Aaaaa, first of all please don't instantly crucify me. I'm not here to flame multiboxing to the ground, but instead to have a civilized discussion. So I would appreciate if people would not post things like "omg multiboxing is so stupid, why do GMs don't do anything", nor "you just got stomped by a multiboxer m8, suck it up lel".
Now that I got that out of my way;
I realize that Multiboxing is allowed here, or at least condoned, since it's kind of a grey zone. It's not exactly botting, since it depends on player input, yet at the same time you can argue that there's not an individual person behind each character.
Now as for my opinion on this whole concept;
I absolutely don't mind when people do that in PvE, as in dungeons or something. Sure, technically they have an "advantage" in that they have it "easier" to overcome stuff that solo players would struggle with. Sure, they can more reliably do dungeons (and RDF), but since it doesn't really hamper my progress (or at least not more than other people would if they were questing for example), I don't mind it in that regards.
Even in PvP I can tolerate it when there's a 5-man multiboxer in a BG, or heck even ganking world. It's not much different than getting ganked by 5 random people, and it can turn out pretty fun if other people join your quest in taking down the multiboxer.
But what does bother me a lot, is when people overdo it.
Again, idc about PvE.
But when there are people running 15 clients, I find it gets genuinely stupid. Some might argue that "multiboxer-bots are weaker than real players, because they can't react properly". I ask you; What reaction do you need, if you can just nuke one guy after another with a single button?
Don't simply think of it like: "Oh, anyone could just create a 15 man group and coordinate just as well, to focus down a single target." That's not how this works in reality. One guy who is 15 times stronger than a single person is more coordinated/"stronger" than 15 random/grouped people.
Take the typical example of Wintergrasp: Everyone knows how about 80% of the contestants just run around without focus; maybe joining a skirmish to get rank ups, maybe following the lemming train to whittle down the walls a bit.
Then you see that guy, with 14 guys inside each other. Needlessly to say, you'll stand no chance to fight this one-man-army alone. And the chance to coordinate a successful attack with your teammates is just as slim. Your only genuine hope, is that your team is either decent enough not to suicide into the multiboxer, and instead try to flank the other side - or that the multiboxer has absolutely no idea what he is doing, running into 12 catapults.
Raidchat in Wintergrasp is often filled with people complaining about "why is this allowed", "this is so unfair wtf", etc. But then again, people even complain when someone has better gear than them lol.
Don't even get me started when people do this ridiculous magnitude of multiboxing in world. You'll have me laughing for a while, if you're gonna try to tell me, that a 15-man boxer camping/farming/ganking questing zones, or spots like upper ICC entrance (to FoS, PoS, etc) "can be taken down if you know what you are doing".
Luckily I play a Rogue, so I can usually just stealth my way around those. But oh man, did I laugh my *** off when some hunter left the Sanctuary area of upper ICC and immediately got nuked.
tldr; (imo) medium multiboxing is fine - massive multiboxing is nono
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I know that the rules are not up for debate, and I'm not requesting a change. That's not my job.
I want to have a civilized Discussion here, not a roast thread, nor a flame war. Keep your posts relevant please.
And by all means, if this thread seems inappropriate or something, or if it's deemed too hot of a topic for discussion, tell me and take appropriate action.
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Edit: Just as reference, I'm talking about stuff like
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