Why all the Vitriol towards Multi-boxing?

[Trexller]

your cable guy installed the card himself? now that's some service.

the kid in that pic would be a good representation of the friend i described, if it wasn't top of the line he didn't own it, he had that joystick that's on the adjacent desk in the image, it's that "forced feedback" joystick that pushed back against you as you moved it, like an airplanes control stick would... one of the things i didnt end up getting [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Gustoo]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Our guild SK sold his account on ebay for $800, had full planar armor. He was the only guy I new personally who "ebayed", which had a bad stigma attached and for good reason. I have and always will find it bizarre behavior, many older people blame EQ for starting many bad trends and I think they have good reason for it.

Anyway, your story keeps getting more extreme, if you truly lived that then I guess grats to you for living experiencing some wild stuff.

https://twitter.com/newegg/status/10...562433?lang=de

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that picture is like "fuck yes"

[Mblake1981]

Microsoft sidewinder force feedback pro. I had the normal version, purchased for Janes WW2 fighters and Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance.

Yes the cable guy would install ethernet cards back then if your computer only had a dial up modem, which was still common. They would open the case, put the card in, put everything back together, install the drivers and do a test. This is how you sell tech-illiterate people on new gear, because their living room VHS is still flashing 12:00.

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Ahh, ZDTV/TechTV. This was when people still had very basic questions

[Gustoo]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Our guild SK sold his account on ebay for $800, had full planar armor. He was the only guy I new personally who "ebayed", which had a bad stigma attached and for good reason. I have and always will find it bizarre behavior, many older people blame EQ for starting many bad trends and I think they have good reason for it.

Anyway, your story keeps getting more extreme, if you truly lived that then I guess grats to you for living experiencing some wild stuff.

https://twitter.com/newegg/status/10...562433?lang=de

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I remember hearing about boxing early on, but I always scorned it like "that's super lame to pay an extra 10 dollars just to be more efficient at a game that is supposed to be fun"

So I think there may have been those of us that blanked out the fact that it was happening pretty often, we just assumed most people playing were of the same mindset as we were.

In that sense, the fact that it is bannable here may be the distinguishing feature of the server, more than the content lock level. The idea is to play it like a role playing game, not like a platinum mining simulator.

But people did play it like they were on a factory floor, and maybe that was the first time a digital currency achieved real life value. Other games you could obsess over for your skill and stuff but this game had sellable assets. You can't sell "I am the best at PONG" but you can sell a spare 100k platinum. And you can make 100k platinum a lot faster if you're playing at least 2 characters but ideally 4 adequately. I think it was the first game that did that. The duping and stuff on games like UO or diablo didn't let those items become really valuable I think.

I'm just rambling now. I think that there are genuinely two camps and they both didn't realize how many people were in the other camp.

[Mblake1981]

Originally Posted by Gustoo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember hearing about boxing early on, but I always scorned it like "that's super lame to pay an extra 10 dollars just to be more efficient at a game that is supposed to be fun"

So I think there may have been those of us that blanked out the fact that it was happening pretty often, we just assumed most people playing were of the same mindset as we were.

In that sense, the fact that it is bannable here may be the distinguishing feature of the server, more than the content lock level. The idea is to play it like a role playing game, not like a platinum mining simulator.

But people did play it like they were on a factory floor, and maybe that was the first time a digital currency achieved real life value. Other games you could obsess over for your skill and stuff but this game had sellable assets. You can't sell "I am the best at PONG" but you can sell a spare 100k platinum. And you can make 100k platinum a lot faster if you're playing at least 2 characters but ideally 4 adequately. I think it was the first game that did that. The duping and stuff on games like UO or diablo didn't let those items become really valuable I think.

I'm just rambling now. I think that there are genuinely two camps and they both didn't realize how many people were in the other camp.

BB server had some known boxers, my guild was a smaller one of mostly RL friends <Reckless Fury>. My experiences discussing it in era were mostly seen as excessive but everyone wished they could do it. They would like they have the extra finances to excessively spend on something so frivolous as a video game, who knew it would make the mold many would follow in today.

No one advertised it, even in era. My roommate would RP his cleric, Steeljaw, as "The quiet silent type". But I have to point out this was later during LDON, during this era he was using the old computer as his main. Only when he upgraded did he box, and his cleric sat looking at a wall because it was so damn laggy.. i remember trying to get that cleric to jump things and it being soo frustrating, but otherwise it would lag out and probably crash.

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[starkind]

Nerd pr0n.

[starkind]

Originally Posted by Chortles Snortles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

c-c-c-c-cheating should be accepted or else ur a bigot
(lol)

Cheating is a mental illness. Definitely self harm. Should Definitely go to adult time out.

[starkind]

Cheating is also adultery. Bearing false witness. And murder of G-d and urself which is murdering G-d.

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[Mblake1981]

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