Key Broadcasting Against the EULA for WoW?

[Gallo]

So, I have 2 boxes... and am very much interested in starting to 2-box WoW, but I'd really like to see a confirmation somewhere from Blizzard that key broadcasting software isn't considered "3rd party software" that can be a bannable offense. I've put FAR too much time into the game to be banned for something stupid.

Has anyone been known to be banned for this? Is there a confirmed place I can see Blizzard commenting about this?

[Steph]

Hello Gallo,

there have been no reports that anyone has been banned for multiboxing to my knowledge. Totally ignoring any screenshots from GM conversations, I think it is fairly obvious that Xzin playing to pvp rank 13 in the old pvp system must have had ample GM calls from people who were not happy to be killed by his team.

I know, your question was more specific, 3rd party software. Multiboxing by itself not being a problem, you have to wonder why they would differentiate between a hardware and a software solution that accomplishes the same thing. Wether you use a program to or a real black box and some cables to do something should be immaterial. If any software that plays around with your keyboard or mouse would be grounds for banning, what about Logitech Mouseware? What about Synergy and Co? What about G15 owners?

Certainly, if Blizzard wants to, they can ban you. Anytime, for no reason at all. You and me looking at the EULA and trying to interpret it is not going to be much use since our opinions do not matter, the GM's opinion or his supervisor's opinion matter.

I think the key question is: do you give them a reason to ban you? Are you having a detrimental influence on the game as a whole or the enjoyment of other players? I think you are more likely to get banned by insulting someone either with malicous intent or in jest than for multiboxing, be it with a software or hardware solution.

Lastly, I am fairly sure that due to the nature of multiboxing, it being manual play when the player can actually play himself and the number of players who go for it being insignificant compared to the player population we simply do not warrant any attention from Blizzards side to begin with.

There will be no definite answers that tell you to go ahead, but there are no indications of bans being issued either. Hope this helps. =]

[forcetrainer]

/nods

I agree with Steph. While Blizzard doesn't comment when people are banned, the general consensus is that it happens to people that are having a seriously negative influence on the game, exploiting a known bug for gain, or similar. Why this can't be 100% proven, it seems like common sense.

When multi-boxing you're in 100% control of your toons, you are staying within the game mechanics, and you're also paying for all of the accounts that you're using. Can you say absolutely that someone won't get banned for using Synergy or Multibox? Nope. But it's too much fun playing with 2 or more toons at a time for me to go back

[Xzin]

I only had a GM contact me a few times anyway and yet almost all I did was PvP. Using a hardware keyboard broadcaster is not cheating in the least and there was never any talk of banning me. Using a keyboard broadcast software package - that I can't speak to but I find it highly unlikely that a GM would ban you for that anyway.