Mystery WoW player pays almost $6,000 a year to play 36 accounts simultaneously
Having trouble finding others to raid with in World of Warcraft? Got an extra six g’s and a bunch of computers laying around? Then just setup a raid by yourself:
[someone] … has 36 World of WarCraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers simultaneously. He mainly seems to be doing it because he doesn’t like to rely on so many other people to get a raid going, which includes attacking the Alliance capital cities, and on that front I can totally see where he’s coming from.
Something smells funny with this story, although the picture in the post of the monitor setup with Wow sessions split into four sessions at once and a bunch of different mice and keyboards. Why not hookup with something like Synergy to control multiple monitors and sessions with one mouse and keyboard?
For fun factor alone I’m blogging it, but calling BS on this one. Our oldest son diagrees with me and thinks someone could do this. What do you think? Is this story true or fiction? Snopes, anyone?
October 13th, 2008 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
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comment | October 13, 2008 at 09:59 | individual comment-link
Oh, I buy this completely, because it sounds exactly like someone I used to know well who had exactly the same obsession about the Sims Online and had a huge bank of computers in a computer company of some kind to play a dozen or even 20 sessions of TSO at the same time. And sure, they could have had some kind of master controlling device but I think they were using what was available in the company, or else actually enjoying running around frantically to the keyboards — or perhaps they were testing something that had to be done this way.
comment | October 22, 2008 at 08:12 | individual comment-link
Give him a ‘A’ for effort, anyway.
comment | November 17, 2008 at 00:46 | individual comment-link
Well, I would believe someone actually do that. After all, there are so many addicted players that would do anything..