Change of attitude towards multiboxing

[Fleecy]

Attitudes they are changing (my 2 cents)...

Since around level 20 ish when I logon and logoff my girls (5x Shaman atm) each day I spend about 15-30 minutes in the middle of SW just showing off and answering dumb questions. So over the last month or so just about every day I've been doing this, its usually around the same time - give or take - and its often the same crowd. In my lower levels I had nothing but abuse, abuse and more abuse. It even got to the point where I was trying to avoid SW. But once I hit 50+ the abuse wasn't as bad and I even started getting a few positive comments from people. Over the weeks I continued my 'shows' morning and night and answered more dumb questions and the occasional not so dumb question.

At level 70 I had a lot of people congratulating me along with - the usual dumb questions Its been a few weeks since I hit level 70 now, but I still continue my shows in SW morning and night. Its only just occured to me in the last week but the dumb questions have almost stopped, a lot of people are asking more intilligent questions and even saying "hi" and engauging in general chit chat. When the occasional 12 year old idiot comes along and starts ragging on me a lot of people are now comming to my defense and supporting my arguments and point of view.

Over the last few nights I've parked my girls in the usual spot in SW and just sat there not saying or doing anything. It doesn't take long before it draws a crowd, likewise for the 12 years olds to come out. But to my surprise without me saying anything a lot of people are defending me, and its not just a few people, its a lot of people! Last night I had the typical multibox-ophobic 12 year old start ragging on me. His opening comment was "You're a fuc*ing dichead" (or words to that effect), everyone jumped on him like a Squirrel on the last nut on earth. About 45 minutes later he went running off with his tale between his legs. As sad as it is I had a lovely warm and fuzzy feeling from it. A month ago the same people who were ragging on me are now defending me!

Thats just me 2 cents.

[opt]

Thats just wow in a nutshell, unless your level70 with epics there is just no respect, you can be from d&t levelling on a new realm and with nobody knowing you, there is just no respect. Now you've proven your worth to the realm so now they accept you. The wow community fucking sucks bad, but what else can you do. Its a real shame reallly.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I had similar experiences, fur, with my alliance chars. The gnome mages were almost universally loved. The 4 hunters were almost universally loathed. And I did nothing different. :P

[Kissell13]

This is wierd. Im 45 and still have yet to recieve a negative comment on my server. I even posted a mb thread on my realm forum and didnt get any flames. Not sure why as Im on Aggramar which had been host to a bunch of idiots since the start of wow

[Tasty]

People abusing me for the way I play a game just reassures me further that I am not the one with the problems :P

[Chrysanthe]

[quote='opt',index.php?page=Thread&postID=79784#pos t79784]Thats just wow in a nutshell, unless your level70 with epics there is just no respect, you can be from d&t levelling on a new realm and with nobody knowing you, there is just no respect. Now you've proven your worth to the realm so now they accept you. The wow community fucking sucks bad, but what else can you do. Its a real shame reallly.[/quote]

[font='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif']Isn't that just like real life? If you're a bum, everyone hates you. If you are someone, like a manager of a big company, they love you (and your money; mostly money actually :P)[/font]

[Skuggomann]

HAHA yes i have encounterd this, also wen i ask S3/T6 ppl to heal me in AV or somting they jsut say "no, go away nab!" (Unless ther in my guild XD) but if i meet them in AV and they see that im shiting over the allys they go WOW man can we grp for AV again?

Muchos love to my healer friend Bloodr/Hooks on Frostmane EU!








 

[JoeWunsch]

Yeah man I hear ya, even when I first got 70 some guy ran over to me and goes : "well that would be a lot more impressive if your gear wasn't trash".

I was like hey jerk, i just hit 70 48 hours ago, give me a break. And I already had S1 gloves and helm lol.

Anyways yeah now that my 5 guys are in full epics, most people think its awesome. Theres always gonna be haters or just trouble makers who will try to stir you up saying you have no life, whatever.

I just ignore those knuckleheads.

[-silencer-]

The wow community fucking sucks bad, but what else can you do. Its a real shame reallly.

This statement applies to virtually all game communities where the median age is somewhere around 16. Thankfully the gamers that grew up in the 70's/80's continue to play, so that median age is slowly shifting older.. just not fast enough for most of us.

[HPB]

This statement applies to virtually all game communities where the median age is somewhere around 16. Thankfully the gamers that grew up in the 70's/80's continue to play, so that median age is slowly shifting older.. just not fast enough for most of us.

It's shifting age and also shifting gender....

Quoted from Game Development Essentials (2nd Ed) by Jeannie Novak (required text book for my Intro to Game and Simulation Devel Class):
The 2003 ESA poll found that adult women make up a larger percentage of players than boys age 6-17 -- dispelling the age-old stereotype that games are for boys. Females of all ages now make up almost 40% of the game-playing population.

Hot topic, are little boys/teens the problem? Is it as much a gender issue as an age one?