Dear Anet,
Can I please get a confirmation, that the use of programmable gaming hardware such as the G19 keyboard and g600 mouse will not get me banned under any circumstances?
Since GW2 supports the G19 natively I assume it won’t be a problem. However, I’d still like to make sure that I won’t be banned for using any and all features that the official Logitech driver (and tools) allow.
This may also include complex automated sequences of key presses performed in speeds much greater then a normal human could ever achieve (but obviously not true automation – all macros still require user interaction and they don’t “play the game for me” – but they do perform actions much faster then a human ever could).
For example, my fingers are starting to hurt me because of having to spam grenades with the “1” key. I assume I won’t be banned for making a macro that spams the “1” key every 50 milliseconds, will I? How about if I add further skills to the sequence such as spaming “1”, “2” and “F3” every 50 milliseconds? This allows me to spam my damaging grenades every time the cooldown is up (with much less lag time between the end of the cooldown and the skill activation then a normal human could ever achieve). Is this sort of thing forbidden?
So I guess what I’m asking is this: where exactly does Anet draw the line between making life easier on the owners of said hardware (which is the reason people buy these peripherals) and going too far by giving people with these peripherals a unacceptable advantage?
What is the official Anet policy? You officially support the Logitech G-series keyboards so I assume you also have to have some policy for dealing with the automation options that these keyboards bring? (again: I’m talking about using out-of-the-box drivers and tools – not some third party driver that allows way more functionality that could conceivably come very close to true automation)
Or to ask it in a more simple way: as long as I’m actively playing my character (and thus sitting at my computer), do I have to worry when using the full array of features offered by my programmable peripherals?
Thanks for the response.
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