What happened to me? Army Dreamers 10-box guild.

[TheBigBB]

This is copied from my blog, but I figured it's worth posting as a thread here because some of the things I bring up might turn into a decent discussion.
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So I've been gone for a long time now, and I figured I'd update everyone finally. I just decided to take a short break, and it turned into a very long one. I've been gone from the game for about 4 months. I got into playing a lot of other console games.

It begs the question of how I could be okay with all the time and money spent on the 10-box team when I'm going to be prone to just leaving them hanging for so long. Well, a few things:

1. The best way to avoid the addiction is to always be okay with the possibility of never playing again. I am okay with this idea. If I ever got to the point where the loss of my account meant I would suffer mental anguish, I would consider myself to have a problem.

2. I never planned on abandoning the game completely. I do, however, need to find a better way to buy game time, because 6 months x 10 accounts sucks when you decide to stop playing, and you waste SO MANY months of time! I am going to have to start playing in 2 month chunks using game cards when they go on sale. Right now I can get them for $29 each, free shipping and tax free. If I use a credit card 10 times in a row on WoW, my card company thinks it's some kid of fraud anyway.

3. It seems like it makes sense to take long breaks, because now I'm finding out that I'll soon be able to improve my gear dramatically with the same level of effort. This ALWAYS happens. There's never a need to stress about gear, and I know that. Every time I ever took a long break from WoW, I was able to come back later and get amazing gear and bypass a huge grind.

NOW I need to figure out what's changed in the community since February or what improvements are on my boxing programs. Yes, I may return soon. At least with the coming of the next patch. You don't make your own guild full of level 80s and then totally forget about it. :-)

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya I log in when I feel like it, not because I "have" to because Ill fall behind if I dont.

[Feider]

Yeah, haven't seen an update in a while. Welcome back. Can't wait to hear more about the 10-box, mixed group goodness.

[Perrigrin]

2. I never planned on abandoning the game completely. I do, however, need to find a better way to buy game time, because 6 months x 10 accounts sucks when you decide to stop playing, and you waste SO MANY months of time! I am going to have to start playing in 2 month chunks using game cards when they go on sale. Right now I can get them for $29 each, free shipping and tax free. If I use a credit card 10 times in a row on WoW, my card company thinks it's some kid of fraud anyway.
I'm having this problem already on 5 accounts - Right now I got 2 of my RAF accounts with billing holds on them form Blizzards side, so I need their payment dpt to clear it up before I can transfer 2 60s off :P

[TheBigBB]

2. I never planned on abandoning the game completely. I do, however, need to find a better way to buy game time, because 6 months x 10 accounts sucks when you decide to stop playing, and you waste SO MANY months of time! I am going to have to start playing in 2 month chunks using game cards when they go on sale. Right now I can get them for $29 each, free shipping and tax free. If I use a credit card 10 times in a row on WoW, my card company thinks it's some kid of fraud anyway.
I'm having this problem already on 5 accounts - Right now I got 2 of my RAF accounts with billing holds on them form Blizzards side, so I need their payment dpt to clear it up before I can transfer 2 60s off :PI really don't think I can do it by credit card anymore. The last time I was playing my accounts were all made at different times, like I had a main account, then I added another, then another, etc. But now they're all inactive and I would be activating them all at the same time! My CC company told me that they would always enable protective measures to be on the safe side. 10x the same bill coming in all at once from the same place within minutes would send off a red freaking alert over there. I found some places you can get game cards for even $27 each, which is close to the best rate possible for a 60 day period.

[Maxion]

Or just call your credit card company to warn them in advance about what will be coming in. Or just call them after the fact to clarify that those are in fact legit bills.
Sounds like you aren't in a big rush to get your accounts back online anyway.

[TheBigBB]

Or just call your credit card company to warn them in advance about what will be coming in. Or just call them after the fact to clarify that those are in fact legit bills.
Sounds like you aren't in a big rush to get your accounts back online anyway.Yeah, at this point I'd rather just come back to the game when they release the next patch because of all the changes. I'm also worried about auto-billing and buying 6 months of time then only using 4/6 of those months, since 10 accounts is a huge expense.

[Shaden]

I do the same thing. I really get into playing for a few months and then I lose interest, take long breaks for weeks, or even months, at a time in order to enjoy other pastimes while the urge starts building again.

I've found it very helpful to deactivate my accounts immediately after activating them. That way I don't run the risk of giving Blizzard extra money for months I decide not to play. I don't even want to think about how much unplayed money I've given Blizz in the past before I started doing that.

[TheBigBB]

Great idea to always deactivate accounts as soon as you pay!

Thinking about what's been holding me back, I realize I also got really frustrated with the idea of doing Naxxramas again, because I successfully did that instance from the day it came out at level 60 until BC was released, and I feel like I don't have anything new to see there. If it were a totally new dungeon I would have been less likely to quit for so many months. I hope they never recycle content again like that. For everyone who's running Uludar, imagine if you had to repeatedly run it again in a few years as the main dungeon and first raid progression point of a "new" expansion.

