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

[merujo]

Besides, from the activity in the customer service forum (did you remember to hug Belfaire today?), the blues aren't hinting that multiboxing is going away anytime soon.

My only reponse to this is:

A) The hunter ghost wolf fiasco. They specifically said "We won't change it, its fine!" - then flipped 180 degrees and changed it anyway.
B) The new brewfest fiasco. Last year horde got Rams, cross faction mounts. This year they can't, and Alliance can't get the Kodos. Another 180 flip on something they previously said was ok.

u don't wanna compare such things with mb'ing... lol. those are little things compared to the income they get from us. besides a pet and a mount, what else has blizzard reversed ?
ofc u gotta be prepared for anything anyways, but mbing is on another level by now.

[merujo]

Besides, from the activity in the customer service forum (did you remember to hug Belfaire today?), the blues aren't hinting that multiboxing is going away anytime soon.

My only reponse to this is:

A) The hunter ghost wolf fiasco. They specifically said "We won't change it, its fine!" - then flipped 180 degrees and changed it anyway.
B) The new brewfest fiasco. Last year horde got Rams, cross faction mounts. This year they can't, and Alliance can't get the Kodos. Another 180 flip on something they previously said was ok.

u don't wanna compare such things with mb'ing... lol. those are little things compared to the income they get from us. besides a pet and a mount, what else has blizzard reversed ?
ofc u gotta be prepared for anything anyways, but mbing is on another level by now.

Please don't even think MB'ing "income" is significant to Blizzard. We are but a "drop in the bucket" compared to the entire player based. Less than 0.5% I'd bet.

So will blizzard ban MB for the 0.01% of players that whine about us ?

[beelzbub]

I have a friend who is a GM so I asked him about this whole multi boxing being removed business. Here is what he said. "I haven't heard anything about it being removed, and I doubt Blizzard will be changing it's TOS anytime soon, particularly over something like this. And if Blizzard did decide to all of a sudden change their policy on it, they wouldn't put out a patch note saying 'blah blah upcoming patch no more multi-boxing' they would make it an immediate change and disallow it before a patch even came out. As far as the client being different I don't know anything about how the messaging system works so that may be true, but it isn't a deliberate attempt on Blizzard's part to hurt multi-boxers."

So basically, if Blizzard wants to kill us they would have done so already. And to be honest I think they like us because we are players taking WoW to another level. My GM buddy told me that if any multiboxers enter an arena a GM is required to watch and they get a kick out of it. So next time your 5v5 team is kicking ass don't be surprised to come out and all your toons start turning into cows or grub worms :P

[kura]

I have a friend who is a GM so I asked him about this whole multi boxing being removed business. Here is what he said. "I haven't heard anything about it being removed, and I doubt Blizzard will be changing it's TOS anytime soon, particularly over something like this. And if Blizzard did decide to all of a sudden change their policy on it, they wouldn't put out a patch note saying 'blah blah upcoming patch no more multi-boxing' they would make it an immediate change and disallow it before a patch even came out. As far as the client being different I don't know anything about how the messaging system works so that may be true, but it isn't a deliberate attempt on Blizzard's part to hurt multi-boxers."

So basically, if Blizzard wants to kill us they would have done so already. And to be honest I think they like us because we are players taking WoW to another level. My GM buddy told me that if any multiboxers enter an arena a GM is required to watch and they get a kick out of it. So next time your 5v5 team is kicking ass don't be surprised to come out and all your toons start turning into cows or grub worms :P

Smells like you pulled that out of your ass. If a GM was "required" to watch every time a boxer went into arena... hah. I live next to the Blizzard corporate building in Irvine.. literally a mile or two away - maybe I should walk in and start asking their front desk lady about her thoughts on multiboxing. I'm sure she'd have a more legit statement than you.

[Vyndree]

My GM buddy told me that if any multiboxers enter an arena a GM is required to watch and they get a kick out of it.

Ooo, really?

I wonder if it explains that time I kept getting queued up against the same team that kicked my butt repeatedly. >.< And then only let 4 of my 5 shammies into the arena against the same team for another loss.

That really sucked.


Heh, I don't know if they're required to watch but it would definitely explain the random GM ticket queue times that are sometimes 1 hour long and sometimes 4-5 hours long. >.<

[Otlecs]

My GM buddy told me that if any multiboxers enter an arena a GM is required to watch

Either this is a misunderstanding of what your buddy actually said, or there are different guidelines for EU GMs compared to USA GMs. Or your buddy simply got it wrong.

I don't doubt that some (most?) get a kick out of warching multiboxers in action, but there's absolutely no requirement (at least in Europe) for ANY arena match to be manually supervised in any way, shape or form.

I keep hoping this thread will just disappear in the noise, but it keeps popping up again. As others have observed, the single quickest way to kill multiboxing would be for Bliz to say "it's not allowed".

Most of us would stop immediately.

[Shiena]

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.

As the WotLK client is now using DirectInput, Multiboxing could actually become much easier. DirectInput would allow software to write both keyboard and mouse hooks, so we could e.g. have a key and mouse clone application that allows us to use even mouse movements and clicks in all WoW clients running on one system. This is pretty nice actually.

Also note that the current EULA and ToS for the WotLK client shows no indication of a change regarding the 3rd party clause against applications that modify the client. There is no mention of anything like keyboard or mouse broadcasting, etc.