Unethical Gameplay?

[MiRai]

Breaking up my replies into two posts because there's a lot.

Well they cant prove where i am or what i am doing while im pressing the buttons.

The only thing at the moment that seems to be able to ban me, is if they message me on one of my other accounts, that are on a very very small portion of one of my monitors.

If they did a spesific bot check on that one, i would most likely fail it. Even if i sat in front of my computer.

Im probably not alone.

What will they do? Will they ban only that spesific account? That whole battlenet with 8 accounts? All my battlenet accounts?

I think thats out of order, since im actually here. Im playing. Though im only able to see the fullscreen of my main character account clear as day. I dont think this is wrong.

It's highly unlikely that a missed whisper is going to result in a ban. There are plenty of other checks they can run on a character to test if they're automating gameplay.

Im pretty sure they have notes on me. Ive been playing for as long as you MiRai.

I often wonder whether or not "senior" multiboxers—those who have had their accounts for a long time—are given a break when reported. I mean, rather than verify anything with a whisper, a GM would simply do a quick visual check, and unless I'm doing something truly questionable, they just move on to the next ticket. /shrug

Im being told by players almost every single day that they will report me. Imagine at blizzard hq (years back): "omg this is the 2000th report we have gotten...the workload it creates on this guy alone is insane. Lets just create a script so we never have to see these ever again"

You can watch Pinkskull talk to a GM who tells him that he's been reported "quite a bit" in the week prior, and that he has been reported over 800 times across the lifetime of the account he's playing on, but obviously no action had been taken since he was never found to be doing anything wrong.

IMO, if they want us to pay attention at all times as a multiboxer, as long as i atleast is able to pay attention to 1 account, that should count as "im paying attention to all my accounts".

I think Blizzard acknowledges that when it comes to multiboxers, but that's not really what I was originally discussing in the video.

Btw MiRai, i hope you will forward both the video and link to this forum to Blizzard.

It would be nice to know their official stance on these subjects.

Your excellent video also touched on other parts aswell, which i would love to know Blizzards reaction on.

Once some people heard the word "multiboxer," they'd get bent out of shape and lose focus of the actual discussion.

I realized that they already have a implemented "warning" screen... the one where the whole screen turns blue, when you need to confirm your ingame store purchase. Maybe they could use that one, and make it appear on all the currently active accounts and on all current battlenet accounts, when they wish to perform a "bot check". That certainly would be easy to spot.

First of all, family members can play from the same BNet account, at the same time, so it doesn't make much sense to alert everyone playing on the account.

Second, that would be incredibly intrusive if you were in the middle of something when a GM wanted to contact you—it's supposed to be a whisper, not a megaphone.