Character model controversy

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Personally, I think Blizzard has far more issues to worry about right now than banning client side cosmetic modders.

Sub count seems to be in the gutter, class design is the worst it’s ever been, PvP is garbage, PvE is a boring slog, the reward system is the most whack its ever been, there’s nothing to work towards aside from the loot slot machine of getting +5 ilvls on a piece of gear, etc…

And yes I’m unsubbed but still able to post. I just keep checking back to see if they are ever deciding to make the game actually fun again and I keep seeing garbage like this. Blizzard needs to get their priorities straight.

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This is the reason I feel a warning should have given besides the ToS, precisely because so many years have gone by since the game launched with them doing nothing about them.

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Why didn’t they just break the mod?

I guess that was hard.

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Player: Exploit bugs to gain actual advantages.
Blizzard "BANNED FOR ONE MONTH!

Player: *changing how their character looks cause the current customization options are lacking."
Blizzard: “BANNED FOR 6 MONTHS!”

Not defending the modders as they could have very well been using it to gain advantages too but when compared to people exploiting bugs to gain advantages the punishment seems a bit too far. What will be next? ban players who use UI addons… wait they already give warnings to people in RP realms who have “law breaking things” in them so it’s not that far! :rofl:

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No one needs a warning to NOT to use cheats.
It’s in the contract we all had to sign.

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It’s not a mod, they’re hacking the game files. They could “break” it by enforcing that the files have not changed, but that’s expensive to do.

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Altering your char appearance (that only you can see) has nothing to do with cheating.

Changing the game files is however a no, no and it was always a question of when they will ban this behaviour. It wasn’t serious for a decade until it was now.

But I guess if Blizz is happy with less players playing the game that they even do now, that’s up to them…?

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Hey hey now, you can’t expect the B team to be able to do everything now can ya…?:wink:

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They ought to have enforced it from the start. Regardless of our opinions on it, going from blind eye to tyrant after years of inaction isn’t endearing Blizzard to any of the players and many simply won’t come back. For those who were actually cheating, good. I still can’t help but feel like this is a bad time to do a 180 and lose them more money in what’s already getting flamed as a horrible expansion.

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This ban seems dumb to me because people mod pc games all the time to change the way in game models look. It doesn’t effect anyone else they only see it on their screen because they changed the models in their data files.

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I’d say the ban was for using the 3rd party launcher and not simply modding game models

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Other MMO’s are cracking down on their rules and toxic player behavior, so it’s not surprising Blizz is enforcing the rules more. Plus even the ones to mod characters are circumventing the blizzard addon api security to do so. The “Warnings” have been there ever since the published the policy for creating and using addons. Go read them, adult content or use is even in there as punishable in an addon, let alone circumventing addon and file security.

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Ohh not a mod at all, herp a derp to me. I don’t know why I thought it was. Okay, well yeah, that makes sense I suppose.

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Here is my 2 cents. Most of us are adults or of adult age and act like children. This being said IF we want to see Space goat “Tail” and Gnome nips blizz just give the players what they want. Hell toss it on the damn cash grab shop I hate so much. I will admit it I play with better Bodies mods for all the Elder scrolls games. Only reason I never modded wow is blizz is a real stick in the mud and is ban happy

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Yeah, but if you read above that was not the issue. The same program could be used to swap out things in a way that gave you an advantage in play.

On Blizzard’s end, my guess is there is no way to tell if you made your character more sexy or if you made Herb and Mine nodes huge things which blinked.

So then they can use the rule they had in the Eula forever, about not using something that alters game files.

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I’m not justifying them model swapping live client things. I’m just pointing out why players may want to. Banning players is throwing a band-aid on the problem instead of solving it.

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TBH herbs and mine nodes are already easy to find and appear on the minimap. Who really needs to make them blink or anything. That dosnt even make much sense tbh. Sure it could be done but why? Blizz has more important things to worry about then people that want to look at nude toons.

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The length of the ban seems really harsh. A couple weeks would have sent the message with a warning that the next time is going to be much longer.

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people arnt going to return after 6 months the game is already hurting for subs and they are basically cutting off a good amount more

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Modifying the actual game files has never been toleratated by blizzard.

I dont know why people keep parroting that talking point.

UI modification is the only thing blizzard allows.

Break the rules, get banned. Its extremely simple.

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