Hey there folks… There is a brand new post by Kaivax regarding the multi-box ban…
Fear not, my multibox friends… I highly suspect you will see a cash shop item to be added soon™ that will allow you to transfer characters from one account to another for a nominal fee…
I suspect this will not extend to boosted characters because this would defeat the purpose of the one-boost-per-account narrative, but then again - who knows?
Maybe it will be open to boosted characters as well, once the unlimited boosts are opened.
If it is not entirely clear, allow me to be crystal - this is entirely speculation and/or conjecture depending on where you stand. I assume this will come to fruition because to me this very accurately represents the best interest financially for activision’s blizzard and this tends to be the entire consideration for their business decisions.
Yeah the monetization (money) team made this decision too. Not the design team. The money team. They make all the design decisions now, or at least, all the decisions have to go through the money team first.
I don’t think the character transfer would do anything for me on this. I played multiple accounts because it is fun to play multiple characters. I went ahead and canceled five of my six accounts based on this change.
Please elaborate. How, under the current ToS, can you “multibox just fine”? I think you have no idea what you’re talking about. But I suppose that is par for the course in these forums. Go ahead though, try to explain how to effectively control five characters within the revised prohibition on multiboxing.
I said you could multibox, not effectively control five characters. You can multibox as many characters as you want, effectiveness non withstanding. Ill still be able to run two accounts just fine btw. So yea, as Don Henley sung, get over it.
As expected, your response comes way short of showing that you can “still multibox fine” and gives no reason to change my sub cancellation. You can have the last word if you’d like, as you’ve shown you are not really a multiboxer, are not affected by this policy change, and have nothing useful to say to people who are actually affected.
The past tense of sing is “sang”, not “sung.” That one is free. Best of luck in Azeroth.
Cancel your sub. You correct my grammar yet you repeatedly misunderstand the point of my post. Unsub, I dont really care. Your just wrong about multiboxing being dead. Your type of multi-boxing is dead. Get over it.
It’s like that scene in Goodfellas with the restaurant. Where you bilk and milk everything out of a place that you can, chasing quarterly profits, only to have to burn it down for the insurance money when nothing is left. TBC is about to be involved in a very unfortunate dumpster fire.
People are playing with multiple accounts to multibox. They are paying multiple subscriptions every month.
You believe that after having the ability to multibox removed, they will then pay blizzard fees to transfer the characters which they can no longer multibox, to one account.
You believe that blizzard will profit from this, instead of… continuing to receive multiple accounts worth of subscription. You honestly believe that characters built for multiboxing, which are now useless for that purpose, which they already have one of on each account, are characters that person is willing to pay money to transfer back to their account.
I just want to make sure I got your position right.
Do I believe they will be disgruntled? Yes.
Do I believe that many will want to move their characters over for raiding opportunities, pride, or whatever other reasons despite being disgruntled? Also, yes.
Will everyone? No.
And in response to the second part, I never said it was a good idea… But blizzard has not always had the best history with good ideas… There is pressure on them to remove automation and bots…
This is surely an attempt to appease the majority of the playerbase (who do not multibox) over the very slim minority (who do)…
But rather than just leave them high and dry, I would wager this is something they will offer in an attempt to appease some of them and generate additional revenue streams… Any chance they have I see them doing this and giving reasons such as authenticity or so friends can immediately join in… all behind a pricetag.
I personally believe a better business decision for the long-haul rather than quarterly numbers would have been to improve the projection of subscriptions as opposed to try to entice the whales with cash shops… WoW is one of the most monetized games out there.
Most games monetize based on one of three very popular models:
Buy in - initial money is spent to purchase the game but then it is free to play
Subscription - pay per month to enjoy access to the game
Cash shop - in game services, aesthetic or augmenting are offered for purchase in a cash shop.
WoW uses all 3 and blends them together in ways to entice purchase of multiple methods from its users.
I am not faulting the company but it is clear where they are coming from and all they are interested in…
You are welcome to infer whatever you like… I stand by what I said. I did not claim it was a wise choice.
I still wish blizzard had opted for the long-haul “build a better game and sustain strong income” model long ago as opposed to the “release shiny new content in waves to spike subs and cash shop purchases before the next ‘lul’ in the revenue stream” kinda model.
Then you’re a fool. Multiboxers have no need to move the character over because… they multiboxed it. They already have that character on their main account, with like one letter of the name different. The third multiboxed character is not different than the first, or second, to any large degree.
If I multiboxed 4 shaman, then I have a roughly evenly geared shaman on 4 different accounts. There’s no benefit to paying to transfer the other 3 over. I already got 1.
Also, it’s hilarious that you act all high and mighty about cash shop transactions, but are acting like multiboxers should be protected, despite it being much more pay to win (especially with how tagging and nodes work in retail).
And you’re assuming that because I listed the most common example, you can poke holes in my argument.
Let’s just pretend I said “But of course, there are obvious exceptions”. After every sentence. That way I can address your next five complaints ahead of time.
By and large, there is no value in transferring multiboxed characters off the account. Very few people will have reason or inclination to do so.