Where does SE stand on multiboxing?Follow

After seeing the vocal minority kick and scream over at rift since they finally killed off boxing in pvp, I was wondering if SE allowed cheating like this to occur.

Well I meant more in the way it was being done in Rift, where someone would have 5 accounts that were /follow and had keystroke duplicator 3rd party programs to run the other four.

If they bot to do it then SE will ban them if the GM believes its warranted just like how they did in XI. But people who run multiple accounts by actually playing them should be fine.

The only game i ever actually dual boxed in was EVE online. dual boxing is NOT cheating. Running scripts,however, is. If you have 2 accounts, and you are controlling them both, then more power to ya, but if you are running scripts to control other accounts...then you get whats coming to you.

Edit: too many o's

Edited, Aug 9th 2013 9:00pm by Teneleven

Maybe you shouldn't use the word cheating in the same sentence as multiboxing. Having 2+ PC's and jumping back and forth on the keyboard is not cheating. Neither is alt-tabbing to 3 different FFXIV's.

Using a automated system is. Big difference.

It's only an advantage if you're actually good at managing both the characters. Otherwise its detrimental. Can't really count it as pay to win either since all you're getting is a second account that you'll have to get gear for along with your main. Unless you're borrowing your friend/spouse/dogs account.

Absolutely.
Whether you are skilled or not at controlling two characters and if it's not cheating. There lies the possibility to beat content without others help regardless of your skill with one character, you could possibly not beat that content with one character.

Imagine a professional baseball player hiring help in the outfield to catch balls.
Is he rich compared to other players? Possibly.

In a fair competitive playing field, money should not come into play. Whether it's considered cheating or not is of no relevance. If everyone is not allowed that option regardless of income, then it's an un-fair advantage.

I realize that there is no way to stop this unless SE denied multiple accounts with the same IP. They won't go there due to wanting money and not wanting to restrict players form paying for what they want.

TLDR: It won't bother me in the slightest as long as my gameplay experience is not affected in anyway by those actions of others who do this.

What Square Enix describes on their website is more akin to how a family can play with multiple characters on multiple machines (eg. PS3 & PC) under one Square Enix account. They do not encourage or even condone multiboxing. They do not even use the term multiboxing.

Pay to win is not cheating. Cheating is cheating.

You don't even define what the fair competitive playing field is supposed to be in this game. If it's PvE, you're not competing with other players, so there shouldn't be a concern about having a "fair competitive playing field" over this. If it's PvP, the fairness should be maintained by having an equal number of characters on each side. The multi-boxing player might have the advantage of potentially being slowed down by communication, but the other side has the advantage of having multiple players who can each focus on just their own character.