Is multiboxing allowed (legal) in WoW?

A common questions asked by many who are looking to start multiboxing, or many who have played against a multiboxer: is multiboxing allowed (legal) in WoW?

The simple answer is yes. What a lot of players fail to realise is that multiboxing in WoW would only be against their ToS if any movement or actions of the characters being played was automated (i.e. the player is not controlling them). While we do use multiboxing software such as pwnboxer to control our characters, nothing is automated. The software we use to control our multiple accounts only sends the keystrokes and movement commands we manually press on our keyboard. Therefore no characters are moving or attacking automatically.

But isn't still morally cheating?

A lot of people still say that even though WoW allow multiboxing in their game, it still is cheating, using multiple accounts at the same time. I can understand why some people would see this as an advantage to the multiboxer. However what non-multiboxers fail to see is the fact that multiboxing can actually be quite difficult. A well organised group of 5 players should be able to easily beat somebody who is multiboxing 5 accounts. What happens a lot of time in battlegrounds is one or two people running to try and kill a multiboxer and then getting 'one shot'. It should be quite obvious to any player that no one person (unless they are pro) will be able to take on 5 characters, whether they are a multiboxer or not.