This Shouldn't Be Allowed: Multiboxing

[Somalion-eitrigg (Somalion)]

@Shiyo-grobbulus

Please ban multiboxxing it’s literally paying more money for an unfair advantage - aka pay to win. It’s also violating the TOS as it takes 3rd party tools to multibox.

wrong on both counts.

[Tubbly-terenas (Tubbly)]

Multiboxing kinda does create a negative experience for the average player. Typically, I’ve found two places where this can cause a big of grief…

1. In retail, it messes with the economy. Folks running multiple characters effectively get X times the resources (X being how many accounts they have) since everybody can pick the node. This is a non-issue in Classic though since a node despawns when any one person picks it.

2. In PvP, it circumvents normal coordination requirements. Focus fire is simply too easy. Landing 5 high damaging spells on a target at once is very difficult to defend against. Having 5 normal people communicating and working together to target and cast their spells at the same time can be done, but it requires more coordination than your average person. For a multiboxer though, it requires nothing more than a click and/or button press. I’ve always found this to be kinda crappy. I do think that this provides an unfair advantage, bought and paid for.

The situation the OP describes kinda sucks, but it’s nothing really any other group of 5 people who are jerks and want to steal tags can do. Multiboxing has been around a while though, so if Blizzard was going to do something about it, they would have by now. It kinda sucks because I do feel it generates a bit of a pay to win situation, but it also affects my life very rarely.

[Taterdotz-thunderfury]

@Shiyo-grobbulus

@Hambamwam-westfall

Let people play how the want to play. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

yeah dude if someone wants to hack and cheat and exploit and bot you better let them!

Don’t tell them how to play!

You’re 60 already, I’m sure you cheated away with raid xp, used broken aoe taunting to run groups, and layered jump at will…Should they take away your acct as well?

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Threno-bloodsail-buccaneers

Except in this instance they made a social faux pas and then were extremely toxic in a zone-wide channel.

I read this and I can imagine you literally clutching your pearls. I do declare! I believe that multiboxer has given you the vapors!

[Drougen-whitemane]

You shouldn’t be allowed. Just kill them, problem solved if you hate them so much.

[Shiyo-grobbulus]

@Taterdotz-thunderfury

You’re 60 already, I’m sure you cheated away with raid xp, used broken aoe taunting to run groups, and layered jump at will…Should they take away your acct as well?

What an awful troll that any decent forum mod would ban, but we don’t have forum mods because Activision-Blizzard only cares about money. Which is also the reason we have to deal with pay to win multiboxers in a triple A MMO.

[Scaryterion-grobbulus]

OP gives a poor example of how this is bad, imo.

I think multiboxing should not be allowed because of my experience in Stormwind back in teh day. THere as a multiboxer shaman controlling tons and tons of shamen. All stacked on top of each other, all casting the same spells. This single person decimated Stormwind for hours. Its clearly not intended game play for an individual to be able to decimate Stormwind.

That being said, in all the time I’ve played WoW. I’ve only seen that happen once. So its not exactly a major issue. Still dont’ see why its not against the rules tho.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

I wish I could say I was surprised by the lack of logic or intellectual honesty from the anti-multiboxing contingent…

But I’m not.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Shiyo-grobbulus

@Taterdotz-thunderfury

You’re 60 already, I’m sure you cheated away with raid xp, used broken aoe taunting to run groups, and layered jump at will…Should they take away your acct as well?

What an awful troll that any decent forum mod would ban, but we don’t have forum mods because Activision-Blizzard only cares about money. Which is also the reason we have to deal with pay to win multiboxers in a triple A MMO.

So, if you truly believe everything you’ve just spewed forth, why are you still subscribed?

[Ironudders-mankrik]

@Threno-bloodsail-buccaneers

I respectfully disagree. By multiboxing an antisocial player is more able to pull off these feats without suffering penalties. Five shamans all controlled by one player can steal an escort quest, elite, quest group, and not die in the process. This player doesn’t need to find four others to play with them. They are able to do everything they want by themselves and not participate in the community.

So you are jealous you have to talk to people?? And by god if you have to talk to people, everyone else has to as well?? Look at a hunter they can usually pull off an escort quest, elite etc other classes can’t and not die in the process should we ban hunters too?? Hunters can pretty much do anything they want on their own. Guess it’s just another reason everyone hates hunters.

You can’t ban someone from being antisocial, I was antisocial on my hunter but did just fine by myself soloing… what rules did I break?

[Drougen-whitemane]

I’m 60 and didn’t do any of that…it’s not like it’s hard to level, you’re probably just a retail player.

[Brokenwind-grobbulus]

@Laintime-kirtonos

Neither is PTW and Multiboxing but it isn’t stopping you soooooooooooooooooo

You are paying for an advantage over other players. It is quite literally the very definition of pay to win.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

Pay to win what, exactly?

[Brokenwind-grobbulus]

@Teufelgott-shadowsong

Pay to win what

@Brokenwind-grobbulus

paying for an advantage over other players

Difficult to understand, or willful ignorance and bad faith trolling? I am guessing it is all of the above with you and others in this thread.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

Again, how exactly is a multiboxer winning? What is a multiboxer able to do that diminishes the achievements of a player with only a single account?

[Calitar-azuresong]

You ever do a gathering quest? You need 8 stone idols that have a horribly slow drop rate. In comes the multiboxer with 5 toons. He needs 40 of those idols with the same hideous drop rate.

Oh wait, he kills way faster with all those guys, drop rate is irrelevant! Yeah, quicker kill, still 5x the killing. Add to that a greatly reduced XP per mob rate because you’re in a party of 5. Grinding is part of the classic experience but in a group that just means massive slowdown.

Now add in the extra time it takes to do something as simply selling your trash and repairing, making bags for your party, mining or gathering herbs.

A 5man multibox is slower to level and way more complicated than the solo route. Was he rude? Fine, call him out for that, but don’t cry because he’s decided to add a whole new layer of complexity to his gameplay…

[Somalion-eitrigg (Somalion)]

@Brokenwind-grobbulus

You are paying for an advantage over other players. It is quite literally the very definition of pay to win.

What if like multiboxers you are paying for a disadvantage ? Multiboxer vs group of characters on voice chat the multiboxer loses every time.

[Crooge-medivh]

If they want to spend $15 x ___ a month to cast ___ pyroblasts at the same time at single target, that’s on them.

[Oniana-lightnings-blade (Oniana)]

it should be allowed, it is allowed, and it has been allowed since 2004. go away. i love running into a multiboxer.

[Brokenwind-grobbulus]

1 player versus 1 player, the mutibox/keycloner has a clear and obvious advantage. Are you actually attempting to make the argument that 5 players with single characters each being able to take them down is a “disadvantage”? Really?