I mean most are harmless. They don’t break the game usually.
I’d say if it doesn’t break the game and/or hurting people including themselves, let them do it
Of course with some limitation. Like making the flags bigger in pvp
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It’s easier to draw the line at no mods than to allow some and spend the time and effort looking at every single case to see if they’re in line. Remember that, even if they’re not giving a direct advantage, Blizz doesn’t want the same thing that happened to Oblivion happening to WoW because modders got too… frisky.
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Because they CAN be harmful.
Then Blizzard would have to monitor every Player using mods to see which one are and are not breaking something in the game.
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The problem is the same program that players use for harmless modding can also be used for exploiting, so it’s easier for Blizz to just blanket ban the program.
They’d have to build up some sort of game workshop like Steam has for players to upload skins and models. Which would have to be curated by Blizzard because I severely doubt they would want any NSFW content to be uploaded.
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This right here is the simplest answer.
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It’s a case of a few people ruining it for everyone else. It’s much harder to allow and ban something like that on a case by case basis. It’s easier to just completely ban them.
When you start making exceptions things become much harder to make rules for. What one person thinks is harmless another person might not. It’s overall easier and safer to just ban them all. Then’s no question as to what will happen.
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blizz does allow mods, they’re called addons.
blizz however does not allow you to hack their files and change what things look like since that has the potential of giving you an unfair gameplay advantage.
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Except I don’t think Blizzard can tell the difference:
They can only tell you are running something to change the files/alter the game. They can’t tell if you are doing something that could give you an advantage, or if you are making your undead look like the Chinese server ones.
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I think they should figure out something. Mods have done nothing but extend my interest in a game from anything elderscrolls related to indie hits like stardew valley. I understand that wow is not like these games, but that doesn’t make it a hard no necessarily.
It’s pretty clear that players, especially those in RP realms, have a interest in customizing their appearance from updating their models, skins, and armors especially old ones that are weirdly stretched over a players form. I mean, if someone’s willing to update old armors for you like the judgement set up on artstation, let em.
Now the main question businesses like to ask is “how can i make money on this?” The simple reality is it makes money for you by just existing… You don’t have to do anything, it’s better if you don’t, look at Bethesda, they tried to crown themselves as King of the Mods with their creation club and everyone hates it. Seriously, look at the creation club announcement dislike bar. I know not doing anything seems like a really hard task when it’s your job to do stuff, but I guess blizz will have to settle with making new content, fixing bugs, balancing, and expansions or something, I don’t what they do.
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You answered your own question.
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The problem is how do you tell when someone is using the mod to do something that isn’t as harmless? As much as people hate it (because legit more customization would be great,) I agree with Blizz on this one. These type of things should be banned. I know players will use these mods for exactly this type of thing. You wont stop them… So the best option is to ban them.
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What happened in Oblivion?
They know that some things are “harmless” but they are just casting a wide net instead of going after individual mods.
Nothing specifically. It is just that many games like Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout, and many many many others have an active modding community that makes very NSFW mods… ahem, so I have been told.
So, I am sure Blizzard wants to avoid being associated with the modding community as much as possible. If they actively try to help modders by providing a modding toolkit, for example, people might start to think that they are endorsing these NSFW mods which will look bad on the company. The censorship being enforced by the Chinese government also makes things complicated.
On an unrelated note: I WANT MODS BACK ![:confounded:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/confounded.png?v=6" ":confounded:")
… er, asking for a friend… of course…
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The problem is its hard for computers to define a difference between harmless and harmful alterations of game files, so to make it fair, its just not allowed
That’d be add on. That’s the limitation blizzard set. Changing game files is just bound to be exploit by cheaters.
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How are addons different? don’t they potentially give massive gameplay advantages?
They are approved by blizzard and more easy to control.
Mods are harmful to the integrity of the game. Thats all there is to it.
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So even though the Devs didn’t actually put any of that in, the rating would change regardless cause a bunch of people made nude mods by finding the “nude” barbie or ken like skin and just “enhancing” it? I mean, okay The Sims 2 had that and somebody just enhanced that i would assume, but did that game got a rating change?
ToS Lawyer talk aside, and call me nuts, but if it’s the user creating the nude mods for the game, why it should change the rating? It’s one thing if a Dev left something over since beta and forgot to remove it and somebody found it and brought it to light, hence asking for a rating change for the game in general, even though it’s only easily accessible on the PC (hello GTA SA). It’s another if somebody bored made one from either material that isn’t enough to warrant a rating change or even from scratch, and it’s been asked to change the rating.
Is the kinda nude skin i mentioned earlier is just enough if somebody brought it to light and have it be asked for a rating change? ![:face_with_raised_eyebrow:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/face_with_raised_eyebrow.png?v=6" ":face_with_raised_eyebrow:")
And i know i said “asked for a rating change” i more meant “the ersb will be interested to take a look and slap a new rating on it.”
Also Oblvion’s rating change is not just sexual content, but Blood and Gore too. Yet this is another thing i don’t understand, why something like sexual content is warrented for a rating change while blood, gore and violence are often looked at the other way most of the time?