Why Are We Hated So Much?

[galaxy]

I am currently tri-boxing ele-shamans. More often than not the tank or tank/heals will ask if I'm multiboxing then drop group immediately after. I lose a tank/heal atleast one out of four groups and catch flak in others. People hate multiboxers. Other than them getting smashed in pvp does anyone know why this is?

[F9thRet]

Jealousy I think. Most people on my server have been nice enough when it comes to Multiboxing, always asking how it's done more so then anything.

But you have to remember, People just love to bitch. I ignore them and move on.

Stephen

[Dooz]

I think most people are tolerant or at the least indifferent. When I first came back to boxing I had no issues at all. It wasn't until I started 5 boxing again that people started speaking up a bit. Out of those that get upset, most don't know that it's an accepted playstyle. I'll get the typical "Hax," "Cheat Much," along with other ignorant comments. I don't bother trying to convert people anymore. I turn off the chat bubbles, say chat, whisper, bg chats and any of the general chats. If I don't see it... I don't care. Anyone but my guildies becomes a NPC. I queue for randoms with my guildies (my kids), and I don't box pug raids.

If you have trouble finding a guildies to run with you, and feel like transferring or starting some freshies, you're more than welcome to come box with my guild on Firetree. There are four of us and the other 3 don't box, but are used to running with a boxer. I have toons on both sides, though I just started playing Alliance. Actually just started 5 Nelf Druids. One im boosting RAF style. The other 4 I'm leveling normally because I've never done the alliance quests.

Anyway, good luck man.

[jinkobi]

My server is very tolerant of multiboxers. But since I'm the only one on the server it isn't too big of a deal, lol.

Although I have been very open about multiboxing on the forums and people have been surprisingly receptive. Most people are very iinterested and as always direct them to dualboxing.com to get educated ;D

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Most of it, IMO, is people in general lacking the ability to deal with things outside of the established norms. The rest of it is just them breaking down into type after not being able to deal with us intellectually. It's really interesting listening to the range of responses you get after doing certain things as a multiboxer.

[OzPhoenix]

It's a mixture of ignorance and arrogance.

Ignorance in that some people simply won't know what you're doing and will assume it's cheating, and arrogance in people who do know what you're doing, but believe their opinion matters more than Blizzards.

The ignorant types can be educated. The arrogant types are not worth responding to, or ever worrying about.

[Velassra]

There was one guy on my realm, faction transfered from Alliance to Horde, now Alliance is verrrrry underpopulated on my realm (rppvp). The day after transfer, he had the balls to come onto the realm forums and complain about getting ganked by an Alliance multiboxer.....and ganked in Wintergrasp no less. It didn't go well on the forums for him from either faction.

[Tonuss]

Bad first impressions combined with ignorance.

A person is playing his character in a contested zone or a battleground. He gets steamrolled by five characters that seem suspiciously like they're being run by a bot. His anger at being so casually one-shot is made worse by his belief that the person who did it is cheating. When he learns about multiboxing, he already has a very negative view of it, and is unlikely to consider the issue rationally.

Or...

A person is playing his character on a PVE server and watches as a group of characters that look suspiciously like bots run around nuking everything in sight. His first impression is that it's a gold farmer who is botting characters to grind gold or items. When he learns about multiboxing... see above.

I would guess that most people are very inflexible in how they reason these things out. They follow their first impression and often refuse to change, perhaps out of stubbornness, or pride, or just flat out stupidity. If you've ever followed the debates on the forums, you will notice that a good number of people use an argument like "I don't care what you say, it's cheating (or automation) and it's wrong." In other words, they made up their mind and they're not about to let things like logic and knowledge get in the way. That, to me, is the sign of someone who is upset over something that happened and has let that experience color their point of view without even trying to understand or be reasonable.

So the short answer is: People are stupid.

[Toonarmy]

I think that for people that play BG's they might feel a little ripped off. Take this as a possible scenario.

Some dude spends eons gearing up his toon. He has some uber high epeen score (that took a long time to get I might add) and is used to killing pretty much all the undergeared BG folks. He's pretty cool (just look at his epeen rating after all). This is a good life (lets be honest here, who DOESN'T like doing this?)

Then along comes a welfare geared 5 box shammy, nothing but 10 losses a week and the WG weeklies.

Then all of a sudden Captain Epeen starts getting one or two shotted by our shammies (who have a total weekly time investment of about 45 minutes...clearly we're not as hardcore as he is...therefore not as deserving).

If I put myself in Capt Epeen's shoes I'd be kind of frustrated too. I'd be wrong to be frustrated, but I'd still be frustrated. In the end I think it comes down to sour grapes. He died. We didn't. He's pissed.

My two cents.

edits: grammar type stuff

[Powerwar]

If I get some hate my usual reply is "Yes, I run a full group so I don't need to party with idiots like you". Usually works miracles.

Other than that, most people that know me on my server are quite happy to see me around... except the guy that says my totems make his FPS go down and he barely can play when around me