WoW General forums getting a bit out of hand

[Ellay]

There's a lot of publicity and threads going on in the various WoW forums about Multiboxing as a whole, most of it has a negative thread starter followed by a lot of positive feedback for us, then it just meshes into very long arguments that force the thread to stay on the front page and last 10+ pages.

The end result is a bad lime light in the overall viewing of Multiboxers as a whole. My suggestion would be to let these thread dies and drop off. If anything educate them on what we stand for and what we do - but after that point let it go.

[zanthor]

Agreed.

Without a doubt getting into any flame wars with people will simply degrade the overall view of multiboxers as a whole...

[Boylston]

There's a lot of publicity and threads going on in the various WoW forums about Multiboxing as a whole, most of it has a negative thread starter followed by a lot of positive feedback for us, then it just meshes into very long arguments that force the thread to stay on the front page and last 10+ pages.

The end result is a bad lime light in the overall viewing of Multiboxers as a whole. My suggestion would be to let these thread dies and drop off. If anything educate them on what we stand for and what we do - but after that point let it go.

Here's another way to look at it.

Multiboxing IS legitimate. It doesn't NEED defending in the WoW forums. The more we fan those flames, the longer the threads get, the more chance we attract undue attention.

Anyone at Blizzard with the control to change the multiboxing policy already knows what we're doing, and they are the only people whose opinions you should care about.

[zanthor]

Do what Ellay said and start some threats on arena team selling and how unfair it is for S3 geared players to be allowed to create 1500 rated new teams and steam roll new players. Get some epic QQ going on - it'll pull the attention away from the other threads.

I didn't think they could do this, I thought if the personal rating of a player was > the team rating it would matchmake off the personal rating?

[Crucial]

I've always felt the more publicity multiboxing gets the worse off we all will be. For every multiboxer there will be 10 more haters, and eventually there will enough of them to persaude blizzard to change their stance on the matter in order to calm the masses. Pure speculation and opinion but it just seems lately there are a lot more multiboxers and a hell of lot more complainers, if that grows to a significant number then blizzard will be forced to do something about it that the minority will not like (us).

[Vyndree]

The end result is a bad lime light in the overall viewing of Multiboxers as a whole. My suggestion would be to let these thread dies and drop off. If anything educate them on what we stand for and what we do - but after that point let it go.

Correct. Unless you're willing to read EVERY post to make sure you're not re-posting identical content, just let them die.

I typically only step into threads where the Belfaire post has not been posted and/or the OP is still posting crazy incoherent mumbo-jumbo that needs correcting. At this point, though, people are pretty good at linking the numerous posts in the customer service forums which means we can sit back, relax, and laugh at the people who are watching their arguments fall out from underneath their feet

Some people are very clever at necro'ing old multiboxing threads, too. Take a look at the timestamp before you fall for it.

[Catamer]

cruical has a point, enough people complained about the state of the arena to where they had to do something about the "win trading". I started mboxing because I hated getting a team together for anything. I used to play CoH and you could search for all tanks of a level 40-45 or healers of level 40-45. It really ways so much easier to create a team. if Wow wasn't so hard to make a team and all of us who have been on a PuG team where someone who can't wear plate rolls need the wins the blue plate drop know what i'm talking about. What I usually tell others is that the best part about mboxing is that I always have a team, they are always ready, they can quit without leaving everyone else in bind and they never steal the drops from each other. I also mention that they all look the same and are all geared the same is because they did all the same quests at the same time. I've been afraid to PvP but I guess I need to just jump into it.

[Korruptor]

I think this advice is really good in general regarding the WoW forums; I stopped posting there within a few months of release.

IMO it's really quite futile trying to reason with a pool of mindless piranha.

[Ðeceased]

hmm.. I guess you are right.. I think bar my last post 5 mins ago I will stop posting on WoW forums on the topic. I've noticed my blood begins to boil as soon as i start to type a response which, despite my self-critical and passive nature, causes me to be rather offhand and extremely sarcastic :S

Getting a little scared of myself :S and I've noticed my clones aren't as eager to follow me as they used to be ;(

<--- one shammy who wont be posting on WoW forums any more

[Shaitan256]

Hey guys here in Germany It's the same with the flamers, so if I understand, should we "ignor" these threads?