🛠 Suggestions for WoW Modding Support

[Motors-korgath (Motors)]

what do you guys think?

Make a mod that converts Void Elves into High Elves…charge a small amount for it… you will make a fortune.

[Astrius-dalaran]

Make a mod that converts Void Elves into High Elves…charge a small amount for it… you will make a fortune.

You’d be sued into unlife, though.

[Motors-korgath (Motors)]

You’d be sued into unlife, though.

Very true.

[Maleficious-wyrmrest-accord (Maleficious)]

There’s goggles for that.

…Just saying. No mod required.

[Astrius-dalaran]

There’s goggles for that.

…Just saying. No mod required.

Yeah, but you have to do ingame actions in order to make it so as well as a buff appearing on your character saying that it’s in effect.

[Maleficious-wyrmrest-accord (Maleficious)]

Well, then it’s just becoming semantics. Because you can walk around and see everyone in their underwear, even if goggles and a buff say that you see them in their underwear.

I think there’s quite a few random toys and effects that have client side only visuals like that already exist in the game, just apparently not enough of them to meet everyone’s fancy.

[Navuoka-quelthalas]

So that way people can have their huge busts, nude models, and custom armor with no infringement on other peoples games and fun

The problem is that WoW is not a +18 rated game. That said, any kind of nudity will not be allowed, even if customers may choose see it or not.

[Lasin-ravenholdt]

“ Mods can be monitored ” If the players are using any mods that can be considered offensive, perhaps this could be something the wow client would scan similar to how blizzard saves copies of pages from your Roleplay Addons.

So they have to spend time and money monitoring this activity. I doubt it would happen.

With the number of threads popping up on these, I wish they hadn’t lifted those bans since those people did break the ToS in the first place.

[Linqi-moon-guard]

So that way people can have their huge busts, nude models, and custom armor with no infringement on other peoples games and fun

The problem is that WoW is not a +18 rated game. That said, any kind of nudity will not be allowed, even if customers may choose see it or not.

You know what other games are not rated 18+? Final Fantasy 14, Skyrim, Wildstar, Fallout 76, Team Fortress 2, there’s quite the list. Hell, the reason why Bethesda’s games are still relevant 10+ years after release are because of all the mods.

The rating given for all of these games are ‘as is,’ and are marketed and sold as such. What is done with them or to them after acquisition is all on the Consumer. Rating Boards can NOT change a game’s rating based on what can be done to it after the sale.

Examples:
TES4 Oblivion was once rated T by the ESRB, but was changed to M upon finding a rotting corpse strung up by its feet that was already in the game, made, modeled, animated, programmed by the Devs.

There’s the whole ‘Hot Coffee’ scenario from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The Adult scenes were found to be sold WITH the game, changing the rating from M to A until they were removed.

[Navuoka-quelthalas]

And there is explicit and complete nudity in those games? Because that’s what i were talking about.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

“ Mod Only Works for the User Using the Mod ” TF2 once had a problem with the modding scene specifically because people exploited character mods in order to give them an unfair advantage in the game, and I can see that becoming a problem with wow if mods are implemented too. To avoid this Mods should only work for the users player character using the mod instead of everyone else.

Isn’t this specifically an issue what WoW had previously and why there aren’t mods like what are being referenced?

[anon9085514]

So they have to spend time and money monitoring this activity. I doubt it would happen.

This would be the biggest thing in the way of creating a Modding community for WoW–

Blizzard isn’t going to sink funds, time, and energy into allowing it to happen. Even if they did change the ToS to allow it.

[Lovefool-alterac-mountains (Lovefool)]

Mods can be monitored

Which is why it will never happen. Easier and cheaper for them to say no across the board then to have them sit someone and have them go through every single one.

[Maleficious-wyrmrest-accord (Maleficious)]

There was complete nudity for beast races in TES Morrowind, although not particularly “explicit.”

And by default, no. None of those games had that particular brand of content by default, but they all have mods for it and the game rating itself is unaffected by what mods change… Because mods aren’t monitored by the ESRB but rather the sites that make have them available.

Steam has the Steam Workshop which makes a lot of basic mods readily available, but since those are content-restricted (such as no adult-rated mods) there are mod community sites for everything else under the sun.