Also, it’s pretty telling that Kargoz immediately went ghost mode after this video was released.
I also just noticed r/classicwow is a private sub now. I assume it was blowing up… though I guess that could be from the token.
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Stay in character, nerd.
The classicwow reddit going dark has to do with the API changes proposed by reddit, not from the addon drama, though they DID say they were deleting a lot of extra topics about the addon stuff (before the sub went dark).
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All of that would change how the addon itself functions. Which breaks the rule 1, AddOns must be free of charge. This extends to have a “premium” version of an add-on.
The reason the guides get around it entirely is that the addon itself is just a guide player. They function the way they’re intended with any guide written and put into them.
DBM wouldn’t be functioning the same if it only made 3 callout or details wouldn’t function the same if it only showed the top three. It would be functionally a premium version.
However, if DBM did want to start selling parts of it. They could change DBM to simply function as boss timers, that you can set up yourself. Then sell you their custom-made timers on the side. In that case DBM would function the exact same for their custom-made timers and your personal-made ones.
It is a very key difference in how you make the addon, but that difference is what makes it okay or not.
Oh, they definitely could do that. They have done it in the past when addons went to far by taking the API it used. They have also shut down other addons and made new rules because they didn’t like someone else adding VO to the game using their voices, but ultimately them trying to stop guides would impact so much more than these leveling guides.
The best part is… it wouldn’t stop them at all just set them back while crippling many other addons. All that would actually occur is them not being able to automatically detect you doing something or being able to lead you directly to where you need to go with an arrow. Instead, the player would just now have to manually check themselves doing something.
There is actually only so much Blizzard can actually do while allowing addons to remain a thing in their game, and even then you still wouldn’t stop the guides they would just become an external program at that point.
It would just be a net negative for everyone involved and it wouldn’t actually stop what you were setting out to do.
Which to me is just strange considering absolutely every player uses a guide for something, but for whatever reason these guys decide to have an issue with a leveling guide…
I’m sure the original rules accounted for strategy guides… considering they existed since Vanilla. This is literally just a virtual strategy guide that people are pissy about not getting for free.
They don’t. It’s a premium service that they are featuring in their addon for money. You are either a shill or a clown to claim otherwise.
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Sorry to say this but the guide doesn’t fall under “a service related to the add-on” by Blizzard. Otherwise paid weakauras wouldn’t be a thing allowed and the top-end guilds would be permabanned. As they all use paid weakauras. A guide it literally no different. It is something you write up that plugs into an addon. Blizzard has already okayed that.
Blizzard okayed paid weak auras? I’ve never even heard of that, but I don’t see how that could possibly be allowed under their stated rules.
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He’s obfuscating. Weakaura doesn’t advertise for their ‘guides’. RXP does. It’s on their official site: ht tps:// www. restedxp. com/hardcore/
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I am a clown for stating facts that you do not like?
The addon isn’t for money. I’ve been over this. The guide is for money, and they are two separate things.
If Rested XP and Zygor didn’t exist, and both authors wrote premium guides for Guidelime what would you say then? “You can’t sell that strategy guide it is unfair”… no it isn’t many strategy guides both physical and virtual have been sold for this game… some approved by Blizzard some entirely third-party. Get over it.
And literally every RTWF there is talk about the paid weakauras the top guilds use during it. Hell, they have weakaura developers on the payroll to spit out new weakauras they are paying for on the spot. This is nothing new.
Because their stated rules are very clear. You just refuse to accept them as they are written and want to bring your own interpretation into it.
It is quite simple.
Did you make a addon? If yes, can all WoW players down that addon for free with full functionality? If yes, then go there is no issue.
Things that plug into those addons don’t fall underthat.
It isn’t at all obfuscation. It is an example that proves the rule that goes against your stance so you want to throw it out.
It doesn’t matter if they advertise it or not. That isn’t against Blizzard’s rules to advertise their own guides on their own site.
The only place they cannot advertise their guides is on the addon itself.
Rule 4: AddOns may not include advertisements.
Nowhere on the AddOn does it advertise their guides.
Hell, literally one of the points on the AddOn page is encouraging you to make your own guides, but like I’ve said before… People are to lazy to, so they want to demand that others give it to them for free. They even give you profession leveling and farming guides right there that you could enjoy.
imagine putting in so much energy to simp for a crappy addon lmfao. sad.
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Nah, I simp for facts, and if it was such a crappy addon people wouldn’t care about it, but they do 
its a really crappy addon. it straight up gives the wrong informaiton. but players these days are stupid and cant think for themsleves, a sorry state of affairs tbh
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Sure it does.
Again, the addon itself has DRM that limits what guides you can put into it unless you pay. They very clearly stepped over the line when they added the DRM instead of just charging for the guide.
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No, it does not… you can literally download it and see that it does not.
If someone asks the devs where the in game quest helper is, I bet they’d say the same thing they said about RDF, “it clearly was never coming before phase 4 because thats when it was originally implemented”.
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What phase were H+ dungeons implemented?
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This 100%
Players of today dont want to play the game. I wouldn’t be surprised if bots that play the game for you because even more famous soon. Blizzard will have to rework the ToS because “so what” if everyone is using a bot to play the game as long as the sub is payed. lol
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RXP doesn’t compete with the in game quest helper, that’s “questie” which you mentioned in your post. Blizzard probably didn’t make it a priority because 90% of the population uses questie.
RXP is a guide addon, the in game quest helper introduced in wrath doesn’t guide you on what quests to do next.
See, now that’s a tinfoil hat I can get behind. RDF not being released to help out RXP because its a side hussel by blizz devs.
Agreed. I have my issues with alex. But at the end of the day, the guy is real and has always stayed consistent with his views.
I dont agree with many, heck most, of his opinions. But i have never witnessed him make lies or false allegations. As he said it best, that is a sht ton of smoke. U can even smell it through your screen.
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