Why Are We Hated So Much?

[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.

[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.

[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

[HPAVC]

First, why aren't you queuing them all as dps+healer or dps x2 and healer only? I am sure you would be well served by this change. The second to rule out a heal only guy joining.

Anyways dungeon queues are often all about turning the instance around quickly and not messing around with bs. If I am in a group with some guy that might be an issue, forget it I am gone (might be the response people have). That would be what I would get out of the drops in your queues.

Sure multiboxing is likely what gives them a doubt, but that's really all someone needs to have to drop a group. In the era of people waiting hours for 5+k gear scores to come knocking for crap raids, this has got to be expected.

The queue issue, not sure its ignorance entirely really, anymore than people wanting 5+k gear scores for almost every raid possible. Sure those people will be waiting for what seems like forever and that might be 'ignorant' that the content might be well in reach of half that gear score and that they would be done with the raid already if they had picked up people. But I can see their point in point in trying to weed out possible problems, especially if tanks can actual charge for queues.

[Dramoth]

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

yup... I am going to take a week off and really start hammering the druid team shortly then the two of us can go and steamroll BG's like crazy


I have had a couple of people come running up asking me whats going on. A few seem to think that I am cheating and one guy even said I was disrespecting the game by boxing... I mean, I have 6 solo level 80's I have levelled up and some of them are very well geared. I raid on 4 of them with the other 2 only being part time low level raiders so how could I be disrespecting the game by deciding that I wanted to be able to do instances without having to do them with some of the pug idiots you get out there.

I rarely pvp so I cant be accused of ganging up on people and the like.

I like the people who ask questions... dislike the idiots who think that I am cheating.