Hypothetical question..... What if Blizzard said okay you QQers....

[TheBigBB]

I absolutely think that a class-action lawsuit would succeed for anyone who played with multiple accounts at once. I don't think anyone would get rich off of it, but it'd be enough of a headache to make Blizzard never take this action.

I'm not sure that you'd have enough people and enough of a claim to be granted class action status. I doubt that any lawyer or group of lawyers would seek that status unless there were some pretty big gains to be realized, and it's unlikely that you'll be able to prove monetary damages in a civil court. I think that in a best-case scenario, you'd be able to get your subscription dollars refunded. But if that was the case, no lawyer's going to take that case on contingency (no money to be made), and you'd be crazy to hire him under any other circumstances, since his fees would dwarf anything you'd get from a victorious case.

Maybe you're right, though I figure a lot of people casually own more than one account, which seems like the only real thing you need to show to a court. Blizzard repeatedly supports and defends play using multiple accounts, then turns around and blocks all those accounts from playing again if they are caught online at the same time being used by the account holder. I mean, that would have to be actionable. I just spent a couple hundred bucks buying copies of the game simply because Blizzard told me it was okay.

[Kopitar]

You guys mentoining lawsuits really crack me up.....

I absolutely think that a class-action lawsuit would succeed for anyone who played with multiple accounts at once. I don't think anyone would get rich off of it, but it'd be enough of a headache to make Blizzard never take this action. Removing /follow would be killer, but boxing would still be possible, just more annoying to do.

That would be some epic QQ...

[wrs]

I would go outside, breath the fresh air, open my mail, drop 40 pounds, file my taxes, go mtn biking......

....I would be free!

[Skuggomann]

Id jsut Mb in the dark @ 2 in the morning wen no one sees, jsut like i do wiht the kids.

[Feardis]

I think with this change to RAF Blizzard has said with a booming voice to the QQers "STFU and try it yourself"

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[Otlecs]

I guess the point of this posting is really to say that even if Blizzard said okay we give in, that honestly there is not a lot they could do short of removing the /follow command, /focus and /assist commands and such. Then imagine how much QQ non-boxers would do.

There's actually an awful lot they could do to stop multiboxers.

Just saying it's no longer allowed would be enough to stop many of us (me included), and they've said numerous times that it's dead easy to identify a multi-boxer as opposed to just multiple players from the same IP address (I imagine event timing, logged server-side, would be a bit of a give-away).

Me? I'd cancel all bar one of my accounts and go back to single player raiding until I got bored, then I'd quit.

But as you said, it's not going to happen, so that's a real stretch of a "what if"

[Yamio]

I don't think RAF was created for multiboxers per se'. Blizz is gearing up for WOTLK. RAF was created to get as many characters to endgame content as humanly possible. It just really suits multiboxers well.

If they did decide to give in to the QQ's, I believe there would be a huge outcry within their own ranks since there seems to be a number of Blizzard employees who multibox.

I was done with WoW back in 2006 and didn't play at all in 2007. I only came back because of multiboxing. Take it away and I'd be done with WoW for good.