You really like to construct your own version of reality and then position yourself as a super clever person. Enjoy.
Also, you should look up what “begs the question” means. Then give me the mental gymnastics. Should be fun.
Its always been allowed, no one cared till it was streamers who made it. I remember Zygor advertising in og vanilla
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First off, thanks for calling me clever mid-deflection.
Finally a reply with a brain, thanks for calling out my colloquial use of a common logical fallacy. My apologies. But I’m not interested in fighting that strawman. I’d rather admit fault, fix it, and move forward. Not dodge it and offer nothing. The fact that you know its a fallacy means you knew what i meant and STILL offered nothing. Pretty indicative of the fact you understand what I’m asking for and can’t find any support. Easiest way to say you have nothing to support your stance, that pathetic strawman. Bwahaha.
Im not the one failing to define selective enforcement. You and your boy still haven’t. Claiming something exists you can’t prove, lol. THAT is restructuring reality. I wish you hadn’t just parroted my own posts back to me. You might as well be a flat earther at this point. Epicly sad. Don’t bite on this, its hyperbole not a strawman.
Let me fix it. If the reality you put forward actually proves me wrong, that same reality asks the question why you haven’t done that yet. Any answer?
Nothing about pirates? I think this might literally be the only relevant question when dealing with you and the core to understanding this reality you think i don’t belong to. You’re really just going to opt out of explaining that wild thing you summoned from nowhere? Points in your favor, for sure.
I don’t think you’ve figured it out yet, so here: I don’t care that much.
Cared enough to return to the post, cared enough to try to catch me in a logical fallacy, cared enough to call me a pirate LOL… but can’t care enough to actually offer anything.
One proper noun away from convincing me of your stance and now you don’t care, lol ok.
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simple facts and logic say it’s a ToS violation 
it’s up to blizzard to tell us that no, it is in fact not (and hopefully to provide a believable reason why not as well)
Zygor has been around and charging subscriptions for nearly as long as WoW’s been around. Blizzard’s very good at waging lawfare against people treading on their rights. If they didn’t want these apps around they’d have been shut down by now.
well yes, that’s our point this is an issue of enforcement. blizzard is selectively enforcing their ToS.
Got any examples of any other addon being shut down for monetization?
Was waiting for someone to bring this up.
All the walking a thin line arguments are total kaka. Its all about the relationship happening in the background that most of us are not privy too.
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Always love this topic and the fact that some clutch their pearls over this addon but Zygor, Dugi, Johanna’s etc that work the same exact way never get mentioned.
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Nobody cares about those addons cause most people don’t even know they exist and they have absolutely zero mainstream appeal. Every single streamer and content creator for wow promotes restedxp so of course it gets the most posts. Crazy you couldn’t come to that conclusion on your own.
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Yeah because people totally didn’t use sites like Thottbot back in the day.
It advertises and has a paywall, or premium version if you prefer to call it that.
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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. -
Add-ons may not include advertisements.
Add-ons may not be used to advertise any goods or services.
Both are clear violations. The base addon is free and comes with some basic leveling, but requires purchases to get later levels. The addon also emotes stating the player leveled to X level in Y time and references restedexp. There is no need for this functionality to exist except to get someone to go “Wow, they leveled fast. That’s RestEXP addon? I’ma google that”
It’s a complete violation of the UI/Addon policy. Any rationale person would acknowledge this, but Blizzard does nothing about it and I have no idea why. My best guess is they see it as monetarily beneficial for themselves in some regard.
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Wow, resurrected after 3 weeks to clutch those pearls some more.
Instead of all this negativity, why not lighten your mood and cackle at the people that waste their money on stuff like this?
This forum moves slowly compared to others so they rez easier. I didn’t even realize how old it was until after I posted.
Personally I am not mad or negative about it, I just acknowledge it as a walking contradiction and it annoys me on some small level that it isn’t dealt with. I am also aware that a lot of people use hacked versions.
As for your original comment, I also poopoo on Zygor, but didn’t even know the other two existed and pretty sure Retails M+ addon works similarly as well. Rested gets the most attention because it’s the most popular and, again, it advertises it when people level. I assume the others don’t cause I can’t recall ever seeing a message about it.
Shut them all down if you ask me.
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It’s a free addon that comes preloaded with a lv 20 speedguide. The addon also allows you to inject code into it. When you pay for the code to put into the addon you arent paying for the addon. You bought the code from the coder and you input the code into the addon. It’s how they get around it cause they arent selling you an addon. They are selling you code to inject into a free addon and technically anyone can write code. Alot of people sell guides like gold farming and leveling. Rested just found a loophole to make their paid for guide accessible in game.
They literally did not.
There is no way around this, but even if you decide to power through with your Olympic level of mental gymnastics into believing that selling code somehow doesn’t circumvent this clause it’s suffice to say that, as you even stated, it’s nothing more than a loophole that clearly defies the original intention. There’s no good reason why Blizzard shouldn’t have closed it by now, which is now coming from a 7 year old post.
They just ignore addons like this, pure and simple. If there’s anything that actually annoys me about this conversation it’s ridiculous statements like these where people try to portray these addon creators as smart people who outwitted Blizzard. Blizzard is some combination of lazy, inept, or have some sort of financial incentive to let them exist as they do. That’s all there is to it.
nobody buys rested XP, the addon files are leaked and easily downloadable without paying a single cent, LOLing at anyone who actually spent money on it
I gotta say, I tried using it on my next go Agane and it really feels like cheating. It makes the game nearly idiot proof. I just tried the free early levels and won’t be using it again. Seems contradictory to do the HC challenge and then use a tool that makes it easy. Why bother?