What do you think - how many boxed subscribtions are gone?

[Truelle]

I think the financial impact due to the loss of many multiboxers is overstated... and I think this played into Blizzard's decision to take action..
Most multiboxers were essentially free to play players... they used tokens to pay for their subs and expansions... when a free to play player stops playing Blizzard losses nothing...
Most people would argue... someone is buying those tokens for $20... but that's still going to happen with or without multiboxers playing..
There is likely to be some impact based on the idea that multiboxers buying lots of tokens for game time raised the gold value of the token which causes more people to buy tokens....
We don't really know the mechanics of exactly how the tokens work so we aren't really sure how much of an impact this will really be...

[MadMilitia]

The optics of how good this move was will be lost in a matter of a couple months into launch. When the botting community has repeated their efforts to smash the game market as they do every expansion. That was the #1 hate item for the anti MB crew. They only killed the M+ community and rated PvP community.

They did nothing to stop the standstill farmers and herbalist farmers.

I have to believe that the change in leadership has led to a lot of problems with the retail game. It's not getting better. It's only getting worse. Yes, their engagement numbers might be up but we're in the middle of a worldwide lockdown. That won't be the case forever. People denied a real life will seek one out in the virtual space. As soon as real life comes back online they are gone from the virtual space. Then what?

What do you do when those millions new subscribers are gone? Do you make a pathetic attempt to reach back out to the MB community or do you try some new stupid idea to pull in more people?

You can probably guess how I feel about the post-Morhaime Bluzzard.

[Pocahuntess]

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Most people would argue... someone is buying those tokens for $20... but that's still going to happen with or without multiboxers playing..

Except the person buying the token was always going to buy the token. The multiboxer will not any longer. Multiboxers aren't taking tokens away from other buyers. They are buying tokens in ADDITION to other buyers. There was never a supply shortage.

[CokeZero]

Multiboxing software just made it THAT much easier for bots to "multi-bot".
I suspect if innerspace/isboxer and any other software tools had a built in anti-cheat detection to combat the bots (and it actually worked) that we MIGHT not be here in this situation.
I am not saying that Lax should have built in an anti-cheat or that any of the other software devs should be policing their users lol, that's not really their business, and likely most of us would be up in arms at the type of privacy concerns a built in anti-cheat would cause. There are still people who bitch about how far Warden goes to detect cheats.
But the massive amounts of bots I've been seeing "multiboxing" was fucking insane. And I knew shit was gonna hit the fan soon because it was WAY out of hand. Every freaking day I was seeing those fuckers running around, and you could tell it wasn't a normal multiboxer just by the way they moved. Following each other EXACTLY step by step, even when turning or going around objects. They weren't actually using /follow, they were following a pre-programmed path.
Flat banning this software was just the easy/lazy way out for Blizzard to help combat the bots. Will it eliminate botting? Well duh, no. Will it make it easier to catch multiboxing bots? Well duh, ya. Will the bots just go back to single botting or not so obviously "multi-botting"? Most likely. It's possible most of them didn't even use isboxer to bot with, since the subscription cost would just eat into their profit, they probably built their own basic tools or used one of the other free options since they have no need for the powerful tools that were available in isboxer.
We just got caught in the crossfire pretty hardcore.