Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[Noxdiebox]

...I hope they change it again

[Baltyre]

Follow is broken on Tol Barad too ?

[Vardion]

Well, all this is pretty disappointing. I have reactivated my accounts yesterday to be prepared for the patch today. Since I wanted to do some pvp this season I don't really see any use in those accounts now.

I called Blizz support and told them that I don't need my accounts if I can't play them in battlegrounds. The lady on the phone was very friendly and said that they would refund the money for the subscriptions within two weeks. So...if anybody else has just reactivated there is a high chance that you will at least get your money back.

[JohnGabriel]

Well I don't PvP, but seems to me the solution might be just park in the flag room and kill everyone that comes in. No need to follow anywhere.

But that might piss everyone else off enough they have to change things again.

[valkry]

This breakign doesn't stop you from joining BGs though, tempted to just join BGs and forward/strafe to move and get owned and make my team lose... EVERY game.

Apart from that, quitting mboxing wow now, 9 subs lost Blizz

[Teslah]

Although I never was into PvP it won't be long before they make this change on the PvE side. The fact they did not mention it means they are not very worried about the consequences. Based on the size of WoW I am sure they have people on this site daily reading up on multiboxing and seeing the posts.

That said, there is probabaly a very small window where Blizz will wait to see what happens with this. For those who want to make an attempt at getting some sort of follow back in the PvP game I would suggest a focused, rational and calm effort to get it done.

Here are some ideas.

1. Make follow a pay service. Might not be appealing to many, but it would limit the bots doing it.

2. Qualify the boxers. Just like airport screening, look at the accounts, call the users and come up with a method to determine if they are bots or gold sellers, then leave the legit ones.

3. Limit follow to 4 characters or a full group of 5.

4. Make separate BGs and Arenas where follow is still active and give people the choice to join them or not.

5. Put some type of captcha on each screen that needs to be input every few minutes to assure no afk players.

There must be other ideas. I would be interested if Lax knows how many WoW ISBoxer accounts there are? Not an exact number, just a general idea. Are there 1,000 boxers or 10,000? If we each have an average of 5 (10 in my case) accounts how much money lost is that for Blizz? Is it really significant? Or a loss they are willing to take to get rid of boxing?

The real issue here is the entire multiboxing universe. WoW has always allowed it even though other games made it clear they did not want it. WoW has pretty much been the leader and company to follow. If they ban follow all others will too. There will be no reason to do it anymore now that WoW has gotten rid of it. All other games will follow soon and the ones who don't already allow it will start pushing it on the entire gaming community and gaming companies.

Anyway, there is a small window here to try to come up with a compromise. It should be a united, calm and professional effort. Otherwise it will just go away in a few weeks and nothing will be done.

Good luck to the PvP players. I know you put a heck of a lot of time in perfecting your teams.

[JohnGabriel]

Your ideas assume they removed follow to stop botters, but they (probably) didn't, they (probably) removed it to stop boxers in BGs. Too many people complaining about it.

[Baltyre]

6 - Allow follow beetween char using the same battlenet
7 - Allow follow in BG, but when we use it, we got no honor (so no interest for bots)

I think the last solution is the best. We wont get honnor and that sucks but still can play BG.

[F9thRet]

Well I don't PvP, but seems to me the solution might be just park in the flag room and kill everyone that comes in. No need to follow anywhere.

But that might piss everyone else off enough they have to change things again.

I had thought about that myself. Or going off an idea I had earlier, us having a huge sit in at the two main towns. Maybe some civil disobedience or the like.

Stephen

[Baltyre]

Cross realm protest event ?
That could be a interesting idea.