Jeff Kaplan himself on Multiboxing!!

[torbo]

The last minute or so (3:55 into it) in Part 1 of this video interview with Jeff Kaplan (THE Game Director or World of Warcraft) talks about his stand on multiboxing...
http://www.beckett.com/beckettMOG/default.osi?v=3
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EDIT: Updated the link since they changed the order of the videos on the page.. Big Hey to Bearhug from my Shaman in Nagrand where he was catching flak for multiboxing.

[pixelimp]

Good stuff, good interview.
I also enjoyed that they are gonna focus more on BGs.

[Multibocks]

YAY hopefully you can get equally good equipment, and not be the bastard child, as arenas.

[TheHamburglar]

Nice, at least he multiboxed once. Wonder if he still does it now.

[Vyndree]

TRANSCRIPTION:

Journalist: "This is kind of interesting. There has been alot of debate on multiboxing. Why has the company decided to support this style of play?"

Kaplan: "Well, we feel like people have been multiboxing games for a very long time now. I mean, I was doing it back in Everquest and I don't think I was any sort of criminal for doing it. I actually enjoyed playing the game that way. So I think it's more of a playstyle choice. Most of the time, people who are multiboxing are not better than the people who are focusing on one character. It's actually pretty easy in a PvP situation to outright kill somebody who is multiboxing simply because they are not paying attention. But, I feel like alot of people have alot of characters they want to play, and if they happen to have two computers or they feel like, you know, one computer can run two clients, we should enable them to do that and not slap their wrists for doing it."

[Vyndree]

Regardless of the number of extremists here on the board, I'd imagine that 2-boxing is actually the most common form of multiboxing.

Us 5+ boxers are just louder. ;)

[Haruko]

Regardless of the number of extremists here on the board, I'd imagine that 2-boxing is actually the most common form of multiboxing.

Us 5+ boxers are just louder.

Sounds like a AC/DC statement....lol I'm just listening to Thunderstruck, make a nice video using elementals new spell with that. back on topic, I'm glad he has come out & stated what he did, if goes to show that with RAF Blizzard is all for others having fun & enjoying us having fun. $$$ as well :thumbsup:

[Basilikos]

I can't wait for all the fun I'm going to have on the WoW Forums.

[Vyndree]

Us 5+ boxers are just louder. ;)

Sounds like a AC/DC statement....lol I'm just listening to Thunderstruck, make a nice video using elementals new spell with that.

Aww, that was actually on my to-do list for the beta. ;) I just got a little sidetracked with Blizzcon.

When I first played with the ele punt, the first thing I thought of was that song.

[Tdog]

Regardless of the number of extremists here on the board, I'd imagine that 2-boxing is actually the most common form of multiboxing.

Us 5+ boxers are just louder.

Actually I think most people would be suprised to find out just how many people out there dual-box and never even consider themselves multiboxers. I've had several ex guildes who I personally know that Dual boxed (usually with another guilde's account even ) and would give me crap for when I started 5 boxing.