Change in multiboxing policy

[valkry]

Solutions wont work, round robin, hardware, don't matter. If in game it looks like multi boxing its multi boxing to Joe player and Joe player is going to rage. It's going to be a witch hunt for you. People will hate on you like never before. You will be "reported" endlessly. Think of the GM's that are going to just instant ban and let it get sorted out by other means.

Hell even if 8 people were farming a 2x4 farm spot totally legit. Legit = 8 people 8 separate accounts solo playing. Even they would be hated on, reported, witch hunt. etc.

Can you see yourself getting your account ban, reversed for the 5th time on each of your accounts? (say you 5 box). cause u "round robin" or hardware? Good luck with that.

And an other thing.
Dual-Boxing.com Community Rules

Under
No Tolerance Rules

THIS RULE

No discussion, advertising, or directly linking related to anything that violates a game's ToU, ToS, EULA or other rules. This includes:

Hacks, exploits or cheats
Account, item and/or currency trading/selling {unless expressly allowed under said game's rules}, leveling services.
Bots, including botting software or keyboard automation and other automation
Private servers
Any means of circumventing a game's anti-cheat detections or software.

This part of that Rule
"anything that violates a game's ToU, ToS, EULA or other rules"

So are some of the very workarounds, like "round robin" hardware, etc, that we are talking about in this very thread, breaking this "No Tolerance Rule"?????



Its game over guys RIP. solo play one account = new normal.
I hate it. I'm sad. I'm shocked.

edit to add.
www.dual-boxing.com is not a "World of Warcraft" site anymore. All "World of Warcraft" forums should be removed. OR site rules have to change. *OMG mind blown*

LOL someone help me

It's not breaking the rule, because if the rule is you aren't allowed to run, you can still skip, cartwheel, shuffle, hop, etc. You hav to set the rule as only allowed to walk. Obviously blizzard also has the right to do whatever they want. Also, the purpose of said rule was to not taint this community by associating it with rule breakers and potentially getting multi-boxing banned, which is a bit moot now. But we didn't ban the talk of multi-boxing after the /follow in BGs ban and shouldn't after this either.

I don't think this change will stop the botting, just like how the /follow removal didn't stop the botting. So multi-boxers just get scuffed again as collateral for a change that won't work.

[luxlunae]

Sad day. I was all excited to watch the new podcast tomorrow

[Slats]

I think mass-multibooting and farming killed it for us. And honestly compared to them we are the minority here. They could fix the node spawns to make it like skinning is now. They could have fixed all the 4x2 Farm Spots. They could have limited /follow to x number of people. They could have limited you to a certain number of accounts.

The Blizzard we knew back in mid-2000's would have done those things first. And ironically enough I don't think this change will affect the 4x2 Farmers and the Mass Herbing people all that much. But when 80% of Twitch streams are about multiboxing + farming stream! 100+ accounts!" and a tiny fraction are people pushing Raid or Dungeon content, well we are the underdog here.

Even though we all started this, its evolved and been abused to its limits. It now effects Race to World First, the in-game Economy, Server Stability and others player experience by making Zones unstable or Timed World Quests no longer completable.

I'd like to say it was a few people ruining it for the many, but honestly I think its the many seeing an easily accessible option for farming and our hobby getting swept up and mutated out of our control.

I am devastated. I am sad. I am angry. I am amused. I was having so much fun and the rub got yanked out beneath us.

After 12+ years of having a firm stance on this for it to change now is a sign of their whole opinion on this way we play changed. While we might argue the wording or whether RR is breaking the rules or just the 'spirit' of this policy, no longer do we have Blizzard behind us, having our backs when people report us. I foresee a lot of people who are not "technically" breaking the rules banned and constantly appealing their accounts. This feels to me like a Corporate / PR decision. Whoever backed us at Blizzard and constantly explained to upper management what we do and why its fine is gone now I think.

[Toned]

Thank god I only pre-purchased shadowlands on a single account.
I resubbed my main account to poke around to check out the anniversary event... then I saw this.

Guess my days of pushing mythic+ and raid content as a multi-boxer are over and I'm stuck back in Everquest (been getting burned out there waiting on the next WoW expansion)... /wrist

[Spyro]

It's time to request a free character transfer

wow x #> wow 1 (x)

They should do that but won't, because a transfer flags the character for a name change, and they don't want name changes in Classic.

[Boostab]

Well this blows I had a feeling this was coming =(.... well time to move my gold and items around and get thing settled..

[notta3d]

I'm a boxer in Classic and I unsubbed last month because there are too many boxers. They are everywhere in Classic. It was completely abused IMO. Retail is even worse.

[MadMilitia]

I can only assume that mb will be banned outright soon, guess all those people were right when /follow was nuked

Yes. When they cut us from battlegrounds a few people left then. Personally I did little PvP so it didn't but should have bothered me. The follow nuke was what got me though. Mixing their policy changes into PvE was a big warning sign. It was really only a matter of time. Though I admit this one feels heavy handed. They want multiboxing gone for good and I think the pandemic numbers fluffed them good enough to commit to this stupid move.

[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.

[Moorea]

I'm a boxer in Classic and I unsubbed last month because there are too many boxers. They are everywhere in Classic. It was completely abused IMO. Retail is even worse.

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

or did you mean to say botters?