Thanks Sam Deathwalker!

[Prepared]

I felt this needed a message thread of its own. The following Blizzard forum thread had me a little worried for awhile. After some attention to it, it has been fixed by a Blizzard rep. It started with a player that had it in for me on Aegwynn but trying to justify to Blizzard Customer Support to put some sort of cap on the number of characters someone can multibox in the game.

Blizzard forum post


Thanks for the support Sam Deathwalker! You are right, upgrading hardware does fix lag or performance issues in the game in most cases.

[Xzin]

"But you must admit, 30, 36 and 60 characters funneled and ran from a singular internet networked source is not only over-kill, but just ludacris (sic) for anyone else near him to enjoy the game with whatever amount of latency someone would call normal."

Haha!

[algol]

I've participated in "raids" that involved hundreds of characters...and more than a few server crashes as a result. If anything, Blizzard actively encourages player-improvised events. If you're not actively trying to crash the server, they're not going to care. And if people lag in cities, well...Lagforge didn't get its nickname over multiboxers. They'll try to improve the rendering engine and so forth to make the game more accessible, but it's not their problem if people can't learn to turn their video settings down to something that works on their out-of-date hardware.

You and Sam are among the very few "full-raid" scale boxers...and there are no rules against opening a portal for your raid back to town after a run. The guy that started that thread is a just a dumbass. A loud dumbass, maybe, but not one that will have anyone at Blizzard listening. Maybe if someone was 300-boxing, there might be concerns.

Just two examples of why there's not a snowball's chance in hell of Blizzard doing anything like that (a little incoherent, but I'm tired, and it's clear enough). Aside from the whole "lead designer used to multibox" thing. Really, since the press over you guys started up recently, I'm getting many positive reactions from players that actually know WTF multiboxing is, and very few "zomg botter, hacker, gold farmer, I'm reporting you to my mommy!" hate tells. It's pretty sweet.

[Littleburst]

Must be pain to level...

Was trying to help a boxer on al'akir at lvl 42 in tanaris. Me with 4 70 shamans.

He got camped by a 70 mage, i ganked the mage a couple of times.

A second mage joined, Bronte, the boxer died quite often because i couldn't keep track of them both.

Los came to help me out on his pally, so i could catch up with the hordes while mounted and still gank them.

Then 4 other horde come and camp me for 2,5-3 hours. I finally managed to HS out and now Bronte is being camped by them again. It should end somewhere, but the people who camped me and are camping bronte are really brainless. To bad we can do very little against it. Considering the horde - alliance ratio is 3 - 1 here and i'm alliance, doesn't help :P

But i can live with it, so far.

[valkry]

You know what...you could try not ressing for 15 minutes, taking a break, having a shower or lunch or going for a quick jog or forum posting or something similar. If I get killed in the world, come back to my body, res and find out the guy is camping me, that is the only 2 times he will kill me, because I just won't bother ressing again. Perfect opportunity to go afk for a bit. Let them wait for nothing til they get bored.

[Maxion]

You know what...you could try not ressing for 15 minutes, taking a break, having a shower or lunch or going for a quick jog or forum posting or something similar. If I get killed in the world, come back to my body, res and find out the guy is camping me, that is the only 2 times he will kill me, because I just won't bother ressing again. Perfect opportunity to go afk for a bit. Let them wait for nothing til they get bored.

QFT.

This even worked for me inside stormwind (i'm horde) while corpserunning my way to the stockades for the achievement.
Logged off to do something else for a while between rezzes, and the people who were trying to camp me were gone when i came back. (note that the would-be campers always died before me whenever i rezzed)

[valkry]

Lol, jus read the whole blizz thread...seems Frostkitten got pwned by the CM and by people who are more tech savvy than him.

In response to his "welcome to pvp server"..."welcome to shattrah city...it's laggy, enjoy your stay."

[Tasty]

You know what...you could try not ressing for 15 minutes, taking a break, having a shower or lunch or going for a quick jog or forum posting or something similar. If I get killed in the world, come back to my body, res and find out the guy is camping me, that is the only 2 times he will kill me, because I just won't bother ressing again. Perfect opportunity to go afk for a bit. Let them wait for nothing til they get bored.

I spent two hours camping someone a few weeks ago dunno if you recall. Killed him three times he ran off. Killed him twice again when I caught up. He hearthed so I went off and did stuff then when he was back in hellfire (got a friend on horde to /who for me) I destroyed that stupid horde town just to gank him again. Then another 4 70's showed up so I camped them while I was camping this other guy. Can't remember exactly what he did but it must have been bad cause I never camp :O

Huh that thread was pretty lol. Nice to see these people taking their crying in a different direction.

[valkry]

He must have looked at you sideways or something lol. I too don't camp unless I get really angry. I find it more fun to find someone else to kill instead of waiting for that person to run back. Don't you have your own horde account? I have a horde account to /who as well. You uncapped yet? Sif you let him hearth..fail camper lol.

[Littleburst]

You know what...you could try not ressing for 15 minutes, taking a break, having a shower or lunch or going for a quick jog or forum posting or something similar. If I get killed in the world, come back to my body, res and find out the guy is camping me, that is the only 2 times he will kill me, because I just won't bother ressing again. Perfect opportunity to go afk for a bit. Let them wait for nothing til they get bored.

Watched a move, so i went afk for 2 hours.

Guess who was standing 100 yard away? exactly, the same 4 people. I ressed, and they were on me instantly again.

Yes, that's the kind of people i'm dealing with here. Same thing happened tonight, allthough i managed to kill them a few times aswell. And because they were on my i hope Bronte had a better chance of questing.