In wpvp it’s annoying but for dungeons/ instanced pvp i feel they are at a disadvantage
I never got this mentally, WoW has changed TONS of things that have been in the game for a long time .
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They’ve never done something that completely removed a portion of the playerbase though.
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I’m inclined to agree. Anyone can pay for two accounts and only play one. That doesn’t make them a multiboxer. Multiboxing is actually an involved style of play with far more complicated key mappings, wow macros and experience learned. A higher challenge in other words. Sometimes you will see someone with another account on follow that could be the spouse of the person playing or a friend or someone they know just afk. That does happen.
I would chalk that scenario up to a bad group roll. Leave party and retry. Odds are pretty good you won’t get the same person.
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You wanna ban the little old ladies who use 10 cards at a time in Bingo too?
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Agreed, not completely but I can see them putting on some restrictions for certain content.
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Your example is a person boxing exactly 4 characters in a 5-man LFD group. And I think we all agree that the multi-boxer treated you badly.
What about “every other scenario in the game”? Why should all those be banned, just because this 1 exact situation? Multi-boxers who never multibox in LFD? Gatherers? Multi-boxers who use 5 characters in a 5-man LFD?
I think your suggest is overkill, and you don’t support your suggestion.
I will argue with this. If in 1 month, 20,000 people buy ($20) a token, Blizzard gets that amount whether 18,000 people or 22,000 people that month use gamegold for a free sub month.
The “myth” that tokens are a real thing, and the number bought ($20) and sold (bought with gamegold) exactly matches is just that: pure myth.
I have to agree with OP,I had that to happen to me in AV but all shamans ,we couldn’t even use our spells or abilities at all .
And another time ,the boxer kicked me while playing both sides.If you want to see how this works look up-40 boxer prepared for exploits tol bard.
And this is what we call “automation” but as we know, Blizz is willing to bend.
Let me state in more simpler terms; unless you’re inputting those commands per window of each game running, you’re using a program to automate the input.
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Automation is where you start up a third party program and watch TV while the program plays the game for you. Having your keypresses control 2+ characters at once is not automation.
Blizzard has absolutely no reason at all to increase token availability for free, they would be losing money if they did so because WoW is not a F2P game. And whatever your proposed reasoning would be, do you think Activision would allow something like that even if Blizzard was ok with it?
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They won’t ban (re-ban) multiboxing, the best thing you do in a situation with 4 multiboxers is to leave the group. If they were a competent multiboxer they would be able to run the dungeon on four accounts instead of leaving two idle. You could also just sit there and do nothing because those accounts came in as one party and they probably can’t kick you.
I’ve never had a problem with people doing that, however as of lately i noticed there’s someone on my realm with 33 Characters running stuff. Last night in example someone said search /who eye of azshara, and there was 33 ppl of basically the same name…How in the world can a computer handle all that? I mean I could see 5-10… but 25+??
I’m not really cool with multi-boxing and here’s why.
They have an unfair advantage with a new xpac regarding professions, especially gathering. They flood the market with the herbs and ore or worse yet they use it to an accelerated advantage over the average player.
Really, why do they call it an Automatic Transmission and a Manual. Just because you moved something, doesn’t mean you actually did the process.
To tell you the thought in my opinion we are not that far from automation due to AI. I’ve some of it even in this forum .
I don’t understand all the hate on boxers. All they are doing is exposing the importance of group coordinating and focus fire.
A coordinated group of players should always beat 1 boxer of equal group size. Mind controls pulls polly and knock backs really mess with a boxers day.
One AV I went against a team with a boxer using boomies. I was on my priest and my Guildie was on their priest. In group fights all we did was mc and mess with the boxers positioning. Next thing you know some of the boomies are just standing still doing nothing others are dying and the boxer wipes.
If you went against a group of 15 would you have any expectation to win? Of course not but your 15 player coordinated group should always beat one 15 account boxer.
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That is a terrible analogy. Manual transmission would be the equivalent of playing the game normal, automatic transmission would be similar to botting, and multiboxing would be like simultaneously controlling the manual transmissions of five different cars with a single stick which simply isn’t possible.
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How is this different from 4 friends grouping and then two walk away, thus you still cant kick? Is your issue actually with multiboxing?
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Buster:
Someone who can’t hang or is acting like a little punk.
"Man, why u scared? Your acting like a little buster right now.
And with that I create the term (drum roll)… Multibuster!
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