How is WoW nowadays?

[MiRai]

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.

The game does not accept any input when it's minimized to the task bar and nobody has ever multiboxed like that.

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.

Nobody got their accounts banned unless they were circumventing something that was purposefully removed from the game. If multiboxing was to be completely disallowed at one point in time, I'm sure Blizzard would let everyone know ahead of time because they're well aware how many people enjoy everyday multiboxing outside of griefing other players.

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".

You, yourself, said that you've been gone since the beginning of Cataclysm and I think you're underestimating how effective multiboxing in PvP is these days. You left during an era when multiboxing in battlegrounds reigned supreme, but since then, it's effectiveness has been cut in half thanks to resilience, bloated stats, ridiculous CC, and whatever other little changes Blizzard made.

That's why I found it amusing that you called multiboxers "hardcore". In one sense, they are hardcore for spending extra money on their computers and taking the time to set everything up so that they can do what they wan to do (which is, multibox); but in another sense it also means skill, which is the way that I think of hardcore when associated with gaming, and most multiboxers weren't very good beyond killing one person and then ending up being rendered useless while they're stuck in CC or being kited around while the rest of their team bitches about it. After WotLK, multiboxers had to stop using the mindless comma-based timing macros and had to start using their cooldowns and their class CC. This new level of 'difficulty' that had been introduced turned a lot of people off to the the playstyle and only the hardcore multiboxers stuck around and pushed through -- The ones that were either good from the beginning or the ones that wanted to try hard and improve upon their weaknesses.

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.

You're obviously not alone and there was a huge mega-thread on the matter, but many people have moved to other games