Multiboxers are indeed getting out of hand. Completely deplete zones of farmable materials wasn’t enough, now they’re back to destroying battlegrounds aswell. Forced to leave the two Ashran’s thank to this one. No point in attacking him, everyone gets deleted in 2 seconds when they get focussed by 1 person doing multiple attacks at the same moment.
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Blizzard needs to adress the multi-boxing problem, because it is a problem.
Its detrimental to the game, to all the players that dont use it.
I dont know if a full ban or some kind of restriction but something needs to be done.
Things will get worse and people will complain more and more with good reason.
From that point of view, the advantage of the multiboxer is “deserved” though, he took the time, money and effort to setup it, which is definitely not trivial.
So no, you cannot compete against him alone, but neither you have invested the same to be able to compete on the same level in the first place.
Everybody is competition. Even your own allies within your own raid are competition. You have to beat them on the dps meter. Just because. Also you’re an alliance, so you are my enemy. But competition doesn’t have to be against enemies. However, all multiboxers make themselves enemies to everyone through their own actions that subvert fair competition.
Boo-hoo.
Paying for 4 extra subs isn’t much different to paying for one, I remember when wow came out I thought everyone was stupid to pay a subscription to play a game, but since then I’ve grown up a little bit and earn way more money than I did back then so 4 extra subs is cheaper than a night out.
Doesn’t mean it’s ok to be horrible to people, I’m not pointing fingers at you specifically, just the general horrible way that people behave hiding behind their computers.
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Oh, yeah, mate. Totally. If Blizz was selling 50% stackable damage boosts for $15 a month, I might shell out $60. I have more money than I know what to do with. Money isn’t the problem. The fact that you are paying for extra power that is inaccessible to players who don’t pay is the problem.
Nothing I’m saying is horrible. WoW is a pay2win game and it’s up to Blizz to ban the pay2win aspect. This thread is evidence of that. You have one player paying enough money to dominate an entire raid of players. That’s the definition of pay2win. There’s zero difference between Blizz allowing multiboxing and Blizz directly selling stackable damage boosts for $15/month.
There’s no excuse or reason to keep multiboxing alive. One player, one character. That’s it.
I am not a multiboxer.
Multiboxing is cheating.
Anything that gives you more rewards than others for doing exactly the same thing, is cheating. 1 gather should give you 3~6 items. When you have 10 characters because you’re multiboxing, you get 30-60 for doing the same action as the other person.
That’s literally the definition of cheating, you have an unfair advantage. When I press 1 button, I don’t get 30~60 items, I only get 3~6.
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Why is it a problem? They can pay if they want or ask people to group with them if they don’t want to pay, the outcome is the same with regards to damage output, in fact, they have an advantage over a multiboxer because the damage that 2 people can do will always be higher than what 1 person can do, because 1 person can only do one thing at a time, so 2 people doing 2 things are able to do better than 1 person doing 2 things. Why not spend some of that money you have buying wow for friends and family and paying for their subscriptions, then you can group up and be powerful.
I have not accused you of saying horrible things, in my earlier post I was trying to make clear my many motivations for multiboxing. WoW is pay to play. So you are already paying to win from the get go. Regardless of that, multiboxing is not like buying a stackable damage boost, it’s not that easy, you have to set everything and then you have to control multiple characters, these things take a lot of effort, it’s not a buff, it’s lengthy task that will often give no immediate reward. So with regards to the player that is beating you in battlegrounds, I direct you to read the following:
I can agree with these statement from first hand experience of multiboxing. Multiboxing is not a “Win” button. It’s hard, expensive, thankless. You will be a target for criticism and derision.
The reason to keep multiboxing alive is because it allows players to control multiple characters at the same time. Whether that is something that should be allowed or not doesn’t seem to be clear cut and can depend on many things. Someone people get bad experiences from it and want it to be banned because of that. Others don’t know it exists. Others do it and don’t want it to be banned, and have various reasons for not wanting it to be banned.
I would like to direct you to this thread about a game that according to the original post, has banned multiboxing
according to this you are not allowed to multibox in elder scrolls online. it’s against the rules of the game. so I imagine that if the same thing were to happen in world of warcraft there would be fewer multiboxers and things would be better for people that don’t like multiboxing or the things that multiboxers can do.
The game gives a benefit to groups of players, how is that fair to the single player, it’s just as unfair as allowing multiboxing.
The multiboxer does not get more rewards than others for doing exactly the same thing, they do x times the number of characters they have more than a single player. Also don’t forget that if a player with 10 characters gets 30 to 60 items, they need to divide that by 10. Its true that they do have an advantage though, they can trade between characters and make one of them very powerful. So you say, they are paying to win, what exactly are they winning? More items for their 10 characters?
The way I see it, someone with 10 characters is the same as 1 person that convinces 9 others to help them. Except it’s more difficult to control 10 characters than to control 1 and it’s more expensive.
I’ve met this guy before. He ruined/owned the Southshore v Tauren Mill brawl. Lagging out the whole server for everyone apart from themselves and winning 150-0. This is disruptive game play and shouldn’t be allowed (multi-box or not)
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you try finding 9 people that will spend 1 hour gathering and giving all consumables they gathered to you.
On top of that, it’s the effort that matters. They get 10x the reward for the same effort as I put in, that’s the problem. I don’t care if it’s 10 characters, I care that it’s 1 player. If you had 10 players with 10 characters, you still have 10 players putting effort into it, clicking the node etc, that’s not the case with multiboxers.
I agree, multiboxers have the ability to gather much more than non multiboxers. So as a player they get to decide what happens to the resources that they gather and can use it to craft things or sell it.
I was thinking of the situation with combat, it’s questionable that there so much of an advantage to that.
Something should be done about this, at the very least prevent them from lagging out the server.
How can they even lag the server for others and not themselves?
Furthermore, those participating in these large-scale events don’t typically have the goal of disrupting the server, they want to participate in the event and the game is not able to deliver that. It’s not their fault for that, it’s Blizzard’s.
Blizzard should improve the game to be able to scale to a higher number of players if they want large-scale events to work properly.
You definitely can if you pay their subscription, which is basically what a multiboxer does…
It was talked about at the time, we were stuck unable to cast spells, he/she could move and kill with impunity and did so winning 150-0 or there abouts. The player OP posted is the same one.
I’d just go afk and accept a ban for doing it if I saw this happening. Blizzard: think of your customers. People will eventually leave. You will then be left with ‘world of multiboxcraft’.
If you have a link I would be interested: what you describe goes against how I understand it should technically work.
Nobody in their right mind pays for 10~40 subscriptions. They use multiboxing to sell herbs or loot, and then buy WoW tokens. Technically speaking others are paying for their playtime.
Like an epic BG with a ton of DKs and Shamans? Yes, it ruins people’s time.
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That was probably stacking DK’s heartstop aura.
How the subscription is paid is irrelevant as long as it’s ultimately paid, be it with gold or money.