Change in multiboxing policy

[kate]

Thanks for your amazing input. I'll just assume you're a quitter who's still crying about the loss of his easy button. I'm not, I'm looking for other options.

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Obviously there were hardware options before, whether it was multiple pc's or just one. Any well-versed boxers out there willing to shed some knowledge?

Why would someone help you when you're attacking people for being bothered for feeling like they've had the rug pulled out from under them? Figure it out yourself since you seem to be bothered by someone else wanting an "easy button."

On a different note, I was screwing around today with a pure hardware solution (worked pretty well, though not nearly as seamlessly as ISBoxer), and in about 10 minutes I got 4-5 people whispering at me that they've reported me for boxing which is a substantial uptick compared to the usual. I haven't gotten a ban or warning from Blizzard, but given that it's only been an hour or two, I wouldn't put much stock in that.

[stubbadub3000]

On a different note, I was screwing around today with a pure hardware solution (worked pretty well, though not nearly as seamlessly as ISBoxer), and in about 10 minutes I got 4-5 people whispering at me that they've reported me for boxing which is a substantial uptick compared to the usual. I haven't gotten a ban or warning from Blizzard, but given that it's only been an hour or two, I wouldn't put much stock in that.

Well that didn't take long, not surprised in the slightest given the hatred directed to multi-boxers from the general wow community.

Also I've read a couple of misconceptions in this thread that I wanted to add my two cents on;
- Activision makes more money off tokens then subs. People buying game time with tokens is PREFERED by Activision as it makes them more money!

- The percentage of multi-boxers is greatly exaggerated here, I doubt we would break double, even single digit percentages of wow population. But we have a real and imagined effect on a large percentage of the wow population which leads to reports/complaints, which then requires Activision to spend money actioning these reports/complaints. Activision wants to spend the least amount of money managing WoW.

- As computers have gotten more powerful, the amount of toons in a multi-boxing team has gotten larger. The game has changed as well in ways like multi-tagging of mobs and multiple toons hitting the same herb/mine node. This has lead to a perfect storm of a single player being able to make a massive amount of gold in the modern game, and Activision have always worked against successful single player gold farms.

- ISBoxer was too good! It made multi-boxing accessible and thus more people used it leading to more abuse, reports, issues etc.