Keymaps Legal?

[Lax]

Honestly there's a lot read into every little thing that any GM has said or posted, and in the end these minutiae mean absolutely nothing and serve no purpose other than a flame war between people who are, in fact, following the rules.

What Blizzard wants from you is extremely simple: They want you to not be botting, and not hacking the game. If you're not doing those things in order to achieve your multiboxing, then there is nothing to worry about.

The blue posters do their best to explain the difference between cheating and not cheating, but clearly they were not always prepared for the language parsing that everyone is trying to do on every line of text they ever typed about multiboxing. If you push (or release) a button (or move another type of input, like a joystick, etc) and as a result, several things happen at that instant, there's nothing wrong with that itself. However, if it were reading game memory in order to determine whether to cast a particular spell, or doing this automatically at some instant other than when you move an input to make that happen, then it would be a violation of the Terms of Use and/or EULA and thus "bannable".

The argument of whether holding down 1 key can, via software, be allowed to hold down multiple keys is absurd. It's absurd because it makes no difference to the question of whether you're botting or otherwise cheating, to have to hold down 1 key or to hold down 1 key per other key being pressed. You can literally use a popsicle stick to achieve the exact same result, and you don't even have to be Macgyver. Hint: lay it across multiple keys. All of the software available here does it ("but they're only modifiers!!111"), and nobody has been called a botter (let alone banned) for moving diagonally instead of just straight or to the left.

On the other hand, if the question was about using software that emulates something like the pecking bird toy like Homer had in a certain Simpsons episode (pressing the button for you every x amount of time), then clearly this is a violation of the terms. (However, fun side note, using the actual pecking bird toy is not expressly prohibited since it is purely hardware).

Hopefully this helps clear things up a bit, although I am sure that people in a certain mindset will attack me for this post.