Those kind of addon are straight against TOS.
- Why is it allowed? they making million out of the fresh HC wipe.
- Does that mean that i can simply start making paid addon and make cash out of it?
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What makes it against TOS
It’s just commonly known routes turned into a Quest addon
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Is it charging people for use? That is against tos.
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I wasn’t aware that charging is against ToS. Maybe it goes around that limitation because the addon itself is free, you’re paying for the information that you import into the addon to make it functional is not free. It costs $20 USD for one faction guide, $30 for both.
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Pretty sure charging for any kind of functionality is against tos.
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Wonder how Blizzard would enforce it, because RXP is definitely a paid addon unless you pirate it
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Dunno. Legal action probably.
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it’s number 1 on the list of addon TOS, no paid wall at all is allowed.
- Add-ons must be free of charge.
All add-ons must be distributed free of charge. Developers may not create “premium” versions of add-ons with additional for-pay features, charge money to download an add-on, charge for services related to the add-on, or otherwise require some form of monetary compensation to download or access an add-on.
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yeah blizzard not banning it doesn’t make sense
and no, just because the addon has a limited free mode doesn’t mean it suddenly isn’t a paid addon 
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well if its not legal to charge then just pirate it as they cant legally charge you anyway problem solved.
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Blizzard has shut down other paid addons before, chiefly weak aura packs that cost money. They absolutely do enforce this. They just don’t enforce it with RestedXP. The addon creators argue that the addon is free. You can download it for absolute free right now, no problem. Some DATA for the addon is behind a pay-wall, but not the addon itself. Obviously this is skirting the rules, but like I said, Blizzard has chosen not to action it.
You realize this happens a lot in life, right? “Selective enforcement”? If you are driving 55mph in a 25mph school zone and get pulled over, you’ll likely get a ticket. If you’re the wife of the chief of police, you likely won’t. If you embezzle a million dollars from clients at your hedgefund, you’re going to jail. But if you’re a prominent politician, you’ll be fine.
Blizzard is, as most big “authorities”, selectively enforcing the ToS. They have, for whatever reason, decided NOT to enforce it against RestedXP. Blizzard is a private company (technically Activision, or Microsoft now) and they’re not really beholden to anyone in how they enforce their ToS. They can select when or how to enforce it at their whim. Another example, chiefly around Hardcore, is that Sodapoppin religiously bought gold during the original OnlyFangs run, and there is plenty of proof of it. He was not banned. Why? He brings in a lot of viewers and players is my guess. Again, they selectively enforce the rules.
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This has been discussed several times in other threads, but I suppose since someone is bringing it up now after such a long time, then it’s worth discussing again.
Not directly, but you could build an addon like Weak Auras for example, and have some of the scripts it runs be behind paywalls.
RestedXP is an application interface for guides. The application/addon itself is completely free. You can load paid or unpaid content (guides) into it. If you, or anybody wishes to compete with its paid content, you could provide your own paid (or unpaid) content and do so, even using its addon.
I’m not 100% on this, but I think RestedXP started as a fork of GuideLime.
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The add-on is free. The guides are paid for and that is allowed. This is what makes it legal. Anyone can write a guide about wow and charge money for it. Youtubers do this all the time with guides hidden behind Patreon paywalls
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If you look hard enough online, you can get the full version without paying for it
- Add-ons must be free of charge.
All add-ons must be distributed free of charge. Developers may not create “premium” versions of add-ons with additional for-pay features, charge money to download an add-on, charge for services related to the add-on, or otherwise require some form of monetary compensation to download or access an add-on.
The pack they sell on their website is straight up called PREMIUM version
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The add-on is free to download. And distributed free of charge.
The add-on still works without buying the guides. The add-on comes with levels 1 - 10.
Guides are optional addition. If I recall correctly you can also make your own guides within the add-on framework.
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that’s all well and good, but the problem is this part:
A guide that you plug into the addon IS a service related to the addon, especially if it is needed for the addon’s main function past a certain level. Honestly they could have a built-in guide work perfectly up to level 60, with just speedrun and hardcore versions locked behind paywalls, and it would still go against this rule as it is written (though would make people a lot less upset).
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Guides are not part of the addon. What you download is the full addon which works right out of the box. Whether the addon gets you to sixty or not is irrelevant.
“The Addon has its own 1-30 & 58-60 leveling routes (WoTLK), 1-20 (Vanilla), 1-10 (Retail) and Gathering Profession leveling 1-450 (WoTLK) and farming for both Horde & Alliance ready to go!”
They dont mentioned 1 to 60 route.
I bet the guides are donations. Donations are different to purchases.
I have seen this system in other games. Like private servers where they cant take subscriptions but can take donations.
Could also be a case of Blizzard acknowledging the benefit of RXP for the game, by increasing players enjoyment via an add-on that does not affect other players game experience.
If it is somehow integrated into the addon at all at any point, how is it not a part of the addon you pay for? Is it something you access offline, outside of the game, independent of the addon?
Asking for donations is also against the same tos I believe.
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yup, the sad truth is blizzard devs/execs are probably friends with whoever is doing RestedXP lol that’s the only thing that makes sense to me
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