Will Blizzard take a stand on dual-boxing?

[pjdell]

I have a hunch that devs are fans of dual-boxing.com, they never admit they like boxing but never deny it either, though if i remember one said it takes some skill to do... i would bet that we might have one of them among us at dual-boxing.com

But honestly what do you think. More and more QQ threads are popping up on wow forums and it wouldn't be the first time blizzard sided with the QQ threads.

It's not against TOS right now, but all they would have to do is set in action a 1click 1 account 1 action policy...

It would be a sad sad day. I would keep doing it with separate computers keyboards and mice if they did that.

[Meeo]

I have a hunch that devs are fans of dual-boxing.com, they never admit they like boxing but never deny it either, though if i remember one said it takes some skill to do... i would bet that we might have one of them among us at dual-boxing.com

But honestly what do you think. More and more QQ threads are popping up on wow forums and it wouldn't be the first time blizzard sided with the QQ threads.

It's not against TOS right now, but all they would have to do is set in action a 1click 1 account 1 action policy...

It would be a sad sad day. I would keep doing it with separate computers keyboards and mice if they did that.

Many times have the devs stated they have multiboxed previously and like to multibox still, but they never did say if they do it within wow.

Blizzard believes Multiboxing to be a playstyle, so when they start ruling out how people play a game they will probably cause more problems in the long run to solve people who QQ about it.

[Svpernova09]

The sky is not falling.

I would think that the financial loss would outweigh the QQ'ers. We are a very small population of WoW. But we represent a fair financial number for them. So long as we're abiding by their rules I see no reason they would side against us. If there comes about some method that they deem against the rules, they'll just patch a fix and we'll have to work around it. Much like the nerf to using the minimap for spellcasting.

[Evilseed]

EDIT: I said something I should keep my mouth shut on.

[Rin]

Hint: $83,700,000/year is a lot of money.
(edit: math)

^^ Exactly..

[Svpernova09]

Yep, thats why I said "But we represent a fair financial number for them"

[TheBigBB]

The sky is not falling.

I would think that the financial loss would outweigh the QQ'ers. We are a very small population of WoW. But we represent a fair financial number for them. So long as we're abiding by their rules I see no reason they would side against us. If there comes about some method that they deem against the rules, they'll just patch a fix and we'll have to work around it. Much like the nerf to using the minimap for spellcasting.

A little bird whispered to me that 3.1% of World of Warcraft accounts are tied to a unique billing method (ie, multiboxers). While 3.1% may not seem like a lot, crunch a few numbers for a moment and you'll see why Blizzard wants the multiboxing trend to increase. Drastically increase.

That's interesting, and I wonder where the info comes from. I wouldn't be shocked if it were true, though I don't believe that most people with multiple accounts actively or effectively multibox in the manner that we think of it. I owned 2 accounts for years and only occasionally used them both at once, and never synchronized keyboards. I used to just have a priest I'd put on follow and hit healing once in a while, which I don't think falls into the same category.

Anyway, I think you're correct that regardless of anything else, Blizzard would be stupid to ban multiboxing even if just for monetary reasons.

[Evilseed]

Please stop posting this shit.

Blizzard has stated COUNTLESS times that multiboxing is 100% legit. Even the lead developer is on board with it (Mike M.).

If Blizzard acted on the QQs of players, WoW wouldn't be here anymore, because everyone complains about everything.

Well that is a more direct way of saying what I (and I would think everybody else) was thinking

[Rin]

Please stop posting this shit.

Blizzard has stated COUNTLESS times that multiboxing is 100% legit. Even the lead developer is on board with it (Mike M.).

If Blizzard acted on the QQs of players, WoW wouldn't be here anymore, because everyone complains about everything.

Fur, who pissed in your cheerios today? I took a *very* quick look at pjdells other posts, and I didn't see another thread like this one. You know the answer to his question, I know it, everyone else knows it too... but maybe he was just curious and didn't want to use the search function .

[Hachoo]

I think Fur was talking to the community as a whole (as opposed to just the OP) since this type of thread gets posted daily these days

Unfortunately every time someone new signs up theres no way they'll have seen that response prior to making a post just like this one