I don't really mind that they changed their opinion, but this feels like a cover of darkness kinda thing. I didn't like the first response, but at least it was clear.
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I don't really mind that they changed their opinion, but this feels like a cover of darkness kinda thing. I didn't like the first response, but at least it was clear.
They should have put it in the patch notes frankly, if they had a briefing on the damn change with support.
Also, those blue posts with their social commentary, what a bunch of trolls. Locked the thread you modified like a coward indeed.
I think it's over. Ellay is gonna be bummed.
And I was just looking forward to coming back to the game... FUCK.
Guess all its good for now is power leveling my toons to push glad in 3's >_>
Fixed. I mean really, if I was losing a large part of my business with no warning I would be totally bummed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ticks
I also agree, they still gonna have BOT's running around, but no more multiboxers in Battle grounds! I'm extremely pissed! my 10x locks reached level 52! and now this crap. :(
What we should do now: DESTROY TOWNS and burn everything to the ground, and not let anyone to level! I wont cancel WoW yet! i have 3 weeks left.
Maybe blizz change this, which i doubt! they knew what they did. They may act dumb--
>takes Conan sword out, and giggling, (I'm gonna be your worst nightmare in open PvP World, good luck leveling)
Broken in arenas as well
Peace.
Fuck me - I'm out then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shodokan
Well, I'd say that verifies that the change isn't aimed at battleground bots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shodokan
Yep, back to league of legends.Quote:
Originally Posted by MiRai
We are a very small part of the community. My guess would be most of us are between 30-50 years old. I bet they were tired of hearing people complain about us and finally decided to say fuck it. I have two 5 man teams almost to level 87. Guess I will hold off leveling a few days to see how this turns out. Just canceled my accounts too. They expire on the 14th.
I can theorize a rationalization for the zoned PvP / battlegrounds, some sort of warped sense of the appearance of an unfair advantage.
But now I am concerned on how long follow lasts at all. I don't see how PvE hurts anyone, grinding away in some dungeon by yourself with stupid specs and gimped DPS.
This thread may be the best hope to getting /follow back:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8087879808
Big props to the blind dude and his friend, too.
Too many people will just say that getting rid of scum multiboxers is worth inconveniencing the few blind players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owltoid
Don't underestimate the need for the largest MMO to be politically correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shodokan
95% chance this stays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owltoid
whelp back to EQ2 , Rifts or SWTOR for me.
I just tweeted all the CMs and Ghostcrawler I hope they respond... I think if they make this change ill just cancel, it seems aimed specifically at multiboxers. I know bots don't use follow, I work with a guy who uses one in BGs and to gather and he had told me it just runs him around and randomly attacks people.
So what is another game that is boxer friendly? I've just started and im wondering if its worth continuing even with a PVE focus. My crystal ball predicts /follow being removed for world, dungeons and raids as well.
Even your cheapest bot now uses mesh terrain to navigate areas. They dont use follow anymore.
I suggested allowing "que as a raid" (allowing autofollow) and "que as an individual" (not allow autofollow) and only pair against others choosing similar for battlegrounds.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8087999844#1
I so want to tell all the tear drinkers on the wow forums I have been drinking their tears since the burning crusade.
If Blizz truly wanted boxing dead, why not go the GW2 route? Sure, some hardware boxers would stay, but that's a small minority of a small minority. While I'm sure Blizz knew this would break boxing in BGs, I'm guessing they did this to help (ineffectively) curb botting. If boxing wasn't the primary reason for the change, and it's ineffective at stopping any bots, and it impacts blind players, there is a chance they reverse the change.
Damn, commiserations to all the PVP multi-boxers out there. I can't really share your pain as I only dual-box pve, but I wonder how long until they break /follow in LFR, dungeons and the world itself?
Multi-boxing adds enough complexity to this game to make it interesting for me, at it's core WoW is very simple to master and I would of quit long ago if it wasn't for boxing.
Bastards, I was enjoying the game again too! Oh well, everything has an ending I guess.
When you start out your post with "As a 27 boxer..." you're just asking for trolls in the General Discussion forum. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam DeathWalker
Just canceled most of my team as all I do is PVP (not very well but I keep trying in Arena, BGs, and was hoping to try it in RBGs). Posted this on my cancellation requests:
"The removal of the /follow command prohibits me from multi-boxxing in BGs, and Arenas. I work shift so impossible to find stable players for teams to capping on my six to seven accounts."
GG Blizzard.
I just thought of something, I wonder how this will influence World PVP.
It might be interesting to see a few hundred of us boxers all take over every town, until we get /follow added back in. Have to get that honor somehow. A concentrated effort like that may just make them change their mind, and actually want us isolated in a bg or dungeon.
Stephen
Actually, you'd just get perma-banned for "disrupting the game for other players" as per what happened to Swifty when he broke a server while hosting an in-game event.Quote:
Originally Posted by F9thRet
I'm tempted to just abuse the report AFK feature until banned. But I won't. No reason to load up WoW unless this is changed.
This post on mmo-champion says instances also. http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...5-2?p=20431220 anyone test this ?
/follow works in instances, haven't tested in LFR.
That's a good point. I always forget about Swifty. I guess I was just fawing back to the old days when we could pull quest givers and hold them ransom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mickthathick
Stephen
Follow still works in dungeons, just tested in SSB and it is working fineQuote:
Originally Posted by Chivalrous
If its broken in LFR I'm 100% done. Just considering it right now.
bots don't even follow anymore... what the hell is wrong with them..
Bots ALL use profiles and not /followQuote:
Originally Posted by Mokoi
Is it so hard to not use actual names of bots?
-MiRai
I am not so sure about that. Bots were getting stopped, often and quickly, so they had to change. It seems the best thing to do is copy what boxers do and try to hide under blizzards radar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mokoi
Instead of a bot controlling a character they can send IsBoxer like commands to follow, assist, cast, etc. Hiding their botting somewhat.
the fun thing is that botters are not really affected by this, follow bots are rarely used now days, botters use some simple pathing script, so this change is clearly targeted. i find it beyond stupid really.
anyway, if you want to gear up the toons, just join a bg and spam heals or something. so long as you are in the pc playing, you are not required to "play".
I say, It could be worse, they could disable auto follow completely! :() - instances are fine, Confirmed by me. just did TK to see if that ugly mount drops. after hunting for several months.
Can anyone try LFR? I can't login tonight but my sub is renewing on the 7th.
I only multibox bgs so my time multiboxing is over. Spewing i just renewed isboxer 2 days ago.