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What can we do about multiboxing?
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Caperon
Wow, loads of multiboxing-love here.
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Caperon
Wow, loads of fat panda love here.
Euh where?
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Post by
hymer
Sure it is lame when multiboxer jumps on you, as it is lame when a party of 5 jumps on you. Nothing to it, that's world pvp. It's always better for your victory to have more men than your opponent.
It's not entirely the same. The multiboxer has paid his way to an I-Win button. Blizz used to state that the reason they wouldn't sell WoW-gold for real life currency was that your real life money shouldn't be able to buy your way to an in-game advantage. I think that's a nice maxim. I also think they're violating it.
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Porcell
It's not entirely the same. The multiboxer has paid his way to an I-Win button. Blizz used to state that the reason they wouldn't sell WoW-gold for real life currency was that your real life money shouldn't be able to buy your way to an in-game advantage. I think that's a nice maxim. I also think they're violating it.
It's an I-Win button when it's 5 on 1. Big surprise. It's a liability when it's 5 on 5 and the multiboxer can't split his focus between five targets. They are a one trick pony; queue up 5 big hitting spells to land all at once and hopefully oneshot someone. That's it. Otherwise in -real- PvP (you know, where you are in a group), you can trounce a multiboxer.
Stop running around by yourself in a BG. It's bad form, regardless of a multiboxer being around or not.
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Post by
Magai
Have you ever tried to multi-box WoW? Unless you are playing 5 of the same the class, it is very hard to coordinate skills and timing between different classes.
The multi-boxer has not paid for a i-win button, he/she has paid to play the game that he/she has chosen in the manner that he/she wants, within the guidelines set forth by Blizzard. There is no advantage, as anyone with enough time to learn how to do it can do it themselves. That is why Blizzard won't do away with multi-boxing.
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Post by
hymer
It's an I-Win button when it's 5 on 1.
It isn't 5 on 1. It's one on one. I've been camped by three 80s while leveling in Wrath, and I found that to be an interesting challenge. My mission was to waste their time.
Even camped by a single max-level makes you think "Well, I'll just get to 85 myself and this won't happen." Trounced by others in arena or BGs because they're better and/or better equipped? Well, I'll work on it, and I'll be as good as they are some day. Or I'll start a new character of a class that counters that guy.
But the only way to feel on even terms, player to player, with a multiboxer is to fork over the money to the computer store and Blizz.
I'm not saying there's nothing you can do about multiboxers, and I'm not saying it's a huge deal. But it
is
a situation that is out of balance because someone paid money to get an advantage.
Post by
Murrdurr
Wow are we really crying about multiboxers here? Some people really do cry about anything.
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Post by
Erethzium
Wow are we really crying about multiboxers here? Some people really do cry about anything.
It's been a fact for years:
No matter what Blizzard does, people will QQ about it, or say they're unsubbing and keep playing anyways, etc. etc. Yes, people WILL cry about anything, even if it doesn't directly affect them.
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Post by
pezz
As I have seen other gamers post on WoW forums, multiboxers take gametime away from other players. Multiboxers like to farm honor points in BGs, so when a multiboxer with 5 toons enters a BG, that leaves 4 other players (
who also pay blizzard just as much money per toon
) sitting in the queue.
The emboldened part of your statement makes your entire argument pointless. They pay
as much
. They don't pay more. Their position in the queue is therefore of as much importance as the multiboxer. Whether the multiboxer gets in before or after them is irrelevant. The multiboxer is no different to a group of five players queueing for a BG.
Aside from the points Sinespe made, the argument doesn't even make sense. Presumably, there is not only one guy multiboxing in the entire server group. There's probably a couple people multiboxing on both sides. That means an extra BG server will open up to accommodate the additional people, and no one not multi-boxing suffers longer queue times.
On topic: I'd rather face one guy multiboxing five toons than two people each playing one. All you do is CC a little bit and the ridiculously high requirements for synchronization of multiboxed toons falls apart.
Literally I've seen WSG matches where four toons were just standing there because people messed with the guy multiboxing. You wanna guess which side won?
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Post by
hymer
You can trounce a multi-boxer with one toon, anyway. Just let a couple of people go first so they take the brunt of the damage, then walk right up to the group of 5 and Psychic Scream (Unglyphed) their faces off. All of a sudden you have five toons with no autonomy at all.
That's not taking him down, and it's not doing it solo. Anyway, this may work on the second (or more, depending on what's being multiboxed) scream on a good multiboxer. Anyway, you'll be dead one cast later, and he'll spend two to ten seconds arranging his guys. Again, assuming he's good. Or has a bit of automation, like auto-trinket on AoE fear.
It is five sets of abilities against one set of abilities. Regardless of how many people are behind the toons, it is still five toons.
Nobody's arguing the reality. But the argument was never "It's unfair for five characters to be able to kill one so easily" (well, I can't speak for the OP). It is "It's unfair for one guy to be able to win consistently against any one guy he comes across, and the other guy can't do anything about it."
Again, not an enormous issue at all, but not completely negligible either. This is the only instance I can think of, when you can legally buy your way to personal power in WoW.
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