Is Multiboxing ALLOWED? Blizzard's Policy

it is allowed if you respect the rules, no automation software!
i had a 5 druid team and manually switched each screen and each action button to play fully legit,no software whatsoever and i got banned for 6 months as Blizz states i was botting, wich i was not at all!
when i appealed later the real reason of the ban was shown....it wasn't about software botting or whatever...i was banned by "reported by another player"!
How can Blizz just believe another player who reports me? on what evidence?
Thats was the moment i stopped playing as the game is dead to me, i played a 100% manually and got banned cause some jalous turd reports me,seriously....

I only use multibox to loot Garrison invasions mounts because I'm too lazy to goldmake and sustain more subscriptions 😅

hardcore casuals, kekw

I Multiboxed 10 UH DKs and 4 Resto Shammy’s during the BFA EXPAC. It was soooooo much fun because I loved doing WPVP.

I never did BGs or even rated stuff. I just enjoyed the casual open world stuff and gathering resources from time to time. I even came out in 1 of Swiftys videos when he was streaming and didnt even realized it till a friend told me about lol.

I took a break due to work and months later when I was ready to come back I heard Blizzard was working on making it harder for us to play so I waited and then it came to pass so I quit and have not played in years.

After Multiboxing the game is just not the same. Is like an adrenaline junkie once you got a taste everything else is just bland and boring.

Multi-boxing is the cancer that plagues all versions of this game and anyone that defends it in ANY WAY is despicable. It ruins the expierience for everyone incluDING the person cheating.

I did an Isle of Conquest years ago with a multi-boxer with Ele Shamans. They all did Chain Lightning at the same time and the combined arcing animation was massive, and one-shot people. Hella cool to see though.

I have a question, and I know this is a bit of a grey area.. What do you think about KVM switches? There was always a debate about software vs KVM in multiboxing and software was always frowned upon but always "legal". Now that they are making a push for "software bad", does that mean KVM is back on the menu? Or do you think they won't make that distinction at all?

I know, a bit of a complicated question that you probably won't know the answer to. And Blizzard, being Blizzard, will most likely not give an answer on it. Either way, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Multi boxers are a cancer

Ok so here is my question, if I have a second starter account linked to my main account how do I make it a regular account, what would be the cost and what would be shared? Right now I think my mounts and battle pets are shared???

I am currently and still Multiboxing with 10 Chars in WoW Classic WOTLK and with 8 Chars in WoW retail DF. I get flamed, harrased and insulted every other day because many still think or believe Multriboxing is "banned". I have the Blizzard policy site/url on my shortcut now to copy&paste. Sometimes it helps and I get a quality conversation out of this :) Some people igore me immediately but that's the way it is. What I don't like is the misuse or abuse and of the reporting system to call other players or guild members to report me. These people should get suspensions because of harassing but that's just my POV.

Just ban these cheaters, how hard can it be!?

Just ban it...

While multiboxing is still allowed, as long as you don’t use input software. You can technically still get reported and then banned if you get reported too much.

There is still a lot of negative opinions about mboxers so just becareful out there

So, multi-boxing is legal. Software to do multi-boxing is illegal. Thus for the most part multi-boxing is dead. RIP

I understand Blizz's position, but don't like it. I was disappointed when they came down on multiboxing a couple years ago. I use to run a duo and had fun five box dungeons for fun. It's challenging if you do a mix of ranged/melee! And as I'm not an AH game player other than to buy, it was never about goldmaking (Blizz has it's hand on my wallet all the time!).

ISBoxer was a wonderful program for multiboxing, and sadly it only effects those that played for fun.

Gold farmers will just make new accounts and continue - it's big business for them and I would imagine they don't have much issue trashing an account and starting a new one.

Anyway, saving me some $$ as the extra accounts aren't "on" all the time now.

I multibox two accounts to RP at the same time! Who needs friends!

I thought this was changed like, 2 years + ago?

This is one of those many things that I'll never ever understand about the world I live in. Why was multiboxing ever ok to begin with?

