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On Kul Tiras EU I've gotten nothing but thumbs up sofar. Ppl tend to be amazed when u move around and make nice patterns:) I've been on KT for long now and been in great guild solo and the ppl you know like what you do. For the ppl that question what you're doing: It's their agony and I hope they get acidburn:)
I love it!
I tend to just ignore those who think negatively about our hobby. For those who are actually interested in learning, I tell them what I can in a few lines and then do the normal "visit dual-boxing.com to find out more". Being on a PvE realm I've not had to put up with griefers from the opposite faction, and personally I think that has helped me a ton. Most of the time however, I get the "how did you get mirror images as <insert non-mage class here>" or "oh thats cool, I bet its hard".
Nothing but interested and/or amused reactions so far, except for the one guy in AV on the weekend.
Guy: "3 boxing shammies, huh?"
Me: "Yep."
Guy: "That's neat."
Guy: "Also super gay."
Ooookay :p
tbh... the majority of whispers I get are positive. I get the occasional £40.00 per month is expensive, from some pubescent kiddie. I then proceed to totally blow thier minds by expaining that its cheaper than my other hobby, as I have just spent £3,000 on a digital SLR and lens (D700 and 24-70 2.8f - if anyone wants to know :P )
99.9% of my interaction with folks is positive. In fact I am sure I get more positive feedback when I am boxing vs. playing solo. Simple reason, most negative comments are in PUGs :)
In BG I am sure the opposing faction is saying bad things about me. I remember I was defending a shop in WG with one other guy we were doing a great job jabbing back and forth. A few minutes later he is on general chat venting about a boxer on the horde side.
If someone says anything negative I just do not respond but honestly those instances are very rare for me.
LOL, I know what you mean, Multiboxing is a drop in the bucket to what I've spent on just research into building my first Ultra lite. Now that is a hobby. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mikekim
Stephen
I find that folks who "hate" multiboxing to various degrees usually fall into 4 groups:
- Low-budget people/kids to whom $75US plus a computer capable of multiboxing is a lot of money.
- People without the imagination to grok why doing something different like this might be fun for some people.
- People who have worked long and hard on their solo toons to be able to run heroics/raids, only to see a multiboxer who didn't work all that hard (didn't have to PuG or fight for a guild raid slot) running around in T9/Relentless and are jealous/envious. (Also, see (1) above.)
- People who just got totally owned by a multiboxer in PVP.
Really, of those, #1 is the only one that is a rational reason. And even then, it isn't fully thought through. ;)
I've had a few hate tells and "reported" threats, but most people don't really seem to care on my server.
I created 5 paly's on Brim Batol EU to join in on the fun there. I had one guy say: "Do I really need to report you?"
I just added him to my ignore list.
But for me its very rare to encounter people who hate or don't understand.
Often its like:
"multiboxing nice" and "Lol, why 5 druids??" (I should have a standard reply in for that hehe)
1 race/class = full group for instances.
Funny thing, after boxing for almost 2 years now on Thunderhorn-eu, one would think people are used to it now.
Only during the last holidays we'd get some nerdrage from kiddies.
Shame they put me on ignore when i whisper them: you'll let me know what the gamemaster told you, right?