Nothing new to see here.

Someone whines about multiboxing.
Someone in blue responds with opinion.
Rules still same. Still other blues with other opinions, still other people at Blizzard multiboxing...

I don't see Zarhym's post the same way as Ebony saw it. He said he is sympathetic when someone complains about multiboxing, especially in PVP. Then he goes on to say that despite that sympathy, he understands why multiboxing is not considered cheating, while botting is. I don't see anything wrong with this...


If the time comes that Blizzard seriously considers a rule change on this, they will probably get me on the horn. This doesn't affect just WoW either, remember that multiboxing is tolerated in Diablo 3 as well. And I spoke to them before anything Diablo 3 related showed up here.

So.. if they were going to be changing anything... they would probably want to provide advance notice to many people who might otherwise be banned as collateral damage. (There's a lot more people with more than one WoW account than there are dual-boxing.com members, after all...) They have absolutely no interest in immediately doing a 180 and banning all multiboxers; it would not improve their game, their public image, their money, nothing. Multiboxers wouldn't just go away, so they would have to have continuous enforcement, meaning they have to pay someone or multiple someones, just to figure out which people with multiple accounts they need to ban.

That's both a very time-consuming and losing battle, and as I've said before, they have more important battles to fight such as those dealing with theft and fraud, and on actual bots instead of on people who are doing their best to stay within the rules with their multiple accounts.


Also, at the same time as we see commentary like this one, there's other stories...

Mohal on isboxer.com is pretty paranoid that multiboxers are getting the shaft and put in a petition about what he sees as a situation where he's paying out money to Blizzard, while Blizzard is purposefully and methodically harming his game experience (as a multiboxer).: http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11793#p11793
Thank you for contacting us and I am sorry that it has taken a little while to respond to you.
I do not believe we have any problems with players that multibox at all we also go as far as to educate players who contact us to complain about them. If any functions have changed with any function that hinders the gameplay for our multibox community then I can only apologise and know that the changes made will have been for a reason to stop exploitative bots that maybe able to get round our system.
I know this is not an ideal situation and hope that we can make some more changes soon to enable you to continue to enjoy multiboxing to its full potential but at this time there is very little I can do.
Again I reiterate that we welcome multiboxers and educate the player base to accept them also , and we will do everything we can to make your experience a great one.