if you type /mdt devmode you can add the data as in placing the mobs back yourself with each and every mod id and then its % which unlike previous posters is a lot more than 5 minutes. The data is there but the pre-placed mobs and their ids/info/percentage is not.
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No these kids believe the hard work of others should always be free and they are entitled to it.
The fact is the add-on works fine and you are free to populate the data yourself. If you would like to save yourself some time, then you have the option to buy the data from somebody else.
If you feel like this is unfair for people, then please create all of the data yourself and distribute it for free.
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Debatable.
The only addon I honestly use that helps me play the game is DBM and I could remove that and not really worry about anything, since I’m paying more attention to the boss and what it’s doing rather than waiting for alerts from DBM to go off so it can tell me what I should be doing.
You really missed the point.
It doesn’t matter if ‘kids believe that the hard work of others should be free’ or not. Blizzard’s own rules regarding addons demands that it be free. Their rules are clear. You cannot charge for an addon, you cannot charge for a service related to an addon.
What the creator of MDT has done is create a service related to his addon which he is charging money for. What he’s doing flies in the face of the addon policy and Blizzard gets very serious about folks that break that policy.
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No, you’re not understanding. The add-on is free… you can download and install and use it just fine without the data. The functionality is all there an anybody can add the data they want.
I’m really not sure what there is to debate here. You aren’t paying for the add-on; rather, you are paying for the data that the author has taken the time and effort to gather.
Again, the add-on functionality itself is not being restricted in any way. It’s pretty crazy people don’t understand this extremely simple concept.
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Try reading again.
You cannot charge for a service related to an addon.
Charging for map data/routes is charging for a service related to an addon. It’s against the rules.
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Blizzard doesn’t understand what they’ve designed and they leave players open to exploitation like we’re seeing with this paywall addon?
There’s nothing “exploiting” about this.
If you want to use the addon to help you in dungeons then you pay the creator for his work. Nothing wrong with that at all. It sucks but hey that’s life.
You can’t monetize apps.
There is something wrong with this.
It will eventuality be taking care of.
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Are you being stupid on purpose? You cannot profit off of Blizzard products. The only entity that’s allowed to make a dime off of Blizzard IPs is Activision Blizzard. There is everything wrong about putting a paywall on an addon, or anything else that augments a Blizzard product. Thank you for the dumbest thing I’ll read until 2021.
There is no need to be rude and/or insult me just because you have a different opinion. 
There is nothing wrong with putting a donation requirement to use someone elses work. If you like what the person has made… then you should be okay with paying to use their creation.
Yeah, I actually don’t care for Unnerving but in this scenario I agree with him. MDT gives you an easy-route template for every dungeon/week that takes a massive amount of earned knowledge responsibility out of your hands and just lets you enjoy the game.
If the people who make/maintain it are interested in being compensated for their work, then I don’t see the issue paying for a service you don’t have to have.
But also, if it’s against ToS, it’s against ToS, guess we’ll see what happens.
It’s absolutely against the TOS to require payment for any portion of your addons, including Additional “Optional” content (optional in quotes here because it is arguably required for the data to exist within the addon for it to provide the basic function it advertises). Failure to adhere to the can, among other things, result in removal of the addon by force and a permanent ban of the developer(s) from the game.
Additionally, the license this particular addon is released under (GNU General Public License (GPL) V2) has specific clauses regarding modification/copying the software and many of the complaint from the dev of the addon are along the lines of “They can’t circumvent it because I wrote it” from what I’ve read on the issue; Essentially, the original creator of the tool cannot say what others can and cannot do with the software once it is in their hands.
Where exactly does it say that in the ToS though that it’s not allowed?
only person I know who has been sued by blizzard is the guy who created mmoglider which before he got sued use to be wow glider. think it was like 6 or 12 million dollars he got sued for.
Ah okay I did some more research and see what you mean.
Blizzard needs to terminate this ASAP. Doesnt really affect me but its bad for the community.
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It’s not. MDT serves no function without npc data. This addon needs to be removed by Blizzard if it’s going to be paywalled. It’s entire functionality revolves around mob data
Again you could create this data yourself, as an import string. No direct addon file modification required. Most of the tools required to generate this data, which weren’t even written by Nnoggie, are out there on the addons github repo.
But I never disagreed that this is a terrible move.
I’m just saying, weakauras also shouldn’t be paywalled. Since they are essentially addons within an addon, especially the ones with all sorts of custom triggers.
Half of the data he’s selling comes directly from datamining the clients db2 files. He doesn’t even have the right to sell this data regardless of any AddOn policies. Where would you draw the line? Reselling textures? Sound files? They are all owned by Blizzard, just like the tables that contain the information about mob percentage criteria.
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