but… multiboxers are playing the game… to fund their multiple characters.
just like you play the game to fund your characters.
multiboxing has very little impact on the economy.
i’m just going to keep quoting myself until this starts to sink in…
If 1% of the community is boxers…they hardly have a huge effect.
If 50% of the community is boxers…well, they cant really complain about other boxers, now can they…and if half the base were boxing it’d be financial suicide for this game to bother stopping them.
Either way…its not really a problem
With mog farming in particular it’s not too much of an issue, but for other kinds of farming, multiboxing screws with the game’s incentive structure and social functions in a way that’s impossible to account for in design, which can create problems for those playing the game the way it’s designed to be played.
The wealth centralization issue I find less problematic since it’s more or less achievable by a single character nolife golbining the AH, but that’s kinda screwed up in a different way.
Let me be clear. I do not believe multiboxing should be allowed in the game. So we’re going to have to agree to disagree.
As for the effect on the economy, if only we had the numbers. If I’m being honest, you’re probably right in that the small amount of players that multibox doesn’t affect the economy substantially. The issue is certainly botting in this case.
Correct.
Multiboxers do not affect the economy any more than you do as they are gearing / getting gold etc. for all their characters.
BOTS are the plague of WoW and need to be reported.
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Oh, so only 1% of the playerbase multiboxes? Can you link your reference, please?
One player having the impact on the economy as five players does affect the economy. How much does it affect the economy? We don’t know because we don’t have the numbers. But don’t act as though one player effectively having the impact of five is the same as one player playing one account.
As I said above, I believe the impact is not huge, but it does have an impact.
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really?
Because your point that i was making a point of said 'it all goes to…"
Farming mats is chicken feed gold compared to pets and mogs…so your ‘it all goes to…’ statement that seems to be overly concerned with OUR income would definitely apply MORE to someone farming pets and mogs for much more gold per hour worked than someone farming low gold mats.
really?
Then WHY did you even bother with what I quoted?
If you dont care about it then it certainly shouldnt have even been a consideration, let alone a point made in your arguments
WOW…that point blew right on over at mach 12, didnt it, lol
Get back with me when you REREAD what said and get the actual POINT.
edit…this time pay attention to the use of “IF” a little better 
it’s the same as 5 players having one account each because multiboxers are super rare.
Most of what people call boxers are actually bots that are tanking economies, no multiboxer has time to do that as they are gearing multiple characters.
No, I got your point, but found it funny that you randomly throw out arbitrary numbers.
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that’s just your opinion… it is allowed, and you seem to have a skewed and biased idea about what it is.
how many multiboxers do you see each day?
…because the last time i questioned people on this, and asked them to provide screenshots, NOT ONE PERSON was able to provide a screenshot of this alleged “multiboxer plague”.
stop looking at it as “one player”.
it’s x amount of characters.
…all of which need to have the same amount of gold spent on them to gear them.
literally no different to x amount of players.
Again, this is true. It’s one player having the impact on the game as five would. I believe this should not be allowed.
I agree.
wrong, it’s 5 characters having the exact same expenses / effect on economy as any 5 characters as farming is not their goal.
that you even paid attention to the numbers tells me you DIDNT get the point lol.
The exact %'s were inconsequential guy.
If that’s the case I shouldn’t run into multiboxing druids nearly every time I’m out herbing since logically, they’d all be farming mogs, but instead they’re almost inevitable.
If multibox farming can be done solely in instances where individual players or real-player groups basically aren’t impacted, I really don’t care. I’m more or less done with collecting transmogs and should I ever decide to sell them, I can always go spin up my own personal copy of Hellfire Ramparts or whatever and have it all to myself.
Any opinion is biased, and we’re all biased.
I think you mistook my statement to mean that there are more multiboxers than there are.
It is one player, controlling X amount of characters. It is different than individual players, playing singular accounts.
uh…people use mats for crafting?
I don’t farm materials. But, it seems that posters here claim there aren’t many multiboxers and that not many farm materials. You’re saying that this is untrue and that there are many multiboxers farming materials?
only in your mind.
5 characters is 5 characters. They can do what 5 characters do…the number of players behind them doesnt change that.
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