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Its simple really. Multi boxing is cheating, plain and simple.

Blizz doesn't care though. This game is a business and if they can foster a PvP environment where people feel like they need to pay for 5 accounts in order to compete...then so be it. Blizz and claim that they are just letting the players play how they want .

If a botter is running around in PvE they are ruining the economy, making the game less fun and if Blizz bans them, chances are likely they are just going to buy another account. With multi boxing, they aren't ruing the economy, only the game experience and if Blizz bans them, they loose 5 accounts.

In other news, fear bomb or AoE CC works wonders on multi boxers.

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exactly how is multi-boxing cheating, please explain.

Provided you aren't using a bot program to assist you and only in game macros provided by Blizzard?

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Blizzard has stated that as long as the person is playing the characters and not using some program to automaticaly bot them then playing more than one character at a time is not a terms of service violation.

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Except that you CANT be simultaneously in control of 6 characters. The software that allows this does violate the TOS. Its not like you see 1 character move then the second moves then the third..

The MASS of character moves and acts simultaneously which means 5 of 6 characters is NOT under direct control and IS therefore a TOS violation.

Dig

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Except that you CANT be simultaneously in control of 6 characters. The software that allows this does violate the TOS. Its not like you see 1 character move then the second moves then the third..

The MASS of character moves and acts simultaneously which means 5 of 6 characters is NOT under direct control and IS therefore a TOS violation.

Dig

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Except, you can without the use of bot program. There is hardware designed to control multiple PC's at once.

i.e. I press forward on the keyboard and all 5 characters move forward in synchronous fashion.

Is this a 3 legged or 4 legged stand?

Also, how high is said stand?

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Except that you CANT be simultaneously in control of 6 characters. The software that allows this does violate the TOS. Its not like you see 1 character move then the second moves then the third..

The MASS of character moves and acts simultaneously which means 5 of 6 characters is NOT under direct control and IS therefore a TOS violation.

Dig

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You really should do some more research on this. There is hardware that does sends keyboard strokes to multiple systems at once.

A BOT on the other hand means the player is actually not at the keyboard.

lol i wondered how long it would take for this thread to show up here :)

owned

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[Official Blue]

To quote:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3168405460&pageNo=1&sid=1#9

We do not prevent people from owning multiple accounts, nor playing those accounts simultaneously as long as they abide by our Terms of Use and EULA.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/

Multiply Boxing while not common, has been done in many MMO's, and as long as you steer clear of using Third Party Programs to automate the game play it is a perfectly legitimate practice.

Exploitation Policy
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20224

[/Official Blue]

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Thank you for the clarification.

I have wondered about this but not actually read up on it! I especially love dual boxing a healer + dps class in an instance and wonder why my dps class isn't healing the tank because I've not clicked on the right wow window. Mashing shadowbolt instead of flash of light really doesn't work.

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Except that you CANT be simultaneously in control of 6 characters. The software that allows this does violate the TOS. Its not like you see 1 character move then the second moves then the third..

The MASS of character moves and acts simultaneously which means 5 of 6 characters is NOT under direct control and IS therefore a TOS violation.

Dig

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Quoted to better clarify pwned statements.

FYI- what multiboxing does is send your keyboard/mouse inputs to multiple machines. YOU control every one of them at the same time.

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IS IS IMPOSSIBLE!!! to play 5 toons simultaneouly, he even states in his own article here:
http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/xzin

that he codes the software to do this himself, HE IS USING A BOT PROGRAM!!! notice how they move simultanously!

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Third Party Programs to automate the game play

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NOTE TO MORONS

Bot defined by Blizzard is Fully automated command system used to achieve some goal in the game.

This guy is sending commands to 5 accounts of wow and are doing so through 1 keyboard and mouse.

The bots do not make any automated decisions or actions.

This is within legality of the game.

This has been addressed

Noone does Blizzard ban mods, all mods are automated in some way the line is set by blizzard and they stated it is not a decision making mod or a fully automated play mod is legit.

There fore for the time being he is within guidelines.

It's borderline a lot of the time. One of those multibox progs has formations that the characters will run back to.

However, if the person isn't there, not a single character will do anything. Which is the distinction I think that matters.

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Did your name used to be something ah... different? If so, I think I might be to blame for your name change. =D

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omg no fricken way! i went through 4 reportings and a 3 day acct suspension :S damn you!

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Its simple really. Multi boxing is cheating, plain and simple.

Blizz doesn't care though. This game is a business and if they can foster a PvP environment where people feel like they need to pay for 5 accounts in order to compete...then so be it. Blizz and claim that they are just letting the players play how they want .

If a botter is running around in PvE they are ruining the economy, making the game less fun and if Blizz bans them, chances are likely they are just going to buy another account. With multi boxing, they aren't ruing the economy, only the game experience and if Blizz bans them, they loose 5 accounts.

In other news, fear bomb or AoE CC works wonders on multi boxers.

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THAT is one of the most dumbest things i have seen in a long time, people like you anoy the heck out of me how is multi boxing cheating? just because they have the ability to use more than one player at anyone time does not mean they cheat.

I used to player everquest and i found single boxing mind numbing

Druid = heals
Paladin = tanking
Enchanter = haste
Rogue = dps
Shamen = dps/slows/so on
Druid = if friend wanted some AA's knocking out and was not online

I could use all those and have no problems grinding at all and quite a few times i would use my druid and raid on everquest and play wow at the same time...all you have to do is spend the time to get get used to what you are doing and set the right macros and commands up and away you go and have the hardware to do it.
If i had the funds i would multi box on here because sometimes i find playing one toon is ZZZzzZZZ.

FACT.

If they are not useing third party software then they are ok get over yourself and stop QQ'ing

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Its simple really. Multi boxing is cheating, plain and simple.

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Its cheating about as much as you are thinking.

It's not cheating just because they beat you.

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It's not cheating just because they beat you.

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I sooo agree. Multi-boxing supports Blizzard as a company...and by NOT using a 3rd party interface, it's legal. Therefore, those who have the money to spend have the option to multi-box. Given the right tools of course.

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I sooo agree. Multi-boxing supports Blizzard as a company...and by NOT using a 3rd party interface, it's legal. Therefore, those who have the money to spend have the option to multi-box. Given the right tools of course.

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Congratulations, you just bumped a four-month-old thread to say "i agree".

Lrn2timestamp

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It's borderline a lot of the time. One of those multibox progs has formations that the characters will run back to.

However, if the person isn't there, not a single character will do anything. Which is the distinction I think that matters.

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That sounds like automation even by Blizzard standards. They should be investigating these reports.

Braaaaaaaaaains....

FYI Thread necromancy (reviving a four month old thread) is against forum COC