WoW General forums getting a bit out of hand

[Ðeceased]

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

yes, I think that is what was meant. I will still post if someone has a legitimate question as to it's legality (not someone just trying to say it's wroung!) or wishes to know details about how it's done.. but I'm stearing well clear of the flame/QQ posts - due to what I said in the post above

[Eteocles]

Only step in if the OP is grossly misinformed, and the majority of posts are agreeing with said mis-information. If a bunch of unrelated people speak up in defense of multi-boxing just leave it at that and lol at the responses from the ignorant tards privately

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Let me address some of the premises of the previous posters:

1) The end result is bad publicity. I disagree. People have been doing this in other games for years and even when well known, it never became more than a gimmick. Also, if you read the threads, most people are NOT against it and consider it a fun and interesting variation on what is an aging game.

2) 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. I call BS on this. If this were true, they'd have taken Deathcoil, scattershot, snake traps, hamstring, intercept, ice block and mind control out of the game already. Just look at Frost Shock for an example.

3) Security through obscurity; aka "Shhh!" aka just let the threads die. I'm against modifying my behavior because a vocal minority don't like what I do. WoW isn't my life. I can find other things to do with my spare time if something ever did happen that nerfed multiboxing. I'll be damned if I let a bunch of whiny, pre-pubescent, partially-literate, unimaginative e-Thugs harass me into silence. Most of the threads I don't comment on because others have posted rebuttals I agree with already but I'm not gonna just stop posting in fear of a what-if scenario. /shrug

[Eteocles]

Have my Space Turkey babies, Don.

[Silly Gooooose]

I would certainly hope no one from this community is getting into flame wars...

Let the children QQ all they like, blizzard will take care of it.


Part of the problem is the kids who start and continue the flame wars are just forum trolls, and they will flame in any post, regardless of the original post....

[Tonuss]

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).

This doesn't seem likely. The more that they rant and complain, the more direct Blizzard's reps are in their responses. Lately they seem to be getting more exasperated with the people criticizing multiboxing. After all, it isn't multiboxers that start thread after thread after thread. They don't seem to be ready to give in to the people who are pissing and moaning. Besides, those people are not going to quit over this, they're mostly just venting. My favorite reply to many of them is to point out that if they really think that Blizzard is acting in a manner that is both immoral and unethical, and hurting their loyal players, why are they supporting it with their dollars? I have yet to get a reply to this, much less even an attempt at a serious one. When you tell them to walk the walk, they suddenly have something else to do.

The latest attempt at complaining about it in the customer service forum led to a CM directly stating that they have data that proves that it does not give multiboxers an unfair advantage in BGs. This was not him stating an opinion, this was him stating it as a fact. So we now have an official Blizzard response saying that not only is it not cheating, or exploiting, or a ToS violation... it's not even unfair! Nice job, whiners!!! Blizzard just shot down one of your last arguments left!

IMO, Blizzard has no intention of doing anything to multiboxing. They seem to say things like "well we never say never, but we have no plans..." which sounds a lot like "on the record, we can't say we won't ever forbid it. Off the record-- FUCK THE WHINERS, where's my keyclone!!!"

[kllrwlf]

Our rep (Vyndree) :love: should be the only one to post the big ol' post and then we should leave it at.

It always ends up being a flaming war and not worth feeding into it.

[Mokoi]

Solution 2:

Do not engage in the adolescent conversations occurring on the WoW Gen Forums.

I stopped reading them about 3 years ago when the game got bigger and other useful forums for WoW began springing up.

We have this forum to chat about multi boxing in a sterile environment free from adolescent tears.

We have the EJ forums to discuss critically and intelligently class and game mechanics, and there are plenty of other places to engage the community in.

WoW Gen Forums are a horrible outlet for relevant and useful information, and has degraded into a cesspool of uselessness.

Don't engage them in any way. They will end up arguing with themselves and get bored when we know we don't have to defend ourselves.

-Dan

[Silly Gooooose]

It's one thing to defend the cause, or to let people know whats up, but to just simply flame and troll the forums is another thing.... There is no need to get into E-Peen contests.

[Eteocles]

"I see your Schwartz is as a big mine" "I see your QQ is as big as my whine" "Want some [Alterac Swiss] with that whine?" ... my mind wanders easily, as the above was my thought process after reading the last post ending with E-Peen contests. lol

I've also gotten no response whatsoever when I ask why people support Blizzard if they're such a big greedy money-hungry company by giving them their money as well. They can't answer it nor think up witty replies so they ignore it. Let the tards stew, while we pew pew ;p