Change of attitude towards multiboxing

[Silaspop]

I used to receive the same attitude when I started playing my four Mages. I would get nothing but bashed and flamed, either for gear I was wearing or how it looked the same, or which talent points I chose - this was when I wasn't being accused of being a Chinese Account Seller or Gold Farmer (I even had a couple offers, lol).

As time went on, some people became really cool with it, and would ask me to kill stuff outside of Stormwind just so they can watch the four Mages cast at once. I even got a couple runs through Stockades and SM. However, all in all, it wasn't really worth being in cities just to show off, at least not yet since I am not 70. Thought, for every 1 person that would become acceptable to me playing more than one character at once, there were at least 25 other people who would either bash me.

Factions also didn't seem to matter, on Alliance it was more "omg u fukkin chaeter! you sell accnts!", and horde it was "Well, what you are doing is wrong and completely stupid. I've already reported you, get a life."

[JoeWunsch]

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?

40%! That is a lot higher than I ever would have thought... I still kinda don't believe it.

My girlfriend is so out of touch with video games she calls my WoW dudes "my little men".

[OvvioDesu]

I get a TON of hate on Burning Blade Horde, but i made my guild <No Life> so when some asshole says that i have no life, i can say "Real Original Dipshit Did your mommy help ya with that one?"

[gbremset]

I'm only lvl 10 on my team, and had my first visit to stormwind yesterday, and it was actually surprisingly nice.. There was a horde raid just finishing at the gates (They don't really seem to get much closer than just inside the gates), and a lot of lvl 70 ish people in that area.. Most of them were throwing comments like "I can't wait till you hit 70" and "That looks SO awesome" when I was running around..
Just as I was doing Hogger, I got one flame from a guy who thought I was cheating, but his party instantly corrected him, and again, I got a crowd following me around, just watching what I was doing.. awesome.

[Stealthy]

In my entire time on Mag, I can count the numner if times I've been flamed on one hand. Most people have been positive in their comments, or are just curious as to why I do it. Quite a few have assumed I'm levelling them to sell them, but once I epxlain what I'm doing, they are pretty encouraging.

But then again Mag is mutliboxing central...so people are more used to it here.

Cheers,
Stealthy

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But then again Mag is mutliboxing central...so people are more used to it here.

Yeah, I've been surprised on Mag. I've just started leveling a 5x shaman team, and two people have already asked if I'm a part of Zerg. Level 11 and not a negative comment yet.. MUCH different than a few other servers I've tried it on.

[gbremset]

If they ever open up for transfers from PVE to PVP, even though I know they won't do it, I'm gonna transfer my team back to Xavius when I hit 70, just to cause an uproar. :P

[Tizer]

Since hitting 70 and buying some S2 Merciless gear for my shaman i've been able to turn around the win rate for the AV's i have joined by defending Galv and taking back towers. I always get a small fanclub of people who stick with me and if i notice one of them is a healer i'll dump them in my group. I would say i win 75% of AVs now, before that it was 30%ish i would imagine. So the attitude, although never particularly negative has become, "cool dude, nice shit" Im the only Shaman Quad boxer on Horde in my battlegroup so the fan club is building.

[tzibo]

I had my first run in with a negative comment yesterday. Up till that point most folks had just been curious or given a few /wave or lols.
This fella randomly whispers one of my Shaman with a "CHATER" (soon corrected to cheater).
When I asked why I was a cheater, he responded that I was using a Multibox to control 3 shaman rather than 1.
I replied that it wasn't cheating, and he should look on the forums and his ToS to see that it wasn't.
That got a 'Whateva' back and the expected 'Gunna report you'.

I was soon his ignore list (don't you just hate that when someone starts abusing you, then switches that on when they know they've lost?), however I guess he didn't realise that my Pala was leading them, as that was never mentioned nor whispered.

That however has given me more confidence to run round as a group in cities. Till then I'd either stuck to Exodar or split the peeps up when in SW/IF. However I left the ladies parked in the Shammy trainer in IF last night in formation, and that drew lots of giggles from the other Shammies visiting

[Ðeceased]

I tend to get a lot of positive feedback because I go out of my way to be friendly to everyone (except for the obvious asshats). I'm also planning on doing some hide and seek competitions on my server lvl 1 Rogue hides somewhere once a month or so and the first to find me wins an epic mount
I'd love to see someone go "Multiboxing is a terrible thing" if there's a chance they could win an epic mount :P

EDIT: btw is there an addon that kinda acts like an ignore list but is simply just a list of ppl with a description beside them. Secretly I would love to do the hide and seek thing and then if I'm found by one of the people who was rly offensive, just not react and congratulate the second to find me :P (I'm so petty :P )