So that people who are playing with their friends/family and need a bathroom break arenât get left behind. Sure it can be abused by multi-boxers but thereâs nothing WRONG with the command in and of itself.
There are so many instances where the /follow command can be useful. Especially to not fall behind in raid/dungeons group when you have to go momentarily AFK.
I always put my friend on follow on a long flight and just get up for a quick break. Itâs useful when something comes up in irl and I need to keep up with a group.
I think only members of a family can share? Not sure though.
Afaik it has a lot to do with the security of the account and yes, money too.
There is some rare in madraxxus where people need to collect some stuff to summon it, and leader said âIf I see someone afk I kickâ so I literally put /follow on random dude there
The reason for that is Blizzard donât want to be dealing with situations like:
âmy brother deleted my characterâs gear, bring it back!â
âmy sister changed the password and email on our account and I canât log in anymore.â
âmy ex traded all my gold to another account as revenge, I want it backâ
It costs Blizzard time and money to deal with this sort of thing, and honestly no one wants to deal with family or friends bickering about who really owns the account. Itâs just easier for everyone if each account has one owner.
I do not think so. I compared two things that have mostly legitimate use and someone calls for a ban because some people can abuse them.
I just happen to dislike the notion of âwe cant have nice stuffâ because of a minority of bad apples. People should just go after the bad apples instead.
Bad apples are also the reason we cannot talk cross faction without a potion
Perhaps I just suck at getting my point across over written text
Youâre comparing something that has 99% beneficial uses to something that has 99% negative uses. Itâs more like⊠I can use an attack chopper to get rid of weeds in my garden so should attack choppers be legal for everyone to own?
Where did you get your stats that the overwhelming majority of the use of follow is by multiboxers? Perhaps this is just the times that people notice it more often as their eyes are drawn to that konga line of people with similar names.
Well, it is true that removing /follow from PvP content did get rid of all the multiboxers. However, overall it would hurt more ânormalâ players than you would hit MBers
I still get sad that /following someone in a BG would give me more time to type a message to the team or to observe the surroundings. I know I cans till autowalk but most routes are not a straight line
There are already tons of multiboxers or whatever u wanna call them , in bastion iâve seen the flock of druids near the purityâs pinnacle (zone is good for solenium farming ) . In ardenweald again a flock of 12 druids picked up plants in 2 second .
Make only 1 copy of wow to run on your computer = done with every multiboxers in the game .
Well in you example, a normal player would use the follow command once in a raid to go afk. So maybe once or twice a week (and thatâs only the ones who actually use it, probably a minority). A multiboxer would be using that command constantly, all day, on any number of accountsâŠ
I think we should count in individual players instead of the number of uses. Otherwise I can argue back that a the psycho stabbing people with a pencil, uses the pencil more often than an average person uses a pencil to write, especially in the digital era.
I for example only use pencils rarely and almost exclusively for the first draft of my lab results irl before I write over them with a pen when I am sure I wont need to correct anything. I still would be quite cross if pencils became illegal.
I am quite in support with getting rid of multiboxers. But to do it with precision drone strikes instead of nukes
