Get rid of swifty and any other popular streamer/youtuber.

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A bit late to the party here, but dropping in my 2 cents.

I can't say I agree with the suggestion.

As a baseline argument, I don't think it would be ethical to deny someone access to purchasing a product on the fear that it plausibly leads to more people being aware of multiboxing which then plausibly leads to them making inaccurate complaints en mass to the developers, who then ignore everything they already know about the subject and overrule pre-existing decissions and outright deal out bans instead of dealing with specific problem areas in very benign ways, like they have before with the issues regarding WPVP and large scale multiboxing and BGs before that.

Even if we were to, for the sake of argument, say that such a chain of ifs and maybes would occur, I don't see how it is the fault of that one person with a viewership, unless they are spreading inaccurate information on purpose, which is not the case at all. I don't see the argument for punishing said person for simply being popular.

Now, let's say it was possible for us to police who gets to be a multiboxer and who does not, which we of course can not. If we could... Should we? Are we in a position where we get to say who is "worthy" of being in this illustrious group? What are the rules and who is going make sure people follow them? What makes us so sure that these are the correct rules? Mirai is, as far as boxers go, relatively popular on Youtube. Should he go? If not now, how big can he get before we exile him? This is a road I do not think we'd want to go on, even if it was even theoretically possible.


As far as steamer's fan bases complaining, I honestly don't think we can get a lot more bad PR than we did in WoD due to a few streamers casually multiboxing and being completely civil about it, as far as I am aware. Infact, I was pleasantly surprised by Asmongold's take on the mass multiboxing issues back in WoD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9gQWTjoB8). It's not a hysteric cry to ban all multiboxers, but a genuine argument against issues that have no real ingame solution (E.g. cases where there is no "PVP solution"). The times I've heard them talk about it, they've been civil and fairly reasonable on the matter, even if sometimes slightly misinformed.