Recent Wave of Account Actions

[Andreauk]

After the gm ticket response I posted earlier I would think that they no longer wish to tolerate it in pvp or instance situations, where for example (as I have seen before) some person who has no idea how to box drags a toon on raf behind on follow, while it contributes nothing to the group.

[MiRai]

They see it as an exploit where as one player has an advantage over other players. So that said I personally believe they will not fix this problem for us and force boxers out of the pvp part of the game. They will continue to keep saying that boxing is allowed, which it is technically but as long as you stay out of bg's and arena.

5 vs 5 a multiboxer should lose every time; but because people are terribly uncoordinated they normally don't.

It would seem that you're really just jumping to conclusions with no real evidence besides what you're picking out of certain replies from these GM tickets. Anyone who's been in this 'scene' longer than a few months knows that GMs are usually full of shit and 1 out of 10 GMs have an actual informative answer when it comes down to something like this. Let's face it, if Blizzard wanted to remove multiboxing from any part of the game they'd just remove /follow; because any solo character can still fully function w/o the follow command, where as, a multiboxer cannot.

[Andreauk]

Maybe you could all ticket a gm asking about it so we can compare responses?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Consider that WoW GM is not a technical position. They aren't required to do any actual analysis. Frankly, I'm somewhat surprised they aren't outsourced to India yet.

[moog]

wow, just wow...

> many players are complaining that it is unfair to come up against a group of 3-4 in a BG and have them all burst damage

so, better not play closely with friends in this MMO now, as 3 or 4 of you might all target one opponent who can then have you all suspended!

It's not why I left WoW but I sure as fuck am glad I did!

One thought - why not create some single-box teams where 5 of you all queue together and follow one leader, your spells all going to the leader's target etc, just to push the point!

[ebony]

still playing nonstop bg's as many of my friends are even "using OQaddon) two find two pugs for to make it a 5 man group or make new friends whatever. my last 36 hours i logged in all i done is nonstop bg's (capping conquest) and no more bans i have been reported many times and nothing as of yet since my ban over 4 weeks ago. so all this blizzard wants us out is not ture (i play at random times as well never the same same late AM sometimes late PM sometimes midday.


don't be scard to do something because of this. if i get banned again ill make sure it gets passed on to the right staff to sort out.

[Ualaa]

You mean, the old plan of gathering dozens of boxers each with a pitch fork or something similar, and storming the assorted Blizzard buildings to demand the righting of wrongs... isn't going to happen?

[zenga]

Its not click to move
Its not interact with target
Its not being AFK (since they are doing damage/healing they are NOT afk)

What else COULD it be?

I believe so. The blues have been silent on it. There is really no other way they could have done this. Too much sophistication going other routes. I'm a software developer and in this regard I've thought it over and yeah.. they are using the playerbase and the /report tool to do this. That's why multiboxers are getting hit.

I find this method too easy: since its not ABC it has to be D. There is many behind the scenes stuff and we have no frigging clue how or what. But detection software in general works with pattern comparison. They compare A with the pattern of the bot data they have/caught, then B, then C, etc ... and multiboxers get caught in crossfire. It's really pure speculation. But apart from I think it's very unlikely that most people start to mass report multiboxers in bg's all in a sudden. and that this is the sole reason.

They could compared for example how toons move, if a toon never actively goes right or left or forward it might lead to a false positive. The same with target acquiring. Not saying it's that, just saying that it's way too easy to jump to conclusions based on what we know.

[Chumbucket]

Haven't seen it mentioned and i doubt all of us who have been tapped by the ban hammer have done this but could the suspensions be related to the 2 step?

[Ualaa]

Doubt that.
Khatovar posted that you can do two-step macros with the default Blizzard system, a few pages back in this thread.

They're not going to give suspensions for using a feature included in the base game.
Which should rule out suspensions based on CTM, IWT, etc.. too.