Some guy claiming multiboxing will be "removed" in WoTLK.

[Ifalna]

Worried? No, annoyed? Yeah. I mean, I know the WoW forums are basically complete trash at the best of times, but it'd be nice to go a week say without some clueless turd posting about his/her views against multiboxing.

Let them , they are shooting themsevles in the foot, and making us look better

Were not the only ones who see them as clueless turds at this point hehe

[rarr]

The thing that gets my goat everytime I read one of those posts is that they obviously havn't tried it.

"cheaters!"

Isn't cheating supposed to make things easier? Last time I checked multiboxing is harder is most cases.

[-silencer-]

Isn't cheating supposed to make things easier? Last time I checked multiboxing is harder is most cases.

Are you multiboxing the same WoW I am? I find it incredibly easier to run my own instances, guaranteeing loot is given out to the best advantage of the team. There's no wasted time trying to get groups or schedule WoW time with friends, but most importantly, no communication is needed to make sure the team operates most effectively.

Now, there are other games where I could see multiboxing making life more difficult, like Age of Conan.

[krum]

Surely that's not possible as it would have to use IP addresses no?

No. With NAT, any number of computers can share the same IP address. If you want a reasonably decent way of identifying a particular computer you might use the MAC address of the outbound Ethernet adapter, and of course that's not foolproof.

[Vyndree]

It's just a poor kid who's trying to repair his epeen.

Are you blizzard? Do you know how they are going to implement it into the new hack/3rd party software detection that will be used in WoTLK ? They also might be linking your cd-key to your login.. meaning you can only login to the account that used the cd-key you installed the game with.. so to run another account you would have to modify your registery.. which would let you then access that other accounts, but not the account you just changed the info from. Read up on it.. Lots of changes in the works.

What about the people who installed via the online download?

The "facts" he's spewing out are pretty unlikely. Besides, he's assuming ALL multiboxers use 3rd party software -- therefore it would take more than warden to "ban multiboxers".

If blizzard really wanted to ban multiboxing, they wouldn't have to jump through hoops with assigning your wow install to your cd key (lawl?), changing warden to sniff out software multiboxing solutions, or whatnot. They could either a) remove /follow -- or b) add "no multiboxing" to the Terms of Use. Those are both much cheaper solutions for them to implement.

Besides, from the activity in the customer service forum (did you remember to hug Belfaire today?), the blues aren't hinting that multiboxing is going away anytime soon.

[Sarduci]

this guy went all Gilligan on the SS Failboat.

Great. Now I have to clean coca~cola off my monitors and keyboard. :thumbsup:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had to do that.[img]../forum/images/smilies/tongue.png[/img]

[Catamer]

We are starting to make a name for ourselves and I would love to move to a mboxing server to get away from the QQ.

[Ðeceased]

Are you multiboxing the same WoW I am? I find it incredibly easier to run my own instances, guaranteeing loot is given out to the best advantage of the team. There's no wasted time trying to get groups or schedule WoW time with friends, but most importantly, no communication is needed to make sure the team operates most effectively.

Now, there are other games where I could see multiboxing making life more difficult, like Age of Conan.

ah yes but the distinction lies in ease of character control and ability to reach a goal/orwhatnot.

So it definitely is a lot lot easier to control one character vs multiple. But ur right, attaining something is so much simpler when m-boxing

[Hat]

Just laugh at him and move on.
His argument has sooo many holes that it isn't worthy paying attention to.

[Tonuss]

It's not going to happen.. for one simple reason:
Money.

Sorry to come into this a bit late, but that isn't the reason they won't disallow it. When Blizzard reps tell you that the company line is that they do not find anything wrong with it and that they consider it to be a legitimate way to play the game, they're being honest with you. Remember, multiboxing has ALWAYS been allowed in every MMORPG out there. I don't think that any developer has specifically designed their game to allow it, but they have no problem with it. This is what many anti-MBers do not understand. This is not an area where Blizzard feels unsure and wants to see what the player base thinks about it. This is exactly like their stance on PvE-to-PvP transfers, where they have taken a very clear line and they have not been ambiguous about it, even in the face of considerable protest.

There are simply some issues where Blizzard knows exactly what they want. Multiboxing is one of them. There is no way they'd cop the attitude they have otherwise. You must have seen how snarky they are getting lately when dealing with multiboxing threads. Mostly they ignore them, but a couple of times they have moved them to the customer service forum, made a snide remark, and locked the thread. The point is very clear-- Blizzard does not see multiboxing as any sort of problem. They consider it a valid way to play the game that does not violate the terms of use, concepts of fair play, or the spirit of the game. Period.

As for the guy claiming that he had inside knowledge that multiboxing would be removed in WotLK, it is another bitter anti-MBer who is trying anything he can to rile people up. They have come to realize that their arguments against multiboxing have failed, and their attempts at flaming multiboxers have failed, so now one of them decided to try and annoy or scare people by claiming that it would be removed. It won't. While Blizzard reps always make sure to say that nothing is 100% written in stone, I have no worries whatsoever that they will ever removed multiboxing from WoW. None. The crybabies will shed oceans full of tears along the way, and we will continue to multibox just as well as we please.