What happened to me? Army Dreamers 10-box guild.

[TheBigBB]

I wonder if this is common with multiboxers? Play for a few months, take a couple months off? Maybe it's WHY we were attracted to multiboxing? Cuz it's hard to maintain progress with others if you stop playing regularly?

I've been playing since the open beta in 2004. I play for 3 to 6 months. Then I take 2 to 3 or sometimes even more months off. Then I'm back again etc. We decided to go full bore with multiboxing after my wife's computer melted down and our 2 RL friends quit playing cuz they got tired of waiting for us after we moved to another state and didn't get her computer fixed "in time".

Queshank

I feel like I got most of my goals completed so quickly, because I was always running with the same groups, only doing what I wanted, never waiting on people, and getting every piece of loot I needed as soon as it dropped one time. This is something I never felt with other people because they always had their little pet projects you were expected to help with, or they had progression goals that could never be fully met, or someone else would win the item. I hope that everyone takes time off here and there, boxer or not, because it can get to be like a job when you feel compelled to always be playing. Probably better on the wallet too.

I don't mean to sound like I don't like talking to or playing with other people, because I do sometimes. A lot of people say boxing ruins the community and teamwork of the game. I prefer the forums for community, most of the time. You really need to have found a GREAT guild to play with before the social aspect of the game is any fun. You also need to be very selective with who you play with. having a good partner in WoW is amazing, but it's tough to find. I play at a specific time only, and don't like waiting around.

[Multibocks]

Actually the solo play of multiboxing is what got me to quit recently. I am glad that I am now in a multiboxing guild that raids. That way I dont get bored running dungeon X for the 1000th time.

[TheBigBB]

Actually the solo play of multiboxing is what got me to quit recently. I am glad that I am now in a multiboxing guild that raids. That way I dont get bored running dungeon X for the 1000th time.

I'm just saying that with any other game, if I ran all the content I'd quit playing once I got tired of it, and it'd be fine. So that in itself is not a problem at all. The social aspect - playing with others - is what keeps most people going nonstop, but if you don't have a good group to work with, then the game ends up to be more like work most of the time. You wish you could quit, but you feel like you're letting people down. If you're happy with your guild, though, that's great. It's not always easy to find a good guild. I suppose I could start a boxing guild on my server if I got going again, but then I'd likely feel too much pressure to log in every night.

[Multibocks]

oh I can definitely understand that aspect of it. That's why the guild I joined is casual. You didnt show up for raid day this week? No biggie see ya next week.

[Zub]

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[Tonuss]

I wonder if this is common with multiboxers? Play for a few months, take a couple months off? Maybe it's WHY we were attracted to multiboxing? Cuz it's hard to maintain progress with others if you stop playing regularly?

It's a number of things. I started playing in December of '04, shortly after release. This makes more than four years of playing WoW, with only the last year or so being sporadic. I started playing because some EQ friends decided to play, and we made and grew a small casual guild. We slowed down a lot just before WotLK, and a bunch of us even left WoW to try Warhammer, but we eventually came back in drips and drabs. Since I figured my friends would stay, I transferred my toons to a PvE server (never liked PvP, but my friends did). They returned to WoW, but mostly for PvP and they don't intend to raid anymore.

Multiboxing keeps me playing because it's a different challenge, but it's not enough to keep me going day in and day out, the way having friends to play with does. So I play for a while, then get bored and cancel, then come back 2-3 months later. If I was on a server with friends again and we were doing groups and raids, I would play regularly and probably multibox only very rarely.

[TheBigBB]

I'm definitely way too competitive to have fun with PVP. If I lose due to some random thing I get extremely upset. I also moved to PVE, and will remain there. If you want PVP you can still do the organized stuff. When I'm out in the world I like to have a plan and follow it, I can't stand people getting in my way.

[Iceorbz]

Lol nothing like turning Frostfield Lake into a battleground for me...

Today I saved a friend from some campers, this rescue turned into 2 hours of world pvp where i had to recruit some of my friends to come and heal me cus it was like 10 vs. 4 ;p. And for the record I wooped up on them till they finnaly got me down after raid buffing and shit lol, after that I would kille 2-5 of them and then get pwnt.