Change in multiboxing policy

[Renwyk]

Talking about things I have no direct knowledge of - so feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but doesnt Blizzard make more cash off of gold players than they do off of paid subs? In order for you to buy a token with gold, someone had to buy that token for real money (and at an inflated rate), then sell it for in game gold? I have never bought tokens, so I could be wrong.

This is true and something I often times forget.

Token Price = $20
Sub Monthly = $15

This is all assuming that Tokens are in fact player bought and not Blizz posting them to better control economy and make a more consistent profit margin.

[Pocahuntess]

... Their data-analysis team did the math and realized that the sheer amount of players paying for game time and other services with gold is their largest deficit. Too many people are “technically” playing for free. Blizz makes most of its revenue through subs. ...

This logic is so flawed and a very common misconception! No one is ever playing for free really. Blizzard makes MORE from token sales. Someone had to BUY the token for someone else to buy and use for sub.

[Peri Helion]

I am encouraged by people requesting refunds and getting them. Voting with our wallets is our only option. Perhaps that is why they issued that clarification about "multi-boxing" not being banned https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/24258

That update to their support article, at least for me, shows that Blizzard is conflating multi-account players with multi-boxing. But lets be honest, they can say multi-boxing is not banned, but by banning the software they are in effect banning multi-boxing, while begging all the multi-account holders not to stop spending money.

Perhaps Blizzard will reverse themselves on the software ban if this change has no effect on the bot problem and they lose enough subscriptions. But knowing now that they are willing to ban it if they feel justified, even a reinstatement in the future will hold the specter of future bans.

[monitor]

Extremely bummed about this. Requested and received a refund for 4 of my 5 copies of Shadowlands since I still enjoy playing solo at times.

I've previously dual boxed SWTOR so that could experience both light and dark side of the stories. Maybe i'll look into that again.

[mrdsp]

Extremely bummed about this. Requested and received a refund for 4 of my 5 copies of Shadowlands since I still enjoy playing solo at times.

I feel your pain - I know it's only a game but I've literally spent all day feeling what can only be described as "numb"... still can't believe it.

[jak3676]

I agree - the difference between prohibited "input broadcasting software" and "input round-robin key assigning, but not broadcasting even though its capable of that software" is not a line I think anyone would want to stand on.

[gisshan]

I canceled all my subs except the main account today and asked for a refund for the 4 min main accounts' shadowlands pre-orders. All 4 have been refunded. I didn't worry about the sub time as they were all a couple weeks from done on their 6 months.

[Kayley]

Oh man. What am I going to do with all this new free time i've been given? help!

[Kruschpakx4]

while we're at it, with battlegrounds not having follow either, in tbc i can just go 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5 and 5/5 lightning mastery on each shaman and tab through windows press lightning at 0,1 sec difference and have them all fire at the same time

i can even add a 6th shaman and have curse of tongues on him

problem solved

[Apatheist]

while we're at it, with battlegrounds not having follow either, in tbc i can just go 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5 and 5/5 lightning mastery on each shaman and tab through windows press lightning at 0,1 sec difference and have them all fire at the same time

i can even add a 6th shaman and have curse of tongues on him

problem solved

I mean, you could just use ISBoxer to round-robin keystrokes so each press is only sending one action to one client per keystroke.

That's beside the point, though. I suspect Blizzard will ban anything that even looks like multiboxing going forward. It doesn't matter whether you're hardware boxing or using any other method. The intent of the rule change is pretty clear.