Unethical Gameplay?

[Ritley]

The 4 spesific people i know, 2 irl nearby and 2 from wow, could have lied ofc. I cant garantee that what they told is the whole truth. I will try to dig a bit online later for the bluepost.

But i belive pressing and holding down a button to spam ingame spells etc is automation. They have stated before that 1 keypress and holding it down = max "1 action" allowed.

The problem is you and these acquaintances have no idea what alerted them to automated gameplay. They were away from the computer and couldn't react to any of the bot checks blizzard may have employed. They (and you) have no idea if it was because they didn't react to a teleport properly, didn't respond to whispers, the GM noticed that even though they moved the character the button/macro still kept firing but the character never reacted beyond that. Maybe the GM killed the character and the macro kept firing but the character never tried to res. A GM would be able to bot check without needing to use Warden or any other bot detection software. They could see your friends weren't at their computer just by looking at the characters in game. Claiming you know the reason when neither you or them were even at the computer when it happened is ridiculous. There is only one thing for certain, they were trying to automate gameplay, like a bot, and got banned for it.

Warden has the ability to scan your computer to see what processes are running, and while it's possible it might be collecting data like how many keystrokes you are sending per second it's unlikely for a variety of reasons:

1) That is an insane amount of data to collect and analyze.
2) They can get this information without Warden at all. The game client sends keystrokes to the server. There is no need for an anti-cheat tool to detect that information.
3) It's perfectly legitimate to be at your keyboard pressing and holding a key or set of keys. And many people do this as part of their normal, legitimate play sessions. The amount of false positives this would create would be too much to handle.
4) Warden has the capability to look at all applications/executables running on your system to see how they are interacting with World of Warcraft. Why would it waste time/resources looking at keystrokes?