I'm just the messenger here eh, so ya know... BUT - I guess I did open this can o' worms so I should clarify that message is this: There are estimates of hundreds (maybe thousands) of hardcore Multi-boxers in WoW. - these are just wild guesses thrown around by others. Could be total bs, I have no idea. Those players are looking into other games -en mass- after the soft-kill nerf bat hit a bit harder the other day. /follow-gate if you will. I have heard that SWTOR is one of the popular MMO options these hardcore multi-boxers are looking at. And so I posted here.

What a rush to read! I feel like the Paul Revere of MMOs

"Just speculation on my part mind you...... but in checking your post history.... you have 5 posts.... all in this thread. Are you by any chance the quy in question.... and are putting your toes into the water in this forum to see if player feedback supports multi-boxing or to glean info on if it will even work well or not? Or maybe trying to create buzz about it in other game forums? Not picking on you.... I am genuinely curious. " I am a new SWTOR subscription player, but oldschool wow junkie. I wouldn't even have posted here if the multi-boxer above didn't come right out and say what they said. I'm just putting the pieces together like everyone else eh.

Chicken little this people: http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/blizzard-removes-follow-command-from-wow-battlegrounds/ The sky looks dark... the dark side of real-life it is.

Yeap, there is a ****-storm of on the WoW forums over this. And the Multi-boxers seem to be setting their sights on other games. Yuck.

OK, I moved this to General Chat, ty.

Heads up! The /follow removal from WoW bgs has opened up a can of worms that's headed this direction. Here's a quote from some Multi-boxer on WoW named HonerKiller. Better remove /follow from SWTOR asap or there will be fire-storm of gamer-rage brewing.! The name of this post is: 40 boxer to leave WoW and go play SWTOR "You heard it here first. 40 accounts times $14.99 per month is $599.60 that Blizzard entertainment has been getting for the last 6 years. With the recent change made concerning the removal of /follow in battlegrounds, this leaves me no choice but to look at other games which support my style of game play. Given that phasing was implemented which added much more lag to world player versus player combat and many times lead to a server crash, this recent change makes it even more difficult to continue playing this game using this style of game play. Is the game designed for this style of game play? Yes, because the game mechanics, rules and functions within the game allow it. Players don't determine what is cheating or not, that's up to the game manufacturer set forth in the Terms of Use and End User License Agreement. Everyone has choices within the free world and free market. When features are removed from a game that has been there for over eight years, players can choose to leave to go play something else. That's the result of removing features and functionality to a game that had many players enjoying the game for what it was and had been prior to the change. Many have voiced their concerns over this recent change and there are some that seem to think that there is a small number of players that will actually leave the game as a result of the change in removing /follow from battlegrounds. Without this feature, the multiboxer will not be able to progress like the rest of the players in terms of Player versus Player (PvP) gear because the best PvP gear is rewarded in this manner. If there is another way to reward the best PvP gear without doing battlegrounds or arena while maintaining /follow, the multiboxer can continue to progress and enjoy the game as all others of the game would be. This suggests that multiboxers won't be playing battlegrounds or arena but if there were some other method to reward the best gear that currently is from doing rated battlegrounds and arena with conquest points, it would allow the multiboxer to continue progressing. Just a suggestion. Maybe some special world pvp event or something that allows rewards in an equivalent fashion that battlegrounds and arena offer." End quote. EDIT: Posted this in the wrong place... General Discussion it is now.

Heads up! The /follow removal from WoW bgs has opened up a can of worms that's headed this direction. Here's a quote from some Multi-boxer on WoW named HonerKiller. Better remove /follow from SWTOR asap or there will be fire-storm of gamer-rage brewing.! The name of this post is: 40 boxer to leave WoW and go play SWTOR "You heard it here first. 40 accounts times $14.99 per month is $599.60 that Blizzard entertainment has been getting for the last 6 years. With the recent change made concerning the removal of /follow in battlegrounds, this leaves me no choice but to look at other games which support my style of game play. Given that phasing was implemented which added much more lag to world player versus player combat and many times lead to a server crash, this recent change makes it even more difficult to continue playing this game using this style of game play. Is the game designed for this style of game play? Yes, because the game mechanics, rules and functions within the game allow it. Players don't determine what is cheating or not, that's up to the game manufacturer set forth in the Terms of Use and End User License Agreement. Everyone has choices within the free world and free market. When features are removed from a game that has been there for over eight years, players can choose to leave to go play something else. That's the result of removing features and functionality to a game that had many players enjoying the game for what it was and had been prior to the change. Many have voiced their concerns over this recent change and there are some that seem to think that there is a small number of players that will actually leave the game as a result of the change in removing /follow from battlegrounds. Without this feature, the multiboxer will not be able to progress like the rest of the players in terms of Player versus Player (PvP) gear because the best PvP gear is rewarded in this manner. If there is another way to reward the best PvP gear without doing battlegrounds or arena while maintaining /follow, the multiboxer can continue to progress and enjoy the game as all others of the game would be. This suggests that multiboxers won't be playing battlegrounds or arena but if there were some other method to reward the best gear that currently is from doing rated battlegrounds and arena with conquest points, it would allow the multiboxer to continue progressing. Just a suggestion. Maybe some special world pvp event or something that allows rewards in an equivalent fashion that battlegrounds and arena offer." End quote.