I think mass-multibooting and farming killed it for us. And honestly compared to them we are the minority here. They could fix the node spawns to make it like skinning is now. They could have fixed all the 4x2 Farm Spots. They could have limited /follow to x number of people. They could have limited you to a certain number of accounts.

The Blizzard we knew back in mid-2000's would have done those things first. And ironically enough I don't think this change will affect the 4x2 Farmers and the Mass Herbing people all that much. But when 80% of Twitch streams are about multiboxing + farming stream! 100+ accounts!" and a tiny fraction are people pushing Raid or Dungeon content, well we are the underdog here.

Even though we all started this, its evolved and been abused to its limits. It now effects Race to World First, the in-game Economy, Server Stability and others player experience by making Zones unstable or Timed World Quests no longer completable.

I'd like to say it was a few people ruining it for the many, but honestly I think its the many seeing an easily accessible option for farming and our hobby getting swept up and mutated out of our control.

I am devastated. I am sad. I am angry. I am amused. I was having so much fun and the rub got yanked out beneath us.

After 12+ years of having a firm stance on this for it to change now is a sign of their whole opinion on this way we play changed. While we might argue the wording or whether RR is breaking the rules or just the 'spirit' of this policy, no longer do we have Blizzard behind us, having our backs when people report us. I foresee a lot of people who are not "technically" breaking the rules banned and constantly appealing their accounts. This feels to me like a Corporate / PR decision. Whoever backed us at Blizzard and constantly explained to upper management what we do and why its fine is gone now I think.