So, If you use software to fish automatically, that's the #1 textbook case of a 6-month ban. However, it has been ok for years to use software to play 8 druids at the price of 1, hyper-farming and flooding the herb/ore market. And they feel the need to amend the EULA to say it will no longer be ok, thus sanctioning that, until now, it was in fact ok. It makes no sense to me.

Multiboxing is amazing for productivity. I've noticed a huge increase in the ability to farm up mounts and other cosmetic things during a new patch when every time you kill the rare that drops the thing you want you have two chances at it. There's so much to do in this game getting the grinds out of the way just lets me have more time to do other stuff. Also, there are other things out there that you typically need multiple people for and being able to do them by myself is of great convenience. I'm not anti social or anything and for bigger achievements I have many friends I can call on to help with them but when its 2 am and I'm bored and there's something I need help with it's nice being able to just do it myself.

I mean I don’t see why it’s not allowed the user base is too low for bliz to miss out on extra cashy

Love your Username, reminds me of a mocha by the beach!

Blizzard cant fight bots but have the free time for this

so I guess innerspace is no longer legal to use in wow even Thu it's not botting software.

Also, I just want to point out that it's clear some of the folks in the comments don't know the difference between someone multiboxing within ToS and bots.

Can you do a video on 'multibox' achievements? I have a few accounts and I've been doing some world PVP achies namely things like Warlord of Draenor, it's nice when you play solo and done on your own schedule. Wondering if you do this too, achies are always fun to chase! I even did 'Safe hands' achie which is very hard solo, but with 2 accounts (my own) it was a simple 10min and done!

The character limit is now 60 per account!

I've dueled box from time to time using a alt account for holiday events and used it for recruit a friend stuff done but never used or supported programs the bot farmers use plus most of those guy are fully automated and that's the problem, i see most of them currently in Zaralek Cavern these days.

I play two accounts because our guild is just three people. We use two extra accounts to get dungeon achievements. We are not very hardcore and laid back. I also use my accounts to get use the other achievements for all classes and races in guild.

I hope multiboxing will never be allowed ever again in wow

Love your show, thanks for keeping at it!

sometimes i multibox 2 or 3 characters by using a g510S logitech.
i have 18 programing keys.
each time i press a key it does use virtual keys then alt escape to other window so its not mirroring cause each windows are not used at the same time.
never been reported or banned.
it makes my life easier in zaralek,forbidden reach to kill rares.
when no groups are available.
the only problem is i dont know what to use in the futur cause theres no more keyboards with enough programming keys in the market

ive flamed multiple multiboxers and got them banned. so take that as u will.
i will continue to do so.
i am right

That "Rule" always existed and blizzard often bans accounts that are just on follow running dungeons.

great vid thought.

I mean hasn't input broadcasting been illegal for some time? I'm an avoid RP multiboxer and i've always known that to be the case.

This won't change a thing. They'll just come up with a new method

Thank you Kraken!

*60 character cap ^_^

solid clarification

Years ago you used to see a character, say a warrior with 4 shaman alts following behind and when the warrior attacked the 4 Shaman would all cast Chain Lightning at the same time against whatever the warrior was attacking. All the Shaman casted at exactly the same moment at the target. This is what Blizzard is fighting against. If you want to tab between 4 shaman and cast chain lighting one at a time, then more power to you that's totally legal. I've also seen this with people farming herb and mining nodes since the days when multiple people can tag the same node before it goes away.

That makes me think. A program like OpenMultibox is then allowed right? As it does not mirror keys to multiple accounts. All it does is, it switches windows with every specified key press. But the rule: 1 key stroke = one action still applies.

I'm a bit confused - the policy about input broadcasters is not new at all - it was announced in November 2020.

What did actually change then?

Took them long enough

90% of multiboxers are cheaters, specifically farming accounts. It's a great policy. Anyone in the comments that has an issue with it is outting themselves as a cheater :)

thank for the info, love it, i have 4 accounts ❤

5 min vid summed into one message: it's against the policy if you use a program to multibox, you have to manually control the characters