Because they done goofed? When I get done goofing on the road I get hit with a 400 dollar fine, even if it’s by accident. Blizzard should suffer penalties when they done goof.
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that would be great but if you remember how badly blizzard reacted to overwatch adult sfm content. there not going to give us a way to give our characters larger… assets.
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How did Blizzard goof?
they were referring to the banned accounts
Perhaps read the entire thread and you’ll find out.
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Yeah, I still don’t see the goof.
I do see mercy on Blizzard’s part, but not a goof. The people changing their character models were in violation of the ToS. Since Blizzard decided that so many were banned, they decided to give them a warning.
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Yup, all of this.
It’s not something I would ever do, but I have managed employees for almost 2 decades and although they are trained and told what not to do from the very beginning, if at any point I let them get away with something and then randomly dropped the hammer, especially after such a long amount of time, that reflects more poorly on myself as a rules enforcer claiming to be maintaining an environment under my terms than it does them.
They could have given notice in a forum post stating “this qualifies as x-y-z and although in the past blah blah going forward etc,” but communication and trust seem to be an ongoing issue with Blizzard these days.
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The ‘goof’ was the reason they gave for said bans that they are now reverting: Texture and Model Changes do NOT fall under Botting and/or Third Party Automation.
That’s like charging a Jaywalker for murder.
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Not sure what this character altering mod does but if it can turn my toon into a Mok’nathal I might use it. I don’t use any mods. Never have and never will but if it can alter my toon to be a race we can’t normally be then just maybe I’d give it a look see otherwise it doesn’t interest me at all.
As long as you don’t make Gnomes 12 feet tall, Ores the Size of mountains, and the Moonkin Form remains more or less the same size, one would assume it to be fine.
Blizz is a ticking time bomb on this whole ordeal.
mainly making armor more revealing and making female models more attractive
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Mainly, yeah. But there were others who had texture edits to convert Void Elves to look like High Elves, and others who had stuff like minor fixes to a race’s face to fix a perceived lack of parity with the old SD models, or even to use the non-skeletal Forsaken models from the Chinese version of the game.
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It was never tolerated, if you have been infringing the ToS for years without being caught it doesn’t mean they have to warn you now.
Simple:
Stick to the rules.
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now thats just not true at all. blizzard has know about this for years. people have been modding the game since vanilla wow and blizzard knows it. They just dont bother banning people unless they do harm.
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You don’t understand. It’s not what is accomplished, it’s the means of how it’s accomplished. Computer stuff. Server stuff.
Yet the how has been uncontested for at least 10 years now.
Also considering said bans are now being reverted…
Bull’s Eye
You mean like the ToS that every player has to agree to before being able to play.
I have 0 sympathy for people who break the rules. Anyone with common sense should have known altering models is against ToS.
No, that’s a stupid excuse. Blizzard fills the ToS with so much legalese that nobody would be expected to read through that mess. They intentionally make them as long and drawn out as possible so that players will just skip them, unwittingly accept all conditions without even knowing what they are, and move on. The Terms of Service aren’t made to be something for players to understand, they’re there to give Blizzard a legal way out.
If you have 0 sympathy for those who break the ToS because “they should have read them from start to finish”, you’re a hypocrite.
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Or they could put in some form of software block to stop the use of the add on. I presume that sort of thing could be done?
PS: I’m in no way knowledgeable about add ons and such but I seem to recall that one of the games I played (the name of which escapes me) put in place some system to stop the use of a Recount-type add on which they believed detracted from the game’s philosophy. I guess if that company could do it, surely Blizzard could.
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Ban seems to be overturned, as far as I know, thanks to Blizzard staff for quick action on this, and thanks to everyone for joining the thread.