Change in multiboxing policy

[WOWBOX40]

Yeah, if players are going to circumvent this new rule with hardware solutions, Blizzard surely will adapt. Yet, this change will make multiboxing even more niche as it was, probably those very exotic implementations would not get onto blizzards radar.

Blizzard obviously does not want Multiboxing to be popular. And this is their solution.

When i read their statement, they briefly mentioned multiboxers as users of similar software, when they talked about cracking down on botters. Last time they cracked down on botters in bgs... they removed /follow in bgs... which affected us. Now, they affected us by, basically removing our ability to play, like, "at all".. crippling us. Unless, maybe they will allow hardware solutions... i got my doubts though, time will tell. The policy only mentions software as not allowed, currently.

[Purpleflavor]

Yeah, if players are going to circumvent this new rule with hardware solutions, Blizzard surely will adapt. Yet, this change will make multiboxing even more niche as it was, probably those very exotic implementations would not get onto blizzards radar.

Blizzard obviously does not want Multiboxing to be popular. And this is their solution.

they could have just removed /follow, but they didnt. So i would assume they are okay with multiboxing wow and that they just got tired of the sudden wave of massive gold/resource farming botters/semi-afkers.

I dont think they have an issue with multiboxing getting popular at all, likely the opposite and they would welcome it, but not if it's going to be abused as it was in BFA by many. I'd say 4 out of 5 boxers i came across while boxing myself were either herb botting(yes botting) or afk/semi-afk stand still farming.

[Fat Tire]

Damn

[Teknetron]

I believe hardware boxing is going to be just as bad in their eyes. This is how it used to be done. I used to run multiple computers with a single wireless keyboard / mouse with the frequency being sent to each computer. Before software was available.

By the wording of the policy, they want people to only be multi-accounting using the ALT+TAB method. So that means any actions that fire off the same skills on your guys at the same time is asking for action to be taken on your account.

That effectively kills it for most.

[mrdsp]

I believe hardware boxing is going to be just as bad in their eyes.

Agree. This is a stance change - multiboxing (at the same time) is now against the ToS

[WOWBOX40]

Wtf....

Guess i have some pcs i can sell... or.... maybe i will keep them and give the upcoming mmo named "ashes of creation" a go instead. Supposedly it will support multiboxing... time will tell.

Worst case scenario, i can sell my pcs and 1080p monitors, then keep my main pc and upgrade to some nice 4k screens.

Either way, this is extremely surprising news. And sad times.

Couldnt they just allow regular multiboxing.... and instead dont allow "pvp, herbing and standstill farming of mobs"?...

And yes... time to ask for SL refunds...

[dustofoblivion]

I'm so angry honestly, I never liked Blizzard as a company much in recent years, but their reasonable stance on multiboxing kept me playing WoW which is my favorite game of all time lore-wise. Now I uninstalled my Battle.net accounts and will refund all 40 of my SL pre-orders. I am never going to support any Activision Blizzard games ever again. PoE is 1000x times better than Diablo 3, Legends of Runeterra is 1000x better than Hearthstone. All of their games are generally not worth playing compared to existing alternatives. Bobby Kotick can shove his 50mil USD up his own arsehole for all I give a damn about

[Generalbrock]

I'm so angry honestly, I never liked Blizzard as a company much in recent years, but their reasonable stance on multiboxing kept me playing WoW which is my favorite game of all time lore-wise. Now I uninstalled my Battle.net accounts and will refund all 40 of my SL pre-orders. I am never going to support any Activision Blizzard games ever again. PoE is 1000x times better than Diablo 3, Legends of Runeterra is 1000x better than Hearthstone. All of their games are generally not worth playing compared to existing alternatives. Bobby Kotick can shove his 50mil USD up his own arsehole for all I give a damn about

I've never been this angry about a game before to be honest. I just bought a brand new computer to play on, as well as buying Shadowlands for my accounts. And I just spent a fortune race-changing etc on all my accounts. Blizzard can go fuck itself.

Playing without multi-boxing pretty much isn't going to happen for me, so WoW is dead. Awesome.

[Los]

Damn, sad to hear this happen, havent played in ages, but knowing I could still multibox was a nice thought.

Back to the old days of xzin hardware multiboxing with wireless mice/keyboards or multicasters like this? http://www.vetra.com/844Utext.html

[Syferr]

As we have all seen in the last few months there were just way too many multiboxing “farmers” sitting in the one spot all day standstill farming and then also streaming it.