Blizzard should ban all addons and manually review each addon that devs want to add.
There should be a seperate section on the Battlenet launcher for only approved addons.
Addons should remain free and there should be an optional “Donate” option to support addon devs.
Alternatively they could run ads on that addon section with a % of the earning going to the devs.
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Care to share why?
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Why?
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Blizzard has full control over what addons can do and what can’t with API being on their side.
All addons are free and most of them have donation option.
This is exatly what CurseForge does, giving authors points redeemable to PayPal gift cards based on downloads number.
So what actually you’ve suggesting? Just merge CurseForge into Blizzard? Why?
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pretty sure if there is as an addon that creates a problem or breaks tos of the game . blizzard takes action .
other then that asking blizzard to review each addon manually is not only waste of time and resources but also not realistically possible.
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What add on in particular has caused your outrage?
I was wondering the same.
He probably wasn’t able to make his ElvUI look like “that one pretty interface I saw a streamer used”.
Nah, he’s one the people who thinks WA’s play the game for people, and that’s why they beat him on meters …
7:1 it was an auction house addon.
10:1 its dbm/bw/weak auras
Blizzard should ban all players and manually review each player that wants to play.
There should be a separate section on the Battlenet launcher for only approved players.
Players should remain cute and there should be an optional “Donate” option to support players’ significant others.
Alternatively they could run ads on that addon section with a % of the earning going to the significant others.
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Oh, right. I completely forgot about “he-is-better-than-me-cuz-he-uses-addons” argument.
From what I know, certain Bot programs hide in plain site. That being the addon folder.
The bot can be named anything so if Blizzard were to look into someone’s account who they suspect is botting and see nothing but the usual addons and a slightly abnormal gaming pattern wouldn’t necessarily break grounds for banning them and the bot continues to roam free.
The majority of banned bots that Blizzard cares enough to inform us about are the obvious flyhacking and brainless bots that are reckless and easy to spot.
Any other bot that is slightly more careful can be mistaken as a player no problem whatsover.
Obviously not all bots use this addon tech and prioritize harder to detect methods but it doesn’t make it any less of a threat.
So this is my solution; restrict addons to ONLY approved ones.
Almost every other game restricts addons and mods because it knows how much of a risk it is to have such an “open border” policy with their game. And here we are with bots running rampant and thousands of addons that create an impossible game of player ingenuity vs dev game design.
I think you misunderstand what WoW addons are. WoW Addons are text files, where as that you describe are binary files. I’m sure Blizzard would check for binary files in the addons folder. WoW wont load binary files just because they are in the addon folder.
As others have described, addons can only do what Blizzard allows through the LUA API.
Just gonna q Google on this one:
" PixelBot is a combination of an addon and a python program that exploits WoW API in order to automate characters and play the game alone"
Yeah I think as said above you are fundamentally misunderstanding how addons work.
Addons are text files that use a language to do certain things that wow allows. What wow allows is only the display of certain information from the game.
That means that any addon is incapable of executing any action by itself (just display information on your ui), or change the appearance of your ui.
Also, blizzard has problems with finding bot because they cannot have access to the rest of the computer to scan for weird files. They HAVE those permissions in the wow folder, so that would make it easy as heck to find said bots.
As said above, it is not an open border policy, just because they monitor how the addons can communicate with the game.
All things considered, what you are describing cannot be done with addons.
The addon part is to “read” what is happening on the screen (in this case the hekili addon), which can be replicated to work without addons (through screen capture). The “bot” part is the key presser that is working outside wow to replicate your key presses.
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Emphasis on python, not addon. Mods are not allowed by Blizzard and have nothing to do with LUA addons.
Api avaliable for addons is already very limited.
Features that are not limited -are officially allowed by blizzard means reviewing addons makes ZERO sense
i hope not love addon make my life 100 time ez honest
A LOT of features a part of WoW now were exclusively thanks to the existence of addons… they enhanced what WoW was lacking prior, especially with the UI.
Blizzard already control what addons can and can’t do through its API.