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i say we get us a convert. he probly hates WoW now due to the shit, lets try to hook-line- 'n sinker him :angel:
Thats rather special.
I know a few people who bought the G15 as they were looking to replace their keyboards, mainly because of it's WoW compatability.
to bad he didnt /r to the GM:)
many ppl ask in the tech forum about the G15 and nobody get an aswer like "Dont use it, or get banned"
Playing Devil's Advocate here (I shudder to think I'm defending the Wow guys :p), why shouldn't he be banned? Macroing is macroing, whether it's done using third party software that transmits spoofed key and mouse strokes or whether it's a piece of hardware doing exactly the same thing. The fact is that he used an automated mechanism that provided him benefit without him actually being there and that's clearly against of their (and our) terms of use.
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wow that was deep. to bad u cant take minimum legal action. tha bad press would b enough to be honest... you should send that to some game mags
wow not all that great anyway. NC rules ...but yea if you wanted too. you could jus call a Game Magazine. You'd have to word it good enough so they'd b interested in your story. You seem to have a good case
but dam near anytime if you generate enough bad press n take legal action you'd win
my thoughts where mostly focused around when he saidQuote:
Originally Posted by Nidhogg
"What I am concerned about is that I did not receive a warning, but instead got a permanent ban right away. This is not conform the Penalty Volcano found here:http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01714p "
I mean I've personally won cases off a lessor statement then that. But that just seems like poor customer care to be honest. I dont know... I just cant help but have the feeling thats something is up
Well what he was doing with it (Having it swap out armour for a different set) is supported by an ingame function to my understanding as the binding function and many succesful UI modifications alow you to create ingame macros to do just that with one click of the mouse/push of a key.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nidhogg
IIRC one mod which was very popular (might still be) was a trinket manager which auto swapped a mount speed trinket with the one you were wearing each time you summond/called your mount to go anywhere.
Nid, if they didn't want macros, they wouldn't allow people to program them with tools Blizzard provide. :p
The stuff he mentions - weapon switching, etc - is entirely possible with the default macro options in-game.
Their Customer Support is absolutely horrible when it comes to stuff like this.
There's a clear difference between using inbuilt tools and external programs. Blizzard have control over the tools they provide but they have no idea what external tools could possibly get up to. The clear and only course of action, especially for a game with a playerbase as large as WoW, is to prohibit the use of external tools regardless of function. They don't have time to analyse what the tools are actually doing so they just impose a flat prohibition, which is understandable under the circumstances. If he was doing something harmless he should have used the tools Blizzard provided him.
Incidentally, that volcano statement doesn't state that you have to work your way up by issuing all the lower level warnings/bans, it just illustrates the severity and quantity of each level of punishment; there's nothing stopping them going straight for a ban.
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But then, Nid, consider what he also said; that there is nothing in the TOS that disallows the use of keyboards of that type, and the one he has was advertised as being compatible with WoW.
Blizzard went for the neck too quickly, IMO.
I thought WoW alrdy had some sort of inbuilt macro system :confused:
Not that I condone macroing and all that, but from a company standpoint, as long as the guy is paying his monthly fee why should they care? Why deny your company money based on something that is relatively harmless, and equivalent to him sitting in front of the keyboard doing the same procedure himself. Just my 2 bits...
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well i for one know many botters who dont get caught mainly cuz apparently bliz has this really odd way of checking; that is, if ur afk-fishing (to lvl that prof skill), someone will notice and may just report u. soon thereafter, a gm char or a gm on a non-gm char will randomly just private message u; if u dunt reply then ur flagged as a botter and ur suspended while they review their logs (for patterns as in repeating clicks, movement, item usage/spell castings, etc.).
i had initialy thought this was just a joke as it was first told to me via a guildie but appparently it is real (cuz i tried it; just stook in rachet and fished for an hour without moving then some gm dm's me saying "botting is bannable" to which i replied "hah im not botting im just watching tv while i fish")
There is, but it's limited in many ways. You can't time events, you can't delay, stuff like that. You can macro to spam stuff on chat, but you can't macro running aorund, stopping, killing stuff, etc. At least not with the in-game macro tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by pabz
sweet I gotta get me one of those.. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tratos