Argue whatever side you want, but for the benefit of the newer players, these are the facts:
10-12 months ago we had a flame fest about this SAME topic. Finally the CSRs stepped into the post and stated that multi-boxing was fine, but using a single keystroke to invoke action in multiple characters was illegal. It didn't matter whether software or hardware was used. Multi-boxing was only legal if the player pushed a separate keystroke for each character. The result of this ruling was that many players were unhappy and temporarily left the game:
Perhaps the developers came to regret a ruling which cost them subscription revenues. Certainly they have been conspicuously absent and non-committal this time around. I can no longer find that prior multi-boxing post containing the developers ruling.
10-12 months ago we had a flame fest about this SAME topic. Finally the CSRs stepped into the post and stated that multi-boxing was fine, but using a single keystroke to invoke action in multiple characters was illegal. It didn't matter whether software or hardware was used. Multi-boxing was only legal if the player pushed a separate keystroke for each character. The result of this ruling was that many players were unhappy and temporarily left the game:
Nitrouss 9 months ago
We are all playing rift, over 1 million accounts on head start launch day, you can find us on Keenblade PvE server, they allow multiboxing and use of multiboxing programs :D
Perhaps the developers came to regret a ruling which cost them subscription revenues. Certainly they have been conspicuously absent and non-committal this time around. I can no longer find that prior multi-boxing post containing the developers ruling.