Change in multiboxing policy

[Bodom]

Now is the time to open up for character transfers between accounts on Classic. I've unsubbed on my other accounts, but I still want to play on a single character, and I would like to keep all my alts too.

[Wzz81]

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/..._that_he_will/

The hunt against multiboxer is beginning
I have no words

RIP guys, thank you for all people which dedicate to help others and genuily played the game for real
F*** all botter or toxic 20x multiboxer farming retail and selling golds for real money, you did this to us, thank you very much..

[schmonz]

F*** all botter or toxic 20x multiboxer farming retail and selling golds for real money, you did this to us, thank you very much..

Botting was against the TOS before this change already. And it is up to blizzard to fix farming on node spawns to be pickable by 20 characters of the same player.

Stop blaming players for systems that got designed poorly.

[woloss]

Botting was against the TOS before this change already. And it is up to blizzard to fix farming on node spawns to be pickable by 20 characters of the same player.

Stop blaming players for systems that got designed poorly.

Well, I hated those farmers, cuz they stayed on spots for like 14-18h each day, while i was able to do 1-2h per day(sometimes even w/o farm). I spent like 1 month on this and then stopped, because all phases/CRZ's were filled and I got just bored. I was forced to search for free spots for like 20-30m in order to do 1h-2h farm.

But ye, existance of hyperspawn, multiple gathers and so on not our fault one way or another.

Fun thing, hyperspawns still gonna be a thing for randoms. They can finally farm freely (ofc if Shadowlands would have spots, I'm not sure about this yet)

[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.

[jak3676]

No, I don't think you can use ISBoxer to round-robin. It seems pretty clear that you cannot use ISBoxer (or Keyclone, HKN, etc) at all - there seem to have been reports of people getting warning from people using ISB with only a single client. At the moment it seems like Blizz is focusing on software detection and reporting - all the known multiboxer tools are getting people warnings.

I disagree with your 2nd statement though - Blizzard has clarified a few times now that they are not banning multiboxing. I don't think we yet know their intent or how tolerant they will be of non-software broadcasting approaches. We know they're fine with people operating multiple toons at the same time on /follow and alt-tabbing between them. (Which almost seems odd because their change won't stop 40-account herb farming - but that's a separate discussion.) But if we come up with a non-software broadcasting method that makes multiboxing almost as effective as it used to be - will Blizzard tolerate that? No one yet knows.

I see a few ways forward that we're exploring now. 1) Hardware multicasting - which I agree may also be problematic from a "spirit of the law" sort of thing - I think I've volunteered to be that guinea pig. 2) Non-multibox software versions of round-robin keyboard input (e.g. using hardware or software system to cycle the input to various clients - think "alt-tab", but faster and keybound to something easier to press rapidly). 3) Non-multibox software versions of controlling window and mouse input such that a user could easily mouse over different windows and provide input to that window easily.

[Apatheist]

there seem to have been reports of people getting warning from people using ISB with only a single client.y.

I got a warning and I haven't logged in since last week. I think Blizzard is sending warnings to all accounts flagged in some way with multiboxing or to all accounts with multiple active subscriptions on one BNet, etc. The prohibition is against key broadcasting between multiple clients. Using ISBoxer or any other software for legitimate purposes is still allowed.

Obviously I can't know for sure how Blizzard will treat workarounds like hardware boxing but the intent of the change was explicitly to prohibit key broadcasting. I don't think explaining that you're achieving the same result using hardware will exempt you from being banned.

"I did rob the bank, Your Honor, but I used a knife, not a gun!"

[Lance]

Well that sucks! I've been 5 boxing since TBC. I have refunded 4 of my 5 shadowlands I got in feb. I can't refund any more onto my blizz account so the epic edition on my main has been kept. Honestly was not too optimistic about the way the game was going anyway so maybe this isn't a bad thing. If this had happened in legion when I was loving the game I would have been gutted.

[Meathead]

I guess it would only last so long. I was multiboxing 10 accounts since TBC. It was so fun, but I guess when they removed follow in BG's it got less fun and now they changed their rules to suit their needs of making more in game currency. I guess standing still farming the same spot for hours and making easy gold was too much for blizzard. They did not want to change their system on how things spawn so just add a new rule and not allow multiboxing.

I stopped a while back but came back to farm a bit in legion then stopped again. Multiboxing was only super fun in dungeons and battlegrounds and arena. Time to shelve all my accounts for good once again.

It was the best in TBC. No one was doing it, nor could anyone afford the hardware to do it. Keyclone was very basic but it did its job well back then. May all my accounts rest in peace.

GG all, it was fun. I will see you all in another hobby ay.

[CokeZero]

I still multibox daily (classic only), have not gotten a warning yet. But don't really care as I'm just doing it until the accounts close in 2 more days. Just farming the crap out of things I want for my main before the boxing accounts close. My main isn't part of my multiboxing setup so could care less what happens to the other accounts at this point.