Worried about getting banned? As long you don’t break any actual rules, neh.
Worried about being hated by virtually everyone you come across? Yep. Most certainly.
I think multiboxing SHOULD be an ban-able offense, but alas, Blizzard makes extra money so they don’t seem to care no matter how much it’s basically cheating.
Multiboxing with keybinds will always be allowed. Botting is bannable.
I’d say to be honest that it is really only a handful of cranks that have any problem with multiboxing. But flame away hiding behind your low level alt.
I have never heard anyone except on this forum complaining about multiboxing. And in general it tends to be lower skilled players who are unable to handle one toon let alone five or more.
I don’t think complaints are limited to the forums, most complaints I hear are more about the mass herbers than the boxers who go around one shotting people.
Pretty much every player I’ve ever encountered in the game, every guild member, every battleground player witnessing it for the best part of 10 years and anyone I know in person that plays WoW either now or in the past has nothing but contempt for multiboxers. As I type, there are three other account holders in the same house who feel exactly the same way so either you’re just refusing to admit no one likes multiboxers or you’re in a very narrow gaming circle.
I have recently seen one multiboxer with 5 druids in warfront.
That person was probably the only one who actually put an effort there and played obj. ![:smile:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smile.png?v=6" ":smile:")
Any higher level players I know don’t seem to have a problem with multiboxing, I only ever see those at lower levels of progression complaining.
Mass herbing only has blizzard to blame, and there are people forming mass herbing groups as well. Also this is only a good thing as brings down herb prices.
Complete nonsense. It’s quite hilarious that anyone would equate progression of some specific content with relevance of opinion. I assume you mean raiding by ‘higher level’ rather than character level given most of mine are 120.
Yes and it isn’t directed at you personally. I do however find it is the unable to do this that and the other thing crowd who are also unable to multibox themselves that complain. Just look at the accounts of most of the complainers on this thread.
I have to say I don’t find there is a type when it comes to those who find multiboxing fair or not fair.
Well in terms of “unable to do this” etc, anyone can pay for multiple accounts if they have the means to do so. I’ve over 40 chars on this account but yet to feel the need to create another account. Those doing so, create them for the sole purpose of carrying out an activity that presents itself as a form of cheating. There’s no getting away from that no matter what reasoning is dreamt up or banging on about how the rules allow it. The very nature of the behaviour and the purpose of it amounts to cheating. That’s how it appears to me, and in my personal experience to the vast majority of other players I’ve encountered.
Its well known for being nasty towards others ignore it .
Eve Online stands gloriously as example as to how multiboxing damages the economy of a videogame and punishes new players and single-account players alike.
Herb-prices being reduced due to multiboxing-efficiency, reduces the reward others get out of their time when they’re farming with only one account.
It also ofc. burns a ton of tokens, which a potential player could have used.
Prices of “tokens” in Eve Online are inflated since their invention due to this, with some players buying tokens for up to 20-30 accounts in order to mine with them all day, ruining the prices for ores - rendering mining for a single new player or individual almost entirely pointless.
Multiboxxing is inherently a bad thing, but whether that’s something people can live with is up to Blizz and the players of WoW.
Only if you have to buy tokens with gold to play. To be quite honest I think it is a mistake by blizzard to allow any form of free to play. A community made up of people who actually pay money would be far more valuable to the game.
You had a big mouth earlier in this thread, why are you dodging valid gameplay-issues caused in the economy of a videogame by multiboxxers now?
The prices of items are a concern to the entire game.
Multiboxxers drive the farmvalue/h per account closer to 0, reducing the value a “normal user” can generate out of his playtime.
That expensive mount player X wants, suddenly becomes a lot further out as multiboxxer XYZ farms with 5 accounts away at the herbs and dumps all his gold into tokens and other moneysinks.
The problem with the wow economy isn’t multiboxers and cheap herbs. It is the mountains of gold made by players whit armys of alts during WOD and Legion, and the zero gold to be made in BFA by either people coming back or new accounts.
I’m not blaming multiboxxers for the entire state of the WoW economy, but merely pointing out that pretending multiboxxing had no negative effects on the game would be more than a stretch and could easily end up in the terrible state of Eve Online.
Herb farming groups have just as negative effect on herb prices and I’d wager there are far more of them than multiboxers.
If anything the multi spwan herb is the problem for single player farmers.
However the real gold issue is the lack of it to be made in BFA from any play source. The only way you can make gold is selling boost runs in M+.