How is WoW nowadays?

[Pycno]

The thing is Activision-Blizzards hands are much more tied than players realize, they actually cant do what they want. For instance they can not stop boting and cheating, even if they attempt to. As long as the players want to buy gold there is nothing the developers can do without losing revenue. Massive bans on everyone who buy gold would solve the problem for good, but the developers would lose their jobs so they can not do this.

As for multiboxing, its never been (officially) supported and is not a core game feature, it can easily be removed by taking away some core functions of the game. For example, imagine minimizing the game would instantly log you out in order to prevent AFK and alt-tabbers in battlegrounds. Multiboxing would then only be possible with one computer and monitor each toon. Ouch.
And next step, follow gives you debuff that instantly kills you if you receive damage, and decreases your damage dealt by 90%.

Its easy for them to break multiboxing, and they just did it with multiboxing in Battlegrounds. It never happend before so it was not a likely scenario, now it can happen at anytime. Buy a new $10k computer and accounts, level them up and wake up the next day only to discover Innerspace and ISBoxer got your accounts banned.


Now that people have stopped complaining about multiboxers in battlegrounds, expect complaints about them in Arena, World PvP and dungeons. Players may find it unfair that some can "solo" content they need to collect a group to do, and that this is an unfair advantage that saves multiboxers the time and trouble of dealing with random groups.

The mentality many players have is that if they worked hard for something, then everyone else should have to work at least just as hard to achieve the same thing.

And also, most players realize that multiboxing is in no way overpowered, they just find it annoying and frustrating. Annoying to lose because your teams multiboxers is not carrying his own weight and frustrating to get one-shotted even if their 2-3 friends mop the floor with the multiboxer afterwards.
This is why multiboxers currently are not welcome in battlegrounds.
Imagine you are playing paintball, everyone has a standard cheap paintball gun and you have a fully automatic 10,000 dollar super sniper machine gun - its unsocial and the players might find it in everyones best interest to say "hey, you are welcome to play with us but please leave that supergun at home so we can all have fun".

I was considering returning to WoW and now I probably never will, unless Activision-Blizzard apologizes and somehow can assure multiboxers that they will not be shafted again later on.

Im surprised at how much I care about this, I guess really wanted to play Cataclysm and MoP this winter, anyway Im glad I quit when I did. There are many fun games out there and games arent really that much fun anyway.