You may wanna look into applicable law regarding accessibility of content to understand why the person who actually works for blizzard gave a far less certain response than your blind confidence. They obviously can’t tell someone “go ahead and violate terms”, but if OP is minimally capable to legaly contest a ban that costs them a product they paid over a disability tool they can prove they require for a disability, how that’s ruled basically everywhere (and definitely in California) would give OP a win. There’s a lot of details about what an accessibility case involves or not, but it’s basically “OP doesn’t really win but Blizzard still loses”.
And even if that wasn’t the case, it’s far, far, FAR more likely that they’ll miss op with a ban than that they’ll add any accessibility tools like that. It’s almost delusional to think that they will.
That has nothing to do with why they responded that way. They respond to EVERY single request to “approve” something the same way. They have for more than a decade.
CS will not approve use of software they don’t make or control. They can’t predict how others will use it. The will simply point at the EULA and policies and tell folks to stay within it. Period.
I am very very confident that is the answer they always have based on dozens, if not hundreds, of public answers explaining that.
Here is an example of their policy not to comment/approve any outside software.
To address some of the comments I’ve been seeing. What upset me about the message I got back was not that the answer might be yes it was the “well maybe”. If the answer was yes then I know that I either have to quit playing and ask for a refund or look for alternative playstyles that my hand can handle. I am currently running a necro summoner build that I can do because I basically just spam corpse explosion, but I had to quit playing the rogue because of the constant rotations. I don’t intend on cheating or getting an advantage over others and only play with friends, even with help I’m to slow to play any kind of pvp.
Stopping playing until they figure out something that works for their needs? Yeah, they’re just going to regrow a hand or something. You come across as being really insensitive towards disabled people and saying things like “Don’t cheat. Period” is clearly showing what using accessibility hardware means to you.
The bit you’re missing is they have figured out what they need. They’re just trying to determine if using it will get them banned.
They can ban you for any reason period, end of story.
You keep making these legal claims when you clearly have zero clue how anything works.
You can change my mind by citing some case law or winning a suit yourself.
Sadly the anti-cheat system called warden can not differentiate the difference between valid issues and cheaters and it really can not be set on a per user setting, As previously mentioned who knows who is really in your situation and yes people would use the excuse to gain advantage over normal players. Now Common sense would state that yes any macro enabling software that gives you a serious gain in gaming performance would more than likely be an action to get you banned. I am not trolling you I am just trying to give you a serious answer. I can not think of any Diablo release that allows macro or automation of any kind. All I can say is use at your own risk or I would honestly say Steer clear of automation or macros in any of the Diablo series.
Not to mention D4 is not a single player game it is mmo in some functions of the game to and the fact there is pvp i would also say it is a defo no go.
Every jobs won’t care about your disability really even the whole world too. I worked at costco fully 100% deaf, they do not care about my disability, so i had to work 2x harder than all of the hearing people and that’s life and that’s reality. You might have to figure it out with your hands and make your own tools extra robot hands or something and play slower, we may be play faster than you in pvp, that’s reality.
I’m sure the media will have a field day if they found out people with legitimate aids to assist with disabilities, even to play computer games, are being discriminated against because of some terms in the TOS.
I think Blizzard need to think long and hard about their perception from people outside looking in.
In this day and age with focus on diversity and equal access for everyone the perception of Blizzard can turn very sour very quickly.
So, despite MissCheetah’s text wall, I’m going to try and make this very simple and clear.
Remapping things to a different key/button/stick/whatever is acceptable; automating things is not.
Also, keyboard and mouse inputs all use the same interrupt commands. As long as you’re using your keyboards/mouses/controllers built-in macro buttons and only using it to macro normal key combinations, there is no way for them to even know that it’s a macro.
If your keyboard tells the OS that you pressed the A key, it doesn’t matter which key you actually pressed.
Cheetah’s response, while technically accurate, is borderline fear mongering. The odds of you being banned for playing the game in an accessible way is effectively 0, so long as the method you’re using is not some sketchy hacked together thing that could be construed as an advantage over other players.
ALSO, if you get banned for using a legitimate tool, like those breath controllers that paraplegics use to use their PC…that would just open up a window for a massive discrimination lawsuit if they banned you and refused to reverse it.
If you’re talking about Wudijo’s movement or something similar…It literally is scroll wheel. He has “Force Move” mapped to scroll up and scroll down. When you flick the wheel it triggers multiple inputs because the wheel triggers an input for every x distance it rotates.
god damn online services destroys everything. and only the “good guys” suffers from it while the real hackers are still out there having fun with their stupid bots. i dont think you can find a workaround for this.
