Just a warning to you folks who still want to play this game. I am an avid table player, including Shadowlands, BfA, and even the garrisons on occasion. Shadowlands is my favorite though, especially with the use of the addon TLDR. This is an addon that’s been downloaded from Curse gaming over 3.5 million times, so I know there are a lot of people who have used this. At any rate, apparently the Blizz bot detector bot sees this addon as a cheat since I’ve had 3 accounts banned over the past few years. At least this is what I think I was banned for since they don’t tell me specifically, they just point me to the ToU. At any rate I have deleted this addon and abandoned the tables. My advise to all you table players out there is to do the same. The myths that Blizz encourages the use of addons is not true. The myth that Blizz lets all players play the way they want to is not true.
As for me, no I’m not rage-quitting. I’ve kinda got used to being banned, I look at it as saving $45/month in subscription fees. It’s just a game after all. But by taking the tables out of play they have deep-sixed one of the main differences their game has when compared with all the other games out there. I’m certainly actively looking right now. Suggestions are welcome.
All addons should be banned. Too many proven cases of people getting malware from them or even getting outright scammed by some of the paid to install ones.
All I got from it was tables and addons. Not even sure which addon you’d even be referring to, but I’m sure if people were being banned for using an addon from CurseForge, the addon would end up getting taken down.
Paid to install addons? You know, those aren’t permitted. Blizz’s add-on policy kind of prohibits people from making for-profit add-ons for their games that put features behind a paywall.
If it’s running in the in-game addon sandbox, that won’t be what’s getting you banned. In game addons can only do specific things that blizzard has whitelisted for them.
Given that you’re saying 3x the sub fee here, I imagine you had some multi-boxing assistance running, which has been against the rules for a few years now.
Also, you’d probably have to make the distinction that add-ons are specifically for add-ons in the game, not websites. Websites don’t classify as addons, obviously, though they only end up infringing on Blizzard stuff when they are offering RMT services.
Not going to do much, because the addons in question are available for free, they just sell you some pre-configured settings for said addons (which is technically allowed by the letter of the rule).
Are you sure it was an addon? I feel like most addons won’t get you banned unless it’s one that you have to pay for or something. Like if it changes too much then Blizz would make the addon not work instead of banning players. Do you use multiple accounts at the same time or anything like that?
Game implamented an addon toggle option. They’re not going away. Nor should they, the game is designed based on using them.
Blizz UI is just ancient. Nobody can keep track of a buffs that constantly shift, retract and extend. While being tiny on a corner of the screen. Its bad design.
Addons exist in a ton of games. I think the FF community and their snobby ideas are very wrong about addons. Maybe its ok for their game, but leave that idea with that game.
Key point here is that I don’t know why I was banned. I’ve asked repeatedly and they haven’t told me except for pointing to the terms of use (the part about “cheating”). My assumption is the use of the TLDR addon (which is the only thing I do with the game that could possibly be interpreted as cheating), which has not been taken down from Curse. So no, I’m not lieing, but I don’t care if you believe that or not. My post was to warn people. I’m also not whining about getting banned, as I said I’ve gotten used to it.
