I thought I was crazy when this started happening, but it’s happened multiple times now and it just happened again in Stormwind and one other time about an hour ago:
I’m standing around doing nothing and suddenly my bags start opening, my skill tree opens, a million other things open and close, and my guy begins jumping and moving around. Then, my CHAT box opens and starts typing random things such as “Is anyone else having lag issues?” or “My mic isn’t working for some reason right now” or other random things. It is almost like my character is channeling all of the other characters that I’m standing near within the game. This only happens in WoW and it usually happens after I teleport somewhere (into stormwind, battlegrounds, dungeons, etc).
It’s like I’m receiving the input signals for everyone around me or something. I’ve even tried unplugging my keyboard in the middle of the ghost typing and it still goes and continues! Has anyone ever heard of something like this? I’m baffled.
If you’re not trolling, check for malware.
I am not trolling; it’s been happening off and on for a few weeks now. There is no malware on this computer (at least that malewarebytes and Norton can find). This is a gaming computer that is new and I’ve barely installed anything on it.
Furthermore, this only happens in World of Warcraft. I don’t lose control of anything on my actual computer (for example, if I open a web browser or something).
There doesn’t seem to be anything malicious happening; it’s almost like it’s taking things I’ve said in the past/ buttons I’ve hit and inputting them again. The chat part is the weirdest because it will literally start typing random phrases.
is it a wireless keyboard? because you are probably just receiving input from a near by device with a dodgey similar frequency.
We’ve seen something like this recently with a gaming keyboard with macros for another game (overwatch, I think) that were somehow being sent through a glitch in the keyboard software.
You could try disabling or uninstalling the keyboard software if there is such installed. Details about the computer would help.