GM boxing Deathknights

[Stormweasel]

OK so first of all I should apologise for not picking the guys brains more on his mutliboxing, how many, what methods he used but I was so taken aback, it didn't occur to me to ask.

I'd been having trouble with a quest early on in Howling Fjord where you have to retrieve crates under water. Namely, the floating "mine" with the flashing light on top of the water kept attaching a geometric "tentacle" onto all my toons preventing them from doing anything as a group.

Here's the text - I guess we can add it to the evidence file on Blizzard not giving a toss about multiboxing anyway:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6987/gmchatmb2cm6.png

[Sam DeathWalker]

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7104/gmchatmb2mh9.png

[Stormweasel]

Cheers Sam - I couldn't get the damn thing to resize properly so I've just changed it to a simple link in my original post.

[Halo]

The most surprising thing about this to me isn't that Blizz employees MBox, but that they play WoW. I mean, how many people want to go home at the end of a workday and do, for fun, the same shit you just had to do for a living. I can imagine that if I had to do WoW customer support the LAST thing I'd want to look at in my free time is a WoW screen :D

Off the record, I still firmly believe that not prohibiting multiboxers is a business decision. I know it's been denied in the official forums, but I think it makes good business sense to keep us around at 75 bucks a month... I would. If the tables turned and every multiboxer resulted in >5 account cancellations, I'm sure they'd change their minds. The beauty of an MMO is they can data mine the shit out of any variable that affects their bottom line and respond accordingly.

[heyaz]

The most surprising thing about this to me isn't that Blizz employees MBox, but that they play WoW. I mean, how many people want to go home at the end of a workday and do, for fun, the same shit you just had to do for a living. I can imagine that if I had to do WoW customer support the LAST thing I'd want to look at in my free time is a WoW screen :D

Off the record, I still firmly believe that not prohibiting multiboxers is a business decision. I know it's been denied in the official forums, but I think it makes good business sense to keep us around at 75 bucks a month... I would. If the tables turned and every multiboxer resulted in >5 account cancellations, I'm sure they'd change their minds. The beauty of an MMO is they can data mine the shit out of any variable that affects their bottom line and respond accordingly.

I doubt being a GM is anything like playing the game. I imagine their WoW client is more like a helpdesk and they aren't even in the game most of the time. They just hit canned responses and a few generic commands to port players around and fix junk. It's gotta be worse than an IT helpdesk given all the stupid little kids

[Tasty]

It's gotta be worse than an IT helpdesk given all the stupid little kids

Couldn't agree with you more. I'm sure all Blizz employees have a Blue Card ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(Australia)') or equivalent though ;)

[cairnz]

Actually it was very educational to work as a blizzard gm.

Nothing was cooler than keeping a very "cold/botlike/generic"-chat up with someone that was clearly agitated :)

[Youngceo]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internet

[homerjunior]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internetAnd terrible flamers :O

[cairnz]

Yes, give me one good reason why i should pretend anything at all?

Someone thinks a job must be the suck, while I tell that in my experience it was not the suck at all. Okay, so France is sucky if you don't speak french, the work hours are at times terrible (depending on which hours you get, and which weekend days you get(tue-wed, thu-fri or sat-sun)). But most of the people that worked there when i did ( in 2005 ) - were genuinely cool people. Most of them more geeks than what you'd believe - and just about everyone played wow as well as worked with it.

[Hachoo]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internetOk... why would you assume hes a kid pretending to be a GM? Its not like a GM is a glamorous job someone should even really be proud of, its definitely not considered bragging.

Come to think of it, almost every post you make on this forum is a flame against someone. So I guess this forum also has kids being assholes as well.

[homerjunior]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internetOk... why would you assume hes a kid pretending to be a GM? Its not like a GM is a glamorous job someone should even really be proud of, its definitely not considered bragging.

Come to think of it, almost every post you make on this forum is a flame against someone. So I guess this forum also has kids being assholes as well.I am sorry but I have to say it.

ZING!

[Talamarr]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internet

And kids pretending to be CEO's but we don't hold that against you.

[-silencer-]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internet

And kids pretending to be CEO's but we don't hold that against you.
Anyone can label themselves a CEO of their own company.. but that doesn't mean they have any employees worth hiring.

[blbjtb]

Im a multi billionare play boy with 16 cars and 32 girlfriends. My Side job I star and film my own porn movies and my favorite hobbie is to flyaround with my rocket boots (Kinda Like Iron man) Im super rich because I Mutlibox real life and now I just dont need sleep. MY Clones are CEOS and Video directors and producers of fortune 500 companies and studios..... Because thats how I roll.



Now thats how you brag!



NOT Im a GM that mutliboxes!

