[Rift] Big topic on the forums about Multiboxing

[Negativ1337]

Hey guys,

I've made a topic about multiboxing in Rift. There's a really big discussion on it. What i've seen so far is that Multiboxing will be allowed in Rift IF you don't use software to send your keystrokes. This really sucks imo, i really love ISBoxer.

I wonder how they can detect this tough.

Topic link: http://forums.riftgame.com/showthrea...light=multibox

[Lax]

What i've seen so far is that Multiboxing will be allowed in Rift IF you don't use software to send your keystrokes.

I wouldn't expect that to stick if that's the plan. The last time someone got banned on a "because you're multiboxing with software instead of hardware" policy, the policy was changed and the ban was reversed -- http://sites.google.com/site/khromtor/ The only thing that kind of rule accomplishes is to make people spend a bunch of money on hardware that they could have spent on something else, in order to do the same thing they would have done with software. And people are going to use software anyway, whether they prohibit it or not. Pushing people to hardware is also going to bite these publishers in the butt, because when people start cheating (botting, hacking, etc) via hardware instead of software, the publishers are going to lose a huge amount of edge in battling cheats -- they will no longer have access to scan for them. Such a rule would serve to fund efforts on hardware. Not that I dislike hardware, we should get some Arduino-based multiboxing hardware projects going.

[MiRai]

After I realized that thread was 34 pages and rising, I skimmed the last 8 pages or so and I didn't see an official 'blue' post
saying that software wasn't allowed; I only saw a handful of people's opinions that 3rd party software shouldn't be allowed.
It's a lot of the same group of haters and uneducated people versus those who understand what multiboxing is and defend it.

I could have easily missed the 'blue' post since I'm starving and the thought of having a 6" BMT from Subway in my fridge is
totally distracting me.

[Lyonheart]

Most the comments are from the same few people, they just like to argue. The facts are.. a lot of players will never accept multi-boxing as anything less than cheating. We can argue back and forth on weather or not it is, but to some it IS and always will be for them.

The question then becomes, how many people actually QUIT playing an MMO because of their hatred for, or experiences with multi-boxers? i bet little to none. They rant about it for a number of reasons, but does it really hurt anyone? Enough to ban it? I doubt it!

[jinkobi]

They really use Blue names over there on the forums and people refer to them as Blue Posts? That's a bit much even for them don't you guys think? lol. Rift should really pick another color.

[Scelesti]

Hmmm...I kinda want to play this game, and I kinda want to multibox this game.

Not going to spend 250 bucks to multibox it til I get better confirmation that I can software box it =/

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The question then becomes, how many people actually QUIT playing an MMO because of their hatred for, or experiences with multi-boxers? i bet little to none. They rant about it for a number of reasons, but does it really hurt anyone? Enough to ban it? I doubt it!

The evidence is in: not enough to matter. Just look at WoW. WoW has many features that make multiboxing setups trivial for someone with a little bit of macro knowledge and more than 2 brain cells they can rub together.

[Khatovar]

Hmmm...I kinda want to play this game, and I kinda want to multibox this game.

Not going to spend 250 bucks to multibox it til I get better confirmation that I can software box it =/

I emailed them with my standard inquiry and got f***all out of them as a response. Quiet literally "go post a thread". When I said that wasn't an answer and there were already several threads about multiboxing that have gone without a response, they said "we have not announced any information regarding multi-boxing. Any new information will be put on our website and in our forums."

So, take that for whatever.

[ebony]

i can see them saying no and banning players for it.

[Mosg2]

As excited as I am about Rift, their answer to Khatovar is pretty telling. It seems that what they want is for multiboxers to buy accounts and spend money and THEN they'll figure out whether or not it's something they want to allow or not.