My 5boxing experience so far

I have been 5boxing for three months now and I love it. Before this I was using two accounts for about a year and have two lvl 80 I can use to boost my groups with if needed.

What I'm happy to say surprises me is that I get many positive comments from other players about the fact I'm multiboxing. I was afraid we were hated a lot more, but many write comments like: Cool! Awesome! etc.

Only once did I get a comment saying I was a fucking multiboxer and reported. To him I just replied:
"Multiboxing is allowed, by reporting me you just prove to Blizzard you're a noob who don't know the rules".
After this he went silent and ran away. :)

However one thing surprises me which has happened several times. They ask what I'm supposed to do with them when reaching 80, if I'm going to sell them. Why do they think this?
And when I reply that I never will sell them they seem surprised by this...

glad you enjoy it. I totally love your "Multiboxing is allowed, by reporting me you just prove to Blizzard you're a noob who don't know the rules" comment 10/10 from me. I am gonna use it too :)

Valle,

I still ocassionally get the "for sale" question as well. In fact my first team, 5 x Shaman used "for sale" as their Arena team as a joke.

I guess maximum level characters go for a lot on E-Bay or character trading sites for those insanely stupid enough to "buy" an account whose transfer wouldn't be recognised by Blizzard (allowing the original owner to simply take it back at a moments notice).

More funny though, is when someone talks about how boring it must have been to level 5 Shamans (or whatever) one after another... lol.

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Originally Posted by sparvath

glad you enjoy it. I totally love your "Multiboxing is allowed, by reporting me you just prove to Blizzard you're a noob who don't know the rules" comment 10/10 from me. I am gonna use it too :)

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Thanks. :)
Yes, please go ahead and use it too.

I would change "don't know the rules" to "doesn't know the rules" if it's going to be a macro type reply :) always want to avoid giving them cannon fodder

Ah, thanks.
English isn't my first language. I live in Sweden. :)

I had someone call me retarded the other day. A couple of snarky remarks later I ask the guy "Do you consider yourself fairly intelligent?" He replied "No". ROFL. He said cya later and left. Bizarre.

I have been 5 boxing about the same length of time and had a very similar experience. For every bad comment or insult I have had 10 or 20 good comments or people asking about my setup.

I did have one guy who started off accusing me of botting, and by the end of the conversation had cancelled his GM ticket and took one of my shaman's places in AN normal so he didn't have to queue in the dungeon finder. The experience totally turned around his view of multiboxers after seeing one in action and asking me a few questions, we still do dungeons from time to time.

I also went AFK in Dalaran one time and came back to find about a dozen people gathered around my team having a heated debate about multiboxing. As to be expected the pro-boxers were winning and making the anti-boxers look foolish. I did learn my lesson not to go afk in crowded places though :)

The thing I have noticed, both from my experiences and from reading the forums etc. is that it seems to be 2 things which drive the negativity:

Ignorance: Can usually be countered by education. Of we course we don't have the patience or time a lot of the time to explain everything to people(and why should we have?) but answering a couple of questions or even just posting a link can go along way.

Jealousy: Tend to be the kids I think who can't afford 5 accounts with their pocket money. There seems to be a lot of this driving the hate on the forums but I have never seen it in game.

I assume they think you'll sell 'em because they don't know what you would do at 80 - a LOT of people I have run across insist that it is way too hard to do even parts of heroics as a multi-boxer, or that battlegrounds are not feasible, so the accounts must be for sale or part of some leveling for pay scheme.

Some of the positive people also asks if it isn't expensive to keep all five accounts active.
My reply to this usually is that all hobbies cost money, and this happens to be my hobby. :)

I fully agree about the ignorance part. Because it seems that the most negative ones are usually those who don't know how multiboxing works. And according to them; if you don't understand it, it must be cheating.

Another (in my opinion) positive thing about multiboxing is that now it feels like I'm really rooted in this game and WoW really is my "home" in the mmorpg world. Having several accounts and many characters have more or less eliminated my lust for trying out other games. WoW is my game now and this is where I want to invest both my time and money in the future. :)

I think another factor about the negative comments is that some people can't handle other people playing differently from them. It's a sign of immaturity - "This person is doing something that has literally no impact on me, but it is different than what I do, so it must be bad."

Actually, you'll see that a lot in real life... "You spend your money on this? You're an idiot." "You like/don't like that? You're an idiot." It comes from having too much of an ego investment in one's choices - one of the hallmarks of immaturity.

So just don't waste time :) I do have a keybind that says or replies, "Multiboxing is an acceptable use according to Blizzard. If you wish, fill out a ticket and they will take whatever action they feel is necessary" and then don't give them another thought.

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Originally Posted by kate

I do have a keybind that says or replies, "Multiboxing is an acceptable use according to Blizzard. If you wish, fill out a ticket and they will take whatever action they feel is necessary" and then don't give them another thought.

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You have a keybind? you're an idiot
:p

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Originally Posted by thefunk

You have a keybind? you're an idiot
:p

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Having a keybind is an acceptable use according to Dual-boxing.com. If you wish, fill out a ticket and they will take whatever action they feel is necessary.

lol good one kate

Lol ownt!

Today I met a real jerk. I helped him kill a 5-man boss and do you think he said thank you?
No, instead he accused me of botting and reported me! He also added me very quickly on his ignore list so I had no chance trying to explain this was multiboxing, not bots.

About being reported, does a GM even bother with these kind of reports? Has anyone here been contacted recently for being reported of this? And when being falsely reported like this, will the person who reported get any kind of reply from a GM so he/she will know they were wrong?

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Originally Posted by valle2000

Today I met a real jerk. I helped him kill a 5-man boss and do you think he said thank you?
No, instead he accused me of botting and reported me! He also added me very quickly on his ignore list so I had no chance trying to explain this was multiboxing, not bots.

About being reported, does a GM even bother with these kind of reports? Has anyone here been contacted recently for being reported of this? And when being falsely reported like this, will the person who reported get any kind of reply from a GM so he/she will know they were wrong?

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a GM probably eventually check your accounts, see that the names are all the same, and moves on to the next ticket.

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Originally Posted by kate

Having a keybind is an acceptable use according to Dual-boxing.com. If you wish, fill out a ticket and they will take whatever action they feel is necessary.

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fair play. I'll get me coat.

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Originally Posted by valle2000

About being reported, does a GM even bother with these kind of reports? Has anyone here been contacted recently for being reported of this? And when being falsely reported like this, will the person who reported get any kind of reply from a GM so he/she will know they were wrong?

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They'll check the names on the accounts and probably observe you play for a little while to determine it's multiboxing, not botting. The GM might actually contact you via /w, but in my experience, that's pretty rare. GMs do not discuss any action or lackthereof that they take on someone else's account.

Not to worry, I'm sure they'll go whine on the forums when they see you still running around, then they'll get schooled.

One thing you might want to do is post a ticket yourself stating that you're a multiboxer and ask that they put a note of it on your accounts. It can be helpful for GMs who get tickets on you later. But multiboxing these days is common enough that most GMs can dismiss it from botting rather easily.

The "note of it on your accounts" you mention, is that a note only GMs will see or where exactly is this noted?

Not sure how they work it, since I don't know their internal systems, but most any ticket-based system that ties to accounts has a means for putting in special notes, even if it's just a specific ticket. GMs can find any ticket ever associated to your account. You won't see it and they may not make an actual note, but it will be there in your account history for other GMs to see that you are a multiboxer.