Policy Update for Input Broadcasting Software - Multiboxing Official Warning

And I answered.

It's about ******** time

Nice. Now if only FFXIV would follow suit...

Originally Posted by Graeham

Nice. Now if only FFXIV would follow suit...

Botting and certainly multiboxing has never been a huge issue in FF14 because the barrier of entry with the MSQ

Only took them 16 years... Bots didn't do it, herbing exploits didn't do it, griefing gank squads didn't do it, 2x4 farming didn't do it, ruining BGs with 1 shots didn't do it... Top end raiders levelling 4 toons for each covenant? Time to ban multiboxing boyz!

thank fucking god.

Originally Posted by MrMatticus

And I answered.

You will end up making more effective gold as well, as the items you acquire will be higher value due to a less flooded supply. It's not simply an increase in your expenditures.

I think the fact that this change makes gathering professions worthwhile for non-botters alone is enough to make it worth it, let alone all the other benefits it brings.

Nice, regular players might actually have a chance to make money from farming.

Originally Posted by Uko

Wow no wonder its so cold where I am hell froze over. This is great news. Nazjatar was cancer because it was impossible to beat the herbing multi boxers hoovering up every node as soon as it spawns.

holy shit, so true.
during dawn, the only players you see in the area are them.

Great news.

100% support this one.

About time. Fuck those people.

Originally Posted by Clozer

You are too short-sighted. People will be happier now, which means they stay subbed for longer than they would with multiboxers. Obviously banning all multiboxers right now removes a ton of accounts, but on the long run, better game design will result in way more players.

Lol. You are the short-sighted one. People aren't unsubbing because of multiboxers. Sure people might use it as a reason, but they are unsubbing because of content draughts, design choices, etc. None of this will affect game design and you are a bit delusional in thinking so.

Originally Posted by Clozer

It's not only his opinion but also Blizzards.

Just because Blizzard said it doesn't mean they have to agree with it. They could be doing for a multitude of reasons, but doesn't mean a majority of them agree.

Originally Posted by DranightKM

with the amount of gold the multiboxers get, they pay for their accounts with that gold, blizz loses almost nothing by getting rid of them

You are wrong. They pay for it with gold which means they pay $20 sub prices instead of $15 because someone has to buy a token for $20. So they most definitely will lose money.

Originally Posted by Redroniksre

I love how you can blatantly tell who is a butthurt multiboxxer without them even having to say it based on their claims that this will cause the sky to fall. Sub price increases? You seriously think more than a freaking percent of the playerbase actually multiboxxed? It seemed very abundant, but it was still very much niche.

You don't have to be a multiboxxer to understand the changes and ramifications it has. Thinking in a secluded box will though. You'd be surprised at how many multiboxed. Let's say there is 1,000,000 players and use your 1% as a number. That is 10,000 accounts that people will likely close out. So 10,000 x $15 monthly = $150,000 alone Blizzard will lose out in a month. $200,000 if they bought it with gold. You don't think shareholders won't notice close to $1,000,000 being lost each quarter and Blizzard not making up for it? Then we factor in all of those accounts buying Shadowlands so that is another 10,000 x $50 = $500,000 in lost box sales alone. Losing at least half a million in box sales on an expansion launch will definitely get the shareholders questioning things and wanting them to come up with ways to get that money back. Increasing sub prices by $1 is the easiest thing they could do for starters, adding a load of things to the shop is another.

Stop thinking of the effect you will have and what you seen in isolated events and think outside the box on the grander scale.

"Serious" Multiboxers will just use USB devices to make the computer see X input devices that are all the same device.

You can literally build one with a soldering iron and components from NewEgg for about 25$.

You plug your keyboard into the "In" port, and run 5 cables from the "Out" ports to your computer (likely an external hub so youll actually have enough ports) and poof, your computer sees 5 individual keyboards. (Theyll all have the same hardware ID tho) If you really want to get fancy and make sure that isn't even remotely detectable, you can use an RPi as the bridge and each of the 5 outputs will report a different hardware ID and from Blizzards end will look absolutely like 5 different physical keyboards plugged in.

They cant even limit this by limiting the WoW Client to one instance since you can literally just run VMs and have the "individual" keyboards/mice control one of the VMs. (Which will 1000% on Blizzard's end look like 5 different computers - think LTTs "X gamers one CPU" series)

Its not even hard.

This will, at best, put a tiny dent in the number of people who multibox.

Lipstick on a pig, kids.

Originally Posted by kranur

See you never multiboxers.

Multiboxing is still allowed

Thank you Blizzard.

Thank youuuuuu

Originally Posted by Graeham

Nice. Now if only FFXIV would follow suit...

pretty sure FFXIV already doesn't allow key cloning, which is what Blizzard just banned.

Originally Posted by Yamuri

Yay, I guess they got enough money to call it quits on the policy.

What's funny is some of the multi-boxers asked for Shadowlands refunds, and can only get 1 refund per battle.net account.

https://twitter.com/FatbossTV/status...67290215673856

Its about fucking time

Originally Posted by Hellobolis

will this actually help against bots though? feel like this would be a minor inconvenience/temporary delay for botters at best.

Would think that they got some new utility feature that false reports multiboxers as bots, so rather than ban directly, give them notice. So I'd say it's quite probably it helps a bit. Will be interested if this means keyboard macros will be flagged as well.