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On August 24 2010 07:32 Defrag wrote:Since when blizzard's employees answer from their personal email addresses assigned to their accounts? lol Second thing, as far as I can seen besides pathetic fake email, it relates anyway to World Of Warcraft, since the answerer got WOW_GM ( game master ) in his email. This makes it fake as well, since it's well known that stuff like G5 or mutliboxing are allowed in WOW.
Broski if you want to be a douche go send a fucking email yourself. I used the damn contact support form provided the response emails. You're a dumbass.
https://us.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml?locale=en_US go ahead ask the same question get back to me.
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Its good Blizzard is banning people for using macros. Its cheating no matter how you look at it.
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How can they ban for using a macro keyboard when the new line of Razer SC2 gear (official) has macro features? sounds shady.
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Maybe this will mean that blizzard will put sc2 on the 360 and sell officially supported blizzard mice and keyboards with it. It'll go perfect with B-net Live, future gold membership accounts, and they'll have party chat for when you buy custom maps like Marine: Fall of Kohal or Reaper: ODST.
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Yeah so.... I call bullshit....
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THAT GUY IS A FAKE. Game Master Taudarak is a fake. truly.
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Yeah why don't you just give the e-mail of the Blizzard rep. Lol, you're dumb because now everyone can spam that address.
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so they ban macro keyboards but not maphackers? T_T
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Do you know what the moral of this story is OP?
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On August 24 2010 04:00 SOCOMICEPICK wrote:
they said only 3rd party hardware/software is bannable.
In diablo 3 they'll ban you for using ATI's advanced tessellation.
Blizzvision will declare that any non-Nvidia hardware is 3rd party and ban your ass.
/sarcasm.
Either way this goes beyond the stupidity meter for a company, be it Blizzard or any other ever in existence.
Their corporate greed should be dealt with swiftly. Possibly by the mass piracy of their upcoming games or by the active development of battlenet emulators.
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On August 24 2010 04:18 tipakee wrote:
Maybe next time the user will read the terms and regulations when he installs starcraft instead of just checking the little box and clicking next. Blizzard states in its SC2 policy that use of third party hardware/software that creates and unfair advantage is prohibited.
What a pitiful way of trying to justify their behavior. Any hardware piece that's superior to another can be considered "an unfair advantage" if you take it bluntly.
Superior hardware = more detail & more fps = advantage over others. Ban everyone using a quad core !
t_t
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Hey what about mouse ? if for example i bind mouse button 4 to number 7 ( which will be my OB/nexus/hatchery ) ? Its not macro, just one button, right 
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On August 24 2010 04:27 Puosu wrote:That would be absolutely retarded and it's not very realistic that Blizzard has created antihack software that specifically targets their "rival" products.
The latest fuss between ATI & Nvidia over AA features in some games should be proof enough that companies never hesitate to rig their products to artificially exclude people who bought from their "opponents".
Ie: The Batman game being officially only supported by Nvid peripherals or the newer tessellation technologies of ATI being software-locked by companies who have a contract with Nvidia.
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On August 24 2010 07:53 Pyrthas wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2010 07:24 Merikh wrote:
Also wtf is wrong with his/her spelling? lol Seriously? first email: macro's --> macros Its --> It's cant --> can't (I know, people drop apostrophes, but he clearly doesn't know how to use them across the board) also, could change "must have to" to "have to"; this one's debatable, and is a matter of style rather than spelling or grammar second email: your --> you're Anyway, on topic, thanks for getting the clarification.
While that might be a fake email, ive talked to GM's in games, they use commas and periods but their overall grammar usage isnt that great
(and i know mine isnt etiher)
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Macro equipment has no place in competitive gaming. It's shady for them to ban w/o warning (unless it's hidden somewhere in ToS that I haven't seen), but it's awesome that they're doing this.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they were checking for macros. All they really have to do is really monitor the time between each key press or mouse click. If they are continuously logging times that are ridiculously fast, like less than 10 ms, they pretty much know you are using a macro. It's just physically impossible to be that fast with your hands. For further clarity, someone with 300 APM is doing about 5 actions per second or about one action every 200 milliseconds.
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On August 24 2010 08:11 kYem wrote:Hey what about mouse ? if for example i bind mouse button 4 to number 7 ( which will be my OB/nexus/hatchery ) ? Its not macro, just one button, right
Yes, that is correct. You can use the macro functionalities of your marauder, your g15, razer mouse, or whatever, to bind single keystrokes to different buttons. You cannot bind multiple keystrokes to a single button, however.
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bliz dose not ban key macros I have used my G110 for some time now and in fact its quite the opposite blizzard encourages and endorses macro hardware, you can clearly see that from wow. Logitech for the win!
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On August 24 2010 08:14 arb wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2010 07:53 Pyrthas wrote:On August 24 2010 07:24 Merikh wrote:
Also wtf is wrong with his/her spelling? lol Seriously? first email: macro's --> macros Its --> It's cant --> can't (I know, people drop apostrophes, but he clearly doesn't know how to use them across the board) also, could change "must have to" to "have to"; this one's debatable, and is a matter of style rather than spelling or grammar second email: your --> you're Anyway, on topic, thanks for getting the clarification. While that might be a fake email, ive talked to GM's in games, they use commas and periods but their overall grammar usage isnt that great (and i know mine isnt etiher)
Oh, yeah, I definitely didn't mean to say that the English mistakes meant it was fake. These guys aren't hired because they can write perfectly!
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Blizzard has always been against multi-button macro capability. Back when the SteelSeries WoW mouse came out there was a relatively big deal made about the fact that the capabilities of the official WoW mouse (multi-button press macros) were actually against WoW's ToS. SteelSeries had to add a disclaimer in the software for their mouse that some of the functionality of the mouse could violate WoW Terms of Service so the moral of the story is simple - don't use macros!
Also for people who can't understand why they'd do that, its not so much that in principal using your mouse for some innocuous macro, its that they're worried that if unpoliced it could lead to, lets say, binding one of 5 of the 15+ buttons on some mice to make a 5e, 6e, 7e, etc. to make probes (or w/e) at your different bases. This could lead to a slippery slope of macro abuse to stay competitive. It's not like Blizzard is going to hunt down every single person ever using a macro for anything ever (I can attest in WoW I used macros to streamline some repetitive auction house things without punishment) but they want it to be something everyone is clear is technically illegal.
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