I was in WSG late last night and we got pwned as hell by several 5 DK's who were running around DG'ing spamming howling blast to oneshot us all. One guy was in control, multiboxing with a total of 5 DK's. This made it impossible for us to actually do anything at all in the WSG match so I got pissed and made a ticket to report this issue. I'm shocked to see that my answer is that Multiboxing is not against Terms of Use and therefore allowed. I mean.. Really? Is it okai to cheat like that?.... C'mon..
Ticket:
Issue:
Hello.
Wanted to inform you about multiboxing.
5 Death Knights mulitboxed in Warsong Gulch 13th January at 03:55-04:01.
"Main player" was <snip> from <snip> server.
Followers were:
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Got screenshot incase you want to see it.
These multiboxers made it impossible for us horde to win as they could just Death Grip us and spam Howling Blast x5.
Answer from GM:
Game Master (GM) Response:
Greetings Niax,
You are receiving this mail in response to the help petition which you submitted regarding the controlling of more characters by the same person.
Thank you for this report. We can assuare you that we will investigate this thoroughly. Please be aware that the definition of a non-controlled character is a player who is using a third party program to automate the actions of their character. The characters that you are describing, are most likely being played by a single person controlling several characters with one keyboard, which is also known as Multi Boxing. If this is done without any third party means, this is not against the Terms of Use.
If you have any questions regarding the terms of use, you will find them at http://wow-europe.com/en/legal
rest is goodbye stuff from the GM...
I mean, please dont say Multiboxing is allowed... Jesus
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Ahhh, this old chestnut. I do love the smell of forum debate in the morning.
Multi-boxing is almost a play style within itself, something that people enjoy challenging themselves with. But some victims of these mirror images sometimes become frustrated at their potentially inescapable nature. The thing is, you cannot see this as 1 person, you have to see this as 5 characters. Regardless of who is controlling them or how they are being controlled, it is still 5 characters. The same 5 characters you may meet at any time, in any place in the World of Warcraft. Maybe those 5 characters are being controlled by one person, or three people, or five people. It's still the same 5 characters with their same strengths and weaknesses, same spell combinations and talents. If you met 5 Death Knights in a Battleground on your own, I'm afraid that you won't last very long (unless you are one thousand three hundred and thirty seven). If you met 5 Death Knights in a Battleground with 4 other characters, then it's going to be an interesting fight! The emphasis is on the characters battling against these 5 to find a way to bring them down. The fact that they are allegedly being controlled by 1 single human being is irrelevant when playing in a game like this as they gain no advantage at all over other characters, if anything they are at a slight disadvantage. As one person mentioned in this thread already, if we took action on multi-boxers then we would have to take action on all coordinated groups of players because they have an unfair advantage over the smaller (perhaps uncoordinated) groups of players they meet in their travels. It's just not how this game works. I can see how this sort of behaviour would be unfair in other forms of gaming, but not here. Here it is fine for the time being. Now, I am happy to leave this thread open for now. There's been some pretty good discussion in here and everyone has managed to keep a civil tone. So, please feel free to debate some more between yourselves if you feel the need. But I have to warn you that these 'Marmite' threads often become quickly de-railed and so we will be keeping a very close eye on this thread. |
