Multiboxing blue post

[MiRai]

Interesting. Seems like Blizzard has always had a pretty pragmatic and non-interventionist stance on it.

I'm fairly certain that there are a handful of higher-ups at Blizzard who are familiar with multiboxing, and multibox themselves, but I can't know those details for sure. Others at Blizzard, such as Bashiok, Zarhym, and Holinka, have all spoken out against multiboxing publicly over the years, but I would like to believe that they're either tolerant of it outside of PvP, or don't really care enough to fight the policy internally. /shrug

The psychology of the anti-multiboxer provides considerable food for thought. Is it victim mentality? Just pure jealousy over people with more resources (slaves to the class-division rhetoric of the political elite)? Rules lawyers? Possessive of what they perceive as "their game" and detest anyone that isn't playing it the way they *feel* it should be played? Generalization based on the actions of a few well-known malefactors?

Regardless of the specifics, it does seem like the type of person that gets bent out of shape over multiboxers is inexperienced in dealing with other humans in an objective, professional manner.

This is something I've been truly interested in for some time.

[Fat Tire]

I'm fairly certain that there are a handful of higher-ups at Blizzard who are familiar with multiboxing, and multibox themselves, but I can't know those details for sure.

Kalgan has said publicly the he has boxed. This was circa 2006-2007. I am sure the quote is out there on the net somewhere if someone wants to look it up. It sucks because I hate his raid or die philosophy bs.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Kalgan has said publicly the he has boxed. This was circa 2006-2007. I am sure the quote is out there on the net somewhere if someone wants to look it up. It sucks because I hate his raid or die philosophy bs.

Honestly, I think that has had more effect on my play/enjoyment than anything specific to multiboxing.

[Lax]

Kalgan has said publicly the he has boxed. This was circa 2006-2007. I am sure the quote is out there on the net somewhere if someone wants to look it up. It sucks because I hate his raid or die philosophy bs.

Kaplan I guess the video link is dead but Vyndree left the text a few posts in on this thread: http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/14897-Jeff-Kaplan-himself-on-Multiboxing!!

[ebony]

Others at Blizzard, such as Bashiok, Zarhym, and Holinka, have all spoken out against multiboxing publicly over the years, but I would like to believe that they're either tolerant of it outside of PvP, or don't really care enough to fight the policy internally. /shrug
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Ya i still don't believe that they removed /follow because of us. when i know players that been using some software we all know about for over a year now and there had gm's and everything talking to them (or so they say) and as of yet they not banned them, As they must feel there are in control of there chars.

But you ask a gm about that software there standing is the same as isboxer we don't support 3rd party software. and even using pets/mounts Av yet to had a ban or even a gm talk to me but you know when you see something that looks fishy and you think your being watched.

All i know is i been told we don't say what a multiboxer can and can not do. (as we would need to change the rules for groups of friends). I feel that's what a lot of them blue posts say.

[Starbuck_Jones]

This is something I've been truly interested in for some time.

I think most of their anger comes from a sense of fair play and cheating that is ground into us at an early age. I do think it is very odd, specifically in WoW, where 99% of the people who are upset with multi-boxing are not in competition with them. (everything in wow is instanced so anyone can go run a dungeon or raid and get loot. Unlike EQ1 where everyone is in direct competition with every loot drop; ie. there is only one Lady Vox for the whole server.) Regardless they see a behavior that is out of the norm that appears to grant an advantage. Anyone with an advantage is a cheater. Even casinos view counting cards as cheating. Pretty harsh for simply paying attention.

I started MBing WoW simply because I was tired of dealing with other people's drama like bad tanks, healers, madona dps and the endless waiting for people to get in group. It was worth the extra subs to tackle content I was interested in w/o someone trying to ninja a drop for their alt or off-spec when it was an upgrade for me. Later it became a challenge to just see if you could defeat the mechanics. Now what little MBing I do is just time management. I don't have the time like I used to so to maximize my play time, I box.

For a long time, and I still wonder why they let us box any game. Like the blue answer above, it only takes one bad experience for paying subs to cancel and any company that doesn't put the customer experience first is doomed. But I think he is also wrong when says that multi-boxing doesn't bring in a lot of cash. There are hundreds of thousands of people with more than one account. They may just be bank alts, healer alts, tradeskill alts or simply run out of character slots. I know dozens of people who have multiple accounts and do not view themselves as multi-boxers. Someone at Blizzard who has access to account statistics knows how foolish it would be to limit their players to a single licence.