Just remove /follow

I am a normal player for years, and maybe i used that command 4 or 5 times in 10+ years. Why it is in the game?

Dear Blizzard, you said us you will do something about multiboxing to sell shadowlands more and you fooled us.

We all know those farming robots are rmt pigeons. But you did nothing about them as always. So they continue to make farming unbearable for all of us.

So just remove /follow command from the game. It is the main automation you allow. And normal players use it very very very rarely.

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So that people who are playing with their friends/family and need a bathroom break aren’t get left behind. Sure it can be abused by multi-boxers but there’s nothing WRONG with the command in and of itself.

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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.

Jeez, Another multiboxer thread. grabs popcorn

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I still find it funny, that two people can’t share one account, but one person can control 30 accounts :slight_smile:

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Seems like a minor QoL where the negatives greatly outweigh the benefits.

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What? No.

I always put my friend on follow on a long flight and just get up for a quick break. It’s 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.

Bathroom breaks, dungeon follows etc are so weak arguments dudes. After 2 weeks all people begin to m+s anyways. So you follow in m+s?

And for raids, i am sure raid leaders/guilds will be happy for its removal.

It is an automation which Blizzard serves. You become a bot with 1 in-game command.

There is some rare in madraxxus where people need to collect some stuff to summon it, and leader said “If I see someone afk I kick” so I literally put /follow on random dude there :laughing:

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Pencils can also be used to stab someone even though most people use them for writing. Should pencils be banned?

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The reason for that is Blizzard don’t want to be dealing with situations like:

“my brother deleted my character’s gear, bring it back!”
“my sister changed the password and email on our account and I can’t log in anymore.”
“my ex traded all my gold to another account as revenge, I want it back”

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. It’s just easier for everyone if each account has one owner.

Bit of a weird leap in logic.

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 “we cant have nice stuff” 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

You’re comparing something that has 99% beneficial uses to something that has 99% negative uses. It’s 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 ‘normal’ 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 i’ve seen the flock of druids near the purity’s 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 .

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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 that’s only the ones who actually use it, probably a minority). A multiboxer would be using that command constantly, all day, on any number of accounts


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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