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No advantage multiboxing? Then why do you do it? Too much money so you need to pay for 2 accounts to get rid of some?

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Ever heard of fun and challenging? :p

Although I realise it is legal, I don't think it should be alowed.
A person with 2 accounts and playing 2 chars with one keyboard has a definite advantage over the other players. This can seriously harm the experience other unique players have.

I faced a pyro mage with it's clone on the battlegroup Bloodlust, no need to say that everyone who encountered him died with the press of one button.
You would think this is an isolated case, guess again. After that I ran into the same thing, but then with two shamans, two warriors. .... it's becoming common to see multiboxing. And unique players are feeling the heat of it.

Of course, we all know, a person willing to pay an account key twice, leveling his chars twice. and reloading his subscription twice every month can't have much of a life. So these guys lose out anyway. But I don't care about their social stability, when it comes to WoW, I care about my play experience and it feels a lot like cheating the game.

Don't think Chinese farmers use other tricks to level a lot of mains , so they can sell it....maybe then Blizzard will wake up and not think about the extra revenue, but about the gameplay? The game shouldn't be about who has the most money, but about who has the most fun and skill.

Either way you put it, you can only have a good time these days in PvP if you wintrade, multibox, leech, or play imba classes or the one and only arena team set up.... and it's starting to woo me away from WoW to other experiences that haven't been infected by these 'dirty tricks' yet.

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This is correct. It is currently considered a legitimate means of playing multiple accounts.

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Well, in protest I have cancelled both my accounts. I know of 4 others who have left the game for the same reason. If this has happened in my smallish circle of friends then i think Blizzard have a big problem on their hands.

Of course multiboxers deny that they get any advantage, but we know they do, the advantages of having a clone group who can instantly follow their directions especially in world pvp is ludicrous to see. Been lots of good posts written regarding why so many dislike multiboxing in PvP. I have cancelled as a point of principal on this and will not return to the game while blizzard allow it.

In the meantime i go to new pastures, farewell to all my friends my accounts expire in 3 days so i see you all in game before i go.

I dual boxed feral druid plus frost mage, alt tabbing two clients and pressing buttons on one class while the other was busy casting.

GREAT fun.

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i was in arith basin today and had the misfortune to run up against a shaman that was multi boxing with a key cloner he had two identical shamans walking side by side doing identical things and they destroyed me lol all the time

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So your single toon went up against three toons and got "destroyed". Did you get two other people to assist you so that it was three toons against three?

I'm sure you would have done much, much better ...

Heh.. Never seen anyone running around with 2 identical characters..

Personally I don't care %%#% about PvP, and to do group stuff in PvE you have to have characters fitting different roles, and I see no way you can fit different rolls, playing them at the same time, and still do a good job..

I think it should be legal, in the sense of one person being logged in at the same time with two characters. Making them clones so they automatically do all the same stuff sounds like an exploit though. Though not one I care much about.

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In all honesty it is a form of cheating, sure a multibox team will never reach the highest ratings but its the principal people are more anoyed at.

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The problem with people who do not like multiboxing is that their arguments are not coherent or consistent. For example the above sentence against multiboxing starts by saying multiboxing is a cheat but accepts that multiboxing is clearly not a good cheat because you can never reach the highest ratings and from this concludes that multiboxing is against some peoples' principals.

I work hard and long hours for a living and therefore do not have the time to raid. I therefore enjoy WoW by subscribing for and playing more than one account. There is nothing wrong with subscribing for or playing more than one account.

people quit WoW for all sorts of reasons, multiboxing is as good a reason as any. Its an emo topic just look at number of threads + views + replies on any boxing thread. if enough people leave then they will do something about it, i dont like it and many others don't. If they don't they just give more subscribers to other games, they have a loyal base but loyalty only goes so far, if people feel they are constantly ignored they just go do something else.

As blizzard are a business they have to listen to their customers, but if my logic is right say you have 1000 who start multiboxing with average of 3 accounts that means 3000 people could leave and they have same revenue, so i personally think they will never change their mind. I know they say money isn't part of their reasoning but i take that with a rather large pich of salt.

maybe its just me but many more seem to be doing it lately, only time will tell what impact this will have on the game.

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whatever is profit for Blizzard, is allowed by Blizzard, if not encouraged

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Blizzard have proven on numerous occasions that profits are less important to them than the integrity of their game.

Think back to the big purges of botters and gold farmers that Blizzard carried out a few times over the last couple of years. On each occasion they closed thousands of accounts, losing tens of thousands of euros/dollars/pounds of subscription income, yet they still did it.

I think this is pretty strong evidence that Blizzard allows multi-boxing because they genuinely consider it non-harmful to the game and a legitimate way of playing. They wouldn't hesitate to ban it and suspend a few hundred accounts if they genuinely thought it was harmful.

So, could the haters kindly stop spouting this tired, bitter and ultimately invalid argument over and over?