(PS im back from vacation time to make some random posts and get my Posts per day up there lol)

[Oswyn]

Im a multi billionare play boy with 16 cars and 32 girlfriends.

I call BS. There's no way you can handle more than 30 girlfriends...

[cairnz]

It's all binary baby.

[RobinGBrown]

Im a multi billionare play boy with 16 cars and 32 girlfriends. I call BS. There's no way you can handle more than 30 girlfriends...

Oh he can _handle_ them, but not _satisfy_ them, there's a difference!

Also, a billionaire with only 16 cars and no jets? What a loser!

[Bloodcloud]

Im a multi billionare play boy with 16 cars and 32 girlfriends. I call BS. There's no way you can handle more than 30 girlfriends...

Oh he can _handle_ them, but not _satisfy_ them, there's a difference!

Also, a billionaire with only 16 cars and no jets? What a loser!Not speaking about that he is so cheap that he has half a car per girlfriend. I would have cars that match the current colour of every girlfriend :)

BTW: is this topic going anywhere ?

[Hachoo]

Im a multi billionare play boy with 16 cars and 32 girlfriends. I call BS. There's no way you can handle more than 30 girlfriends...

Oh he can _handle_ them, but not _satisfy_ them, there's a difference!

Also, a billionaire with only 16 cars and no jets? What a loser!Not speaking about that he is so cheap that he has half a car per girlfriend. I would have cars that match the current colour of every girlfriend :)

BTW: is this topic going anywhere ?Oh its going places alright, just not where the OP wanted it to go I'm sure!

[Tonuss]

Off the record, I still firmly believe that not prohibiting multiboxers is a business decision. I know it's been denied in the official forums, but I think it makes good business sense to keep us around at 75 bucks a month... I would. If the tables turned and every multiboxer resulted in >5 account cancellations, I'm sure they'd change their minds. The beauty of an MMO is they can data mine the shit out of any variable that affects their bottom line and respond accordingly.I see it less as a case of getting extra money from customers and more a case of multiboxing not hurting the game. It doesn't hurt the game mechanically, and it hasn't hurt the game financially. Sure, if multiboxing was to lead directly to large numbers of cancellations then they'd have to consider putting a stop to it (or at least, finding ways to curtail it). But I don't expect that to ever happen, and multiboxing simply doesn't 'break' the game. Yeah, it pisses off a few people for various reasons (ranging from being nuked by a multiboxer, to just being a stuffy nitwit about it on general principle), but none of them are quitting over it, and if it's a case of griefing or breaking the rules, there are already ways to deal with that.

It's really not an issue for Blizzard. The only reason it got to where they had to take a public stance on it is because WoW made it so easy to multibox that lots of people who otherwise wouldn't have done it have tried it. Or they wouldn't run so many characters, anyway (say 5, instead of 2, as in my case).

[zanthor]

ZOMG I used to work at McDonalds, not only that, I was a production manager...

Seriously, that's the same as "bragging" that you were/are a GM for WoW... or any game for that matter. The guy was just contributing a personal experience from what I see. I've had Blizz GM's in my guild, I've had Blizz designers in my guild, and I know a few folks who still work there.

I can tell you from my experience as a volunteer Guide in EQ that the work sucks. For the most part you deal with bitchy little primadonna shits who think you owe them something because they are paying to play a game. I figure about 50% of the petitions they get could be addressed by checking the forums or faq's for known issues.

[HPB]

The most surprising thing about this to me isn't that Blizz employees MBox, but that they play WoW. I mean, how many people want to go home at the end of a workday and do, for fun, the same shit you just had to do for a living. I can imagine that if I had to do WoW customer support the LAST thing I'd want to look at in my free time is a WoW screen :D

Off the record, I still firmly believe that not prohibiting multiboxers is a business decision. I know it's been denied in the official forums, but I think it makes good business sense to keep us around at 75 bucks a month... I would. If the tables turned and every multiboxer resulted in >5 account cancellations, I'm sure they'd change their minds. The beauty of an MMO is they can data mine the shit out of any variable that affects their bottom line and respond accordingly.

I work for the cable company. That doesn't mean I don't like to watch tv and use my high speed internet.... In the end, the fact that my employer provides me with free services actually helped me relate to customers back when I was in customer service. I know I wouldn't have ever subscribed to some of the premium channels that I have otherwise. It helped to be able to relate to the programs that customers were watching (especially the talkative customers). I'm sure it's helpful for GM's to play the game, so they can relate to their customers.

[Leon]

Couldn't agree with you more. I'm sure all Blizz employees have a Blue Card ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_%28Australia%29') or equivalent though ;)Heh, in QLD maybe. In NSW a Blue card is the Traffic Control certification, i know i have one.

[Skuggomann]

I hurd [ IMG ] actually works so ppl dont have to clikc the link.

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