Change in multiboxing policy

[Wubsie]

I think we all had a bad feeling this might happen due to the ridiculous influx of gold farmers who have taken it to the extremes and create a very visible, persistent and annoying presence and undoubtedly impact the economy over the past year or two...

Sadly I think it could have been resolved in other ways (account caps, DR on loot from killing the same mob over and over, reduced loot tags, single tap nodes, token caps, actually enforcing the rules against cartels and economy manipulation, etcet), but I suppose this is the easier solution for them, so this is what they went with.

I'm saddened, but not surprised. This is exactly why I've not upgraded more than 1 account to SL to date. Slim chance this will get reverted, but I don't see it happening. This is especially annoying due to how much planning for the community aspects for boxing SL have been done in the background.

[DGiraldo]

Doesn't really matter who's fault it is at this point.

I have spent a fortune on my 5 accounts and now its over... pretty disappointing.


By the way, is it easily detectable by Blizzard? I mean, will they know exactly who is doing it? Or is it mainly getting reported?

[Purpleflavor]

Very sad day.

Thinking about FF14 now, but i dont know anything about it since the only time i ever played it was on the first release before it was remade.

[dlewis3319]

I just got confirmation from Blizz that they will refund all my Shadowlands preorders.

I totally gutted. Spend months prepping all classes on 5 accounts ready for SL. And now this.

F U Blizz. Im done.

[valkry]

uh? what server are you on? how is it that what other people do affect you anyway?

or did you mean to say botters?

Holding instance entrances, e'ko and black lotus farming. They are the only ways I can think of where multi-boxers can affect others in classic.

[Purpleflavor]

I knew it was getting bad.
I literally couldn't go anywhere without seeing large farming druid teams, stand still afk farming druid teams etc...

Not saying those are all multiboxers, but it really doesn't look good and is directly associated with us. I also feel this policy change is going to have zero affect on getting rid of these multi-botters and afk farmers.

You always hear how long it takes for blizzard to ban accounts etc. So by the time they get around banning them, they already have gold moved through the AH to legit accounts, with back up accounts waiting to start farming again.

I hope every legit boxer here cancels their subscription, letting them know why. All we can do is hope they alter their policy after seeing subs go down, or because they see it had no affect on the problem they are trying to resolve.

Anyway, it's been fun while it lasted!

Not all boxers are botters, but all botters are multiboxers.

[Tiny_d]

I have put in a refund request, not that I think it will be successful...
Genuinely don't understand why, this wont stop botting or the bot farms or even node farming all that it stops are the legit fun we on these forums have.

[Hypnox77]

Just made an account for this as I am saddened to hear people running dungeons while multiboxing will get banned...
I was honestly considering doing this in shadowland as back in the day I did that on private servers and it was a lot of fun.
Do you think there is any alternative to this?
Like mentioned earlier, run 5 VMs in parallel, and have the host broadcast specific input to the correct VM instance? This really looks like the original way of doing it and probably not legit... The program will instead only be visible in the host and the input will look genuine inside each VMs...
Meh, I really wish they went with a different approach than banning it all-together.

[Braxtar]

Nazjatar farming killed us.

We must recognize that this method of multiple druids farming was largely abused and annoying the entire community. It's not like it's not been reported separately, the anger was rising on the forums, even at the end of BfA when people were farming for their Bruto, they had a harder time due to all of these russian druids farming team.

I don't really believe it's the afk spot farming that killed us, sincerely I believe it's the herbalism. People were litterally unable to farm even during week ends due to 3 to 4 teams of MB farming in the daylight and server hoping like crazy.

[Recap]

I have put in a refund request, not that I think it will be successful...
Genuinely don't understand why, this wont stop botting or the bot farms or even node farming all that it stops are the legit fun we on these forums have.

Same here. I hope I get something back..

Really sad and upset about this.. Not sure what more to say that already been said here by follow multiboxers. Multiboxing was what made wow fun for me. Guess I'll try sell as much of my hardware I can and go play PS5 later this month.

Sad day idd.