Interview subjects needed for article on multiboxing

[jinglehopper]

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

[keyclone]

omg... you're summoning the ghost of UO past?

[Souca]

Ummm. I won't talk about UO. I wasn't one of those people that sent Origin $2 to be a beta tester. Nope, that wasn't me. There are lots of MMOs I didn't beta test, so we won't mention the others.

- Souca -

[Ellay]

I've been doing it for a long time before WoW, but I've had enough publicity - someone else deserves some spotlight I'm sure there's a bunch in here who played pre-WoW time.

[Shaitan256]

I did some games before, but I was small and didn't know something like Multiboxing exists (I mean that there is a name for it).
I was kinda young and thought just give it a try and it worked quite well.


I just love to do things you need more than one person for.
Like to help people and entertain people. But I'm not the one who is a revolutionist in MB or something.^^ Don't even have a Max lvl team yet (not even 60) just love the Community^^

btw:
Why aren't prepared or sam writing here? off on vacations?!

Edit:
@Ellay
So Much kindness isn't usual for a normal human being you must have some Crazy brain tumor- Dr. House (House MD or something in US/UK) would say - lolz(hope you don't get it wrong)

[not5150]

I multiboxed in UO... and played text MUDs. Compiled TinTin and ran five guys. That's how I learned Linux. Compile, compile dies, grumble grumble, change config, compile again, dies, repeat ad infinitum.

Your slash ANNIHILATES the goblin for 2477 damage.

[heffner]

Out of curiousity,

Is this article for Escapistmagazine.com? Does Escapistmagazine .com have any affiliation with ZAM Network / Affinity Media?

Thanks.

[Kaynin]

No need to be that cautious.

Having checked out the site and its contents however I very much doubt they are. They seem to be clean. x)

[Taliesin]

I multiboxed in UO... and played text MUDs. Compiled TinTin and ran five guys. That's how I learned Linux. Compile, compile dies, grumble grumble, change config, compile again, dies, repeat ad infinitum.

Your slash ANNIHILATES the goblin for 2477 damage.

I've only recently started multi-boxing in MMOs (WoW). But I was usually boxing back in the MUD days, as well, before even EQ opened up the world of MUDs with UIs. It was a different experience though, as there was a variety of MUD clients that had built-in windowing to make boxing easy, since everything was text-based: e, e, n, n, n, e, n, kill spider, loot corpse, cast 'heal' self, use 'scroll of recall'

I also spent a great deal of time admin'ing, working on development, and creating content and areas for MUDs. I also boycotted EQ for the longest time because I refused to have to pay for something that I spent so many years playing for free.

[keyclone]

[quote='heffner',index.php?page=Thread&postID=17489 7#post174897]Is this article for Escapistmagazine.com? Does Escapistmagazine .com have any affiliation with ZAM Network / Affinity Media?
[/quote]this is the closest i found ([url='http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/08/21/xfire-debate-virtual-money/']link[/url] ):

Readers may be interested in a debate / panel discussion on game currency to be held today at 3PM Eastern time, hosted by Xfire. I’m one of the seven panelists. The others include a technology writer, the lead artist for Arden, a professor at USC, ZAM Network’s Content Manager, PR manager at NHN USA, and the CEO of Sparter. The event is hosted by Joe Blancato, Associate Editor at The Escapist magazine, and founder of Waterthread.org. It should be an interesting discussion.

i could not find any real connection otherwise (not without getting into tracking all names i came across... and that's too much like real work)