Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-5107008-20130420101529/@comment-7153552-20130515204227

AlxCj wrote: PsijicThief wrote: Microtransactions, expacs, major patches with new content, multiple account holders, multiboxers. .

you lost me there... i have no idea what any of that is...

A Microtransaction is any purchase within the game of a virtual item for real life money. Expacs is short for "Expansion Packs", which is practically a whole new game that stems off the original, or the last expac released. Major patches almost always have new content, whether it be as small as a single world boss or dungeon, or as large as a new zone or questlines. They will still normally make gameplay and/or balancing corrections as the average patch does, but they end up with a lot bigger file sizes. People that play a game and like it a lot will sometimes want to play more characters than slots allow. In WoW the cap used to be 50 total characters with 10 per server (now 11 after the introduction of the 11th class) and people would play one of each then want to make another character on the same server, thus they would need to open a second account. This accrues all the same fees (base game, any expacs, subs) that the first account does. And finally the hardcore version of the previous item is Multiboxing. This is when you have more than one account (anywhere from 2 all the way up to 40 in some extreme cases) and you play them at the same time using special software. There have been known case in WoW in which one person ran 40 characters (on 40 seperate accounts) and cleared a whole raid. I used to two-box Mages in the battlegrounds (planned or instanced PvP) in World of Warcraft for a while, it's not easy to manage at first, but it is loads of fun.