When are we going to see the automation addons addressed in classic?
I am of course speaking about the addons that do things for you, which in turn break ToS.
Mass Guild Inviting Addons
Auto Sell Addons
Auto Accept/Complete Quest Addons
Auto Follow/Anti AFK addons/weakauras
Let’s be honest, most people use these addons as it is hard to compete with gold sellers, botters and min/maxers without them. But these need to be addressed because at a certain point these addons are just promoting botting systems. You remove and change certain functions of the game for the sake of the community, but you don’t see how some of these addons promote pernicious systems in-game.
I know there’s people out there who love these addons and are going to be upset at this but again, at a certain point if you cannot script or make macro in-game to do said action, and only an addon can perform this action, then there’s a big issue here that should be addressed.
You also have people selling addons that streamers are promoting.
Who remembers the old pump and dump scheme addons?
You guys don’t see a problem where one can go afk in a city and an addon will mass invite 100s of people into their guild. I understand they exist in retail, but maybe the problems with classic will force them to actually make a change in retail.
Blizzard allowed multiboxers for years until the point in classic, where they would see 1 - 40 or 80 man multiboxer wiping entire raids and servers, so it had to be addressed then and they made the decision to make mutliboxing a bannable offense.
They do have the ability to ban these addons as there are numerous addons from the past they have banned, even mainstream addons from curse.
How about they address issues that are actually detrimental to the game? There’s a report button, by the way. They don’t need to remove a bunch of addons from everyone to get rid of some bad actors.
a lot of these things should just be QoL updates to WoW at this point anyways so go for it… assuming they add them to the game.
Blizzard gets away with a lot because they let addon devs pick up their slack so it’s about time auto selling junk, auto quest accept/complete etc get put in game even for classic.
the guild one isn’t even a big deal either because cesspool guilds can be pretty damn fun…just turn off guild invites if you don’t like that addon. lol
the solution for your problem already exists in game for that one
I see you missed my point entirely, the issue here is not that someone is saving “a few seconds at the vendor or quest NPC.” The issue here is that automation addons break ToS. Plain and simple. There are addons that sellers use that allow people to go afk and follow them and sell questing and various other activities for what have you. Have you talked a therapist about your virulence?
