Well, according to the Goblins, time = money.
I don't have more than 3-4 hours that I can play this game per week. So therefore, by the transitive property, anyone who spends more time than me playing this game, is cheating. In order to combat this cheating then, Blizzard should limit everyone to 3-4 hours of gameplay per week.
Blizzards should just change their ToS to say that a real life individual is required to be controlling no more than one character at a time in the game regardless of number of accounts or number of physical machines.
Or state that game input must be coming from a manual entry device such as a keyboard or mouse (not virtualized via a keystroke capture tool). If someone can control more than one keyboard/mouse at a time, then that should be allowed.
Then they can just start banning people that multibox using keystroke duplicator tools.
Definitely not shedding a tear for the poor multiboxer. I never saw the point of it except that the boxer must get some immature thrill from "pwning noobs" with their 5 dks. Buh bye and don't let the door hit you on the way out. The community is much better off without you.
The irony is that you can run multiboxing without /follow using KeyClone or similar programs.
Which y'know, is how Multi-boxing works.
Takes a bit more getting used to (I tried it once with trial accounts, too much effort with Collect X quests to bother leveling all the way)
Updating my signature from my WoD characters.
Yikes.
Probably better than you, probably also a casual these days. Go on, keep being elitist.
As a very experienced multiboxer (4+ years), this is not true. For PvP you absolutely need /follow.
Btw, KeyClone is outdated now and has been replaced by a much better system, ISBoxer. Interestingly enough, the author of KeyClone, Tim, is also the author of oQueue, the must "beloved" addon for assembling pre-made PUGs.
Nice post.
In general, multiboxers are older than the general WoW community. Multiboxing takes $$, obviously, but it also takes a massive amount of time working with macros and setting up systems. Many ignorant/uninformed players think it's mashing one button and getting a kill. Can't convince them otherwise, but between my primary teams (shamans, pallys, druids, and rogues) I have a combined 300+ macros.
If you ran into a good multiboxer it's not because they pushed that one button better than others, it's because they designed a system of macros that allow them to move fluidly. Anyone can blow up a standing target not popping defensive cooldowns or trying to break LOS, but not many can kill multiple targets while avoiding all the toons trying to kill the boxer... and peeps LOVE to kill boxers, so you're never left alone. This whole 5v1 is ridiculous - my 5 man team often is assaulting a node that has 5+ toons.
Updating my signature from my WoD characters.
Yikes.
Probably better than you, probably also a casual these days. Go on, keep being elitist.
Its also funny that on the WOW forums, all the ones complaining about Multiboxers in BG's saying "good riddance" are all in either no PVP gear or a mix of the blue craftable and PVE gear if you armory them.
Multiboxers have no effect on good PVPers. This change won't fix or change botting 1 bit. Its simply going to cause the multiboxers to cancel additional accounts.
There are ways to get around it. You can use click to move and clone your mouse clicks, for instance. This will slow down multiboxers for a few weeks till everyone figures out the work around.
It'll still lower the amount of them, which is good imo.
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Kil'Jaeden has a 40 boxer on horde that goes around wrecking shop. He gets killed, but it takes an organized group in vent/skype.
I lol'd hard when I read they fucked bots/multiboxers by disabling /follow. Been a long LONG time coming imo.
Hmm.. Multiboxing was mostly an issue back in Wotlk with 5 elemental shamans all casting a bloodlusted lava burst at the same time... Currently not so much.. 5 players with good communication and equal gear will always win ahead.. But just as it is annoying to face a coordinated and super geared 5man premade group, the same goes for facing a group of 5 multiboxers.
So many posts from players who have no idea what they're talking about. Broadcasting keystrokes doesn't have a prayer of keeping your toons together. One fear bomb and they're all facing different directions. Even without fear small differences will cause large discrepancies in a short amount of time. I already selectively broadcast mouse clicks (for example when using the portals in IoC), and I make heavy use of IWT and CTM when melee boxing, so these concepts aren't new to boxers... they simply will not work as a substitute for /follow. Those who claim they will just don't have a clue what they're talking about - I have yet to hear an actual multiboxer say it will work.
Get a 2nd job. Work Overtime. Ask for a raise. Sell blood.
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Also, when the multiboxers state the are done and quitting, the anti-multiboxers state good riddance and won't affect WOW because they are in such low numbers:
If the Multiboxers are in such low numbers, you should barely see them in a BG then. THEN WHY ARE YOU QQING ABOUT THEM SO MUCH?!?!?!