WoW General forums getting a bit out of hand
There's a lot of publicity and threads going on in the various WoW forums about Multiboxing as a whole, most of it has a negative thread starter followed by a lot of positive feedback for us, then it just meshes into very long arguments that force the thread to stay on the front page and last 10+ pages.
The end result is a bad lime light in the overall viewing of Multiboxers as a whole. My suggestion would be to let these thread dies and drop off. If anything educate them on what we stand for and what we do - but after that point let it go.
RE: WoW General forums getting a bit out of hand
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Originally Posted by 'Ellay',index.php?page=Thread&postID=64168#post641 68
There's a lot of publicity and threads going on in the various WoW forums about Multiboxing as a whole, most of it has a negative thread starter followed by a lot of positive feedback for us, then it just meshes into very long arguments that force the thread to stay on the front page and last 10+ pages.
The end result is a bad lime light in the overall viewing of Multiboxers as a whole. My suggestion would be to let these thread dies and drop off. If anything educate them on what we stand for and what we do - but after that point let it go.
Here's another way to look at it.
Multiboxing IS legitimate. It doesn't NEED defending in the WoW forums. The more we fan those flames, the longer the threads get, the more chance we attract undue attention.
Anyone at Blizzard with the control to change the multiboxing policy already knows what we're doing, and they are the only people whose opinions you should care about.
RE: WoW General forums getting a bit out of hand
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Originally Posted by 'Ellay',index.php?page=Thread&postID=64168#post641 68
The end result is a bad lime light in the overall viewing of Multiboxers as a whole. My suggestion would be to let these thread dies and drop off. If anything educate them on what we stand for and what we do - but after that point let it go.
Correct. Unless you're willing to read EVERY post to make sure you're not re-posting identical content, just let them die.
I typically only step into threads where the Belfaire post has not been posted and/or the OP is still posting crazy incoherent mumbo-jumbo that needs correcting. At this point, though, people are pretty good at linking the numerous posts in the customer service forums which means we can sit back, relax, and laugh at the people who are watching their arguments fall out from underneath their feet :)
Some people are very clever at necro'ing old multiboxing threads, too. Take a look at the timestamp before you fall for it. ;)
mboxing a product of problems with the game
cruical has a point, enough people complained about the state of the arena to where they had to do something about the "win trading". I started mboxing because I hated getting a team together for anything. I used to play CoH and you could search for all tanks of a level 40-45 or healers of level 40-45. It really ways so much easier to create a team. if Wow wasn't so hard to make a team and all of us who have been on a PuG team where someone who can't wear plate rolls need the wins the blue plate drop know what i'm talking about. What I usually tell others is that the best part about mboxing is that I always have a team, they are always ready, they can quit without leaving everyone else in bind and they never steal the drops from each other. I also mention that they all look the same and are all geared the same is because they did all the same quests at the same time. I've been afraid to PvP but I guess I need to just jump into it.
