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Looking at the TOS I'm afraid there is no need for any kind of compensation. Though it would certainly be much appreciated.

Thank you for fixing this! 🙂

I've found something that works for me and it doesn't involve Macros. You can remap keyboard keys to different keys by redefining key assignments in your Windows registry. I mapped left and right arrow keys to F1 and F2 respectively, since I don't use F1 and F2 in Blade & Soul. So I assigned F1 to strafe left and F2 to strafe right in Blade & Soul key assignments. That works. (I also remapped F3 to arrow left and F4 to arrow right function in Windows registry so I can still move my cursor when I use something other than Blade & Soul). If you don't want (or don't know how) to mess with your registry yourself you can use KeyTweak: https://keytweak.de.softonic.com/ Note that this is not a Macro Third party thing but a simple Windows registry editor. It does not and cannot perform complex actions on one keystroke - it can simply remap your keystroke to activate another key which circumvenes the current bug in Blade & Soul. You need to restart your PC for remapping to take effect and you can of course remove mapping when you don't play Blade & Soul, restart PC and do something else. It's some extra work everytime you want to play, but it works. Doing that by editing your registry by hand is a lot of more work, of course, so I do hope this bug gets fixed asap.

Maybe, just maybe, they're trying to tell you that you could use it and won't be prosecuted for it under the current special circumstances without explicitly telling you that. Just my wild guess and by no means sth to rely on either *wink* *wink* *wink*

I would assume that the 5 people writing in this thread is the minority of affected players who will actually write something about it. Of course it's still a minority of players who are affected. As I had tried to point out, however, that minority had some work to do to get the game going for them in the first place. That's why frustration kicks in a bit earlier, if what you have had to come up with yourself suddenly breaks down. I just wish that could be a reason to not just follow the basic economical calculations you're alluding to, though that's probably naive...

I contacted Customer Support as advised. The reaction to a detailed report of the problem and the question if premium membership can be suspended was completely generic and so far off that I don't even know how to continue communication. What I wrote has obviously not been understood at all and I actually doubt it has even been read by an actual person. If it has been, there was a severe lack of reading comprehension involved.

While I can comprehend everything that's been said here about how the problem is dealt with, I wonder what would have happened if the same problem had occured with WASD keys?

Ok ty

Thanks for the update either way. Would be much appreciated if you could give an update once teams have analyzed if it's said few lines of code or mutliple interdependent systems doing unexpected things, which ofc is any coder's nightmare. Would it be possible to set premium membership on hold somehow for players affected until the bug is fixed?

Would you please communicate some kind of timeframe when this might be fixed? It's great the issue has been acknowledged and forwarded, thanks again for that. Knowing when the problem might actually be solved would surely greatly help and comfort the players affected by it. I would also, like several other posters in this thread, like to know if there will be any kind of compensation, especially for those who are prevented to make normal use of their premium membership during the times they could not play properly. Left-handed persons playing games always have an extra mile to go, since most games do have a standard configuration of controls set for right handers, but very few have the option to switch that standard to left-handed, since key settings for that are simply not provided by most games. So there's a significant amount of time necessary to set up a game to even work for us in the first place, if the game doesn't offer a left-handed standard. Most of the lefties I talk to end up using arrow keys for character movement. Encountering a bug like the one now is extra frustrating for those reasons. I personally don't even buy games unless checking gaming forums beforehand and doing search engine queries to verify that key game controls can be remapped for left-handed players. Some games have arrow keys as fixed functions and thus cannot be remapped for movement - I can and will not buy those games. I double checked on that before starting Blade & Soul as well. It was a key element for my decision to start the game (and spend money on it as I went along playing). Sadly, in the current state of the game that research would end differently than it did when I started. I say this as an enthusiastic supporter of the game in all the communities I'm active in, because I think that this game is often pretty underrated looking at the many things this game excels in: Combat is so very intuitive and rewarding, immersive gaming experience as a whole, great graphics, clever world-design and storytelling with surprising twists you seldom get in AAA titles. I would very much like to continue enjoying all that.

I hoped it would happen before next Wednesday, but I'm not so sure if my epectations are realistic whatsoever_ From talking to people ingame I got the impression that bug correction generally takes a bit longer here than in the games I played before.

Thanks for the update. Can you communicate what that means in terms of time needed? I'm delaying the more complex weekly acitvities right now, hoping this gets fixed before Wednesday. If that's not to be expected, however, I would actually have to start as early as possible, because some of the stuff will take several tries in the current state of the game for me...

I'm relatively new to the game, so maybe some of the more experienced players can tell me: Is it normal for bugs in a core element of the game, like if you are able to control your character's movement, stay in that long? Looks like this is going to stay over the weekend, maybe even until next patch Wednesday? Not used to that...

For me it sure did, as described above, back from intuitive to counterintuitive. I see your reasoning, but that should be two different options imo: Take all and Take all single items.

So thanks again for everyone who helped here. I now play Lotus mostly, since it's very reliable in sustained dps, has decent burst windows and is pretty stable for soloing stuff with the long iframe. I must say that using XML or even easy mode associated with it means substantially lower dps in real fights than playing it manually, so that's what I'll be sticking to.