As the title states - currently it is against the rules to charge any kind of money for an addon. This rule should be changed to encompass all aspects of addons and their functionality and plugins.
It is clearly just an abused loophole that addon developers exploit when they make the addon barebones with limited or sometimes no functionality then charge a full product fee to essentially unlock the actual addon or access to guides/maps/strategies for the addon that players are actually expecting when they install it.
They can choose to just not make those guides if they want to if it isn’t worth it to produce without charging a full retail price for them, but they shouldn’t be actively charging money for specific parts of an addons or custom guides at all. The principle behind it is no different in my eyes.
If they want to accept donations through Patreon, Paypal, or other means that is perfectly fine, but no part of an addon should be behind a paywall with the “freemium” version advertising and pushing the user towards spending money and purchasing other aspects of the addon.
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I’m confused.
Are people upset about the situation itself or just the fact that it’s not “allowed” by Blizzard?
People buy the guide. The add on they have to port the guide in game is free.
You can download the add on and not have paid for the guide. And you can buy the guide and not have to install the add on.
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I’m only going to speak for myself, here.
I’m upset that Blizzard is NOT abiding by their own rules & regulations. Especially, since I’ve been punished for other rule violations, that it seems unfair others can break rules, but I can’t. And, if they’re not going to get punished, then the rule should be changed. Right now, the rules only seem to apply to non-influential consumers.
Either it’s a rule or it’s not. And, it should apply to EVERYONE.
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You literally just admited 2 days ago you dont care about the rules just wanna the whole HC thing to end lol.
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True classic connoisseurs run default ui no addons for that true 2004 experience.
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I never said that 
You sure you’re not mixing me up with another poster?
The only thing I can think of that comes close to what you think you said was I can’t wait for HC to get their own server which is not the same as them to be “over”.
I just want BB back without all the layers and competition.
There were addons back then, too.
But, I already did that (kind of) on my first 60, in Classic. I caved and downloaded the RP addon at 40 or so. Not that TRP tells me where quests are or anything like Questie.
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Can you quote the section that states this in the EULA/ToS?
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There’s a blue post about it. Even calling it a “policy”. Since, addons are additions to the game files (which we’re not supposed to mess with either), this “policy” is already a “leniency” to the “don’t mess with the game files” rule:
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I am reluctant to bump this post but my brain just won’t let this go. What in the world are you talking about? You are supposed to “mess with” addon files. That is their entire purpose. It is not a leniency (whatever that is supposed to mean) it’s intended. Addons aren’t some clever abuse of the system that Blizzard quietly tolerates, addons are a massive intentional framework. Addons would not exist if not for thousands of hours of work done by WoW devs to make them possible.
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I main issue with all this is that group of people having so much influence with blizzard (Aggrend). And admitting to gold buying on video and laughing about it cuz blizzard won’t do a damn thing about it.
I truly don’t understand why anyone cares… no one is forcing you to buy anything. Just don’t buy what you don’t want to buy.
If you don’t like the feature’s of an add-on heckling you to buy stuff… don’t use it.
Their upset because some edgelord with a wolverine avatar posted a half assed video. They sent out the bat signal to their brigade that it was pearl clutchin’ time again.
In all reality…nothin’ to see here.
Manufactured outrage is popular these days.
If you are a streamer and bring Blizz lots of money, you can break the rules, you can even give your account away and SELL your account. If you are a normal person, you cannot. Those are the rules. Like how Asmongold can tell people to harass mock and /spit on people who had the epic TBC mount. Only we got punished, /spit got removed. The person who told people to do it of course never got punished. No had it been someone such as yourself who had done that, you most likely would have been permanently banned. Being a streamer gives you special privileges to where you can insult people, order other to harass people, or even do what one streamer did and demanded that everyone who was Horde on his server to KILL all Ally players who wanted to get the Scarab Lord, he ordered Horde players to camp the area until the event was over. That is called server disruption and is against the rules. When another player tried to do the exact same thing over a decade ago in our retail WoW, that person got BANNED from WoW for good. So yea it is rules for thee and not for me with Blizzard.
OR how about the fact that back when Blizz announced all Scarab gates would be opened and no more Scarab Lords would be seen in WoW. There were still people working on the quest, one who only had the last step to do. he did not get it. BUT a Blizz employee who had been playing on that server also wanted the mount… they made a special exception for him, they reclosed the gate and let him ring the gong.