Change in multiboxing policy

[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

[Nejcha]

I assume this is just for software by reading it? Not people using physical multiplexers.

[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.

[WOWBOX40]

You could always try ask for a refund for the services you just bought.. as these news litterarly appeared out of nowhere... zero headsup... that just sucks... terrible customer service

[stubbadub3000]

edit: I feel so sorry for you people still playing who had this dropped on them, I hope you can find another game to scratch that mb itch


Ah well this sucks, but it's completely understandable given how multi-boxing is used in retail to mass herb and mine.


I have multi-boxed for many years and really enjoyed it, it just made the single player experience so much more interesting. I have been three boxing since WoD and five boxed for a little in Classic leveling a warrior/priest/3 lock team in dungeons.


I have been clean of WoW since Jan 2020, I have been so tempted to relapse recently but this is finally it for me and this game. Such a shame, multi-boxing is so much fun but I can see why it is finally being banned.

[WOWBOX40]

Hang on.... what if i f.ex play some accounts and change every action in isboxer to be sent "round robin" instead....... i could see myself playing 3 accounts like this.

"We will soon begin issuing warnings to all players who are detected using input broadcasting software to mirror commands to multiple accounts at the same time (often used for multi-boxing)" = doesnt affect round robin??

[Selz]

Ughh - I feel for all you guys.

I quit the game and multiboxing long ago now, but at that time of playing-- this would have hurt me, I hope you all find new hobbies for you to enjoy. Believe me, there are a lot more of them out there
/Selz

[Sservis]

If you read the announcement carefully enough it says specifically.

The use of input broadcasting software that mirrors keystrokes to multiple WoW game clients will soon be considered an actionable offense. We believe this policy is in the best interests of the game and the community.

Round robin keystroke passing does not fall under this definition. There is no mirroring going on there. It's one input, one action, in one client. Granted, I'm pretty sure that's going to be a pretty fine distinction and likely not to be sufficient to reverse any account action.