Quote Originally Posted by '-silencer-',index.php?page=Thread&postID=79215#post79215
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.