Last I looked that’s not a valid reason to report a topic.
To other people it may be even if it isn’t in the tos, some could view it as trolling, clearly it’s coming from someone that doesn’t have a clue on how it works and their affect on the game.
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10,000 pointless box hate threads later, most likely.
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I’ve been playing since i was in my twenties. Multiboxing was happening and allowed then.
I’m now in my forties… it’s still allowed, they updated their FAQ response to it. They still allow it and even link to wiki which offers direction to third party sites that helps you multi-box.
People are going to hate it, but it’s not going away.
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you think that matters around here?
They flag people for asking serious game questions.
As long as this joke forum ALLOWS trivial flagging, expect it to keep happening.
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They’re clearly wrong to flag it.
Personally I think they’re just jealous they can’t afford to do it, are ignorant on how to do it although the economy discord has step by step instructions basically. This can also relate to raid content when time is a factor, if you don’t have enough time for mythic well you can do heroic but don’t expect mythic rewards until you can make time and put in the effort as well, this is what I don’t understand as being so difficult.
When I don’t have time to stick with something like mythic raiding I’ll either do what I can or go play a game with small timed matches like cod or what ever else is available, I’m adapting my game to what I have available. Most players in wow want the game to adapt to them which it shouldn’t be this way and this is why we have this cesspool BFA.
I didn’t flag it. You do realize if you disagree with people on here you can get enough reports even if nothing offensive is said right, common sense is what I see it as, reporting this post for trolling I could argue isn’t entirely out there.
Reporting someone because they disagree with you, in my opinion you shouldn’t be on the internet at that point and probably should develop thicker skin or set the parental controls so you don’t go to places like this.
Since many people misunderstand I’m not talking about you specifically, it’s a general statement of a lot of people on these forums.
Lol yup, I was typing so I didn’t see but basically what I just said, you beat me to it.
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I multiboxed back in wotlk and did it mostly for pvp. Ran over 1000 av games with five draenei shamans and it was pretty fun at the time. Then I transitioned into arena and peaked at 2k rating which I thought was ok since i had to fiddle with multiple health bars.
That said. Multiboxing back then was obnoxiously easy. Like 99% of the time you press two buttons and stuff dies. There wasn’t much skill involved unless you were super high rated in arena which most boxers were not.
For $75 a month I could activate god mode in world of Warcraft and kill a top geared raider in less then two gcds. It’s pretty close to aimbotting since the thing you target can’t survive five lava bursts. I mean I killed geared players through defensive cooldowns like it was nothing.
It’s a dumb playstyle and is really against the spirit of the game. I turned world of Warcraft into a single player game. Which caused me to stop multiboxing because I was playing an MMO by myself.
There are other MMOs which prohibit the playstyle and to the folks saying that blizzard would lose a bunch of money, there aren’t many multiboxed out there. Go to the dualboxing forums. Not that many people as there once was playing the game. Especially after they killed /follow in pvp.
The people who are boxing now are mostly just people who play wow to farm gold to pay for mounts. They save up a few million and blow their gold on multiple accounts.
The wow token pretty much have rise to this problem. Back when there was no wow token. The playstyle was pretty limited because not many folks wanted to shell out $75 for the game and $20 or however much keyclone was. Then you needed a decent CPU to run five instances.
Multiboxing is effectively dead for wow and a majority of the ones left are just people doing it to increase their gold gains. Like for every person who does it for PVE there are most likely 20+ druid boxers just doing it for easy gold.
That said it’s hard to get rid of. You have up to eight wow accounts per battlenet account which helps with families playing the game. It will be hard to limit how many logins per battlenet account due to families who play together.
I just don’t see the appeal to box anymore.
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That’s not any reason to flag it though. The only other thread about multiboxing that’s up was made after this one. Folks need to learn to just mute threads they’re not interested in instead of abusing the flag system.
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People get upset and flag instead of downvoting, brains all ramped up reddit mode
To be perfectly frank, it probably is time to start making it against the rules. What was once a harmless little hobby has become a pretty significant problem.
