Character Cloning - The New Cheat?

[Castillan]

Please, do. Curious on seeing this myself.

Awww crap. Looks like the game crash corrupted the video capture file...

[Pyreflye]

Awww crap. Looks like the game crash corrupted the video capture file...

[Uielyave]

It's probably a duel boxer. There's practical platoons of them in WoW.
I saw one earlier, all miqo'te females and all White Mages, all in the same gear, same FC, all following each other. Dunno if it's against TOS or what, though, or if its Gil sellers or people with far too much money to blow.

[Castillan]

It's probably a duel boxer. There's practical platoons of them in WoW.
I saw one earlier, all miqo'te females and all White Mages, all in the same gear, same FC, all following each other. Dunno if it's against TOS or what, though, or if its Gil sellers or people with far too much money to blow.

Yeah, I've seen those types. No, these were spawning in on the EXACT same location. Like identical. And normally when toons spawn in, they have that brief running animation and then stop. These weren't even doing that. Just suddenly a 2nd name appeared in the exact location, and then walked away.

[Shirai]

It's probably a duel boxer. There's practical platoons of them in WoW.
I saw one earlier, all miqo'te females and all White Mages, all in the same gear, same FC, all following each other. Dunno if it's against TOS or what, though, or if its Gil sellers or people with far too much money to blow.

While multi-boxing is quite common practice in MMO games these days most players generally don't make clones or play the same job on both at the same time, I think these are indeed rmt preparing characters for farming or selling them off.
Whenever I see a group like that I report them right away, legit or not it's always good to have them at least flagged by the taskforce.

As for multi-boxing itself, I don't think there are any rules against that but I don't know of any legitimate means of running multiple instances of FFXIV on one computer.

[Obysuca]

It's probably a duel boxer. There's practical platoons of them in WoW.
I saw one earlier, all miqo'te females and all White Mages, all in the same gear, same FC, all following each other. Dunno if it's against TOS or what, though, or if its Gil sellers or people with far too much money to blow.

Theres a big group of them in Ul'dah, zoning in and out of the inn, all day lol All wearing vanya body, dyed the same shade of blue, with the same blm staff.

[Zenaku]

Most of the time it's just RMT trying to make a lot of gil with the start mission/quest.

[Nero]

I have not seen toons in FFXIV yet. O_o

and yes, those are RMT... identical Gear, same level, same model etc. Thats common since early FFXI.

Just suddenly a 2nd name appeared in the exact location, and then walked away.

Sounds like they logged into the Game after each other?

[Kaelah]

It's called Dual boxing (or multiboxing) as said above. Saw it a lot in WoW, seen it once in XIV so far.

Taken from Wiki: Multiboxing is a term used mostly in MMORPGs to refer to playing as multiple separate characters simultaneously. This can either be achieved by using multiple separate machines to run the game or by running multiple separate instances of the game.

Variations on the term are common. Often, the number of accounts used is reflected in the term used: dual-boxing or two-boxing for two characters, three-boxing for three etc.

[charlemagne]

It's unfortunate that your video file didn't work out as I'm sure SE would have liked to see it. Uploading it to youtube would have been a mistake however. In the unlikely event that it was just someone dual boxing then you could have been seen as griefing had you uploaded a video accusing them of cheating.
Report activities like these, but remember that details such as names are something which SE needs to know and that we don't.