I love how serious people are defending nude modding. It’s kinda funny
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I love how serious people are defending nude modding. It’s kinda funny
I mean, only a slight percentage of those who used the mod were using it for specifically that purpose. Many wanted to make their transmog armor from Vanilla not look like crap, or they wanted to make void elves look like high elves, or they wanted to play as one race while not being locked out of the racials of their base race.
They do all of that stuff? Ok, I agree that blizzard should remodel some of the old armors with updated textures. But the other two reasons are dumb. Void elves are blood elves. Blood elves are high elves. High elves are night elves. Night elves are trolls
The problem is people going in to mess with gameplay resources to give them an advantage over other players so why can’t they just put in some wall or code that prevents alteration to gameplay elements by outside sources but leave the character model files open for individual uses? What does it matter to anyone else if someone wants to give their toons better endowments? They’re the only ones who can see it anyway.
I like how your mind jumps straight to nude mods, like there’s no other mods, such as like… facial scars, tattoos, you know… cult of the damned body skin… Vanilla armor high res… But yeah I guess it’s all gotta be sexual for you.
Nude mods rare just the only client side texture mods for wow I’ve heard of. Probably because of the popularity.
Imagine calling Customer Support to explain that you were just giving your Gnome huge boobs for your Goldshire RP.
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I beg to differ on that first one. Classic is coming out soon. That will make bfa classes look amazing.
As far as your other grievances, maybe WoW isn’t the game for you anymore.
Community in both situations: “breaking the ToS is harmless, blizzard is evil!!!1!!11!11!!1”
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I am sure many of you can think of something in a town/city you lived in that was classified as unlawful but was largely “overlooked” because it actually was not doing any real harm. One I can think of is what if your town had a homeless man but loitering near public areas is considered “illegal.” Well, if there is not many resources to help the man have a place to stay, perhaps police/officials look the other way so long as no real trouble or complains are made.
I know of at least 1 man like this. T3RP was likely overlooked because it really did little harm. If you want to tout “But the ToS”… well you are correct but do not understand why it was likely allowed. Until the apparent erotica found in the addon and other abuses it was tolerated, not anymore. Those found to not abuse the addon for such abuses are recieving an unban and thats good
Agreed. Here is a link to the full Blizzard end user agreement:
I insist to any of you about agreeing to the thing to read it in its entirety. If you have not read it then do not tell me what you agreed to because you certainly do not fully know. 99.9% of people have a general idea what they agreed to, but as you mentioned, Tarluk, it is vague.
Blizzard allowed the addon to continue because it was harmless until it wasn’t. They have all the power, this is correct, and they allowed the addon that was what some of you are calling a “breach in the ToS” because it served a good purpose. Not everything is as clearcut as, its breaking the rules or it is not, context is everything.
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Finally, a non-sheep amongst the dozens bleating here. Enjoy your upvote. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
This could apply to so many companies, actually…
Do you have to be told not to steal too? Common, it’s against the ToS and the company reserves the right to ban and or punish the account… teams have changed, those that might of given a blind eye to it has a new team that did a ban wave on other actions, this was one of it and people can go appeal. Supposedly a lot have been reversed.
It’s their product, whether they do something in a year, two, 10, or never is up to the Company. People should be aware when they do things that alter the game is treading a fine-line.
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They never turned a blind eye.
A blue made it very clear when Tmorph was the popular thing in its day.
Thank you for the link, Sekzc, it seems that the Game Master was… misinformed. While we cannot speak to any specific program, altering those files is against our policies. Though the associated actions are often benign, and may not immediately result in a suspension or closure of the account, it can put your account at risk.
I don’t personally see anything wrong with it and you can really tell warden never targeted it specifically given how long some people used it since it would make race changing transactions useless unless you wanted the racial abilities.
However it was still in a folder it had no place being and people just took the risk and made it by for a very long time. Not sure if the program is long gone or people still use it but warden was always capable of picking up on it and having your account suspended/banned.
It was always a gamble even when people who used it claimed everyone else was stupid and warden would never ban anyone using it.
Which we all know was a lie they told themselves to feel better about dancing on the ToS line.
To all who have chosen to go to sketchy websites and use those cheat/hack/mod addons, you all know better.
Everyone one of you chose to use an addon you knew was not approved and against the rules.
Yet you chose to do it anyway.
If Blizz let you off with a slap on the wrist count yourself lucky and maybe you’ve learned a lesson here.
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These degenerates deserved the fullest extent of punishment
ooooh passive aggressive are you ![:smiley:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
what even is this?
It wasn’t so much tolerated as it was harder for systems like to detect back then. Prior to the update and Warden it was a simple drag-and-drop file replacement (akin to basic TES modding) where the only way they could detect is after the fact if you threw in a mesh replacement to skirt around mobs, jump straight to a boss or access an area you weren’t supposed to. The new system is designed as a catch-all, and since Blizz won’t outright say “Ok, you can have yer nekkid mods” because they wanna protect their IP, everything falls into that category. They can’t reasonably scour through every mod to see if it’s just a texture replacer, so expect similar ban waves/appeals in the future.
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Spoken like a true male human paladin
IDK why people are saying " you broke TOS, you reap what you sow" The issue of the topic isnt that they got caught/banned pretty sure most go into it with that disclaimer knowing it’s against TOS… It’s how heavy-handed the ban was. Anyone saying that “it doesn’t matter they still broke tos” isn’t seeing the point or just don’t really care enough past toting a pitchfork. Most people agree 6 much is a bit much if your looking at a texture/model swap when other rule breaking things ( like the XP potion exploit was half of that) Good on Blizzard for enforcing their rules. I’m in no way saying that if you take a risk and get burned for it that it is not your fault…it is and you take responsibility for that.
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