I wonder how barren this game would feel if they did. Considering people that used cosmetic mods were probably about 15% of the active users still in this game. Think about that. Losing 15% more players in an already dying game… probably wouldn’t be a good thing, even for you high horse riders. Not everybody using the mods were deviants or bad people.
It’s breaking ToS sure, but… there are many laws in the states that are pretty harmless, but if you broke them you probably wouldn’t be fined for it… such as jaywalking or spitting in public in arizona or not owning a registered gun in maryland
Of what I have heard, Goldshire on Moon Guard played out like that one scene in Call of Duty 4:
“Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town.”
+1
Personally I dont like cheating or cheaters, but come on. Its an appearance thing? 1 week suspension every time it happens. Leave it at that.
Blizzard cant help themselves but overreact and go to any insane extreme they can come up with.
Everyone loves to talk about communication. This was their communication it was not ok. For those just changing toon or mog appearance, etc, this was a hey stop doi g it now. You have been warned type of thing. That is why they were rolled back. To have a record of suspension and reversal due to this
Those that went further, the suspension still stands.
Maybe not the absolute best way to communicate it, but it is communication. And that is what we have been asking for.
As someone who does not use bewb and body alteration mods, I can safely say that it does open a harsh reality that people are constantly talking about with WoW customization.
The ToS states that we cannot alter files.
The ToS could possibly change if appearance modification didn’t actually bother Blizzard, but we will see.
I see no harm in having curse mods available to alter your characters appearance, or even made your character newd.
Skyrim has it. Fallout has it. I’m sure many other games do. Why is it anyone’s problem other than the player alone to have those sorts of mods?
I get Blizzard’s point of view… but they could also just make customization more interesting and we would be fine.
It would be a selling point alone just to advertise and full, new, and improved customizatiom system.
nice deflection but we both know it aint the same thing.
Long bans should be reserved for serious cheating that affects other players.
But what do I care…its not my paycheck in danger here.
That’s not exactly what happened. The bans weren’t issued as a blanket TOS violation, they were issued for botting and cheating. Blizzard didn’t know what the software was being used for, which is why they reversed it after future investigation.
They still believe what the players were doing was wrong, and will likely punish future use, but that punishment would be issued because of that specific violation, not for botting or cheating.