Change in multiboxing policy

[schmonz]

Probably someone should invent a keyboard with 5 usb cables.

[kate]

Probably someone should invent a keyboard with 5 usb cables.

Such things already exist, so that would be A solution if someone used multiple PCs.

Could just run multiple VMs on a sufficiently beefy machine and then just have them all receive input.

Between that and a combination of EMA and GSE you could get pretty close, it just raises the technical bar high enough that the players who are the most visible (yet, funny enough, least frequent) part of the problem will be just fine because they're already spending a ton, while the people who aren't particularly problematic will be unable to play much.

I'm going to guess that it'll be a very short hop to "no more multi-boxing, period" when Blizzard sees those unintended consequences.

For me, I'll at least check out Shadowlands, and if it's at all fun then I'll keep one account for a bit, but singleboxing just isn't a very interesting playstyle since everything gets analyzed and optimized to death. C'est la vie!

[schmonz]

I'm going to guess that it'll be a very short hop to "no more multi-boxing, period" when Blizzard sees those unintended consequences.

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[schmonz]

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.

Well, i do not follow the idea it is other players that made it a problem. I think it is blizzard who are responsible for fixing farming for multiboxing, means, only allow one char to loot a node out of a group of same player chars. That is technically possible, as we know very well from older collecting quests.

I will never blame another player but the designers, who are responsible for keeping the economy stable under given circumstances.

You guys wanna know what screw multiboxing up ? Tokens.

Well, it is very clear to me that the mats prices will go up. Which also means people will sell more tokens to acquire more mats for crafting.