Controllers?

[rahnnyboy]

my opinion (from someone who doesn't own any special devices) is that this should be entirely legal. The devices are available to everyone and those who find that it gives them a competitive edge should use it. We're talking hardware here, any software manipulation might be considered cheating since it makes drawing a line in the sand a bit more difficult...

[Ljublijana]

Thanx guys! My arm was scratched up plus 4 huge puncture (bite) wounds by a wild cat when we had an exotic animal rescue so it gets a little hard on me using the mouse so much. I'll look into the trackball. I wonder if a Wacom tablet would be good for Bejeweled?

[andrew2110]

I think it's a bit of a grey area, and we havent established a policy on it yet... All we can do is look at the way the game was played and if they played it in a 'different' way which we feel gave them an unfair advantage, we'll just refund both users the entrance fee and stop that user from playing any more cash games until we've had a chance to communicate with them properly.

On one hand we don't want to discriminate against users who can't physically use a mouse, but then on the other hand there are reasons that certain paralympians were not allowed to compete in the 'real' olympic games.

I think we'll think hard about this, but it seems like the most likely solution is to disallow such technology in games where it could make a real difference (Sweet Swap for example), but then allow it for other games where input speed makes no difference at all. But this is still open for debate

[Ljublijana]

Thats understandable, and I don't want to use anything that may seem to be an advantage. I didn't even know you could use a game controller on a PC until someone asked why I didn't use one so I thought I'd see if it was commonly used. =) I thought I'd feel really stupid if I was using a mouse and 95% of other players had controllers or joysticks LOL!

I can use the mouse fine but after a few games the muscle tissue that has the scar tissue on it gets sore and I need to stop for a while, so it's no big deal =) I use a wireless mouse so thats a huge help because I can adjust my arm to different positions and switch hands without having to fight cords. Being able to use the left hand a few games then switch to the right a few games without moving anything aroung is a HUGE help!