Is it the game or the boxing?

[Khatovar]

Now ive seen it all on this board lol.

Telling a bunch of gamers that people get tired of sex is like telling poor people that people get tired of money.

=P

I agree though, its a good game, and the best of the fantasy genre out right now.

WoW is truly an amazing game. Regardless, people will still get bored. I mean, people get bored of sex. Go figure.

I got bored with sex once. Ok, maybe I was more repulsed and annoyed, but still...

Come to think of it, WoW was a lot like that relationship. Took all my time and money. The end game was an endless cycle of more of the same disguised as less of the the same. And I was a lot happier playing by myself. :whistling:

At least with WoW I got some fond memories and a better video card, heheh.

[Gomotron]

I got bored with sex once. Ok, maybe I was more repulsed and annoyed, but still...

Come to think of it, WoW was a lot like that relationship. Took all my time and money. The end game was an endless cycle of more of the same disguised as less of the the same. And I was a lot happier playing by myself. :whistling: :D

At least with WoW I got some fond memories and a better video card, heheh.

I LOL'd at this

[moosejaw]

Now ive seen it all on this board lol.

Telling a bunch of gamers that people get tired of sex is like telling poor people that people get tired of money.

=P

I agree though, its a good game, and the best of the fantasy genre out right now.

WoW is truly an amazing game. Regardless, people will still get bored. I mean, people get bored of sex. Go figure.

I got bored with sex once. Ok, maybe I was more repulsed and annoyed, but still...

Come to think of it, WoW was a lot like that relationship. Took all my time and money. The end game was an endless cycle of more of the same disguised as less of the the same. And I was a lot happier playing by myself. :whistling:

At least with WoW I got some fond memories and a better video card, heheh.

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[offive]

Very long time gamer... Atari 2600 or Adventure on an Apple 2+ anyone? FPS, RTS, MMO... played a lot of things.

WoW was not my first MMO, although I didn't start boxing it until TBC. To be honest I took up boxing beacuse of the challenge of figuring out how to do things without others. I have quit WoW twice for 6 months or so both times. Of the three games (Classic, TBC, and Wrath) I have to say my fondest memories are from Classic (GM'ing, raid lead, PvP on my undead shadow priest!). I enjoyed TBC once I came back to the game and all of the major tweaking was done. I like what Bliz has done to open up the content to more players in Wrath. I don't like the interchangeable classes... I mean whets the point of classes you can get the same functionality from most. I will more than likely put wow on hold in the next couple of months again since the content gets stale and come back for 3.3. I will continue to mix up solo and multi boxing play until I stop playing it. People refer to Classic WoW as Vanilla, I have to disagree, Wrath seems like the real vanilla version. Individualism is gone except for us boxers.

Thanks to an old buddy, I fired up the original Unreal Tournament last weekend... "HEADSHOT!" good times... might put together a Retro LAN party soon just for kicks. Hmmm boxing an FPS!

I had hoped that all the other MMOs that have come out in the last few years would have been able to provide an alternative to WoW, but sadly none of them held my interest for any real length of time.

I will continue to game, and if the game is good enough and I can figure out how to I will continue to box. Of course I will continue to mountain bike, climb, and ww kayak to keep real life interesting.

[Kopitar]

Playing 2+ accounts keeps my attention on the game, if i play solo, i tend the wander and start to do other things, with 2 accounts or more there's enough things going on at once that my concentration is only on the game.

/dual boxing Darkfall

[Zerocool2024]

I lose interest in any and all games. There is only so many times you can keep doing something that keeps your attention. I already left wow a couple of times (Yeah, I know, couple) but one was for a year. I waited and still nothing new came out (game wise... I just wanted something to replace WoW).
I waited and waited, but nothing worth wild was coming out. I played Korean games, off the wall games, just anything and everything to fill the gap, but there was no other MMO that had any effect on me like WoW did. I left WoW just before TBC came out.
I saw nothing special in it. Nothing that would make me really want to come back. The only reason I finally came back was my brother-in-law had finally gotten into the game, and was started to end game raid and have all sorts of fun and would talk to me about it.
Then I got to thinking about my old world Guild that I ran all the fun Dungeons with (MC, Naxx, AQ and such) and I went back just to play with them again. But the world had changed, and everyone I knew was either gone, or was in an End game raiding guild that we swore we would never go to, lol. So I became a 5-boxer. 5-Boxing just made the game, harder? It made me think more about the game rather than just playing it. I'm not sure if I enjoyed the game, or if it was fun to me after I started back in TBC (fresh start). But I guess I just stuck around to prove a point, a point that I didn't need my old world guild, or anyone else to do what I wanted. Nothing stood in my way. I was the guild, I was the group, I was the raid.

WoW just lost most of all it's appeal. Never liked TBC, I never liked WoTLK. Both just made leveling easier, doing quests easier, PVP easier, added a OP class that can kill you with spamming one button, tried something new with Dungeons, and really just made them easier.

Maybe it never really got easier, maybe we just knew what to expect and nothing had changed. So it just became easy sauce. I don't expect anything really all the special from games now and days. I assume I will get bored after a long period of time just like I did with EQ1, and every game after that.

