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How about... they created a realm or two just for multiboxers.. any items/gold earned there cant be transferred and you cant use the gold to use the store / buy tokens etc. Black auction house = disabled. Basically: if you pay each sub with real money = you can play like you used to do.
yeah so many ways to handle things, just blizzard as a whole is going down hill cause of the people they are hiring. They have a lot of customer support that don't like multiboxers and arn't giving them a refund, that is why its a 50/50 chance of getting a refund cause it depends on who you get. I got lucky, in WoD i did not on a whole another set of accounts. The things going on in the world and blizzard are hiring those types of people. not giving names for a reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by WOWBOX40
I never saw a real difference myself. I mean between what I saw in other expansions and BFA when it came to hyperspawn farming. I think WoD had the same and that was 7 years ago.
The constant here if there is one is that the company sucks worse every year. Morhaime is gone and with that comes a lot of unsavory decisions made by people who think too highly of themselves. It was only a matter of time as their corporate machine kicked into high gear that they would start betraying their core audience. What the normies don't understand is post-pandemic the fairweather fans are gone. What's going to be left are the hardcore audience and that number is now remarkably smaller after this. I will laugh and probably cry simultaneously if a year or two from now they start issuing pleas for us to sign back up. Fuck them.
You win by checking out. Seriously multiboxing may be dead but there are a lot of really great games out there that you probably never noticed because you were glued to WoW.
I started playing wow during MoP and quit mid way WoD. MoP was full of mid to mass wpvp multiboxers, I did 40 at the end of mop and the start of wod. WPVP only. Never farmed gold, i don't even remember what i did to get gold. I just came back on Nov 1st for shadowlands, i waited till i could buy shadowlands without buying BFA first. I was enjoying the new leveling system, got to level 42-43. At end of MOP and start of WOD me and preparedwow was the only two 40 boxers playing. There was a streamer named peach he farmed gold with like 10 druids. After i quit and heard they basiclly killed wpvp with no follow during combat, war mode and removed pvp servers during legion/bfa. I was very disappointed, no reason to mass multibox anymore. But something happen when all these gold farmers came up doing 5-20 accounts then you have those two streamers that did over 60 accounts. When i heard that i knew it was instantly bad news. Blizzard will die with their young new customers they are hiring.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMilitia
While I agree Blizzard went overkill, you're kidding yourself if you think the large multiboxers, as few as they may have been, didn't have a huge negative effect on everyone who gave a damn about WoW. I never played on a server with one of these mega idiots, but when a single video of Prepared gains views back when he first started terrorizing players, I was disgusted at what I saw. I never boxed more than 5, and never liked the idea of people boxing more than that. But never said anything cuz frankly it ain't my place. But the terrible image we have today was just exacerbated by the d-bags who copied that idiot. As few as those instances may have been, players across a region did not like seeing others being bullied even though it wasn't their server and they were never faced with that problem on their own server. I put no blame on Blizzard for this, as much as it sucks, it was way out of hand. I have never seen so many multiboxers crawling around everywhere. Most I'm sure kept to themselves, but the "loud minority" just soured our reputation. The bots just made it 100x worse than it was, and it was already very, very bad.
That's the thing. There have been 40 and 80 boxers before. Sam and Prepared are two that come to mind. Both did all of these things.Quote:
Originally Posted by wowairborne
Why it's become an issue since WoD is why the game has also sucked since WoD. It's also why they praise the numbers on WoW having more female than male players. Why they're shooting for as much non-white, non-male content they can churn out. Why mobile games (predominately a female activity) are showing up all over WoW.
It's 100% corporate driven interests. It's all about money. Yes, what keeps these games afloat for years are dedicated players who nolife the game, typically men and boys. However it's not all the money in the world. So they're chasing the money regardless of whatever hardcore percentage is offended by their changes.
Don't like mission tables, dailies, nerfing dungeon rewards and heroic gear in world quest content? Tough shit. This is the direction their corporate handlers are telling them to go in. Get those ladies with disposable cash to sign up and buy virtual furry costumes or the new pony on the store.
Of course I have no issues with women playing WoW and all that was fine for years. As the product was designed for both hardcore gaming men and women. It just didn't have as many women. That was also fine. That's not fine to the corporate leadership however.
And so I look at this change in the context of this discussion and it's abundantly clear why multiboxing is now the big bad. They've exhausted their audience cred on botters and now they're going to smash multiboxing. If for no other reason than to appeal to the headless masses who think boxing = botting.
And that I hope explains why I'm pretty indifferent to it. I think in the end Activision was a bad deal for Blizzard and the corporate profit at all cost monster has only started to rear its ugly head. Who knows in 2-3 years WoW will have a P2W shop. It has MTX already on top of being a paid game and a subscription based game. Remember all the money in the world is what they're after.
Make sure it isn't your money they get. That's my advice anyway.