And yet the features are advertised in the wow gold manual of a WoW-branded product without any kind of warning that those very features are against the rules of the game. It doesn't really make any sense.

I posted a thread on the WoW Customer Service Forum (old habits, folks) about it and the response was simply that you "shouldn't use those features" while playing WoW. This is the response I would've been required to make, of course. It's not a customer service issue. It's a PR and Licensing screwup. But saying you shouldn't use the features of a game-branded piece of merchandise in that game?

Well, of course you shouldn't. If you're familiar with the EULA or the Terms of Use then you know wow gold that. But for someone who doesn't actively read up on policies about esoteric stuff like hardware use, someone who just knows Blizzard means quality, Blizzard's name on a product is a gospel endorsement. That should be enough, and it's not with the SteelSeries mouse.

Vyndree (multiboxing pro and longtime follower of mine from when I first explained Blizzard's policies on multiboxing as Belfaire) sent us her own review, in which she expressed two things -- first, that the wow gold mouse didn't live up to the hype surrounding it, and, more gravely, that the mouse and its accompanying software make use of delayed, timed, or looping scripts. These types of scripts come up all the time in conversations about peripherals like the G15 keyboard, and the overwhelming response from Blizzard has always been that those features are against the EULA and Terms of Use. This is not up for debate.