Deadfroobs - 18 agent- Work in progress
Reidsangry - 30 enf - Work in progress
Reidsmp - 76 mp
Reidsagent - 95 agent/enf
Reidsdrainz - 114 agent
Reidscrat - 161 crat
Reids - 218 crat
Reidventurer - 220 advy
Reidsma - 220 MA
Thank you Macrosun for posting your thoughts on the matter. I appreciate the effort even if its your own personal viewpoint. I really do. Thanks for being on top of this.
I do not however agree that the cancellations are not going to prove anything. It will prove that AO although had a fantastic run, and that's why walking away from it will be bitter. It might not have been your fault either. I've good things about the efforts you personally put in game, and could even say the additions you made I had a good deal amount of fun experiencing.
But, I've been the last rat on so many sinking ships IRL and otherwise that I know what the signs are. Its usually not any one person's fault, but the fault of how things were managed in total. FC and their products has never not known a time to be sketchy in some way, and this is how karma collects. You can throw numbers on a spreadsheet all day and that still wont be enough detail to describe how these things rise and fall. But one thing IS for certain and that as a business money does talk. So let it talk.
This is just one of the problems in a long grey line of issues that lead way back to the beginning of this game. It wont be multiboxing that kills AO, as its just one symptom of a greater problem. That problem is that when one and/or two people ( who are well known to do so) exploit the hell out of a game for the sake of personal amusement or convenience comes along it can easily snowball out of control. This game is attractive to competitive types, so basically through inaction you're actually aiding the problem.
So if a moral solution won't be discussed, then all that's left is a financial one.
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Yeah, cancellations not proving anything, hm, i wonder about the timing of this new found poll.
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cansel the accounts is the last way to get funcom to respond ,
they made a big misstake when they said that it was ok to use 3 party prog and multibox , and they dont want to have a debate about it or talk about it at all .
it cant be so hard to se the diffrens when players are using 3 party progs or when they are just multilogged .
Multi-box solution?
Not really sure if this thread is the correct one for this multibox convo...
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Ultimately, cancellation is the only effective protest the customer has, that's true.
But I'm still hoping that FC actually reads and reacts to some of the concerns people have without having to take that final step.
If there is a "cancellation protest", I can only imagine that it has to do with
1) the screwed up economy which FC left unfixed after all the exploits
2) the unloved February update and lack of response by Funcom, and
3) 3rd party multiboxing in pvp (now that I know what it is, I understand why people hate it)
From my, very personal experience, those are 3 things I hear most often mentioned when people consider quitting.
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Macrosun pops in and gives us some info and the pirhanna attack like they always do. Some things never change. I can see why they don't bother, nothing is ever good enough for this bunch because he didn't say what they want him to say lol.
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It doesn't. It's a 2 minute workaround.
Also, I'm not against multiboxing or multilogging to begin with, even if I don't really do it myself. I was just stating that solution is not viable and why it's not viable.
Check Macrosun's post for the most viable paths presented so far.
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Except that didn't happen where Macrosun actually posted (see link http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...610413&page=18)
Straight forward debate no piranha there?
And ended with an open poll, all good.
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Heh, pvp is already messed up in all kinds of ways, don't need extra headache from multiboxing!
I won't quit over it but I can see why people might want to.
More upset about that dumb patch last month and the mess from the sploiters.
Heh, just ignore that guy, he never says anything constructive.
He calls everyone who disagrees with him trolls and piranhas, but if we call him a fanboi, he goes crying for the moderator!
It's trivial to trick an application into thinking it has focus
This prevents roommates, families, siblings, lan parties, etc from playing with each other. That's entirely unreasonable.
Revamping NW is being considered in the 'you decide' thread.
The collection of traffic Macrosun is talking about is the collection of all network traffic on a machine.
Just collecting network traffic to the AO servers would not detect MB software.
Only intrusive software similar to how PunkBuster and such operates would be able to, and it takes an entire team constantly updating such software to catch only a minor portion of offenders.
And it still wouldn't detect hardware solutions or custom software (which is pretty trivial to make).
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