It is, Isn’t it?
But it’s absolutely allowed, as far as I know.
Going out on a limb here but I read it as this… You can delevope addons. After initial release of completed addon you have 60 days to publish it openly to the pubic. Does not specify which platform to publish to public. As far as the programing CODE it must be visible in its entirety and not HIDDEN in the FILES or obstructed from view. I may have missed other parts but quick scan on it.
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PvP is rife with cheating in every aspect
I don’t know if you’re purposely reading the Addon Rule so incorrectly, but :
It says the code needs to be publicly available.
It isn’t.
Plain and simple.
You can continue to argue in a round about way all you want.
The addon is not public. It’s private, and that is all that matters.
Epics are unique.
I’m not sure what the original reddit thread said in the post. But I gather from the gist of it is that there’s some private addon that allows mass groups of people to que-sync? If so, this is strictly against TOS and EULA. I really hope blizzard does something about this for Midnight.
“publicly available” could definitely be defined further, is discord public? is sneakernet shareware public?
freely available means you can’t have paid addons, but also, not obfuscated to me means that the code needs to be direct in its function, as in you can’t have an addon that says it does X and then does Y instead, ie an addon can’t be used as a trojan horse.
No, it tracks people who queue sync. (and also use the addons from the same author).
It’s only tangentially associated with queue syncing.
Sort of, code obfuscation is a process where you make the code nigh on unreadable for anyone who tries…
It’s so anyone who does read it, has no idea what it’s doing, and it makes it incredibly difficult to reverse engineer.
any news on a public release of this addon so pugs can use it too?
asking for a friend.
You would have to ask the author.
I pointed this out before: a public repo on github is 100% public. So you’re saying that’s 100% legit even though you would have no idea it exists or how to search for it? Do you know that the addon in question isn’t contained in a public github repo? How would you know that?
IMO, Blizzard should run an official registry for addons instead of sitting back and having it be done by third parties. As it is, “public” doesn’t mean anything because all sorts of things are public that you would never be able to find.
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Currently in an Ashran with a Davey Jones Locker premade who used a frostwyrm egg before the game started to slow down the pug lolol
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You can save these in the mailbox.
Another Blizzard oversight.
If you time it well, it hits the opposite faction
37 sec frostwyrm?
48 sec stampede?
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According to them, it’s part of their superior ‘strategy.’ Unless, of course, you do it to them, then it’s ‘harassment.’
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I don’t know if it’s more pathetic that they’re exploiting to run 30+ man premades or that they’re mailing toys to beat the pugs.
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Almost every Community does this.
Certain comms run the Endless Ashran event to stack mailboxes.
It’s sad that Blizzard allows this to happen, but since it does it will be used.
Pugs can do the very same thing, and I’ve been in matches where it happens with no ‘noticeable’ premade on either side?
It’s so hard to tell these days.
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Dang, that’s crazy. Just another group looking for fair, quality games no doubt. 
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If it was up to me I’d say that blizzard needs their own registry as well.
If you make an addon for their game, every player should be able to find and use it. That’s how I personally view the rule, and how I feel it should be implemented.
There’s a lot of gray area to skirt around, that’s for sure.
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I’ve only done a few thousand BGs so my sample size may be a little small, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen it done. 
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That’s crazy to me, as I personally don’t play EBGS all day everyday but at least a few times a week I’ll run into a side doing the Frost Wyrm in Ashran. Flying out the side of the Ally keep, or over the Hill on the Horde side w/ Kites are sure ways to avoid them.
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