Blizzard tolerates us for now...

[wonz]

The amount of money they make from real multiboxers may be negligible but the amount they make from people with more than 1 account is very substantial. It would not be easy to disallow boxing and still allow multiple accounts. That is the reason we are "tolerated" in carebear MMO's where the majority of the population would enjoy having us tossed out.

They still can make multiboxing impossible, but still allow people to have more than one account.

Think about removing /follow. Think about changing macro core mechanics (as like comma seperated castsequences), think about removing interact with target and others.

That wont hurt people with two accounts, but would infact make multiboxing using 3rd party software and macros impossible.

And no, we are not very many, there would be no real loss for blizzard if they would technically disable multiboxing. Blizzard does no big money from multiboxers.

I guess its a simple calculation. Once a considerable amount of people quits because blizzard does tolerate multiboxing, they will change their mind.

Think about what happened to the "twink"-community. That could happen to muliboxers as well.

[Shodokan]

They still can make multiboxing impossible, but still allow people to have more than one account.

Think about removing /follow. Think about changing macro core mechanics (as like comma seperated castsequences), think about removing interact with target and others.

That wont hurt people with two accounts, but would infact make multiboxing using 3rd party software and macros impossible.

And no, we are not very many, there would be no real loss for blizzard if they would technically disable multiboxing. Blizzard does no big money from multiboxers.

I guess its a simple calculation. Once a considerable amount of people quits because blizzard does tolerate multiboxing, they will change their mind.

Think about what happened to the "twink"-community. That could happen to muliboxers as well.

I've yet to see someone say they are quitting because they met a boxer and got raped.

[Toonarmy]

Think about what happened to the "twink"-community. That could happen to muliboxers as well.

and from an earlier post

Gosh. Good i dont need to chose only one. I surely would quit playing a little bit later because of frustration.

I would suggest that you are correct sir. I suspect a significant number of mb'ers would leave the game rather than resort to playing a single toon. That may be a fundamental difference between the twink and boxing communities.

I suspect, however, that the demographic, associated income, and potential for "organization" (as mentioned earlier this site represents a community of 31,800 members) may factor in to any long term decision Bliz makes. Just my 0.02

[jinkobi]

They still can make multiboxing impossible, but still allow people to have more than one account.

Think about removing /follow. Think about changing macro core mechanics (as like comma seperated castsequences), think about removing interact with target and others.

That wont hurt people with two accounts, but would infact make multiboxing using 3rd party software and macros impossible.

And no, we are not very many, there would be no real loss for blizzard if they would technically disable multiboxing. Blizzard does no big money from multiboxers.

I guess its a simple calculation. Once a considerable amount of people quits because blizzard does tolerate multiboxing, they will change their mind.

Think about what happened to the "twink"-community. That could happen to muliboxers as well.

You are acting as if everyone who doesn't multibox is against it or would quit the game if it's not banned. The people actually against multiboxing and might actually quit is a very small minority and most of them liars and won't quit in the end.

Blizz would rather lose that small minority than the multiboxers. Another thing is they dislike being strongarmed into decisions.

There is NOTHING in WOW designed to help multiboxers specifically. The fact that we use IWT/follow/macros is nothing as plenty of other people who've never multiboxed or heard of it use those features. Where you get the idea these things were designed for us is beyond me. They have many other uses and have actually improved them over time- they aren't going to take them out.

I'm telling you guys this shit blows up a couple of times a year when some whiner who got pwned in a BG gets on the forums and causes a big stink. Or it's something unique like the dude 20 boxing AV. It'll blow over and be forgottenjust like all the other times.

[Kromtor]

They still can make multiboxing impossible, but still allow people to have more than one account.

Think about removing /follow. Think about changing macro core mechanics (as like comma seperated castsequences), think about removing interact with target and others.

That wont hurt people with two accounts, but would infact make multiboxing using 3rd party software and macros impossible.

And no, we are not very many, there would be no real loss for blizzard if they would technically disable multiboxing. Blizzard does no big money from multiboxers.

I guess its a simple calculation. Once a considerable amount of people quits because blizzard does tolerate multiboxing, they will change their mind.

Think about what happened to the "twink"-community. That could happen to muliboxers as well.

Good point. Removing IWT and follow wouldnt prevent all boxing but it would defintely eliminate boxers from being competitive in PvP. One fear and forget about sync'ed keyboard movement. You could still crawl your way through instances and do some less complicated encounters.

I do agree that the amount of people that actually leave due to multiboxers is probably a mere fraction of the people who actually multibox and blizzard knows this.