How is WoW nowadays?

[zenga]

Multiboxing makes your characters stronger than other players and many players find that unfair. The ingame accepted way of becoming stronger than your opponents is to spend more time playing, divorce your wife and give up a career. Its completely unfair that having a job and income should give you an advantage in any way.

Because to stand a chance in random battlegrounds you need to be a no-lifer? Your statement seems flawed in pretty much every possible way.

Another perspective is that the playerbase is becoming more and more casual and less tolerant of hardcore gamers such as multiboxers

Since when are multiboxers hardcore gamers? Hardcore gaming doesn't seem to fit with a wife, income and career as you said before.

[Pycno]

zenga, Players feel that time invested in the game should be rewarded with increased power. Someone playing hours every day and raiding 7 days a week should be rewarded with better items than someone who logs in once a week. They consider this fair.

Note that "fair" means "the advantage I can make use of", and since most wow players would rather play more than to multibox they consider multiboxing to be unfair.

If you invest time and money into playing wow many people will already think of you as a hardcore gamer. If you have the hardware, software, dedication, time and number of wow-accounts to multibox then you are a hardcore gamer. You can use other terms if you like, but casual gamer would be very misleading.

MiRai, Sure, he probably has his reasons. It doesnt really matter if he personally likes multiboxing or if he is multiboxing himself, he has said its a problem in the game.

I think there are enough multiboxers around for many players to have formed an opinion about us, and players do notice multiboxers. Certainly seems to be a lot of activity on the official forums about boxing and there has also been several official (blue) posts about multiboxing.
It started out as a rare thing and now its becoming increasingly more common.

[Kruschpakx4]

It started out as a rare thing and now its becoming increasingly more common.

really? I've got the feeling that our numbers dropped massively since cataclysm and tbh I dont see where multiboxers are a "problem" nowdays, we could be considered as a problem in bc and cata when multiboxers made it in the top 0,5% of an arena bracket but nowdays wer're just doing little more than nonrated bgs and arena/rbg sub 2k rating and I dont believe that our numbers are increasing since mop.

I dont think that it was really in their intention to "nerf" us in battlegrounds by removing follow but if they think that it helps in the war against bots then well ... they've always said multiboxing is not beeing supported and now they activated follow in arenas again that means they're somehow supporting us as long as bots dont benefit from it

[ebony]

really? I've got the feeling that our numbers dropped massively since cataclysm and tbh I dont see where multiboxers are a "problem" nowdays, we could be considered as a problem in bc and cata when multiboxers made it in the top 0,5% of an arena bracket but nowdays wer're just doing little more than nonrated bgs and arena/rbg sub 2k rating and I dont believe that our numbers are increasing since mop.

I dont think that it was really in their intention to "nerf" us in battlegrounds by removing follow but if they think that it helps in the war against bots then well ... they've always said multiboxing is not beeing supported and now they activated follow in arenas again that means they're somehow supporting us as long as bots dont benefit from it

this is all true but in random game play on the big boxers 10+ it was unstoppable in random play. so ya they not done it to "nerf" or have plans to stop in anywhere else in the game you find they are happy without us in random play bg's and my ban was for "unfair play in random game play"

maybe if the new RBG works when you can que in groups of 5 comes in it might make boxing more fun for the ones that liked pvp. and they bring follow back for rbg's