Blizzard tolerates us for now...

[thefunk]

kick his ass, sea bass!

exactly! nice quote

[Daeri]

English isn't my first language so I might be wrong but doesn't that "For now" mean something special ? Doesn't these two words suggest that some kind of change is to be expected at some point ?

[thefunk]

I don't think there is anything to reading into this post, especially as ambiguous as it is.

[Toonarmy]

I'd rather continue to play the game, but if they were to remove the ability to do so, I'd get what I can out of it and then move on.

And the folks at Vivendi understand this. Which is why I tend to agree with you and others that have argued the business reason for allowing mb'ing in the past.

[EaTCarbS]

English isn't my first language so I might be wrong but doesn't that "For now" mean something special ? Doesn't these two words suggest that some kind of change is to be expected at some point ?

yes sir. it doesn't mean that change is inevitable, however.

[Kalros]

The "For Now" part could just be their non-committal way of calming the nerdrage while not actually saying they are going to change anything.

[Daeri]

Thanks for the clarification

[Littleburst]

There's no reason for them to bann boxing. It's more money income, especially with the amount of boxers only rising.

there's no logical reason to make them suddenly decide that they'll bann boxing, because of whine or whatever. So no worries, no bad dreams and enjoy

(if possible without randomly insulting others, atleast on the forum here. Go pvp if you need to blow off steam)

[Xar]

I agree it was a poorly worded comment. The problem is it casts doubt whether our hobby is safe and the final decision is not ours. At least with Sacco it was clear that Blizzard was fine with multiboxing but it was not supported but they didn't care as long as the TOS wasn't being broken. If they do ever put an end to boxing I'll just stop playing as well as my kids. D3 can't come fast enough.

[Kicksome]

I have a feeling they don't ban multiboxing because A LOT of people have more than one account, and probably log them on at the same time to trade or idle. And how can they tell anyone, you can't have more than one account logged in at the same time without pissing these people off AND causing them to just transfer all their toons to 1 account and cancel the other.

This would be a major risk for Blizzard - they are very proud of their number of accounts. There might not be a lot of multiboxers, but there's a massive amount of people with multiple accounts.

If they banned multiboxing, I think they'd lose a LOT of people who actually have two account and don't understand the difference between multiboxing and logging more than one account on at the same time.

It's very difficult for the common wow player to understand the difference of having more than 1 account and playing those accounts at the same time.