Community and Multiboxing

[Leovindica]

On Kul Tiras EU I've gotten nothing but thumbs up sofar. Ppl tend to be amazed when u move around and make nice patterns I've been on KT for long now and been in great guild solo and the ppl you know like what you do. For the ppl that question what you're doing: It's their agony and I hope they get acidburn

I love it!

[Khemikal]

I tend to just ignore those who think negatively about our hobby. For those who are actually interested in learning, I tell them what I can in a few lines and then do the normal "visit dual-boxing.com to find out more". Being on a PvE realm I've not had to put up with griefers from the opposite faction, and personally I think that has helped me a ton. Most of the time however, I get the "how did you get mirror images as <insert non-mage class here>" or "oh thats cool, I bet its hard".

[Tofino]

Nothing but interested and/or amused reactions so far, except for the one guy in AV on the weekend.

Guy: "3 boxing shammies, huh?"
Me: "Yep."
Guy: "That's neat."
Guy: "Also super gay."

Ooookay

[mikekim]

tbh... the majority of whispers I get are positive. I get the occasional £40.00 per month is expensive, from some pubescent kiddie. I then proceed to totally blow thier minds by expaining that its cheaper than my other hobby, as I have just spent £3,000 on a digital SLR and lens (D700 and 24-70 2.8f - if anyone wants to know :P )

[Fizzler]

99.9% of my interaction with folks is positive. In fact I am sure I get more positive feedback when I am boxing vs. playing solo. Simple reason, most negative comments are in PUGs

In BG I am sure the opposing faction is saying bad things about me. I remember I was defending a shop in WG with one other guy we were doing a great job jabbing back and forth. A few minutes later he is on general chat venting about a boxer on the horde side.

If someone says anything negative I just do not respond but honestly those instances are very rare for me.

[F9thRet]

tbh... the majority of whispers I get are positive. I get the occasional £40.00 per month is expensive, from some pubescent kiddie. I then proceed to totally blow thier minds by expaining that its cheaper than my other hobby, as I have just spent £3,000 on a digital SLR and lens (D700 and 24-70 2.8f - if anyone wants to know :P )

LOL, I know what you mean, Multiboxing is a drop in the bucket to what I've spent on just research into building my first Ultra lite. Now that is a hobby.

Stephen

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I find that folks who "hate" multiboxing to various degrees usually fall into 4 groups:

1. Low-budget people/kids to whom $75US plus a computer capable of multiboxing is a lot of money.
2. People without the imagination to grok why doing something different like this might be fun for some people.
3. People who have worked long and hard on their solo toons to be able to run heroics/raids, only to see a multiboxer who didn't work all that hard (didn't have to PuG or fight for a guild raid slot) running around in T9/Relentless and are jealous/envious. (Also, see (1) above.)
4. People who just got totally owned by a multiboxer in PVP.

Really, of those, #1 is the only one that is a rational reason. And even then, it isn't fully thought through.

[EaTCarbS]

I've had a few hate tells and "reported" threats, but most people don't really seem to care on my server.

[Seldum]

I created 5 paly's on Brim Batol EU to join in on the fun there. I had one guy say: "Do I really need to report you?"

I just added him to my ignore list.

But for me its very rare to encounter people who hate or don't understand.

Often its like:

"multiboxing nice" and "Lol, why 5 druids??" (I should have a standard reply in for that hehe)

1 race/class = full group for instances.

[Pallarfo]

Funny thing, after boxing for almost 2 years now on Thunderhorn-eu, one would think people are used to it now.
Only during the last holidays we'd get some nerdrage from kiddies.
Shame they put me on ignore when i whisper them: you'll let me know what the gamemaster told you, right?