Thoughts on Multiboxing (community discussion)

[Bleu213]

I'll be honest, I haven't read this entire thread. Also, I support multiboxing. The main question I have is what's the difference between five players that play right next to each other, (be it same class, same spells, or different) and one player that plays five characters?

The only answer I can come up with is that the one player is severely at a disadvantage. If I were to choose between multiboxing and joining/creating a team of five players for similar purposes, I'd go with the second option.

The only arguments I can reasonably think of are "it sucks getting attacked by five characters at once!" as well as "use of programs or tools to help facilitate your game are wrong!" Let me address them both.

I rarely find myself 1v1'ing at all, except in duels. Usually I'm around various other players. In bg's, it's typically group fights. Yeah, it sucks to get blown up so instantly by five players. Play a tree, life's no different with or without multiboxers. Know how many times I get focused on while in tree form? Lol.

Also, the use of programs like AutoHotKey and others are no different from addons, WoWhead, Thottbot, Talent Calculators, ElitistJerks, WoWJunkies and anything else internal or external. If it was automated with no user input, like a glider, that's one thing. This requires input, and is actually quite tough. If it gave an unfair advantage to all similar situations (ie 5v5 fights, the argument of 1v5 doesn't apply) that's another, which is why cheats, speedhacks, damage hacks, packet hacks, item hacks and what-not are disallowed. The thing is though, it's not either of these.

This is my opinion, and I'll stand my ground. :)

[Riski]

One of the big reasons is just that even in a real scenario where you are pitted against a large group of people, it's not as blatant that 5 people are all going for you be it that they are not the same class or just that they don't move together. The fact that someone dies to one person that's controlling 5 people just leaves a bad taste in people's mouths, it's largely psychological IMO.

[Bleu213]

One of the big reasons is just that even in a real scenario where you are pitted against a large group of people, it's not as blatant that 5 people are all going for you be it that they are not the same class or just that they don't move together. The fact that someone dies to one person that's controlling 5 people just leaves a bad taste in people's mouths, it's largely psychological IMO.

Yeah, I get that. The whole "one person got me, nothing I could do" part about it.

By the way, I just had a thought. Back in the day I saw some 40man multiboxing. Crazy, I know. Think about that in terms of a rogue. 40x shadowstep > Ambush. No big purpose behind it, just for the lulz. Imagine being hit by that, though. It'd be amazing! Likewise, 40x Consecrations in terms of pallies. 40 walking tanks, pools of armor and HP all dropping Consecration at the same time so anyone near them drops.

[Ist]

Most things has been said before, but I would also like to add my opinion. I've also reported multiboxing with a ticket a couple of times. I find it very unfair. And for me, it's like wintrading or honorfarming. F.e. I would like to get honor points on my shaman. What would I do? I would create 4 more shamans and multibox. I would get down every single player and become OP. Mostly every battleground would be won by me.

I am totally voting to make it illegal and I suggest to make a poll about it and finalyl solve this problem.

[Bleu213]

I would create 4 more shamans and multibox. I would get down every single player and become OP. Mostly every battleground would be won by me.

This is false. What would be the difference between you, five times, and five coordinated shaman that happen to stand near each other? The difference is that you would get murdered by any group of people. 3, 4 people would own 5 mutli-box shaman. 5 coordinated shaman players? Not so much. They could actually win things.

Five multi-boxed shaman would fair no better than five shaman in terms of PvP. You would have no increased chance of winning battlegrounds. Realistically speaking, you would actually be doing your faction a disservice.

Thus, your statement is invalid.

[Ist]

Actually I hardly believe in finding group of 4-5 different players coordinated so well to do instant combo... As a multiboxer, that's your 'main weapon'.

[Firstaidkit]

I've also reported multiboxing with a ticket a couple of times. I find it very unfair.

That's pointless.

I am totally voting to make it illegal and I suggest to make a poll about it and finalyl solve this problem.

That will be useless since all players who think that it is unfair won't even read this topic and just vote: Make multiboxing prohibited.

While actually it's not that hard to kill a multiboxer. Fear the multiboxing shaman's kill the leading shaman's with a group of people. Then the other shaman's aren't functional anymore since he needs to alt-tab between them. You can kill the rest one by one.

You only need like 3 or 4 people to achieve that.

Also multiboxing sucks in AB.

[Peekaboo]

Meh, even though I agree that multiboxers can be dealt with, and that they harm their own team more than they do any good. You just can't cast fear and be done with it...
Also no, you never beat him alone (and I just assume here we both know what defines "alone"). Stina is probably the most popular multiboxer here, and that guy knew how to cast Tremor totem since day one.

In a 5on1 it's all natural to die in 5 seconds. Even if it's just by getting acquainted with shocks...
But yeah, you still can screw him up big time, and I always loved doing that, by exploiting his affinity to spawn at once, but it's still no fun for those guys who get the pleasure by being chosen as the first target.
In the end, even if said guy already donated for his fun, it's just a nuisance for the majority of players, and that's actually an issue which should be dealt with, regardless how you can screw up a multiboxer's metagame.

[Erlim]

it just sucks

[darnel]

I simply do not understand why do you ALLOW such thing as multi boxing
as its been already said ... yes its allowed on retail, why ? bcuz user(customer) makes payments for multiple accounts and it takes some effort to gear up 5 characters instead of 1
but
multi boxing is forbidden on all instant 70/80/85 private servers , bcuz its just takes no effort to buy all the good gear from vendors for each character take all the chants from vendors back again , without spending shitload of gold to enchant every character for multi boxer n all the shitz
not to mention 10k chain lighting dmg n 8k shocks.........like srly
and what`s up with this thead man...its like 1 year old n no decision was taken , like if multiboxing is retarded shit that should be burned out of this server or multi boxing is fine and its not against rules and u noobs should stfu
srsly , server leader , can u be a goddamn man and make your decision already bout this shit ,yo
thank you my nigguh