Everquest

How many does this actually bother?

It has become impossible to find a pick up group and family guilds are dying out on the server. A lot of players are not grouping anymore but just botting multiple accounts at once.

Will this be how EQ ends? Botters taking over and giving EQ the deathblow?

It's already a done deal.

I hate multiboxers aka botters and I wish more game developers and communities would at least take a moral stance against this practice and ostracize those who wan't to ruin the MMOG experience by playing multiple toons at once.

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

It's already a done deal.

I hate multiboxers aka botters and I wish more game developers and communities would at least take a moral stance against this practice and ostracize those who wan't to ruin the MMOG experience by playing multiple toons at once.

what. stop people from giving them money...

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

It's already a done deal.

I hate multiboxers aka botters and I wish more game developers and communities would at least take a moral stance against this practice and ostracize those who wan't to ruin the MMOG experience by playing multiple toons at once.

Lucky enough most companies don't agree with your stance. Got beaten up much by multiboxers and now feel a need to cry?

EXCUSE ME!

Multi-boxers are NOT botters!  That is an outrageously incorrect thing to say.  In fact, multi-boxers add to the game because when it is difficult to find a group, they often bring a tank and healer combo, or some sort of combination that helps a group. 

The game has not been taken over by either botters (there are no botters) or boxers.  The vast majority people in Everquest do not box.

Everquest remains the best MMORPG on the market, and I anticipate it will for the long term future. 

I was in a lot of groups during my recent stint in EQ (which ended a couple of weeks ago when I moved to EQ2 to take advantage of THAT free time). I was in both pick up and guild groups. About half those groups included a boxed cleric. (Note, I didn't say bot, which would imply the cleric was on autopilot via a third party program... I played L2. I've seen some bots. Lord, have I seen some bots!)  This meant that the other 4 people in the group actually got to play and have fun, rather than spending that time sending unsolicited tells to every cleric, shaman, and druid who wasn't anonymous or roleplay.

Maybe it was just my sunny disposition or my guild tag that got me those groups. Or maybe it was just a desperate attempt to get some dps. (I was playing a berserker.)

EQ was over a couple of years ago. It's kind of them to keep developing content for it and to continue supporting the servers (several of which really could use another merge). But it's a dinosaur. A loveable dinosaur, but old and crusty nonetheless. It's a miracle that there are still enough people playing for there even to be multiboxers to be mad about. (And that's possibly a testament to the staying power of this game... It *is* a good game, but the decline is inevitable with time.)

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

It's already a done deal.

I hate multiboxers aka botters and I wish more game developers and communities would at least take a moral stance against this practice and ostracize those who wan't to ruin the MMOG experience by playing multiple toons at once.

Me too. It's not a problem when only a few people do it, but almost everyone started to do it. It's like I was talking to robots most of the time, noone responds to you, it became much too lonely.

Boxed and bots are two completely different things. I have zero problems with people two boxing. Thats been around before PoP expansion. I DO have a problem with botting, though.

Blessings,

Uh, I really dont get the point of bashing "botters" as long as you talk about dualboxers. Especially in games like EQ where you need to have a party to succeed. In such games, having a healbot is a requirement to succeed if you cannot find a party. So naturally, people will dualbox there.

For those people who think it is impossible to come back to EQ because its too old to enjoy anymore, i have to disagree.

I returned to EQ about 3 weeks ago after a long break. Ive played countless MMO's since then, and i have to say im cancelling all other MMO subscriptions and im going to give EQ my full attention again.

I came back and im really enjoying it. Im really glad i didnt pay too much attention to the EQ flamers.