I don't really intend to leave wow, but for now, I want something that will give me a challenge.

[Treesong]

I started boxing quit early on in Everquest, slowly working my way up to 6-boxing. Ever since that I have a hard time enjoying playing a solo character for more then a month, in any MMO. Boxing just adds so much for me, from the added utility, to the freedom to do what you want to do up to the RP-value of having your own "family" of toons. I like gearing up my toons, I like dinging with them and get new spells and when you box you get all that x(insert number of boxes).

I have never boxed in WoW but I did 3-box for a while in EQ2 and for a very short while 2-boxed in Lotro. I must say though that I like it the best in EQ, dunno why.

The "Massively Multiplayer" part of MMORPGs has always been "sharing a Virtual World together" and not "group up and grind mobs together" btw. Funny how hard it is to explain the difference between those 2 statements to "anti-boxers" though. I always use the example of how I did the Qeynos-->Freeport run once in EQ in 1999 with my level 4 Enchanter and encountered this other player halfway Norrath in Highkeep( a safe haven), who was doing the run the other way around. Back then it was a thrill to make this journey and meeting this guy was fun. We drank something in one of the Inns there and then said our goodbyes, each heading into danger again in separate ways. One of my best memories in EQ. Note how this did not involve grinding mobs for XP. But people don't play like that anymore, they do not make MMO's like that anymore so basically you get a "does not compute" when I tell people this story.

[falsfire3401]

Personally boxing (and learning about RAF boosting) has saved my WOW for me. My main (80 orc hunter) was getting stale, got all the gear I could possibly want out of 10m naxx, don't have the time to devote to a 25m guild (and besides I like my current guild too much to ever leave them for anything...it's the people, not the content we clear that's our focus).

So I went and resurrected my original wow toon, a human rogue on a diff pvp realm and leveled her to 80 to join her guild (mostly friends and friends of friends) in 10m raiding. By the time I got to 80, they'd all been decked out and stopped running naxx and people were starting to drop like flies to 25m guilds. So that toon did a few PUGs @80 before I got fedup with PUGs.

So then I resurrected another old toon, a 42 human priest on that same realm, and started leveling him. Got used to being one of maybe 2-3 ppl online in the guild at any given time, and had some fun playing him, got to 66. But I was really missing the guild chat and camaraderie of my horde guild on shadowsong.

That's when I discovered boxing, and decided "hey this is a great way to get some more high level toons quickly". I already had 2 accounts (one WotLK and one TBC), so I started my non-RAF team of prot pally + holy priest. Could've RAF'ed but I wanted to play twin blood elves, since I already had two TBC or better accounts and didn't want to pay for a 'temporary' TBC account, I'm boxing them to 80 together now. My guild is very supportive of it and often asks how things are going, what's the biggest pull I've done so far, contributed bags and some startup cash (even though I have an 80 on the realm that could've done that lol).

So I'm having fun with that and once the team hits 80 (going to upgrade the TBC account to WotLK when I near 70 and then maintain two accounts), anyways when the team hits 80 I'm going to RAF a 3rd account from my 2nd account and instance boost two pairs of toons to 60 using the pally. Then I'll gift 59 levels to a L1 on the 2nd account and get five 60's out of the deal.

So boxing rejuvenated my WOWing as it's a way to get two 80's in the effort it would normally take to get one, and then get five 60's in about 2-3 weeks even at my modest play schedule.

Once the boostees are all 60, going to transfer the two toons off the 3rd account to my main account, leave the three 60's on my 2nd account, and then dual-box up 3 more pairs of toons to 80 (got a mage I'll solo to 60 on main account then join her to another toon).

I will continue to maintain two accounts because I plan to dual-box level toons in the next expansion too, so might as well keep them on two accounts. I even have my monthly subscription renewals staggered so I pay once per 15 days instead of paying both at once each month.


And here I was headed to about my 5th "retirement" from wow lol.

[Lyonheart]

I have to say I am a boxer, when it come to MMOs. I started playing EQ1 when it went live. I started a warrior. It was only a few weeks in that i realized i "HAD" to group with other players as a warrior due to the insanely long regain time for health. I was only having fun when I had someone to adventure with me who could heal. About 1 month into live, I bought a new PC and right away thought" Man it would be nice to start a cleric on a new account to heal me." I had no idea how it would work, /follow was not even in the game yet. I ran around by auto running them in the same direction and jumping back and forth between keyboards and mice. Travel was not fun. Not long after that they added /follow to the game and I started seeing more people with 'pocket healers" following them around. I found out about WindowsEQ at some point and had gained some accounts via friends quitting, and was able to alt-tab my way through 4-5 accounts.

After EQ ( and for awhile during ) I started playing DAoC, I started that game with two accounts and ended up with 4 before WoW came out. I have been a boxer for all my MMO life, minus those first few months in EQ. I have boxed, or tried to, every MMO since.

I am playing EQ2 now with a little WoW PvP every now and then. I'm about to add 2 more accounts to EQ2 so i can do more, as far as harder content in dungons. I also started some LotR accounts because some friends were going to play it. I already had a level 50 Champ and Minst. My friends only played a few days and went back to WoW.