Prejudice Against MultiBoxing

[Zseth]

First off, this is my first post to these forums so don't be too quick to judge what I have to say, just trying to see if anyone else is facing this.

I've been multi-boxing since I first started playing WoW over two years ago. Didn't think much of it, but didn't really do it seriously until a little while ago. These forums have been helpful in trying to figure out setup and ease of load. I'm still improving and will post my setup soon, but I'm waiting on my fifth monitor and mount lol. But anyway, here is the main crux of this thread, people who don't box hate those who do.

I don't know why people get so insanely pissed at someone who is playing the same game they are just with five chars at a time or more. My main chars, are all in a single end game raiding guild and people ask me why I have chars that are the same class, and how I have so many. I told them I leveled them all myself (which is true) and the fact that if you know how its easy. Well, I finally decided to let them know I multibox and the next thing I knew I was the butt of tons of jokes about having 5 boxes, and tons of other comments on how stupid it is and that it doesn't make sense. I'm just wondering, why do people have to get so jealous that it turns to hate? I mean, I'm jealous of Xzin, but you don't see me posting hate in the forums like "God, I hate you, you are stupid." No instead I see inspiration to do more and do better. The good thing is though, some of them have taken it in stride and I'm apprenticing two other people how to dual box which is great. Here is a little humor that someone posted, I think we can like it just as long as you take the time to laugh about it.

[Smeagoldfish]

I know. We had this huge fight on a norwegian board over some guy posting how he hates multiboxers and that they should be banned. Turned out to be a several pages long flamewar

[The IT Monkey]

My thoughts too. /ignore and if it gets too bad /report.

I'll spend any amount of time talking to someone in game who is interested in what I am doing, but the moment it becomes "you're a hacker" or "you're fat and gay" or anything other than genuine interest or good natured amusement they go on the ignore list.

I get a TON of positive response too.. but then I take the time to do a little Role Playing with the girls. I think we have a slight, I say SLIGHT, responsibility to entertain and explain. Seriously, even if Blizzard has given the "nod" to us, it hasn't been in any official way and if enough of their GM's times are taken up with complaints regarding us... well, cost+time vs. pissing off a very few multiboxers... do the math.

So I do what I can to do a little PR work for the community while in game.

[keyclone]

i agree with ITMonkey 100%... definitely the healthier, long-term attitude. (i can attest to the results of not being nice ... look to shadowbane and the nuclear bomb that went off amongst the carebears when i first pulled out keyclone.. wolfpack ended up changing the game to make its impact less)

wow shouldn't have this issue due to the sheer number of servers... and pvp / rp difference

[Texic]

I went into BG's at 18 with my 5 shaman team and I can tell you most of my team was fairly annoyed and made comments about it for whatever reason (I wasn't paying much attention). After I saved the day with my excessive flame shock spamming a few times they started to like it.

I've also talked to quite a few people who understand the concept of multi-boxing and they just want to know more about it or wish they could do it.
There will always be those that don't understand it and send stupid tells and I try to point them to this site to make them understand but other than that I tell them to report me and enjoy when I don't get banned.

[Gigatron]

/ignore

move along

I wish it was this easy, there is a limit on number of ignores. I reached limit long tome ago, so I have to remove to add new ones.

[Gigatron]

Turn off your chat window then.

ya, well not everyone is a jerk, I like talking to some people. :lol:

[MrLonghair]

I love the prejudice that we're all neckbeards living in some parents basement, feeding only on cheetos, when it turns out that so far, every single one who has presented themselves here, has been a socially capable and intelligent human being.

We have more time and money and ideas, dreams and goals than other people, that's for sure. I even dare say that we might have a bit more grey matter in use from all of this.

[mmcookies]

The one question that I most often hear in the discussions gone bad has a lot to do with paying for the 5 accounts. The stance is typically that only a "loser" would pay for 5 WoW subscriptions.

But the fact that a person is saying something like this reveals a great deal about himself, enabling us to assume that:

he might be a kid who hasn't paid for anything in his life
or
he might have a unsatisfying job and probably very limited income

Now I'm not saying the reverse is true, that all kids or people who don't have a lot of income behave like this, if you catch my drift.

My point is that these particular bad apples probably view WoW as the one domain of their life where they can "excel" in their own sense, without the usual constraints of money and power that they may lack in real life. Now when they meet someone with the resources to do 5-times what they're doing, and pwn the shit out of them, their reaction is expectedly straight-forward and simple.

If an individual truly fits with this description, I think that our attitude towards him shouldn't be one of animosity, but one of pity... more along the lines of "there there, I'm sure that... one day, you'll get a job good enough to know that $75/mo is pocket change"

[Before anyone takes this too seriously, I'd like to point out that this post is satirical]

[Picticon]

Ya, I love the "you have no life" comments from someone with an epic dragon mount and tier 4/5 items.

There are stupid people. That is a fact of life. Ignore them and move on. Do NOT get dragged down to their level of stupidity.