Interview subjects needed for article on multiboxing

[Powerwar]

Well, I don't know if I come late for your article, but here it goes...

Most people think that multiboxers are losers with no life. In my case since I'm multiboxing it's exactly the opposite.
I have a company and usually I'm a very busy person, being the boss isn't easy. Add family, travels, work, etc... and there is practically no time for playing games.
WoW is a very time consuming game, after all this is what Blizzard wants you to do, spend time in the game and pay the monthly subscription. Having to wait for a group and handle guild dramma is just a waste of time from my point of view.
When I want to play I just start my 5 accounts and do what I want to do in the game. The most important thing is that I can logout in the middle of instance run without having to worry about other players asking me to stay online. There is no more "Honey, just another boss"... now it's more like "Where do you want to go for dinner?"

When you are a single player (not multiboxing) and you are not in a raiding or fun making guild then you will spend about 20 - 50% of your play time in WoW searching for suitable group, fighting over loot ("OMG hunter weapon!!!!"), or wasting your time in some other way.
Since I started multiboxing the raid time is not when the guild leader says... It's when I say it's time to raid, regardless the hour it is. No one leaves the group until I say they can leave. No one steals my loot nor there is discussion about who should take the loot or not take it.

In my case, time is the most important factor. The 5 accounts subscription pays by itself. My family is more happy, I am more happy and there is no more "Oh, I have to choice between raiding at 7 PM or having some fun and beers with my friends tonight". Now I can do both things because I can raid at 10 AM if I want to... or not raid at all because no one will boot me from the guild due to lack of raid attendance or bad gear

From a businessman point of view multiboxing is like running a small company. My main is the boss and the rest of the group (slave toons) are just hired workers that help the boss to have fun and profit and not waste his time doing trivial stuff (like healing, DPS, tanking or whatever else).
I could hire 4 guys to play with me and be always online when I am, but paying only 4 more accounts is cheaper and more fun.

[jinglehopper]

Thanks for all of your responses guys. FYI, the article was turned in last week and should be published in the next month. I'll make sure to drop by with a link when it does.

This community has been a great resource for me. I'm even considering joing the ranks of multiboxers, mostly due to your willingness to discuss your chosen sub- hobby.

Thanks again!

Greg

[Hor]

Awesome, I think I speak for all of us here when I say we're very anxious to read the article.

[jinglehopper]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...vel-80-Nirvana

The article went up today. Feel free to comment at the escapist.

Greg

[Owltoid]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...vel-80-Nirvana

The article went up today. Feel free to comment at the escapist.

Greg

Pretty interesting article, though I would have liked to see more in-depth coverage instead of a broad overview of multiboxing. Perhaps there will be follow-up articles if there is enough interest?

[blast3r]

I like the article. I like how it shows the difficulty and challenges of boxing. I really like the amount of coverage mr keyclone got. He deserves it! Unbelievable support from him. btw, I'm famous!! David from Philly. lol. j/k not famous for this.

[Vmpwraith]

Thankx for a fair and ballanced article and for doing the research into the subject. I liked it a lot. I hope you enjoy boxing as much as we do.

[Prepared]

Hey guys,

I've gotten a lot of great responses. Thank you!

I'm currently looking for more people who multiboxed before WOW came along. I want to know about the gritty gamer who multiboxed with Pentiums running Windows 95 through the then-virgin lands of Lord British. Are there any of you there? I'd like to hear about the roots of multiboxing. Send me a PM if you are or know of anyone who could tell me about what it was like to multibox back then.

Greg

Although Diablo 1 was released in January 1997 and wasn't a full MMORPG, it was the first game I multiboxed prior to UO and Everquest. The reason I did it was primarily to store gear on a second character in the bank. After a shore while, Diablo 1 became the game known for all kinds of hacks/cheats because you could change in memory what others had in their game online. I even created a trainer for it that became the most widely used trainer. There wasn't a need for a second computer or copy of the game because you could store any item on your disk and load them during the multiplayer games. Played UO for a while with some friends but really didn't like it that much and my real multiboxing experience came with Everquest 1 and EQW which allowed the game to run in windows. Had a good long run with Everquest 1 and multiboxing where nothing but mulitple windows and fast hands on the keyboard led to the gaming experience with raids, etc.

It's interesting here on dual-boxing.com where it appears there is a belief that if you don't know about this website or not heard of by anyone that you don't exist. In other words, when I found out about this website and read some of the write-ups some did, I was shocked to learn that boxing was defined by most as using some sort of keyboard replication hardware or software to achieve. I'd done multiboxing without any keyboard software or hardware to send keys or mouse to mulitple windows or computers for years. So when I found out most were using keyboard/mouse broadcasting software or hardware, it made the multiboxing experience so much easier to manage. In fact, I decided to take it to a higher level and go to 36 WoW accounts. Once that worked, I went to 42 but found that big battles cause disconnects and backed it out to 36 again where I'm at now.

[glo]

I like the article, definitely should do a follow up with some more in depth information!