Yes. If only players would stop trying to have fun in the game and play solely for the joy of being allowed to log into the most elegantly designed RPG with every RPG mechanic that has ever existed, and even more created just to make it more rpg-ish, and the most complex and intricate systems imaginable to turn the entire playerbase into hardcore raid loggers like Ion, who often uses the term “degenerate gameplay” to describe anything out of the One Right Way To Play The Game™.
Giving options to players means they will choose to deviate from that one true path. All options will be removed until everyone is playing the game right.
See 5 is abit above where I can see the need but still within reason. People running around with 9 or more, or using their 8 to do 2x4 hyperspawning stretch the economic freedom/self-reliance that this game tends to support. Too much independence and centralization of resources for 1 individual. The game needs trade and being able to pop currency/materials into existence bypassing the social loop is wrong.
I havent noticed any reduction in either boxing or botting, personally.
I actually think Ive been seeing more boxers than I was 60 days ago…the bots seem to be about the same on my end. Even been seeing some non druid boxers which for me is a first.
Griefing other players is my issue with it all…but while ive never been harassed or bothered by a boxer…solo character players have irritated me to no end…killing quest NPCs over and over for a hour while Im leveling a new character and such.
You are misremembering the sequence of events. The hammer came down over the fourth of July weekend. Up until that point they had been saying they hadn’t decided, no doubt hoping that creative forum moderation to permit trolls to repeat their reasoning would bring players around. They finally admitted that they were never going to bring flight back.
Someone pumping millions of gold into the economy on a weekly basis destroys others work. Stop trying to say people are islands, if you play with others (either in group or by tagging mobs) and post goods on the AH you have an impact on others. That is the entire premise of what an mmorpg is about.
I’ve seen a massive reduction in griefing, namely in the form of multiboxers subjugating everyone in wpvp and mass reporting people to take away their names and silence them.
and yet it hasnt affected my game in the least…and I see boxers and bots frequently enough. Go figure.
Are you sure you didnt just watch a streamer tossing a fit about this and jump on the bandwagon? We get that a lot in here.
it sure isnt YOU telling others how to enjoy their game if they arent harassing you.
Blizzard took action on the keycloning software…my guess is IF boxers were causing the problems you all claim theyd have been dealt with YEARS ago
They dont.
Basic economics 101 here.
If Eddy Boxer runs 10 druids and drives the price down, fewer players will be farming it because the price doesnt make it worth the time investment
If Eddy ISNT farming it and the price goes up, tons of solo players will go farm it and drive the price down anyway.
I farmed a certain old rare herb with horrid drop rates for 1200g per last year.
Lliterally had no competion for a week or so
next thing I know you cant find it now because theres 6 other players out there NOT boxing running between the spawn points.
They drove the price down to under 200g and made it not even worth looking at.
Never saw a single boxer out there. Just solo players.
oh…not…not the ‘cheater’ joke rearing its head again, lol.
boxing is allowed. Its that simple.
If you arent able to cope with it, ESO doesnt allow boxing apparently…so theres that option.
This correlation just goes to show you that the people that Blizzard were targeting with the multibox software ban were the kind of people were going to cheat no matter what.
botters gonna bot no matter what. they steal accounts and/or create accounts with stolen credit cards and boost characters to max and then bot farm until banned and repeat the process all while sending the gold through other accounts. to stop botting would require way more active in game moderation that blizzard seems to refuse to hire.
most multiboxers are/were just nerds who liked the challenges of setting up and managing multiple characters. soloing 5 mans heroics/mythics by themselves. farming old content for higher chance of transmog/mount drops/etc. some multiboxers also enjoyed pvp but blizzard killed that by breaking /follow in pvp.
sure there were a few outlier crazy bad apple multiboxers like the 20-40 man hardcore nerds who did zone disruption, etc, but those were literally 1 in million wow players and should have been dealt with on a case by case basis instead of banning “honest” multiboxers who just liked to play the game differently and had happily been paying blizzard 5-10x the subscription cost to do so and now dont because most honest multiboxers dont want their accounts banned.
but botters? they dont care about getting banned, they plan for it and have fresh stolen accounts ready to go to repeat the process.
Only reason I knew it was wildvine was because someone was talking about it just 2 days ago. My little community is nothing but collectors so I’m familiar with most of the annoying to farm or expensive xmogs
