So by that logic Player directed flight should also have been removed from the game? They tried that and got shut down. HARD.
Or by that logic Players must divulge their real names on the forums? Yeah they tried that too. IT ALSO FAILED.
Yes, If Blizzard deems player flight should go then yes, it should go.
Do I agree with that sentiment? No, but that doesn’t mean they are not wrong to get rid of flight if they deem it detrimental to their game…and in some ways they have done exactly that.
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I have boxed 2 for years now and personally I am kinda glad they did this.
It gets old dragging another toon around behind you. It is like driving around town with a 40’ low boy trailer behind you. Boxing is work! Playing one is more fun. I am cutting back to just one account.
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Yes I agree with you - I have been two - boxing different classes since Cata - its been fun setting up all the abilities and software, but I think now I find wow not as fun and I can think back to how I enjoyed just playing the one toon
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It’s so weird that I don’t raid, do mythic+, or PvP, & I do my best to avoid anything that feels like “chores.” All I do is solo quest, harvest, & explore.
Nevertheless, nobody is trying to stop me. Now, I realize you were trying to be funny or sarcastic, but you failed at both.
I have grave doubts that Blizz cares about your window-renaming hotkey, but please feel free to continue posting your tin-foil-hat claims.
Blizz doesn’t like flying players, but they know that flying mounts are too popular to take away entirely, so they make you work for the privilege.
Multi-boxing is now much the same: it’s not taken away entirely, but it’s more difficult to do. I’m astonished by the number of people who can’t seem to figure this out.
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It’s much more expensive to do as it requires additional hardware - and for that investment - you’re rewarded with increased harassment and false reports from the hate group Blizzard emboldened with the wording of the post.
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I just want to toss in my opinion and express how painful this change is. My wife and I just got back into the game over the last couple months, and she started doing a bit of “multiboxing” as part of it. In her case, she’s used some basic software to send a few keys to a second character, so that they attack, use a Loot-a-Rang, and follow her main character. It’s not game breaking in the slightest. She’s not parading 20 Druids through Orgrimmar, but she’s just as guilty under this policy change. And she’s heartbroken, which is difficult for me to see. She’s fallen back in love with the game with this new dynamic, and now it’s being taken away from her. It really makes me wonder whether its worth it to keep playing.
I hope that Blizzard will rethink this. If someone is breaking the game or disrupting the experience of others, they need to be taken care of individually. Instead, everyone is being punished for the actions of a few people. I saw someone mention that Blizzard used a hammer when they needed a scalpel, and I think that was an apt way of putting it.
So, please, Blizzard, if you’re reading this, then reconsider this change. It hurts much more than just the small number of people exploiting it.
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Solution to many problems is just a rework of some of the in-game features. Limit /follow to party only (can only follow a party member - and doesn’t work in a raid) and have herbs/mining nodes not harvestable in a raid group. Bump the max number of taps from 10 to 20. Have stand-still farming be considered zone disruption and bannable. Easy peasy.
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In my classic raid group - our standing rule is if you need to step away for a moment during trash - /follow someone.
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Good point. Most broadcast softwares can do this. Will doing round robin still agaisnt those new rules? Looks like blizzard want to make a rule so abrangent that will apply to almost any scenario. This new rule needs more clarification.
Except trying to do it on 10 toons will take 10 seconds (or more) to click every single one. Which provides time for the farmers to get in combat with mobs/players. As opposed to literally one click and off they go.
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Maybe for some
Are you from the future??? How the hell you are level 120?
That was a thing even before multibox software was though. Gotta love how the hackers have pulled the wool over the eyes of people. People trying to tell everyone that bot hackers /script kiddies that were able to figure out how to make flight hacks in this game, and are not capable of making a simple key broadcast hack also, and have to rely on multibox software(which they don’t)? Just like back when mop was current you could be questing in Jade Forest, and see a train of dk’s hitting ghost iron ore nodes nonstop. Moving so fast you could hardly click on them. And yeah they were using flight hacks, because if you did manage to click on some of them, a lot were of them were level 85(probably fresh out of cata content). You had to be 90/ level cap before you could even purchase flight when the mop xpac was current. Regardless of what blizz does the hackers will always be a few steps ahead of them. And like always it will take them the biggest part of a expansions 2 year life cycle, before they figure out how to beat the hack. Revolving door it is, and always will be. Not letting multiboxers completely off the hook, because yeah they were causing some grief also, but not like botters are.
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I mean, you don’t find it a little interesting that multiboxing was almost entirely ignored until it meant people might be able to negate the downsides of Covenants?
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About damn time.
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Not entirely true. You had to have one level 90 to unlock flying for the first time, but that character could then buy a Bind-on-Account Grimoire of the Four Winds and send it to an alt, who could consume it at level 85 to unlock flying in Pandaria.
They were definitely a problem, though, and they absolutely cheated/hacked.
Did not know that, my bad. Of course it just being a 5 level expansion it didn’t take long to level up to 90 from 85 anyways.
You know what, I might be wrong. I could swear I remember being able to unlock flying in Pandaria at 85 during the expansion, but Wowhead is saying the Grimoire was added in 6.0.1, so maybe I’m getting it confused with the Tome of Cold Weather Flight?
Regardless, it doesn’t really matter. Even if I was right originally, why wouldn’t they just use the level 90 they apparently would’ve had? I definitely remember the bots back then and respect for the Terms of Use and limitations of game mechanics were not identifying characteristics of them.
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