It's about ******** time
Nice. Now if only FFXIV would follow suit...
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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