Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
I don't think anyone is fully doubting Blizzard, but it helps to speak up, as a multiboxer, when multiboxing is under heavy fire. Also...

1) That's Lore's personal stream (i.e. He isn't a CM with blue text at that point)
2) He says, "I also don't get to make any of the decisions on that. So, don't take anything I say as gospel."

Beyond that, those on the Emerald Dream server are making a lot of noise about this, and rightfully so, since they can't even fight back at times. However, it would seem that many, many people--more so than usual--are fighting against large-scale multiboxers specifically, but also defending the small-scale multiboxers.
Lore is basically Blizzard's representative. If he didn't know if they were going to ban multi-boxing or not, he would say "I don't know".

And about Emerald Dream, it's not just the 60 man multi-boxers fault. Anyone who is in the area and is casting spells contributes to the overall lag in the spell queue. Lag is inevitable, no matter how many players are in the area. The lag can be reduced though. If a players doesn't put down another non-stacking banner while there is already one down, then that can reduce lag. If a player doesn't cast any excess items into the battle that do not help at all, then lag can be reduced.

What Prepared does is fine. He's done 60 characters in the past, and Blizzard was fine with it. You want to know why they're fine with him doing 60 characters? It's because they treat it like he doing World PvP. If you replaced Prepared's 60 characters with 60 individual players that follow/assist the same person, then the same, if not, more lag is caused, which is inevitable.

Blizzard will NEVER ban multi-boxing because of a single person. Blizzard is not like the other shitty MMO companies. If a multi-boxer is PURPOSEFULLY causing lag (I don't see why they would want to), then they would BAN that person. If you don't believe me, then Prepared isn't the one you should be worried about getting multi-boxing banned. You should be worried about the 20 man alliance boxer who places down excess toys and casts fireworks in battle, filling up the spell queue with unnecessary items, not allowing other players spells to go off.

Let me state it again. You should not be worried about the state of multi-boxing.