Originally Posted by
MiRai
I was going to mention something about this earlier in the thread, but I figured I would wait. Now seems like a good time, though. :)
There has always been an ongoing discussion amongst multiboxers on this forum about how they should conduct themselves when in the presence of the general public (e.g. normal uneducated players). There are those of us who choose to take the high road and will move along quietly while letting the haters hate, and there are those of us who choose to constantly antagonize players to no end through whatever means they can because they will "play the game however they want to" regardless of who it affects.
As multiboxers, we make people angry by simply existing. This can be because they believe that multiboxing is hacking, cheating, botting, an unfair advantage, or some other weak and uneducated reason they can muster up; but whether their reasons are right or not, as per the game publisher's standards or rules, doesn't matter -- They still hate us and want to see us gone.
The hate toward us has continued to build up over the last 8 years and those who "play how they want," and purposely anger as many players as they can, have relied on Blizzard (in this case) to defend them because Blizzard has, since the game's release, said the playstyle is "accepted, but not supported"; but now, when Blizzard makes a change to the way the follow function works, multiboxers act as if they never saw this coming and are angry that their unsupported playstyle has been affected.
I would bet Blizzard is very tired of defending multiboxers in battlegrounds because of the way some of us act (or we're just plain terrible), and while I'm sure a lot of multiboxers play nice with others, if you've been around long enough you'd know that there are many who do not. Multiboxers have very few allies among 'normal' players these days and I would guess that Blizzard felt worse about affecting the small percentage of handicapped people who rely on /follow in BGs/Arena than they did about multiboxers when they made this change.
I agree that the change was abrupt and should have been in the patch notes beforehand, because I can't tell you the last time I ran into a bot that relies on follow in a BG -- Maybe during the WotLK era. I doubt this is going to be a temporary change to the way that /follow functions in battlegrounds, but if it is, do your best not to be a complete douchebag to other players whether you might think they're a windowlicker or not.
