First and foremost, it needs to be said I am as frustrated as anyone when I run into a questing area only to see a group of multi-boxing moonkin.
Secondly, I understand the impact such a thing can have, when done en masse on player morale and the economy.
Third, I do not nor ever have multi-boxed nor ever will.
But I still cannot support the ban on, specifically, key cloning software. Here are the reasons why:
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Warden is notoriously bad at its job. One cannot deny that every time a mass ban goes out, legitimate players are invariably swept up in the ban waves and must fight to have the action reversed. This is not only frustrating but time consuming and costly to the individual player who must contest erroneus bans. And as it relates specifically to WoW Classic, Warden is especially bad at catching and breaking things such as fly hacking: something that is clearly against TOS yet Blizzard apparently cannot do anything about it. But multiboxing is the bigger evil, apparently.
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What comes next, if keycloning (which still requires manual player input, even on a single key) is no illegal, we must ask ourselves what might come next?
Example: if Blizzard is going to take action against manual input that allows a player to make multiple actions with a single keystroke, what about macros which are-in effect-they very same thing only minus the multiple accounts portion?
One must ask that when using things such as “one shot macros” (which I used with great abandon and joy before Blizzard broke Wreckvatar in MoP) that allow a player to preform multiple actions with a single keystroke?
Or, what about macros that require NO KEYPRESS but makes a player preform certain actions with a degree of seeming superhuman efficiency i.e. mouseover macros?
Autoloot? Okay, that requires a keypress; that is true. But looting multiple items of a single corpse?
Look, i know these points may seem ludicrous (and, for the most part, they are) but the problem is the precedent had been set: a player can now be banned for preforming an integral action in the game: pressing a key because a relative few have become a problem that Blizzard has refused to take action on. They could’ve banned the obvious farmers for player or economic disruption and life would’ve gone on.
But no. They, at the urging of again-a relative few-have now banned, at the base level, manually pressing a key. I’m no prognosticator but the precedent itself can have sweeping and deteimental effects we do not see yet if not reversed.
And while the immediate effect of not seeing huge groups of Mookin out in the open spamming Starfall will be gratifying, I don’t think many of us have looked to far beyond that to see what else could end up on the table.