get around banning them, they already have gold moved through the AH to legit accounts, with back up accounts waiting to start farming again.
I hope every legit boxer here cancels their subscription, letting them know why. All we can do is hope they alter their policy after seeing subs go down, or because they see it had no affect on the problem they are trying to resolve.
Anyway, it's been fun while it lasted!
I already cancelled my subs and requested refunds on SL. However, it's never coming bacl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teknetron
I believe hardware boxing is going to be just as bad in their eyes. This is how it used to be done. I used to run multiple computers with a single wireless keyboard / mouse with the frequency being sent to each computer. Before software was available.
By the wording of the policy, they want people to only be multi-accounting using the ALT+TAB method. So that means any actions that fire off the same skills on your guys at the same time is asking for action to be taken on your account.
That effectively kills it for most.
This.. and I know a fair few of them post on here. I can't say how I feel about them now not that it matters, boxxing is over for this xpack at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teknetron
To anybody who has farmed over and over for this xpack, you did this to us all.
Oh wow , we need to merge some theads and a have a stickie post on this.
Just some random thoughts I'm sure all of you are having the same ones.
oh that's why all the Devs were leaving and making new gaming companies.
Huge loss of sub's aka real life money, for Blizz/ activision. and even IS boxer/Lavishsoft.
And a huge hug and shout out to all my fellow multi boxers who feel devastated. The shock and pain is real. I'm so sad I can't multi box wow.
Will we soon see this site and others listing massive confirmed bannings? Say like Senior Member Ellay banned, and has it on video and posts it.
Mind blown, all the steamers, youtubbers, twitch, discords, gone.
What the hell are they thinking (my anger setting in) They are killing WOW. WTF , give us a multi-box server. So like retail, classic, and Multi.
I have to go have a drink. I have to go for a walk. Do you feel me? Then I'll come back and post some more, cuz man this is HUGE gaming news.
Agree. This is a stance change - multiboxing (at the same time) is now against the ToSQuote:
Originally Posted by Teknetron
So I guess the question right...
Multi-boxing has been allowed / around / legal in World of Warcraft for a long, long time. I have 7 accounts with level 60s (classic) on all of the accounts. If I can't multi-box then I don't need 7 accounts subscriptions. I don't think the majority of people who multi-box are trying to be malicious and have been loyal customers to Blizzard for many, many years.
Is Blizzard gonna say, welp GG guys either pay for your multiple subscriptions or don't and lose characters. That would be kind of shitty for them to do.
So do we get even if we have to pay $25.00 one time the option to consolidate accounts? I mean I hope so. I don't multi-box like I used to but the option is always there especially when like TBC comes out.
If you take that option away from me then I have little to no benefit of having my characters spread across multiple accounts and would want to consolidate to save $30-40 a month in subs.
Wtf.... :(
Guess i have some pcs i can sell... or.... maybe i will keep them and give the upcoming mmo named "ashes of creation" a go instead. Supposedly it will support multiboxing... time will tell.
Worst case scenario, i can sell my pcs and 1080p monitors, then keep my main pc and upgrade to some nice 4k screens.
Either way, this is extremely surprising news. And sad times.
Couldnt they just allow regular multiboxing.... and instead dont allow "pvp, herbing and standstill farming of mobs"?...
And yes... time to ask for SL refunds...
Was fun while it lasted :(
I'm so angry honestly, I never liked Blizzard as a company much in recent years, but their reasonable stance on multiboxing kept me playing WoW which is my favorite game of all time lore-wise. Now I uninstalled my Battle.net accounts and will refund all 40 of my SL pre-orders. I am never going to support any Activision Blizzard games ever again. PoE is 1000x times better than Diablo 3, Legends of Runeterra is 1000x better than Hearthstone. All of their games are generally not worth playing compared to existing alternatives. Bobby Kotick can shove his 50mil USD up his own arsehole for all I give a damn about
I've never been this angry about a game before to be honest. I just bought a brand new computer to play on, as well as buying Shadowlands for my accounts. And I just spent a fortune race-changing etc on all my accounts. Blizzard can go fuck itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by dustofoblivion
Playing without multi-boxing pretty much isn't going to happen for me, so WoW is dead. Awesome.
Damn, sad to hear this happen, havent played in ages, but knowing I could still multibox was a nice thought.
Back to the old days of xzin hardware multiboxing with wireless mice/keyboards or multicasters like this? http://www.vetra.com/844Utext.html
I assume this is just for software by reading it? Not people using physical multiplexers.
As we have all seen in the last few months there were just way too many multiboxing “farmers” sitting in the one spot all day standstill farming and then also streaming it.
You could always try ask for a refund for the services you just bought.. as these news litterarly appeared out of nowhere... zero headsup... that just sucks... terrible customer service :(
edit: I feel so sorry for you people still playing who had this dropped on them, I hope you can find another game to scratch that mb itch
Ah well this sucks, but it's completely understandable given how multi-boxing is used in retail to mass herb and mine.
I have multi-boxed for many years and really enjoyed it, it just made the single player experience so much more interesting. I have been three boxing since WoD and five boxed for a little in Classic leveling a warrior/priest/3 lock team in dungeons.
I have been clean of WoW since Jan 2020, I have been so tempted to relapse recently but this is finally it for me and this game. Such a shame, multi-boxing is so much fun but I can see why it is finally being banned.
Hang on.... what if i f.ex play some accounts and change every action in isboxer to be sent "round robin" instead....... i could see myself playing 3 accounts like this.
"We will soon begin issuing warnings to all players who are detected using input broadcasting software to mirror commands to multiple accounts at the same time (often used for multi-boxing)" = doesnt affect round robin??
Ughh - I feel for all you guys.
I quit the game and multiboxing long ago now, but at that time of playing-- this would have hurt me, I hope you all find new hobbies for you to enjoy. Believe me, there are a lot more of them out there :)
/Selz
If you read the announcement carefully enough it says specifically.
The use of input broadcasting software that mirrors keystrokes to multiple WoW game clients will soon be considered an actionable offense. We believe this policy is in the best interests of the game and the community.
Round robin keystroke passing does not fall under this definition. There is no mirroring going on there. It's one input, one action, in one client. Granted, I'm pretty sure that's going to be a pretty fine distinction and likely not to be sufficient to reverse any account action.