Quote Originally Posted by wowairborne View Post
I started playing wow during MoP and quit mid way WoD. MoP was full of mid to mass wpvp multiboxers, I did 40 at the end of mop and the start of wod. WPVP only. Never farmed gold, i don't even remember what i did to get gold. I just came back on Nov 1st for shadowlands, i waited till i could buy shadowlands without buying BFA first. I was enjoying the new leveling system, got to level 42-43. At end of MOP and start of WOD me and preparedwow was the only two 40 boxers playing. There was a streamer named peach he farmed gold with like 10 druids. After i quit and heard they basiclly killed wpvp with no follow during combat, war mode and removed pvp servers during legion/bfa. I was very disappointed, no reason to mass multibox anymore. But something happen when all these gold farmers came up doing 5-20 accounts then you have those two streamers that did over 60 accounts. When i heard that i knew it was instantly bad news. Blizzard will die with their young new customers they are hiring.
That's the thing. There have been 40 and 80 boxers before. Sam and Prepared are two that come to mind. Both did all of these things.

Why it's become an issue since WoD is why the game has also sucked since WoD. It's also why they praise the numbers on WoW having more female than male players. Why they're shooting for as much non-white, non-male content they can churn out. Why mobile games (predominately a female activity) are showing up all over WoW.

It's 100% corporate driven interests. It's all about money. Yes, what keeps these games afloat for years are dedicated players who nolife the game, typically men and boys. However it's not all the money in the world. So they're chasing the money regardless of whatever hardcore percentage is offended by their changes.

Don't like mission tables, dailies, nerfing dungeon rewards and heroic gear in world quest content? Tough shit. This is the direction their corporate handlers are telling them to go in. Get those ladies with disposable cash to sign up and buy virtual furry costumes or the new pony on the store.

Of course I have no issues with women playing WoW and all that was fine for years. As the product was designed for both hardcore gaming men and women. It just didn't have as many women. That was also fine. That's not fine to the corporate leadership however.

And so I look at this change in the context of this discussion and it's abundantly clear why multiboxing is now the big bad. They've exhausted their audience cred on botters and now they're going to smash multiboxing. If for no other reason than to appeal to the headless masses who think boxing = botting.

And that I hope explains why I'm pretty indifferent to it. I think in the end Activision was a bad deal for Blizzard and the corporate profit at all cost monster has only started to rear its ugly head. Who knows in 2-3 years WoW will have a P2W shop. It has MTX already on top of being a paid game and a subscription based game. Remember all the money in the world is what they're after.

Make sure it isn't your money they get. That's my advice anyway.