Policy Update for Input Broadcasting - May 2021

[Xist]

I have been playing WoW since 2006 and soon discovered multiboxing. Real-life friends played. In fact, one got me into the game, but for some reason they never wanted to play with me. I have had many in-game friends come and go and one guild after another died.
The only constant had been my ability to multibox when I couldn't find a good group.
I didn't connect OMB with streamlining, but I figured that since they changed their stance on hardware quickly, it would only be a matter of time before they took back their last semblance of reason.
Usually when I see complaints about multiboxing it is unimaginative things like "It's the same as botting!" or "It's cheating!" Usually I find endless comments about "Every multiboxer herb farms all day, every day!" and "Every multiboxer farms hyperspawns all day, every day!"

Obviously those two are mutually exclusive, but I never did either. I only farmed nodes if the materials weren't available at a reasonable price, but usually I waited. There are times when I get OCD about collecting all of the free nodes, but then I get annoyed that I am gathering, not adventuring, and start ignoring them.

I hate farming!

I don't understand why vast multitudes of people care deeply about what others do that doesn't affect them remotely.

I also don't understand people that intentionally spend hours farming. My main has two crafting professions. I buy materials, craft, post, and log out.

I find it strange how often people complain that they cannot farm because someone flies in with 5 druids and gathers the nodes. They always act like they were there first, so why didn't they gather first?

It sounds like people complaining just because they were slower.

How come people keep saying "You can multibox, you just cannot control more than one character at once, just Alt-Tab!"

Isn't that the definition of not multiboxing?

I don't know that multiboxing gives much of an advantage with herbalism. Don't you still need to click on the node 5 times?

I swore that I would stop playing in March. I was positive that I had disabled payments, but all of a sudden I had multiple $78 charges.

That's how they get you! Then the sudden and inevitable betrayal by the GMs or blues!

By the way, some Classic players were banned for alleged botting. They marched on Blizzard headquarters and got their ban lifted: https://classic.wowhead.com/news/pla...-317670?page=2

[MadMilitia]

They could have handled this a lot better than they did.

1. Make it so concurrent active accounts flag each character for limitations such as:
2. Gathered mats become BoA.
3. PvP is disabled.
4. Damage and healing might be nerfed in PvP (as another option).

Instead they phoned in the effort and treated all of us like those 2x4 farmers. Liked dungeons? Liked arenas? Liked any part of the game that wasn't trivialized by multiboxing but instead was a handicap? Too bad. You don't count. Only the "majority" does.

Like the in game cinematics about Shadowlands everything since 2020 has felt phoned in. It's not an accident. Just a look at the company reviews tells you everything you need to know. It's not Blizzard anymore. It's just any old corporate dump now.

[Tiny_d]

They could have handled this a lot better than they did.

1. Make it so concurrent active accounts flag each character for limitations such as:
2. Gathered mats become BoA.
3. PvP is disabled.
4. Damage and healing might be nerfed in PvP (as another option).

Instead they phoned in the effort and treated all of us like those 2x4 farmers. Liked dungeons? Liked arenas? Liked any part of the game that wasn't trivialized by multiboxing but instead was a handicap? Too bad. You don't count. Only the "majority" does.

Like the in game cinematics about Shadowlands everything since 2020 has felt phoned in. It's not an accident. Just a look at the company reviews tells you everything you need to know. It's not Blizzard anymore. It's just any old corporate dump now.

Because that would have cost time and money and Bobby is all about spending zero on either so his stock price soars hence why everything is automated as much as possible requiring as little human (cost) interaction as possible.
The games a whale cash cow atm and will never be right again.