Macro Programs? Illegal?

[Zenaku]

So you're telling me the £95 gaming keyboard that I bought in order to make my gaming life better and easier is not allowed? What about my £73 gaming mouse?

o.o if the mouse and keyboard is doing it stuff for you by itself then yes but if just short cut then no i did not mean it in that way -.-

Does everyone on here take everything way to serious.

[MattyWS]

o.o if the mouse and keyboard is doing it stuff for you by itself then yes but if just short cut then no i did not mean it in that way -.-

Does everyone on here take everything way to serious.

Nah I was just messin'. The difference being macro buttons don't play the game for you (unless it's this keyboard that I can set to record any keyboard input I want).

Bots are retarded, why bother with a game if you aren't going to play it?

[Evangela]

It's illegal but there's no way SE know

XIV doesn't even has nProtect or something like that

[Petori]

They say WoW is for kids and they act like one themselves. Yes, this community is SO mature. Just look at this forum and you'll see it.

[Vesper]

They say WoW is for kids and they act like one themselves. Yes, this community is SO mature. Just look at this forum and you'll see it.

This community is no more mature than WoW's or any other MMO's. Someone who likes one MMO and hates another will more often than not always rave about how good their community is and how much the other community sucks, how they are all 12 year olds.

Personally can't stand WoW, but I think I have seen more GTFO and go back to WoW here than any other MMO forum I have been on. If you were to take the time and effort to research the % of lamers and jackasses on this forum vs actual game population and do the same with WoW or any other MMO. The % of fools in each population would likely be the same.

[MattyWS]

To be fair, have you seen any of the WoW forums? :P

[Petori]

To be fair, have you seen any of the WoW forums? :P

No, because I don't play the game itself. I'm sure that there are more immature players there than here due to the fact that WoW has millions of more players than FFXI and FFXIV combined. But I'd say the ratio is about the same <_<.

[MattyWS]

You can make a second macro button to press the button 500 times for you :P

[Phenidate]

I'd like to point out that in FFXI's case, using any form of 3rd party method for altering the gaming experience was a bannable offense, regardless of how minor the mod was. An application that changes how the game runs in a window? Banned, no appeal. Imagine if they were to apply such a stance to this game, and the readily available admissions on this forum to using such apps; not only that but also SUGGESTING other players to use them.

In this case, Zenkaku has even admitted to using a program that automates his crafting by pressing a button 500 times for him. Bravo on that but bear in mind that this would be considered a macro.

I'd get into the differences between macros and bots here, but I'll just leave it at the key points.

Macros assume the player is actively playing and pressing keys. Bots require little to no player input, running by itself once its started.

[Seif]

lol at people defending the effort they put in pressing the crafting button, honestly. SE has done so many great mini-games in FF titles that I hope they add something like that to crafting aswell. Crafting by playing a quick match of something like Bejeweled would be fun while waiting for pt members or something.