[Queshank]

I wonder if this is common with multiboxers? Play for a few months, take a couple months off? Maybe it's WHY we were attracted to multiboxing? Cuz it's hard to maintain progress with others if you stop playing regularly?

I've been playing since the open beta in 2004. I play for 3 to 6 months. Then I take 2 to 3 or sometimes even more months off. Then I'm back again etc. We decided to go full bore with multiboxing after my wife's computer melted down and our 2 RL friends quit playing cuz they got tired of waiting for us after we moved to another state and didn't get her computer fixed "in time".

Queshank

[TheBigBB]

I wonder if this is common with multiboxers? Play for a few months, take a couple months off? Maybe it's WHY we were attracted to multiboxing? Cuz it's hard to maintain progress with others if you stop playing regularly?

I've been playing since the open beta in 2004. I play for 3 to 6 months. Then I take 2 to 3 or sometimes even more months off. Then I'm back again etc. We decided to go full bore with multiboxing after my wife's computer melted down and our 2 RL friends quit playing cuz they got tired of waiting for us after we moved to another state and didn't get her computer fixed "in time".

QueshankI feel like I got most of my goals completed so quickly, because I was always running with the same groups, only doing what I wanted, never waiting on people, and getting every piece of loot I needed as soon as it dropped one time. This is something I never felt with other people because they always had their little pet projects you were expected to help with, or they had progression goals that could never be fully met, or someone else would win the item. I hope that everyone takes time off here and there, boxer or not, because it can get to be like a job when you feel compelled to always be playing. Probably better on the wallet too.

I don't mean to sound like I don't like talking to or playing with other people, because I do sometimes. A lot of people say boxing ruins the community and teamwork of the game. I prefer the forums for community, most of the time. You really need to have found a GREAT guild to play with before the social aspect of the game is any fun. You also need to be very selective with who you play with. having a good partner in WoW is amazing, but it's tough to find. I play at a specific time only, and don't like waiting around.

[Multibocks]

Actually the solo play of multiboxing is what got me to quit recently. I am glad that I am now in a multiboxing guild that raids. That way I dont get bored running dungeon X for the 1000th time.

[TheBigBB]

Actually the solo play of multiboxing is what got me to quit recently. I am glad that I am now in a multiboxing guild that raids. That way I dont get bored running dungeon X for the 1000th time.I'm just saying that with any other game, if I ran all the content I'd quit playing once I got tired of it, and it'd be fine. So that in itself is not a problem at all. The social aspect - playing with others - is what keeps most people going nonstop, but if you don't have a good group to work with, then the game ends up to be more like work most of the time. You wish you could quit, but you feel like you're letting people down. If you're happy with your guild, though, that's great. It's not always easy to find a good guild. I suppose I could start a boxing guild on my server if I got going again, but then I'd likely feel too much pressure to log in every night.

[Multibocks]

oh I can definitely understand that aspect of it. That's why the guild I joined is casual. You didnt show up for raid day this week? No biggie see ya next week.

[Zub]

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[Tonuss]

I wonder if this is common with multiboxers? Play for a few months, take a couple months off? Maybe it's WHY we were attracted to multiboxing? Cuz it's hard to maintain progress with others if you stop playing regularly?It's a number of things. I started playing in December of '04, shortly after release. This makes more than four years of playing WoW, with only the last year or so being sporadic. I started playing because some EQ friends decided to play, and we made and grew a small casual guild. We slowed down a lot just before WotLK, and a bunch of us even left WoW to try Warhammer, but we eventually came back in drips and drabs. Since I figured my friends would stay, I transferred my toons to a PvE server (never liked PvP, but my friends did). They returned to WoW, but mostly for PvP and they don't intend to raid anymore.

Multiboxing keeps me playing because it's a different challenge, but it's not enough to keep me going day in and day out, the way having friends to play with does. So I play for a while, then get bored and cancel, then come back 2-3 months later. If I was on a server with friends again and we were doing groups and raids, I would play regularly and probably multibox only very rarely.

[TheBigBB]

I'm definitely way too competitive to have fun with PVP. If I lose due to some random thing I get extremely upset. I also moved to PVE, and will remain there. If you want PVP you can still do the organized stuff. When I'm out in the world I like to have a plan and follow it, I can't stand people getting in my way.

[Iceorbz]

Lol nothing like turning Frostfield Lake into a battleground for me...

Today I saved a friend from some campers, this rescue turned into 2 hours of world pvp where i had to recruit some of my friends to come and heal me cus it was like 10 vs. 4 ;p. And for the record I wooped up on them till they finnaly got me down after raid buffing and shit lol, after that I would kille 2-5 of them and then get pwnt.