PS. Any while I'm at it, I'll tell you why I multibox. For the challenge. That's all. I've solo-levelled five seperate characters to max level over the last three years, so for me multiboxing is a way to rekindle my enjoyment of the lower-level game. I'm just 5-boxing my way through the PvE content, which in no way diminishes anyone elses game experience.

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i was in arith basin today and had the misfortune to run up against a shaman that was multi boxing with a key cloner he had two identical shamans walking side by side doing identical things and they destroyed me lol all the time

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1) Where was the rest of your team?
2) Would it have made any difference if the three shamans you tried to solo were controlled by different people?

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Well, in protest I have cancelled both my accounts. I know of 4 others who have left the game for the same reason. If this has happened in my smallish circle of friends then i think Blizzard have a big problem on their hands.

Of course multiboxers deny that they get any advantage, but we know they do, the advantages of having a clone group who can instantly follow their directions especially in world pvp is ludicrous to see. Been lots of good posts written regarding why so many dislike multiboxing in PvP. I have cancelled as a point of principal on this and will not return to the game while blizzard allow it.

In the meantime i go to new pastures, farewell to all my friends my accounts expire in 3 days so i see you all in game before i go.

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You and your four friends won't be missed. Btw. you can't play any other mmorpg since each of them allow multiboxing. Have fun playing single player games!

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Well, in protest I have cancelled both my accounts. I know of 4 others who have left the game for the same reason. If this has happened in my smallish circle of friends then i think Blizzard have a big problem on their hands.

Of course multiboxers deny that they get any advantage, but we know they do, the advantages of having a clone group who can instantly follow their directions especially in world pvp is ludicrous to see. Been lots of good posts written regarding why so many dislike multiboxing in PvP. I have cancelled as a point of principal on this and will not return to the game while blizzard allow it.

In the meantime i go to new pastures, farewell to all my friends my accounts expire in 3 days so i see you all in game before i go.

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Leave wow, get a job and then come back and start multiboxing by yourself.
And multiboxing requires much more skill to control characters than your class.
I tried dual-boxing once and it was not so easy as i seen in movies.

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Well, in protest I have cancelled both my accounts. I know of 4 others who have left the game for the same reason. If this has happened in my smallish circle of friends then i think Blizzard have a big problem on their hands.

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I just bought four accounts and four 60 day timecards so I guess Blizzard are up on the day.

If anyone out there would actually like to try multi-boxing and learn about the advantages and disadvantages it brings, head over to http://www.dual-boxing.com

You can multi-box on trial accounts for free up to level 20 and the software you need ranges from free to cheap as chips. You can run multiple copies of WoW on one machine. I have a PC that cost £250 that quite happily runs two copies with everything turned up to maximum quality. A five man team is quite doable on one machine.

Multi-boxing is fun. It's a challenge and a new way to experience the game. You'll spend a lot of time writing macros but you'll get a tremendous sense of achievement from it. Multi-boxing isn't all ganking lowbies in 1000 Needles; soloing an instance at the appropriate level is much more rewarding.

Leaving wow out of protest to try and stop multiboxing?

I'm sorry, but that just makes me chuckle. If you live by standards such as this in real life... Well, just think about it. Such hipocrasy will not be missed, have a nice life.

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Well, in protest I have cancelled both my accounts. I know of 4 others who have left the game for the same reason. If this has happened in my smallish circle of friends then i think Blizzard have a big problem on their hands.

Of course multiboxers deny that they get any advantage, but we know they do, the advantages of having a clone group who can instantly follow their directions especially in world pvp is ludicrous to see. Been lots of good posts written regarding why so many dislike multiboxing in PvP. I have cancelled as a point of principal on this and will not return to the game while blizzard allow it.

In the meantime i go to new pastures, farewell to all my friends my accounts expire in 3 days so i see you all in game before i go.

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You had two accounts? EXPLOITER!

Seriously though, nobody cares.

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I personally think multiboxing goes against the RPG part of MMORPG as you can't really roleplay 5 characters at once. However, since it doesn't go against Blizzard rules, I guess it's here to stay and it's not something I'd stop playing over.

I don't see how multiboxing could be seen as good for the game in general though. It may be fun for those that actually do it, but that's not the same as it being good for the whole game. It doesn't add any fun for those that don't multibox, and it clearly does add some irritation with players who don't multibox, judging by the posts that keep popping up on this forum. In the end it's up to Blizzard to decide whether the increased enjoyment of the multiboxers outweighs the irritation for some of the people who are against multiboxing, and so far the multiboxers win.

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I roleplay four characters at once and do fine with it. Why wouldn't it be possible? Altho lately I've been focusing on PvP and PvE aspects of the game as well, I take heart to RP a lot. And saying that it's not possible to roleplay more then one character isn't only laughable, it's false as well.

I do fine, many people who rp'd with me would say so as well. In fact, it's a LOT of fun to roleplay more then one character.

Please take your reasons elsewhere. Or think twice before you post. :/

~ Roleplaying multiboxer.