GM boxing Deathknights

[Stormweasel]

OK so first of all I should apologise for not picking the guys brains more on his mutliboxing, how many, what methods he used but I was so taken aback, it didn't occur to me to ask.

I'd been having trouble with a quest early on in Howling Fjord where you have to retrieve crates under water. Namely, the floating "mine" with the flashing light on top of the water kept attaching a geometric "tentacle" onto all my toons preventing them from doing anything as a group.

Here's the text - I guess we can add it to the evidence file on Blizzard not giving a toss about multiboxing anyway:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...chatmb2cm6.png

[Sam DeathWalker]

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7...chatmb2mh9.png

[Stormweasel]

Cheers Sam - I couldn't get the damn thing to resize properly so I've just changed it to a simple link in my original post.

[Halo]

The most surprising thing about this to me isn't that Blizz employees MBox, but that they play WoW. I mean, how many people want to go home at the end of a workday and do, for fun, the same shit you just had to do for a living. I can imagine that if I had to do WoW customer support the LAST thing I'd want to look at in my free time is a WoW screen

Off the record, I still firmly believe that not prohibiting multiboxers is a business decision. I know it's been denied in the official forums, but I think it makes good business sense to keep us around at 75 bucks a month... I would. If the tables turned and every multiboxer resulted in >5 account cancellations, I'm sure they'd change their minds. The beauty of an MMO is they can data mine the shit out of any variable that affects their bottom line and respond accordingly.

[heyaz]

The most surprising thing about this to me isn't that Blizz employees MBox, but that they play WoW. I mean, how many people want to go home at the end of a workday and do, for fun, the same shit you just had to do for a living. I can imagine that if I had to do WoW customer support the LAST thing I'd want to look at in my free time is a WoW screen

Off the record, I still firmly believe that not prohibiting multiboxers is a business decision. I know it's been denied in the official forums, but I think it makes good business sense to keep us around at 75 bucks a month... I would. If the tables turned and every multiboxer resulted in >5 account cancellations, I'm sure they'd change their minds. The beauty of an MMO is they can data mine the shit out of any variable that affects their bottom line and respond accordingly.

I doubt being a GM is anything like playing the game. I imagine their WoW client is more like a helpdesk and they aren't even in the game most of the time. They just hit canned responses and a few generic commands to port players around and fix junk. It's gotta be worse than an IT helpdesk given all the stupid little kids

[Tasty]

[quote='heyaz',index.php?page=Thread&postID=164236# post164236]It's gotta be worse than an IT helpdesk given all the stupid little kids[/quote]

Couldn't agree with you more. I'm sure all Blizz employees have a [url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(Australia)']Blue Card[/url] or equivalent though

[cairnz]

Actually it was very educational to work as a blizzard gm.

Nothing was cooler than keeping a very "cold/botlike/generic"-chat up with someone that was clearly agitated

[Youngceo]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internet

[homerjunior]

These forums get better by the day, now we got kids pretending they were gms

I love the internet

And terrible flamers :O

[cairnz]

Yes, give me one good reason why i should pretend anything at all?

Someone thinks a job must be the suck, while I tell that in my experience it was not the suck at all. Okay, so France is sucky if you don't speak french, the work hours are at times terrible (depending on which hours you get, and which weekend days you get(tue-wed, thu-fri or sat-sun)). But most of the people that worked there when i did ( in 2005 ) - were genuinely cool people. Most of them more geeks than what you'd believe - and just about everyone played wow as well as worked with it.