The Escapist article on Muliboxing

[Kang]

I think you'll see a few familiar names in there

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

[Bigfish]

I read that a couple of days ago. Reads like a paid advertisement for Keyclone.

More or less yeah. Keyclone singlehandedly destroying the Chinese in the days of MMO yore.

[keyclone]

inch:

i just told him the story of when i created it and its first use. (it's a bit off... i never attacked a 'miner'... it was a dorf dagger chucker w/ a pocket healer attacking my guildie that was PL'ing newbies).

talking on the phone might have had more impact

[Redbeard]

Lol id only have issue with an advertisement for keyclone if his software sucked. Which it doesnt.

Game on folks.

[Saberus]

Saberus here,

Grats on the story Rob, and thanks for the help getting my first three mages setup..

[David]

I could relate myself to quite a few things in that. Esspecially the part about boxers not beeing hardcore.

The people who I meet on my travels usually are pretty negative. Usually they call me very hardcore and ask if I`m really rich.

Seeing most RL professions people have in that article it does feel like that most boxers did some sort of higher education. Guess it`s needed to some degree :-)

[Bigfish]

The nature of the unknown is that people fear and ridicule it. The idea that boxers are pasty-faced geeks living in Mom's basement arises largely from the position of said pasty faced geeks who fuel their gaming by cost cutting, ie, living in Mom's basement eating Ramen while the make petty cash at their part time job. As far as I can tell, most of us are actual proffesionals who do this as a hobby, and the costs are relatively minimal in relation to our income.

[Hor]

Massively gave us a little coverage too
http://www.massively.com/2009/03/05/...t-multiboxing/

[kadaan]

Perhaps that is why dual-boxing.com and other multiboxing communities are so vibrant. It is there that they are able to share stories, commiserate and even engage in occasional disagreements or flame wars.

I see he interviewed Fur! :D



Kidding! Good article, I enjoyed it. It's one of the most fair and accurate portrayals I've read, unlike anything that M*** S****** guy writes.

[Portal]

I read that a couple of days ago. Reads like a paid advertisement for Keyclone.

That's not the impression I had when I finished the article. There was a great deal of writing about hardware boxing as well. All in, I'd say it provided a fairly balanced view, with a slight positive slant toward the multi-boxer. In fact, the tenor and content of the article is almost exactly the same as reading the forums here. You get a few different perspectives on the practical application of multi-boxing, a few stories and the inveitable reference to Rob who always seems to be available to help in a short period of time (not what we expect from either developers or mmo addicts these days). I say this as someone who has been coming here for perhaps less than a year who both hardware boxes and uses keyclone.

I think the article will serve the curious reader well - especially those with an open mind. The anti-boxers will of course believe what they want to; but that's not news to anyone here.