GGG's stance on Multiboxing?

As it has been mentioned before the best solution will be the /players x command
-same chances for everyone independent from the system youre running poe from
-no need for other programms and multiple accounts/emails
The other solution is to completely forbid it, but as its difficult to stop players from multiboxing, the first solution is better in my opinion.

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viggatron wrote:

I rly hate that the game is turning in to who can run most programs to have the most succes. Is that rly what GGG whant for this game. ???
To me there is not a big step from multiboxing, to just botting.. Its all about programs that make you have more succes than people who just whant to play the game normaly.

+1.

i could care less if someone goes through the hassle to find more items than me, as long as my play experience is balanced.


I dont see them as having any more of an advantage over some kid who can play 15 hrs a day.

I cant even run 1 account without running into connection issues, so I dunno how anyone successfully multiboxes 4+ accounts without having them randomly drop at certain intervals. Seems like it would be more of a hassle than anything else, and I'm not sure the higher drop rates are worth that headache.

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viggatron wrote:

I rly hate that the game is turning in to who can run most programs to have the most succes. Is that rly what GGG whant for this game. ???
To me there is not a big step from multiboxing, to just botting.. Its all about programs that make you have more succes than people who just whant to play the game normaly.

Clueless kiddos like you really annoy me the most. Go play a single player game if you dislike multiboxing because you have a trash pc. Stop bitching about things you don't understand.

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xxnoob wrote:

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h0b0_lemnade wrote:

I am not exactly sure what you mean by it's not in the spirit of the game

It's cheating.

Cheating is violating the rules of a game. What rule does it violate?

I'm not multiboxing in this, but I have multiboxed in other games, and I think it's a ton of fun. I don't PvP, I don't do competitive play, I just like trying to keep track of multiple things at once. I have healed-and-tanked an instance with three other players. :)

I may be wrong, but I don't think that most multiboxers are just manually multiboxing (running multiple clients and manually controlling each character). I think that most are using programs that allow all the clients to be mapped to the same key strokes so that one mouse one keyboard can control each character on each client simultaneously. To me that's cheating and equivalent to botting.

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Savitr wrote:

I may be wrong, but I don't think that most multiboxers are just manually multiboxing (running multiple clients and manually controlling each character). I think that most are using programs that allow all the clients to be mapped to the same key strokes so that one mouse one keyboard can control each character on each client simultaneously. To me that's cheating and equivalent to botting.

It really varies a lot. When I've multiboxed in other games, I've done stuff like "num pad keys go to second client", so I was making choices separately for each character. Except for movement, which was mostly handled by /follow or the equivalent.

This is not botting, though. And really, neither is the sending the same key to every client.

Botting is where software is making decisions. Where software is determining which abilities are used. If the player is the only one making decisions, it's not botting.

Again, "cheating" is violating a rule. What's the rule?