Some guy claiming multiboxing will be "removed" in WoTLK.

[JoeWunsch]

Personally I called BS on everything he was saying, since I know there is more than 1 Alpha F+F member here, and we would most likely hear about it before this guy.

But anyway this is what he claims :

Too bad if you would read all the insider info they are getting rid of Multi-boxing with WoTlk. You won't beable to use a program that links all the characters keybinds together.. so unless you actually alt-tabbing between the others/running them all in windowed.. you will only be able ot control them one at a time. Your tears will then.. Quench my thirst KthxBai

Why should I digg up more info for you? I'm not going to be affected by this change. So if you want to know how about you google it.. Im sure your atleast smart enough to do that much... or do you need 4 more characters to help you type it?

Are you blizzard? Do you know how they are going to implement it into the new hack/3rd party software detection that will be used in WoTLK ? They also might be linking your cd-key to your login.. meaning you can only login to the account that used the cd-key you installed the game with.. so to run another account you would have to modify your registery.. which would let you then access that other accounts, but not the account you just changed the info from. Read up on it.. Lots of changes in the works.

I understand why you want to kill me a liar, because now you will be faced to play with one account and to have SKILL to achieve anything. So yes your other accounts will still be viable and you able to play them, but not all at one time.. No more omg 1 shot or omg im leet cause i multi-box bs.

Anyways I guess all that is left to say is... Have fun with your multi while it lasts, cause when WoTlk comes out you will once again need to know how to play your character and not skip threw the game with easy mode 2-5 characters at once.

Just the way he types and represents himself made me dismiss anything he said as being non-factual, but figured I would throw this up on here for people to discuss.

Original Thread : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...sid=1&pageNo=1

[Syro]

Why should I digg up more info for you? I'm not going to be affected by this change. So if you want to know how about you google it.. Im sure your atleast smart enough to do that much

I'm sorry, but if he's making a statement and/or accusations that multi-boxing will be against the ToS, then he needs to provide evidence to support his argument, not you. Debate 101, it's not that hard, evidence to support your claims otherwise they're not true/valid. He just sounds a little jealous or upset.

I'd wait until Blizzard comes out with anything official, from the horse's mouth and all that, before worrying about this.

Also, when installing the game, it doesn't add anything to the registry, and I doubt WotLK will either. This guy is full of it.

[-silencer-]

It's not going to happen.. for one simple reason:
Money.

I find it hard to believe that many people quit WoW because they're frustrated by the few multiboxers out there. However, Blizzard knows they'll lose a chunk of subscriptions if they remove the ease of multiboxing. You can tell they had multiboxing in mind when they made the game in the first place - there are too many easy macro commands available for this to not be the case. They openly allow it because they'd love for every player to become a multiboxer.

[Tdog]

This guy is completely retarded. Do yourself a favor and don't try to rationalize with the guy, he'll only frustrate you more and more until you realize he isn't after the truth, he's just QQ'ing out of jealousy or wtf/e his emo problem is.

[Eteocles]

I posted something similar a few days ago...here ya go:



Basically said the same thing you did, seems to be the new tactic, "LOL UR GONE IN EXPANSION HAW HAW"; if he doesn't even know the program we use how does he know it's gone? These people are just further evidence of why I hate people.

[Tdog]

It's not going to happen.. for one simple reason:
Money.

I find it hard to believe that many people quit WoW because they're frustrated by the few multiboxers out there. However, Blizzard knows they'll lose a chunk of subscriptions if they remove the ease of multiboxing. You can tell they had multiboxing in mind when they made the game in the first place - there are too many easy macro commands available for this to not be the case. They openly allow it because they'd love for every player to become a multiboxer.

I highly doubt the meager amount of money blizzard is getting off us has anything to do with them allowing multi-boxing programs/hardware usage. They got another 10 million subscribers even if every last one of us decided to leave WoW. Blizzard is not a poor or financially unstable company. I have seen a few posts by Blizzard employees admitting they multibox themselves. If anything I suspect they made it easy to multi-box intentionally because they wanted it to be an option in the game.

[Tdog]

...Basically said the same thing you did, seems to be the new tactic, "LOL UR GONE IN EXPANSION HAW HAW"; if he doesn't even know the program we use how does he know it's gone? These people are just further evidence of why I hate people.

I love how the guy says that they will soon be able to detect the multiboxing programs....Umm Blizzard can already detect Keyclone DUMBASS!!! as well as the rest of key broadcasting programs. He acts as if Blizzard has yet to be successful in detecting such things.

[bugilt]

You won't be able to use a program that links all the characters keybinds together

This alone shows he doesn't understand what he's talking about.

[krum]

Actually what this guy is saying has credibility if the WotLK client (or a newer version of any client) uses DirectInput instead of Windows messages for keyboard and mouse input. If this is the case then the current crop of multiboxing tools that use windows messages to pass input events into the different windows will in fact quit working. There is a legtimate reason for doing this as it can reduce the latency caused by the windows message queue. This does not mean that we can not modify our tools to work with DirectInput. They may also look at if the window has the focus and reject messages if it does not, but again, we could change things around a bit so that the operating system reports that the window has focus even if it doesn't.

FWIW, I am a professional PC game developer, so I'm just not blowing smoke out my butt.

[krum]

I've got the test client downloaded and running. I'll test this theory later this evening.