This is just stupid. As I said in my other post, EQ2 can’t afford to lose a significant portion of their player-base. If this is the hill they want to die on, then I guess we boxers don’t have any choice. I’m not going to jump through ridiculous hoops and get carpal-tunnel spamming keys hundreds of times per minute just to get around this ridiculous arbitrary decision.

I think I’ll just continue to play the way I am today – with ISBoxer broadcasting keys. I don’t PvP EVER – and am running around zones which are almost completely empty (which might suggest to SOE that they shouldn’t go out of their way to drive paying customers like me away). So if someone reports me, or if after all this time they decide to start cracking down on this sort of thing by actively hunting down people doing it, well I guess my days with EQ2 are over. I certainly won’t be buying their expansion unless they publicly reverse this position. However, as others have stated, SOE is generally their own worst enemy so I don’t expect them to do anything that prudent.

This is where PvP gets in the way of a game which was NEVER intended to support it. The game was never built around PvP; it was never balanced around it. You can’t balance classes for PvP and yet make them interesting to play in PvE (see WoW). And yet because people complain about an unfair advantage, this sort of things happens.