Talk:Multi-boxing

message: "Games that do not allow a player to have more than one character at a time include [...] RuneScape."
afaik, they don't limit the numbers of accounts but they don't want to play more than one at the same time. This is the reason why it's hard to tell how many people play Runescape even tough there are so many accounts.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.88.27.45 (talk) 22:32, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Runescape 

message: Not a single source to back up claim that multiboxing is not cheating. Just because it's not specifically mentioned in game'a ToS doesn't mean it's allowed. It could simply mean developers didn't hear about it/considered it bad enough to warrant own paragraph in game rules. 
Even if "technically" not cheating, some players see it that way (see talk page or pretty much any game forum where multiboxing is popular). I've been player long enough to know that cheaters/exploiters always try to come up with excuse and justify their actions.
And last but not least, most sources are WoW-related despite article claiming it's about all MMOs. Not to mention some random internet forum (not even topic, just main forum page) used as source to justify claims made in article.
Anon 77.254.16.61 (talk) 11:57, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not PoV, but it is harder to get citations for things, as most of them tend to be posts on game forums which may or may not survive to present day. (WoW for instance has completely redone their forums in the switch to battle.net, and all old posts, including the ones approving multiboxing, are gone) Magus (talk) 17:20, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

text: Many regular players try to come up with excuses and justify the fact that others are cheating, when they are only using clever game mechanics that regular players are not able/willing to use (farming, sniping, etc). As far as most game designers are concerned, multiboxing is tolerated and not considered cheating. Xerxes1337 (talk) 22:33, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

text: "Multi-boxing in-and-of-itself is not inherently bad or against our TOS." LOTRO community manager speaking for developer team. http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?515600-Twenty-Questions-with-the-LOTRO-Dev-Team Graphiya (talk) 02:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV, article is one big pile of {{Citation needed}} 

message: Does someone have the following book? https://books.google.nl/books?id=hVpHBtyaUJcC&pg=PA140&dq=multi-boxing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jNWXVPCuFY6vacPFgrgB&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=multi-boxing&f=false It looks like an amazing source.
Found another book I don't own, but could prove an excelent source: https://books.google.nl/books?id=wutGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA310&dq=multi-boxing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iteXVOq8KYbdat-SgNAH&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=multi-boxing&f=false ~Mable (chat) 08:35, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone know if the following is reliable? http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Multiple_logging-in It's hosted on somekind of wiki, but seems written by Runescape's developers/staff. ~Mable (chat) 10:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Anyone can take one look at this article and immediately recognize it was written by someone with a heavy bias towards the practice. It almost reads like a 10th grade persuasive essay language arts final, I would say it's far from the standard that should be expected from this site 50.89.100.33 (talk) 04:26, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased as heck