It's due to the kiddies being home from highschool and playing more than they usually do. Also, any queues you're facing happen to be caused by these same people. Give it a week more max to be over with.
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It's due to the kiddies being home from highschool and playing more than they usually do. Also, any queues you're facing happen to be caused by these same people. Give it a week more max to be over with.
I get about two hate tells a day. Usually I will just explain to them what boxing is and point them to this site. Most of the time they will be cool afterwards and even say they are sorry. Although lately I have been less nice then usual. It just gets old. I'll tell you though, being nice has helped a lot. I get tells all the time from people i have talked to monitoring my lvling progress.
It's been a while since I was multiboxing, and most of the time I just run instances. That said, I leveled 5 shaman to 23 on Hyjal and a mixed group to 24 on Eldre'Thalas and the whole time I was only really 'hassled' twice. One was a kid who was more interested in finding out where to download the software that 'allowed me to hack my account' and play five characters at the same time, and the other was some druid who made a couple of comments in /yell and them tried to call me "lame" but misspelled the word (grats son, that failure was spectacular!). I didn't bother replying to the latter person, and I generally do not reply to people at all. If they have a problem with multiboxing, it is exactly that-- their problem. They are free to take it up with Blizzard via the forums, where the blues will politely tell them to fuck off and grab a tissue.
The multiboxing issue is settled, so I don't need to educate some knuckle-dragger who decided to play Dirk Dickhead: MMO Cop! If you're polite, you'll get a reply from me, but otherwise I will not expend an ounce of energy. I won't even put them on my ignore list, which I know must annoy some of them, since they consider that a badge of honor. I will start doing outdoor quests with my multibox team in Outland very soon, and I'm curious as to how much 'heat' I'll draw. I'm on a PvE server, so griefing options against me are very, very few. And I have no problems taking a break if people find ways to give me a hard time, as my leveling is completely on my own time and on no particular schedule.
How you act in the game reflects on you and you alone. I don't know why, but some people around here feel multiboxers always need to be on their best behavior so they don't "ruin" it for the rest of us. This is just some very odd reasoning. If Blizzard wants multiboxing to go away, they'll pull the plug regardless of people's behaviour. I highly doubt Blizzard would do anything about multiboxing because some boxer was rude to someone. No matter what our behavior is, people are going to hate what we do.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Gadzooks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=163787#pos t163787
/ignore people to save yourself from the bullshit; don't ignore them because you represent the boxing community because you don't.
Level 1-75 about 50% was positive, 25% would be "huh", 25% would be negative.
Level 75-79 has been about 95% positive. I think once you get into the higher levels with players who have played the game for a long time you get more positive responses. I've only ever seen two multiboxers and I have been playing since release (with breaks). In other words, MBs are still very rare.
The only time I run into problems is when I'm trying to heal and DPS with my three moonkins in a PUG instance. It's much more difficult. If I'm just DPSing then everything goes smoothly and I believe people like the change of pace. Also, since loot is usually on FFA, the other two players get disproportionately more loot since I just leave it for them. I'd rather them like having a MB in the group and anything I can do to make the transition easier is good.
Yeah I noticed the majority of hate I got was 1-30, then 30-60 was still pretty bad. Now, I ran 60-70 while BC was still out, and in general I got little to no hate, most people were like "awesome!".
However, WotLK brought back all the kiddies and going from 70-80 I got a ton of hate. Now at 80 I get almost no hate again.
My wife and each five box on Eldre'Thalas, and have been for well over a year. I rarely get any hate tells, although there may be some that I'm not aware of, as I always have /yell from players turned off on all characters (I did that when I first started WOW, as I quickly discovered most yells were nonsense that I wasn't interested in seeing on my screen).
I do make some effort to help others, just because I like to do so, like tossing a heal or two if they need it, and tossing a buff or two if I have time. If I see a solo character struggling against an elite, I'll always heal them through it if they're alliance, or zap the mob if they're horde (they get full experience if I kill it when they're opposite faction). I don't KNOW that these things make anyone feel warmer towards a multiboxer, but they make ME feel good. :)
The only recent hate tell that I can remember lately, is my wife got a LOT of hate tells from some clown that kept asking her to party with him while she was busy taking down Durn while she was leveling another group through outlands. After it was over, she explained to him that she already had a full group, but he was really unhappy that she wouldn't party with him, and abused her with nasty hate tells for several days thereafter. She finally had to report him for harassment. If the fool would have just asked, she'd have helped him out, by lettting him tag it, then burn it down for him, as we've done for others, but he preferred to be nasty I guess. I have no idea why he though she OWED him an invite, but I guess some people you just can't help.
By and large, I get WAY more positive comments.
I'm trying to figure out why she let him harass her for days... why not just /ignore after the first or second rude comment, thats what I do. Or, report spam :)
Beats me. I would have never put up with it, but other than help her with monthly hotkeynet installs, and an occasional macro, I pretty much let her do her own thing.
On the other hand, it does get pretty wild if one of us runs into a really tough quest, and gets help from the other. Ten toons can pretty much make a joke of any elite, or even group of elites :D
I actually got badmouthed by the local gameslinger at Gamestop this weekend... Stopped in to browse games and was chatting about WoW... mentioned I had 5 accounts and he immediately went off on the "omg you need to drop that addiction" rant... claiming he got "clean" of his own habit...
Ends up he left WoW and now plays warhammer online... good to know that the crack fiend is telling me to drop my addiction and claiming to be clean... I hope Meth treats him better.