Technically, they allow modding by that logic.
They don’t want us to do almost anything, and technically the add-ons you say, or they say are ‘fine’ technically break their rules in regards to having an advantage over other players. Again ![:black_flag:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/black_flag.png?v=6" ":black_flag:")
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Good. :3 Cause I heard some people got 6 months.
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It’s part of the game, what backwards logic are you doing.
It’s like playing GTA V , having a rule that said you shouldn’t change game files, let’s say as an example and doing so anyways even though you can create a character for the game.
You aren’t breaking the rule when you create a character, it’s that they do not want third party addons that do it. Again…
Get some common sense, it’s not cheap, just have to be less of a troll.
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Yeah a lot of them got it reverted, it was merely the ones using it in BG’s and such that used it as an advantage. These bans are automated more or less, would take too long to manually see to every single case.
Then their rules should be a lot more specific, shouldn’t they? Because the way the rules are, they should be banning people for doing just that since it breaks the rules. Otherwise people are left to speculate and go “Well no, they’ve never banned for that before… So it must be allowed. Especially over the last 15 years.”
Again
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Ok this is pointless, you really aren’t putting forth any argument except for your backwards logic that you somehow believe to be true.
My sympathies for your lack of any form of common sense, or logic for that matter.
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The only thing I dont really get is how you could use model editing to help in bgs?
You must be really fun at parties.
I never said blizzard hasn’t banned any bots. Not sure where that even came from. Bots a little different than model edits.
Those that did use model edits for cosmetic stuff that didn’t alter gameplay were a little harder to detect because they weren’t so blatantly obvious.
The ones that WERE obvious, such as deleting doors, making underground paths, making nodes bigger, shifting character models around, making character models taller or bigger, etc etc all had an effect on gameplay and so would be much easier to track down and prove.
I’d go into how model edits were added back in Vanilla to Wrath, but I’d rather not get bonked on the head with the hammer of an angry mod for telling people how to do bad things, even if that way of doing it might not even work any more. The short version was pretty much it was hidden deep in the files. Still detectable, sure, but likely difficult and not too much worth the time unless it had some effects on gameplay.
Again, this is pretty much the reason why there is the NO ALTERATIONS rule. Model edits of any kind are not allowed. If you let someone do ONE, then you’re opening the way for loopholes.
Not sure why I’m bothering to explain though, since you clearly don’t want to listen anything anyone else wants to say, solely off your reply to me ;D
EDIT: Awh man. I just realized it’s Sunday. I just wasted my time replying :c Oh well.
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The warning is in the ToS that states to not do it in the first place. Granted, in the past Blizzard have been lax in these suspensions and or bans, which I do wish ppl would get the correct term because one is not the same as the other…anyway, I digress…They may have been lax in the past but that was then, this is now. If they are starting to crack down on things then people need to make certain they are aware completely of what they agreed to before they started playing the game.
Some people seem to think that changing the size of the flag will magically change the draw distance of your computer. Or that someone who is obviously clipping through walls/ramps wouldn’t be reported by everyone else in the BG.
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Did you bother reading the rest of the thread?
Suspending people for botting is okay. Suspending people for using mods to alter appearances and graphics because of a lack of character customization and horrendous graphics that have been neglected for 15 years is not. Even then, the mods were only seen by those using it. Players shouldn’t be blamed for repeated laziness and neglect in the customization and graphics department.
Different era now compared to the past. Sure it was on against ToS, but it wasn’t a major problem because it didn’t do anything besides client manipulation. I believe back then they didn’t think it wasn’t threat than it is now or perhaps they just finally waking up on it. Nevertheless they need to understand why players uses mods on enhancing models.
This game lacks depth in character customization and if anyone wants to argue about that look at FFXIV. They do it all, end game, cosmetics, character customization etc and etc. They multitask between projects or have separate teams. To make it worst on Blizzard’s WoW crew is that FFXIV had less workers and wasn’t overall popular, but look where it’s now? On the top and over WoW in every aspect.
While it would be grand if they could figure out a way to make so that ONLY stuff in the _retail_/Character and _retail_/Items folders were allowed, that would require coding in those exceptions, and could even potentially open up more vulnerabilities (what if someone managed to reverse engineer the client and expand what the client/Warden “allows” as custom content, for example). Plus it also means that Blizz would have to release some kind of modding toolset so that the bugs involved in custom models (having to tweak LOD so they don’t “explode,” requiring a whole re-compiling after every update that adds new animations, etc) don’t arise.
It’d just be more headache than aspirin for Blizz, unfortunately. The only real thing we could do is petition/campaign for some proper character creation options such as body sliders to adjust these things between a pre-determined min-max value like FFXIV does. But even then, that could be a year, two years away if they did start working on something like that.
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What in the world are you talking about? If they are the law here well of course they can do anything. But being vague does not “Technically” makes everything an infringement.
Just stop modding, be lucky you were not really banned and just received a warning. Oh, and get over it.
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Careful, big boy, they might ban you for toxic behavior~
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Blame the people who abuse the mod for in game advantages.
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There has to have been something that drew attention.
If they have been in place for as long as people claim there is no way it didn’t get noticed.
Somewhere someone did something that made this a problem.
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Mmmhmmm, when you read an incel comment like that, you KNOW the individual is on his nekkid lvl 1 acting up like a child ![:smiley:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
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Another decision based on the developers’ belief that WoW is a PvP game.