Jeff Kaplan & Multi-Boxing

Jeff Kaplan [ World of Warcraft Game Director ] wurde in einem Interview auf Multi-Boxing
angesprochen und warum Blizzard diese Spielweise toleriert / was Blizzard davon hält.

http://www.beckett.com/beckettMOG/default.osi?v=3

(ziemlich am Ende des Interviews)

TRANSCRIPTION (thanks to Vyndree):

Journalist: "This is kind of interesting. There has been alot of debate on multiboxing. Why has the company decided to support this style of play?"

Kaplan: "Well, we feel like people have been multiboxing games for a very long time now. I mean, I was doing it back in Everquest and I don't think I was any sort of criminal for doing it. I actually enjoyed playing the game that way. So I think it's more of a playstyle choice. Most of the time, people who are multiboxing are not better than the people who are focusing on one character. It's actually pretty easy in a PvP situation to outright kill somebody who is multiboxing simply because they are not paying attention. But, I feel like alot of people have alot of characters they want to play, and if they happen to have two computers or they feel like, you know, one computer can run two clients, we should enable them to do that and not slap their wrists for doing it."

Er hat somit selbst mal geboxt, wenn auch nicht in Warcraft sondern damals in Everquest und sieht dies daher als einen anderen Spiel-Stil an dem nichts verwerflich ist. Er bestätigt ebenso das es in PvP Situationen um einiges einfacher ist einen Multiboxer zu töten als 5 einzelne Charaktere die individuell gesteuert werden. Das ist somit ein inoffizielles O.K. zum Thema Multiboxing von höchster Stelle bei Blizzard.

/target Jeff Kaplan
/bow

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