Just imagine if all 31,000 where 5 boxers.
I am staggered by the sheer amount of money that is.
Just imagine if all 31,000 where 5 boxers.
I am staggered by the sheer amount of money that is.
i m really tempted to open ingame ticket:
"hello, you tollerate. but maybe i m unwanted. should i quit?"
For starters, I dont box PVP at all.
I have a 5man team that I am going to use to farm HC's when I get up to that level. A tank, healer and 3 ranged dps. I am basically going to keep running my 6 solo level 80's to go raiding with, although I might team up with powerwar's team when I get to the level where the team is geared enough to farm naxx10. I also have a team of druids that I am going to turn into 5 boomkins for raiding purposes. But I have no great desire to go around PVPingalthough trashing the occasional hordies who roll into alliance areas flagged, I will end up killing.
If Blizzard does kill boxing, I dont think that it is going to hurt me as much as it will hurt some people... mainly because I will just fall back to playing my solo toons and turn my 5 box team into 5 solo players, although I may delete one of the mages... but I am not going to go berserk abusing blizz.
Wow 8 pages.
After talking to guildies over the past few days about this we kinda shared the same opinion this was a very, very badly worded response by a GM. You can read as much, or as little into as you want. Personally, I lost a lot of respect for Zarhym. I always thought he was a pretty level headed guy. Who knows, maybe he just had a bad day, maybe one of us ganked / camped him or his mother.
To all the people that are reading a lot into this and saying "what if they ban us" or anything along those lines:
They've never directly supported us, they've always said that, this was nothing new. The concerning part is the "for now". Do I think they'll ban multiboxing? No, not until the burden of multiboxing becomes more expensive than the income it's generating. We all know we're an extreme minority in the global WoW scale. Blizzard "tolerates" us "for now" because we blend into the scenery. For every one of us, there are thousands of single players that probably don't even know we exist. When those numbers turn, when we start to outnumber the single players I believe we'll see a shift in policy. Maybe not an outright ban, but you'll see things that make it harder for us.
As Fursphere has often said, if Blizzard wanted to remove 99% of multiboxers from WoW, all they need to do is remove the /follow functionality from the game.
Way to keep secrets brah...Originally Posted by Svpernova09
Damn, I thought we were supposed to spread everything Fur said like it was the gospel, didn't realize it was classified.
Negative. You just handed Joshua the launch codes.
brb calling jack bauer
There are plenty of ways to make multiboxing impossible, and none of them are hard to figure out.
As Svpernova said, we blend into the scenery, and based on how often every one of us gets a tell from someone who's BLOWN AWAY by what they are seeing, clearly a lot of people still have no idea what multiboxing even is.
This was always the case. Zarhym's post was probably the most succinct way of summarizing Blizzard's stance on multiboxing, though the part about "for now" makes it seem more ominous than intended. My take on the whole issue:
1- Blizzard is fine with multiboxing. Put it however you want-- "they support it" or "they tolerate it" or "they allow it" it all comes down to the same thing. It is not a violation of their rules, nor of their terms of service.
2- As with anything else game-related, Blizzard reserves the right to change that stance if they ever feel that it is necessary to do so.
3- A few retards whining on the forum because their level 75 warlock got repeatedly rocked by a team of 80s that he thought he could mess with is not going to change Blizzard's mind. Nor are level 1 trolls calling multiboxers "noobs" or "no lifers" or whining about how they can't afford $75 a month for a video game (though most of them probably run up $200 phone bills each month... that daddy has to pay for).
4- If Blizzard wanted to stop multiboxing, they could. And please... they can definitely tell if someone is multiboxing, even with hardware. If some mouth-breather on the forums can identify a multiboxer, what makes you think Blizzard can't?
I saw those threads but I just skimmed through a few pages. This issue was settled long ago, and it was settled in our favor with no ambiguity whatsoever. This doesn't mean that Blizzard won't ever change their mind. But it means that all of those idiotic arguments against multiboxing have been made in the past and been shot down by Blizzard reps. I feel that whenever some crybaby comes screeching into the forums about how the big bad multiboxer stole his candy, he deserves to me mocked or, preferably, ignored. He certainly doesn't deserve the courtesy of a serious response anymore.
PS- I still get a kick out of the people who accuse Blizzard of allowing multiboxing because of the added revenue. In essence, they're saying that Blizzard has no integrity and bases its decisions entirely on money. Well, okay. But if the person making this accusation still has an active account, aren't they supporting Blizzard's decision to sell them out for a dollar? Aren't they admitting that they are paying for the privilege of being bent over and reamed without lube, by a corporation that caters to "the rich"?
In the past I pressed the complainers for a response to that question, and not a single person ever responded to it. I'm not kidding, even the most ferocious and insulting trolls who made sure to always get in the last word-- they ALWAYS IGNORED that question. Not a single person bothered to address it. That still makes me smile.
Last edited by Tonuss : 05-24-2010 at 10:33 AM
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