Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters 189
If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."
Re:WOW (Score:1, Informative)
He's a LOSER plain and simple, a geek at best.
To me, GEEK, means: fascinated by technology, completely clueless how it even works
NERD means: knows technology and how it works, useful to society and isn't locked in basement playing D&D (or WoW) all day, every day like GEEKS.
Although a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person. [reference.com] was found on a dictionary site... which nerd being stupid/irritating/ineffectual don't sound like a nerd to me. BUT this is because it's origin of the word, and the definition changed over time.
Re:I hope he does not have comcast cable (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Money (Score:1, Informative)
Original Content Provider (Score:5, Informative)
/. links to Yahoo as source.
Yahoo links to Joystiq
Joystiq links to gamepolitics.com
gamepolitics.com links to gizmodo
gizmodo links to crunchgear.com
crunchgear.com links to ripten.com
ripten.com links to the actual forum post: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=14611&pageNo=1 [dual-boxing.com]
Re:Wow....sorry, but the guy has no life (Score:1, Informative)
That's still 475.92$ USD/month only in WoW account fees. That's more than my rent (and I got a 5 rooms apartment),
He got the shaft with patch 3.0.2 (Score:5, Informative)
patch 3.0.2 made it so that buffs do not stack. so if 30 shamans drop wrath of air totems each, the group wide bonus will be only 3%. this will reduce their power approx to half in terms of firepower.
he is called a multiboxer, and this activity was called multiboxing. now they wont be able to do it like before anymore.
Re:Why stop at 36? (Score:4, Informative)
Raids are parties of 6-40 people divided into 2-8 groups of up to 5 players. The terms raid and raiding primarily and traditionally refer to PVE raid-specific instances and zones. If you're the party leader, you can convert your group into a raid group by accessing your "Social" Panel, selecting 'Raid' and choosing "Convert Group to Raid." From then on, anyone you invite will join your raid group (up to a maximum of 40).
Source, WoWWiki. [wowwiki.com]
40-person: * Molten Core * Onyxia's Lair * Blackwing Lair * Temple of Ahn'Qiraj * Naxxramas
Re:I both admire and pity him (Score:5, Informative)
Someone should consider pointing him at http://www.wowdetox.com/ [wowdetox.com].
I'm not sure at which point a hobby becomes an addiction, but I think it's safe to say this guy is a bit beyond that.
The real source of this distorted story. (Score:1, Informative)
The forum that this originated from is a well known if not THE best source of multiboxing information, http://www.dual-boxing.com
The forums are located here: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php
There is a beginner guide to multiboxing here: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Board&boardID=11
Compared to the drivel that is the common Warcraft General Forums, this one is very elegant, polite and helpful. It has a plethora of free and useful information to help new boxers get started as well as the depth needed for people who have moved on to as many as 5 or 10 accounts (and sometimes quite a few more). There are custom addons and programs that people have written and shared with the community as well. If you are thinking about multiboxing, take a look and learn more about it - it probably isn't what you might think - or this being the Slashdot crowd, maybe it is.
Re:Original Content Provider (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I hope he does not have comcast cable (Score:4, Informative)
It's not the download that's the problem in an MMO, it's the upload. I perused the original forum thread about this (linked somewhere here at /.) and one guy said he could get a max of 25 WoW accounts working properly on a 1.5Mb upload (any more than that lagged too much). So for 36, he's probably at about 2.0Mb upload, and that ain't cheap. Your typical 8Mb down /768Kb up cable connection ain't gonna cut it.
Re:WOW (Score:1, Informative)
(Old definition)
A nerd can whistle a 300-baud connection handshake.
A geek will help you connect the modem.
Re:OLD, FAKE (Score:3, Informative)
If you knew more about how this kind of thing works you wouldn't be so quick to call fake. The blur on the screen edges is an effect you see with your own eyes when looking at an LCD screen from an angle. Those machines are perfectly capable of running WoW for what he is doing. Framerate is not a problem when multiboxing because you don't care about framerate on screens you rarely look at. The old books don't really mean anything either, I have old books laying around - stop the presses I must be a time traveller! Also, there is a reason why things are set up in an identical fashion between all the accounts.
Based on the your opinion that "2 is doable, but you'd be severely disadvantaged", I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you either don't play WoW or haven't run into any multiboxers yet. There's a guy on my server who controls 26 toons at once. There are several people who are 5-boxing. Blizzard seems to content to accept the money and look the other way, but it really does violate the spirit of the Terms of Use if not the letter since these guys are all using 3rd party software to control the keystrokes sent to the game.
Re:Why stop at 36? (Score:4, Informative)
You're being funny ... but you're right. The people who frequent escorts do call it that. [msn.com]