Multi-Boxing. Finally. The facts.

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kashakosha wrote:

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Nightmare90 wrote:

We should not get this discussion drifted into looting issues!
There is this thread already beautiful standing:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/392

This is a loot issue. Why do you think people multilog? for the lack of conversation?

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Nightmare90 wrote:

GGG however does not get paid beforehand. They need to make the game feel good to new customers. An inflated playground including no public groups and an uncooperative community relying on the needs of 3rd party tools does not advertise the game and will scare potential customers away.

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Now this I can somewhat agree with. The percentage of people multiboxing is FAR smaller than you think it is though.

Honestly, if I was concerned with attracting new players, multiboxing would take a back seat to other things. FFA loot will scare away more people than multiboxing ever will.

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Alienchild wrote:

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Nightmare90 wrote:

Edit: Also I don't really believe that a multiboxer would pay 20$ on every account for stash tabs. That would be ridiculously unrealistic.

See, that is a problem right there. Opinion and Perception.

I used to 5 box WoW. That is 5 retail copies and 5 monthly subscriptions. Right now I can't recall exactly what is was at that time, but say 15$ a month x 5.

So 75$ a month, every month. Judging from what I know of the multi-boxing community, I am fairly representative.

GGG would be net winners if multi-boxing took off in POE, which it won't by the way because it is a pain to multi-box in POE.

So much fear and hate, so little reason....

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imtheshane wrote:

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valarias wrote:

d3 was destroyed by both, with some people getting upwards of 40m gold a day and 30+ legendaires.

If multiboxers had any effect at all, it was less than 1%.

People running multiple gold farming bots is not the same as multiboxing.

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Nightmare90 wrote:

I talk only about economic reasons as people will likely be not the generous type
when it comes down to real money.

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chronosoul wrote:

Don't be ignorant, not just the economy, the entire competitive design.

See you in the 1 week race bro, i'm going to be farming chaos orbs with 6 accounts multi loading.

I'm going to hand all the gear off to nugi, so he has plenty of orbs to roll his elite gear, to help him level faster than anyone!

Sounds fair right?

But its okay, because its not in the rules.

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Zalm wrote:

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Nightmare90 wrote:

I talk only about economic reasons as people will likely be not the generous type
when it comes down to real money.

Worried about the economy now? wait till botters show up and get on their feet here. Once they figure out how to automate a bot to make an account, run it as far and as fast as it can go, they will be everywhere. Then we will talk about the economy.

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Nightmare90 wrote:

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Zalm wrote:

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Nightmare90 wrote:

I talk only about economic reasons as people will likely be not the generous type
when it comes down to real money.

Worried about the economy now? wait till botters show up and get on their feet here. Once they figure out how to automate a bot to make an account, run it as far and as fast as it can go, they will be everywhere. Then we will talk about the economy.

Was talking about GGG's economy now, not the ingame one.

But botters are a different issue. They are not allowed due to the ToU and there will be measures against them. We can't say the same for multi-boxing/loading as of now with the exception that we have a semi-official statement of Chris that there will be measures taken against multi-loading.

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Nightmare90 wrote:

We can't say the same for multi-boxing/loading as of now with the exception that we have a semi-official statement of Chris that there will be measures taken against multi-loading.