how this was never considered cheating I'll never know. pushing 1 button and 10 spells go off, yeah that sounds like text book cheating software to me. Now those of us who try to farm mats for resale might actually have a chance to make some real gold in a market that isn't inflated 10x
this is why i stopped playing wow i love economy in many games, in wow you can't do anything without multiboxing and a trader software :D
hmmm just thought of something... does this mean they will put the hammer on TSM aswel? clearly TSM offers an "edge" over other players like boxing does right? *sigh
Bots will still most certainly exist, they didn't need input mirroring software in the first place. They are bots and fully automated, and even if they did get banned they just show up again with new ones the next day.
I totally agree with you. These players that ran 4 or more accounts using those programs should just be banned or striped of everything they gained from cheating. Yes Multi-boxing in it self is cheating and using a program to automate the other accounts is major cheating no matter how they try to spin it. Using a 3rd party program has always been against Blizzards tos. It's about time they start enforcing that rule. Unfortunately Blizzard opened the door to more people cheating in this way when they decided it was a good idea to sell mounts for ridiculous amounts of gold. Now mainly the cheaters have the 5m Brontosaur and the rest of us who play without cheating will never get the chance. Thank you Blizzard for giving the rest of us the shaft!
I think Blizzard has drawn the line in a good place. Hammering down on automated actions, but allowing people to find other creative solutions if they want to multibox. Sadly I do think this will mainly end up being hardware-driven or other technical solutions that do still automate actions without being detected, but that's just the way things are. People will find a way. Regardless, from Blizzard's end I think they're doing the right thing.All of these people hating on multiboxing as a style of play, I mean you're entitled to your own opinion, I guess. I don't particularly like it either, but if people like playing that way let them. That's none of my business. As for the "rich players ruining economies," the system Blizzard put in place apparently allows for this. Blizzard themselves also heavily impacted the economy with WoD garrisons, for example.I personally take a lot more issue with the fact that game time can be bought for gold. This is definitely a positive for people who enjoy making gold, but a big negative for those who do not. Every gold you spend is equal to one month game time that was instead paid for with $13 / €11. But then again, I happily pay for my sub so I don't have to make gold so I can play the game. I honestly don't know enough about (in-game) economics to say something particularly insightful.I guess it all boils down to "you do you, boo."
Great news.These boxers mad tho.lol
Meh, just get a switch that outputs 1 keyboard/mouse to multiple machines (only a few quid) and use a few old junk machines. Nothings done in software its all hardware then. It will appear just like multiple people playing in the same house. They would not even attempt to stop this due to false positives. You can do the same with VM's set a bunch up and have the host send its inputs to the guests. Again will just show like multiple people playing from same house. They could in theory stop this detecting WoW running on a VM. However its within the rules to run it on a VM and again false positives they wont. Only downside is more system resources or systems needed. But WoW with low settings will still run on a potato so its not even that bad. Multiboxing is in no way dead just done differently. This ban is on software solutions that allot of botters would use, now they will have to go and use multiple machines or VM's also to carry on. All Blizzard have done here is change the way its going to all be done and make it a little more costly.What i would personally do is setup a monster machine running several VM's with WoW inside and have a master machine sending input to all the VM's at once. All you need is a decent high core count PC with a good GPU or a few GPU's, a fair bit of ram and about 1h of setup time and a switch / KVM that is cheap as hell anyway. Maybe an old server with some cheap ram slapped in and a few GPU's would be the cheap option <$800 anyway. Setup will pay for self over time.
good riddance