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My nostrils flare as the words "remove /follow" were placed next to each other. By decree of lord Ellay, thou shalt not correlate the 2 words together ever again!
But seriously though, we follow their rules - no need to lay low, or boast - a happy medium will do.
Long as we keep that balance we're fine...I've gotten a ton of whispers ranging from "LOL ZINS" to "multiboxers? 'yea' cool" and "Hey you a multiboxer? 'yup' awesome, I was gonna start that when I get paid next week" etc, so for the most part after lv20 people seem fairly educated about it and some even interested ;p
Long as it's makin blizz money while within their rules we got nothin to worry about. And with more people picking up the habit/"hobby" every day(as evidenced by posts here & on official forums) it's gonna be harder to take out. By all rights they can't either because as mentioned before, it's the same as having guildies/friends around only with slightly better coordination.
I just wanted to point out that my original point wasn't to equate botting with multi-boxing, but rather to emphasize that - if mult-boxing is going to be banned - it will be because of public outcry of unfairness by other players.
It is up to the multi-boxing community to make sure we don't impose on the other players to the extent that they decide Blizzard should level the playing field.
I disagree that showing off in your own areas is a good idea. People can be terribly petty, and envy is powerful.
If Blizzard decided this activity was causing a customer satisfaction "problem", the fix would be easy - as someone so succinctly pointed out.
I feel as if I've been down this road before. I tried to warn the AC macro community about abusing their power before it was banned to no avail. Then some idiot published an addon that made it really easy for everyone to use, and within months the activity was banned (and it was actually quite a large percentage of the player base that was "macroing").
I'm not going to boast or go to the forums and feed the trolls, but i will put up 5 SW:P's on every ally that comes in range. and then keep doing what i was doing like they never were there.
Isn't part of boxing showboating at least a *bit*?
I go to Shat and drop my 20 totems, put elementals everywhere, play with chain heal, and generally show off.
Everyone thinks its neat. /shrug
If anything it makes them more mutliboxer friendly. Everyone assumes I'm going to be some elitist who doesn't speak to the mere mortals. Am I the only one who gets tells prefaced with "I'm really sorry to bother you" constantly?
People love when we hang around and strut our stuff.
Yep Remote, I get the same deal. People usually just walk over and /kneel.
Heh, on my server I actually have people that want to "come along" to see how it all works when I go to an instance. I think that a certain amount of showboating is a good thing - building good rep/pr gets people interested, and while they can't do it themselves they might want the option to do it in the future. If you look at a lot of the defender's posts in the forums that is kind of how they read: "I don't multibox, but I'd like to... so back off"
i dont see why this couldnt swing the other way with dual-boxing becomming quite popular, ok its not main stream but it is defently growing, that blizzard dont implement their own 'touch' of boxing, it would be fairly easy for them to do. There is already a MMO where you can control 3 different classes simular to how Kingdom Hearts is played.
As for them changeing the rules, it is quite possible, most of you play warlocks so you will obviously knowtice how often the nurfs come in, these small changes are down to the thousands of people who complain that warlocks are OP, so the take the class apart bit by bit each patch to reasure the gamers that blizzard cares and blizzard listens.
If enough people did get up in arms about it they would defently put a stop to it almost instantly, i just really hope it never comes to that. I see no reason why it should ever come to that. probably 99% of people that started Multi-Boxing had played warcraft to death probably since launch have 70s on both factions seen it all done everything pvped till their eyes bleed, k maybe not that far, but giveing them multi-boxing has opened up somthing totally new for them to do, i wouldnt play warcraft any other way now and i bet not many here would either, if we couldnt box we would just find a new mmo for somthing different and start all over. and i guess Ebay would have a field day that week.
tom
I just walked up and commented to Mote how his/her server was super quiet(yes that was me the lv1 alt a couple nights ago Mote ;p) then we got into random multi-boxing discussions lol, feh on "Sorry to bother", we're all still players ;p
They should know after Zin we ain't the quiet type either; we'll talk to people and defend our stance; though yes, a little showboating is half the fun, especially in towns ;p
I've hopped up on the SW fountain and twin-danced a few times, and was in IF on the bridge with 1 alt on each side of the bridge in ghostwolf dancing. I went along behind a group of 4 doing the elite redridge quests too though out of group for number reasons and we did fine sharing quest kills while one or two of 'em asked me how it worked and we chatted waiting on boss respawns lol