VG247 spotted this one on Ripten: a guy on the Dual-Boxing.com forums who plays with 36 WoW accounts, across eleven PCs.
It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. 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.
And I thought my three simultaneous Eve accounts were excessive.
I am angry that there are persons who do things in the privacy of their homes that don’t harm anyone but don’t fit into my world view.
Jesus fucking allah, will everyone stop trying to out-PC each other? What, are there girls in the room or something?
It occurs to me that “hobbies” tend to be “wastes of money” almost by definition. And that this, at least, is a man presenting himself with a project and a logistical challenge. If we’re talking about giving people credit for doing interesting things and taking it away for being boring, this man gets MORE credit than your average WoW player, and almost infinitely more than your average Lineage player.
Why? Because instead of mindlessly paying money for the privilege of being allowed to run on a virtual treadmill, he’s taken the grindery and made a challenge for himself out of it. “Fun,” when you get right down to it, is about learning new skills and overcoming new challenges . . . so this guy set out on a project that involved overcoming the logistical challenges involved in this.
It’s not about someone being so obscenely obsessed with WoW that they’re spending $5000 a year to do WoW more efficiently. It’s about someone having an idea and tackling a logistical challenge. Like any hobby, when you get down to it.
I fail to see what’s wrong with this. And I don’t even like WoW.
Yeah, that’s technically what Ergates said.
I only wish I had that kinda money to blow! I wouldn’t spend it on what he’s doing, but hey!
@Vivian:
Um, you missed this part: “Secondly, it’s about variety. It’s the spice of life, and the more of it there is the better – if everyone enjoyed exactly the same things the world would be a duller place.”
@Vivian – true, but the important word there is “everyone”
And when something like this elicits responses like “What a cunt, no other explanation.” it’s hard to let it slide.
Maybe we should be less reasonable and just say “LEAVE THE GUY ALONE OR I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU WITH A BROKEN POOL CUE” but I doubt that would achieve the desired result.
most people that play WOW are like this to be honest. bunch of fucking weirdos. play a real game.
He could rent out that space to every spy movie. Just put on some DEFCON screensavers and…
Wait, that probably IS how he pays for it.
That’s cute.
I go out with guys like that.
Seriously. A guy putting dedication and passion into something, no matter how lame and sad it may appear, means that he HAS that dedication and passion. Which can be easily re-routed into a woman.
@Wildbluesun,
How about the dedication and passion of being an Angry Internet Man?
@LEEDER KRENON
Would you mind quickly defining what a “real game” is?
Thats an awesome setup for high speed internet porn.
According to the article writer, he already has a wife, which is bound to make some more people ANGRY!
I find the ‘evil’ commentators more amusing, I don’t like psychobabble and the like, but it’s like almost every comment screams “WHY IS HE HAPPY, WHEN I DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE!”
Imagine playing tf2 on that set up.
scout rushes just got a whole lot scarier.
it’s not a question of ‘why?’ it’s a question of ‘why so many?’. There are more enjoyable things to spend 5000+ dollars on a year. like crack.
Why all the fucking judgment? People! Do you know what you’ve done? YOU’VE SUBSCRIBED TO THE MEME. YOU’VE JOINED THE MINDLESS UNWASHED. YOU HATE WOW BECAUSE IT’S COOL TO HATE WOW, NOT BECAUSE YOU HATE IT.
We’ve got to learn to think for ourselves! /life of brian
Well I for one………… dammit cant think……brain is becoming unwashed…….. must…resistt…coolness………its too late have lost ability to think.
That is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. Does he have 36 different personalities to go with them? Does he get into arguments with himself over what to do? Does he then just go with personality 33, Leroy Jenkins?
Does he brag to his friends(other personalities), he has a guild, an army at his fingertips?
That is not a genuine WoW player, I see no cheetos or socks filled with excrement.
People don’t respond well to greed. I wish him luck attempting to leave the store with 30+ expansion packs, under the hateful eyes of a hundred hyped and empty handed WoWfags.
*gives up*
Where be the moderation?
There are more expensive hobbies than this. Not many, though.
And… er… good for him. I guess. For a certain mindset, thus must be pretty impressive. I think.
Guys, guys. You seem to be missing the part where this is awesome. Where I come from*, we respect people who pull off crazy feats with no practical value. I detest WoW, but this is impressive.
* An imaginary land.
Pros:
- If it makes the guy happy
- Crazy feat with no practical value
- Makes the world a better place
Cons:
- Unfair for competetive pvp (money > skill)
- Trivial challenge (requirements: money)
- Has nothing to do with parrallel computing whatsoever
- No risk of physical harm (like most crazy feats)
- Does not actually make the world a better place
Recapped.
I’m surprised that Chris is the only one who compared it to ‘multi-chess’… though then again, in that case you’re playing against multiple people, here you’re just manipulating multiple computers.
Wild.
The “re-route to women” commend was golden though.
Someone has far too much money and far too little of a life. – and this is coming from someone who enjoys WoW (and now WAR).
Its also extremely pointless as the maximum you can have in 1 group is 5 and you cant use a “Raid group” to do Non-Raid group quests.
Multi-boxers use methods of /follow so 35 characters following 1 would mean 31 of them will be getting no experience points and the 5 would get very little due to doing no damage (as the 31 will do a high % of the damage).
Sooooo, the point i’m trying to make is its most likely a lie.
People, people, what the hell?
Really, I don’t see anywhere in the article that he plays 24/7.
He might play as little as an hour a day.
Just with 36 characters.
A posted on the same forum last July about his 50 box set-up which he shares with this girlfriend.
Looks more oraganised than the guy with a pile of laptops.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=498
interesting, definitely makes me feel much better about MY gaming hobby practices :)
Terouting all your money and spare time into women wouldn’t necessarily be any more productive or admirable… (though it would receive much more general community approval)
Even if he was spending all his time and money on well-planned and effective charity work, ethical research and improvement of the lot of all that lives and breathes on the planet, it *still* wouldn’t change the fact that we will all be dust in a million years time, so give him a break, yeah?
Terouting all your money and spare time into women wouldn’t necessarily be any more productive
depends on his stance on prophylactics, no?
Impressive. Scary. Maybe a good example of how WoW doesn’t require much thought/creativity?!? (Not that most games do…) The haters are just jealous. $5000/year for a hobby? That’s, like, chump-change for a lot of hobbies. (Ever owned a horse? Flown aircraft? Tournament paintball? Heck, been around serious outdoorsmen?)
(Where’s my edit button?)
Dhex – you are my new hero.
I love how people say things like “there are more expensives hobbies, not many though”, what? Is gaming the only hobby you know?
Snowboarding, mountain climbing, motocross, down-hill mountainbike, etc, etc. All WAY MORE expensive. The cost of gear + transportation + air plane tickets + mountain passes + fuel…. Adds up to a lot more than $5000 a year. Just a single helicopter ride when trying to do some snowboarding can cost you $1000.
Wow, this thread is fucking disgraceful.
You people should be god damn ashamed.
Is this any more extreme than playing that thing where you can fire live bullets at the screen ? Or that dude that has the protection screens the size of a wall to play Arm-A