5 accounts is 5 accounts. One player or 5 players. its all the same.
that aint even comparable, friend.
5 wow accounts being paid for and played is 5 wow accounts being paid for and played.
Whos behind the screen isnt relevant.
I wonât try to argue that boxing is against the ToS or anything like that, but I would be lying if I said it didnât feel like it was at least a little unfair. Like Iâm over here struggling to scrape together enough Zinâathid for a stack of health pots and this dude with 15 characters on shredders rolls through and gathers as much I have in the past half hour by just harvesting a single node. Why should I be at such a disadvantage for playing the game the way it was designed to played?
As for why I donât multibox myselfâŚ
âŚthis sums it up pretty well.
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I think it might be quite comparable. Especially when you donât have to talk four other people into doing things just for you and you alone.
False comparisons like the one you are providing just try to disguise what anyone can already see. And no one is fooled.
Running multiple accounts to take advantage of multi-tap nodes just pushes aside anyone playing a single character.
But of course it is allowed.
Blizz says it is allowed but not supported.
So if anyone else wants to buy some power, they are free to do that.
But lets not be so dishonest as to imagine its the same as some group of disparate people running around.
The whole reason boxers DONâT run around in âgather everything for meâ groups is because boxing is so much better at it.
Suggesting different is just treating the people reading this as if they donât know better. Donât do that. Its rude.
not really concerned that you think it isâŚit aint.
5 wow accounts is 5 wow accounts. End of story.
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Remember the cost of multi-boxing though. A more accurate comparison would be saying that 5 different people each invested 50 cents and made a dollar back, but someone else invested $2.50 and made five dollars back. So I ask again, whatâs the difference? Because each person made the exact same profit for their investment.
It was really just a rhetorical device towards civility. You should consider exhibiting some.
But either way, your suggestion seems myopic. I suspect purposefully.
If running around with gather groups was more efficient, people would be doing that. Of course they are not.
Even with the added expense, boxing is more efficient and provides extra power at a financial cost that can be offset becoming a self-supporting power source.
It is definitely not the same as a number of separate accounts and it is unfortunate that you would think so little of the readers here as to push that narrative.
The difference is that there are no investors.
Asking again doesnât change the answer.
It short circuits the design of the game that assumes people will contend for nodes and expands that zone of contention to allow several people access before forcing redirection to other areas.
Boxers effectively fill that zone of contention immediately, forcing other characters to redirect.
One person takes up the design space meant for several people. the proceeds from that go toward paying for the accounts.
You get your five dollars and make everyone else go elsewhere to look for their 1 dollar if they can even find it.
You are paying for power and then the power pays for itself in part or in whole.
And everyone else just gets scraps.
And you are saying this was the intent of the devs.
Really?
That is a pretty big jump. âHey this guy does something I donât agree with so he is probably breaking the ToS.â
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They have zero impact upon your ability to gather as the node despawn mechanic is time based, not upon how many interact with it.
Because it doesnât violate any rules.
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And the main problem with Zinâanthid is sharding. Itâs an older zone, so not as many people go there. And with fewer people there, that means fewer shards. Which means most of the people in those shards are herbalists trying to vacuum up every plant they see.
They really should have added an alternate source for Zinâanthid instead of keeping it locked to Nazjatar.
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Solution would be to just stop allowing multiple taps per node before it disappears. Iâve never had a problem with it before, people were still mining dozens of stacks of ghost iron without it.
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Did they remove the 5 person cap that was in place when they introduced multi-tapping nodes? I thought there was still the person limit as well as the timer.
Ah yes good old sharding how I hate thee 
Now, what is really funny about it:
No one actually makes a clear statement that leads to only and precisely tie multiboxing with the issue attributed to multiboxing.
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Wish I could figure out how to multibox, Id do it in a second, all the tutorial videos on youtube are way to confusing.
Yea itâs a joke. No other game would allow something like this, but the Blizzard apologists here will defend it anyway.
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Okay, my problem with it is that it makes is very difficult to gather zinâanthid is the issue. However itâs not just multiboxers that are to blame for it. There are entire raids that circle the zone and farm it up. It honestly is a failure on blizzards part for making zinâanthid the singe required herb for the pots and flasks we use now. With them needing a lot of herbs to actually have a sufficient amount for raiding and keys. Then as for the economy issue while there maybe a bloat in herbs due to how badly itâs farmed right now, thatâs still doesnât mean all that is gathered is sold. Some use it for their own prepots, others sell it and infact will keep a lot of it in banks and on alts. In order to create a artificial scarcity to drive the price up and get more bang for their buck.
So really itâs not the multiboxers fault, but blizzards fault for making potions and flasks expensive to make due to zinâanthid and anchor weed cost amounts. With also making it not that plentiful compared to other herbs in BFA, which is further adding to the current issue.
Doesnt matter how you want to slice the pizza guyâŚits STILL a large pizza.
5 account farming is 5 accounts farming is 5 accounts farming.
One player or 5 its all the same.
End of debate.
I was making enchants for one of my lowbies yesterday.
I was deciding which content to make the enchant fromâŚlegion or MoP.
All it took was looking at the mats requirement to realize that MoP was the way to go. Legion wants 30 of this an 12 of that for the SAME sort of enchant that I can make from MoP enchanting for 2 of this and four of that.
It seems to have just gotten worse in BFA (of course it did).
They put fewer nodes to gather from, make the end product use 10 times the matsâŚand somehow thats the MULTIBOXERS fault that its so hard to get mats together.
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lol. 5 accounts out of the literal millions are hoarding out mats. Sure.
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