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Gallowglas, on 23 April 2013 - 10:30 AM, said:
If it's not unfair, why is it something that should matter enough for PGI to enforce? Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or ****? I guess I just don't get it. Is this substantially different than someone's ability to use different controls (gamepads, joystick, mouse/kb, and other peripheral devices)? What about if the Oculus Rift is supported? Wouldn't that give players a similar perceptual advantage? Maybe that's not a direct equivalency, but you perhaps get my meaning.
silentD11, on 23 April 2013 - 10:30 AM, said:
You're missing a few things about why they are so common now.
Back in the day you had to create custom .cfg and .ini files in games like Quake or Unreal to properly bind your weapons, create piped switch functions, bind say taunt to the same button as run so you danced around the map slapping your ***, all sorts of crap. For RPGs it was even more insane where you had to use external scripting programs to properly run through spells and all sorts of things. Now, all of that still exists in just about every game out there. But it was a pain the *** to do and a lot of people never wrapped their heads around screwing around in those files.
So all the PC gaming hardware makers so a cash market and now any remotely decent gaming mice/keyboards let you bind crap or create macros at the hardware/driver level. So everyone can do it instead of the minority who felt like screwing around in .inis. Just as most of the now support per game profiles at the driver level.
So macros as they exist now are a good thing. It's a good equalizer. And complaining about it is useless, unless you want to launch a campaign to have logitech, razer, steel, microsoft to remove all this functionality from their hardware.
Hell changing DPI in game with a mouse button is newer than macros on the hardware/driver level. You used to have to bind mouse sensitivity and DPI settings in the .ini files as well. So if you're complaining about macros you should be screaming about changable DPI settings as well.
I get it and I don't think that it is wrong or cheating. It just seems weird. WOW with my Hunter was the only game where I felt like I was running out of buttons on my mouse and keyboard. But I used everything and never felt like I needed to use macros for my mouse just like I don't need to here. But hey, as long as it doesn't give anyone an advantage, I don't care. The AC/2 thing is just for more dakka effect anyway.