To quickly rattle off the arguments as to why it became a problem:
- In the early days, multiboxing was seldom more than 2-5 characters; and for the most part, it was done in a way that focused around combat. This didn’t mean a whole heck of a lot in the early days of WoW, they didn’t suddenly tip the scales in terms of gameplay balance. Maybe some strangely effective arena teams, but that was about it.
- Multiboxers have become a MUCH larger portion of the community. WoW itself has shrunk considerably, and currently sits around 10-15% of its peak population (maybe spurts of up to 20-25% during new patches and expansion launches). However, multiboxing has NOT shrunk; if anything, it has arguably grown in quantity and scale. This means their effect on the game has increased considerably.
- Multiboxing scale has become an issue. As I said earlier, most multiboxing in early WoW was only 2-5 characters. I’ve heard stories of 10-40+ characters lately (probably due to technological advancements), meaning a single multiboxer can end up lagging servers and dominating whole areas. Farming raw materials in particular seems to be a popular activity for them as well, dominating whole areas on their own while leaving everyone else with nothing.
Since it is currently acceptable, this more or less means that a brief “clemency period” (let’s say about 3 months) will be in effect to allow the multi-boxers to adjust to the new rules before enforcement actually takes place; I’d expect multiple warnings to go out during this time.
However, the bigger question is whether or not ActiBlizz will do anything.
Unfortunately, I’m doubtful… for one simple reason.
Multiboxers are “whales”.
It’s an industry term or buzz-word, but it largely means single players who spend HUGE quantities of real world money on microtransactions; for multiboxers, this is actually pretty damn close even if they don’t actually use said microtransactions.
Either they’re paying several times over for subscription fees to cover each character ($600 per month for 40 characters), or they’re driving a LOT of WoW token sales to keep their operations going. I think the tokens are more than the base subscription, and someone has to buy them with real money in the first place (bumping it up to $800 per month for 40 characters, assuming a $20 token). And that doesn’t even cover things like character services and other stuff off the store (mounts, pets, etc.); if they’re dropping that much for character subscriptions alone, what’s stopping them from indulging in the other stuff WoW offers?
ActiBlizz won’t take action against multiboxers unless they’re driving away FAR more players than the amount of characters the multiboxers single-handedly bringing in.
… so that’s probably why there hasn’t been action already, they’re the “whales” of WoW. Since it’s readily shown that ActiBlizz doesn’t care about the state of the community and only cares for their bottom line, they aren’t going to kill off the golden cash cows unless the math shows they have to.
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And neither do you to assert that multiboxing is allowed because it’s good for their bottom line.
If you can’t use that argument one way, you can’t use it that other way either.
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The multiboxing community was never that big, yes they had some affect when the token is considered but you’re talking 1-5% of the player base. Corruptions/boes/carries are the only things that affect the wow token to a serious level, you can even see the wow token going up in price and then crashing with people buying obscene mounts of tokens for their bis corruptions, it nearly got to 100k a token in the us, with the addition to the vendor it started going back up slowly and has been sitting around 120k since, I’m sure it’ll be around 150k before SL release or more.
As far as aimbot, who cares about world or bg pvp, you have warmode for this reason. I’d just go back to how the servers were, pvp pve oriented and you had to live with your decision where you went instead of oh I’m getting camped /click no more warmode. If you have warmode on rn you’re asking to get ganked whether it’s one person or a raid of 40. I think those that leave warmode on get ganked then come on here and whine about it need to go back to school or have some common sense drilled into them.
It’s been allowed for a decade and a half, it’s not going to change right now just because some random person made another bi-yearly post about the subject.
I can read the same kinds for the last 10-11 years, people all say the exact same things.
It’s not going away.
They don’t police it because it makes them money that they would otherwise be never receiving/spending it on to police the boxers
Obviously no one thinks it’s “good” for the game
Does it? So far I’ve only heard complaints about them herbing, which brings down the price of herbs. Seems like a good thing to me.
How exactly?
Are you trying to say that if a multiboxer wasn’t able to multibox that they would farm with others? That’s hilarious. I’m not even a multiboxer and I don’t like farming with others.
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This would be nice.
#betterregulations4multiboxing
#giveworgentails