I take what those GM say with a grain of salt. :-(Originally Posted by MiRai
Some more recent evidence that Blizzard is possibly working on bringing back /follow to battlegrounds:
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Image courtesy of a fellow multiboxer who wishes to remain anonymous.
I dunno guys, since they completely eliminated bots from battlegrounds by removing /follow, and everyone is having fun in PVP now that there's no multiboxers in battlegrounds, I see no reason why they would want to bring it back. Mission accomplished!
Just a simple cost-benefit analysis reveals how great of a change this was, I mean look at the numbers... by shaving off 1.3 million subscribers, they can now trim down their development AND customer service costs. Plus, Blizzard employees get profit sharing, so by trimming the size of their teams, each of the employees that Blizzard wants to keep around also stands to gain a higher percentage of the profit! All they really have to do is find another group of hardcore fans to eliminate from the game! Imagine if they could trim the WoW team to the size of the Hearthstone team; what a great move!
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Lax,
You rock. Thanks for helping me have some of the most fun I can remember. I loved boxing AV.
Just checking back because I heard Rift was going Free to Play and wondered what the state of boxing WoW was. I guess the Blizz stockholders may be interested if they had a 1.3 million subscriber drop. I've taken a break from boxing and bought a paddle board with my savings. It's pretty fun but in a different way.
Interesting they may bring /follow back to bgs. I don't think I'll come back to Blizz because of the way they treated us. Maybe if they apologize and promise not to crit backstab us again.
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If they took it away once without notice in the middle of the night, there is nothing preventing them from doing so again. Anyone going back if they reverse the change keep that in mind before blowing a sizable amount of money to get boxing with wow again.
Life is a gamble, we all live once and we all die! Plain and simple, a guy can do whatever he wants/needs with his money
If these rumors are true, it looks like taking /follow away from BGs hit them a lot harder than they expected. Let's wait and see...
Heh....I got a good chuckle out of that.
Now playing: WoW (Garona)
I find waiting for a bg to start with a group of bots the creepiest thing in the world. All those cold, dead eyes, staring back at me as I ADHD jump at the gate, so so creepy.
When people get sick of the solo game they do one of two things. They either leave the game for good (and likely the entire genre) or they find different ways to play it (aka multibox).
Some have the pockets deep enough to afford multiple subscriptions. Some don't. However I believe the most expensive MMO in history has enough financial wherewithal to cater to multiboxers in numerous ways. Yes, even if that group only consists of 1% of the entire base which isn't a number I agree with.
They could use realID as the conversation suggested. They could also allow alts on the same account to be played simultaneously by a single user. Setup something in the in-game pet system for players to give commands to their alts and have them tank, heal and DPS or whatever.
Not only would this give players a different way to play but it would also add incentive for players to level up alts. Just so they could play the game differently.
I had different results when contacting a GM. He doesn't believe follow will ever return.
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