MultiBoxing Thread on Star Wars : The Old republic Development Forums

[Flight]

Just a heads up that there is a poll and a thread up on the SW:TOR development forum about whether to include multiboxing in the game :


http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=27745

[Yamio]

A guy at work has been talking about this game for months. He's one of these guys who initially detested multiboxing but now he's a proponent of it, mainly because his roommate multiboxes WoW. When we spoke about Old Republic and multiboxing he's flat out against it. He reveres this game, even before it's released. Major Stars Wars fan.

I've said before that devs shouldn't develop a game to help multiboxers, but this playstyle is getting more and more popular as more MMO's come out. I'm sure Old Republic will be multibox friendly.

[thinus]

Too much fail in that thread.

People seem to have this wall they cannot get through, they think in terms of 1 player vs 1 player instead of 1 character vs 5 characters.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The arguments haven't changed one bit since day 1. The only thing that changes is peoples' awareness. You can tell the difference by the way multiboxing threads go on wow forums versus how they go on other forums. Especially forums related to a game that lends itself to epic roleplaying. "OMG you ruined the spirit of my beautiful game! FROST SHOOOOOOCK!"

[Frosty]

I posted on there several days ago (as FrostyTS) and no one had responded to anything I'd said as of last night.
Which leads me to believe that they aren't interested in facts at this point. :P

[Taliesin]

That's just the way the loudest players tend to be right now. "Do everything exactly how I do, or you're stupid."

Think about it. If you don't use some cookie-cutter talent build, some people give you crap for ruining your DPS. If you use a different tactic on some boss fight that isn't already posted on wowwiki, wowhead, or whatever, then you're just "doing it wrong".

Same for multiboxing. "How dare you play the game differently than I do!... Cheater! /reported"

Over the last twenty years, I've only seen these tendencies grow worse, not better. There's a part of me that wished the internet wasn't as anonymous so people had more reason to actually be civil to each other, but the other part of me knows that wouldn't work as well as it sounds.

I work with a guy that plays a warrior with one of the wackiest talent builds and picks items/enchant based on the fun factor rather than optimization (parachute enchant on cloak, for example). A lot of people may think he's a moron, but he's having fun. Heaven forbid. He just realizes that he wouldn't do all that well in raids, so just doesn't intend to do them. Strangely enough, it's his mom that's the hardcore raider. Weird family (he's like 26 now). :P

[Crucial]

I work with a guy that plays a warrior with one of the wackiest talent builds and picks items/enchant based on the fun factor rather than optimization (parachute enchant on cloak, for example). A lot of people may think he's a moron, but he's having fun. Heaven forbid. He just realizes that he wouldn't do all that well in raids, so just doesn't intend to do them. Strangely enough, it's his mom that's the hardcore raider. Weird family (he's like 26 now). :P

This reminds of a guy I knew that used to try to stack as much +spirit on his priest anyway he possibly could regardless of any other stats. Weapons, enchants, green gear, buffs, whatever it took to push that single stat higher.