Why the heck do you have that Cairenn?
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- The SDK agreement - Jailbreaking being "illegal" What we have here is pretty close to an SDK agreement, except we don't have an SDK. Currently, I can't see how these guidelines, by themselves, could be binding in any manner. However, with or without that, the EULA does claim they can allow some "third party user interfaces" for WoW, at Blizzard's discretion. These guidelines merely indicate informally which ones they don't allow. Legally, I doubt the guidelines would help us any, and legally, I doubt Blizzard needs the guidelines at all. Edit: I'm assuming they didn't update the EULA, because I didn't notice an update to EULA with the PTR. |
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Strictly in the interest of adding some meat to the thread...
These comments were posted by Shefki on the WoW UI forum and I think they probably put the whole thing, from an addon author's perspective, in the clearest perspective I've seen yet (just my opinion)...
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I've been Trolling the talks of the Addon Dev Policy, I agree with Blizzards Choose to do this, But that's Not why I'm here.
Many addon Authors who have commented on the No more Donation Requests in Game thing. Maybe WoWinterface could make it so that when you click "Download" on the Addon's page, it takes you to a Spash type page with a timer. On it, it asks people to take the time to Donate to the Author (If the Author wants donations) with details on how to do so. It's not the Best Idea, I know this, but it could work. No matter what you do, if people use programs to download addons (Such as WowMatrix), you've already lost them, Donation Wise. Well, that's My 5c worth on the subject. If someone already made this suggestion before, My bad... I only read the first 3 or so pages of this Novel of a Topic. (Novel as in a Book, not Novel as in "Novel Idea") |
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The most amusing thing about all this is that everyone is all uptight now, but in a month everyone will have stopped caring, put the new policies in the backs of their minds and move on.
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Are you an evil philosopher, or just making a random comment? :D
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As I said before, we all need to put down our pitchforks and wait for some Blue responses (either via the WoW forums or communication with WoWI/Curse/WoWUI.Incgamers). Seriously, everyone is getting all worked up over something that was released on Friday. We likely won't hear anything until, at the earliest, Monday when Blizzard's Nazgul return to their tower. |
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I think i'm becoming a radical, someone pin me down :( |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory) is the "fixed" link.
I agree with some aspects of mutualism, but imo, it's too communistic, and in no way represents anarchy by definition. It would make for an interesting penal colony government, though. Edit: Something keeps breaking the underscore in the link. Sorry for correcting something that couldn't be corrected... :) |
In response to spiels quote (as I don't have access to a US account):
I very much doubt that Blizzard can/would prevent you from charging for your work and thus you still "own" the code. All they could do (I think) is block any addons they find which break their policy. Basically what it comes down to is people are a bit disgruntled as Blizzard is not running a free market policy on addons, which imo is fine and people are annoyed that Blizzard could implement a different ideal to their own in it's game (which is pretty much what iPhones have been doing for an age). As I've already mentioned the only rule that I could possibly have an issue with is #5, and should be changed to something which only allows asking for donations in the options of the addon. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and my comments should be treated as such Quote:
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I was wrong about Blizzard possibly introducing in game ads via Microsoft's "Massive" ad software. It will be limited to Battle.net games, the forums, and will not be in game. The link to my source.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...lizzardPR.mspx My apologies for stirring the pot.:o |
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But my two cents in all this bruhaha... is that if you all want donations or even paid premium versions... blizzard should blow off... y'all are what make the game more fun. I know I don't have the head to try to do a line of what y'all do so my hat's off to you guys and I am rooting for ya. *huggles* |
Someone brought up the Blizzard and or WOW EULA when it comes to creating addons. Although I've never read it in it's entirely. I'm sure somewhere in there is something about creating addons for WOW and what Blizzard feels about it. Since I'm such a lazy ass I'll just post what someone else posted.
It is interesting as I would have to read the EULA for further info on Blizzard position with their policies. Has anyone actually read the entire thing in regards to addons? For the love of all that is holy! Don't flame me for this! I just wanted to relay this information as I found it interesting and related to the topic at hand. It's not by any means my words. I'm just interested on what other people think about their EULA in regards to addons and their new policies. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Quoted from carboniteaddon.com forums. Original poster "AgentZed". Quote:
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The point is very simple. Blizzard sets a policy. You do not have to, agree with it, it's not legally binding. BUT, in that policy they clearly state that if you choose NOT to comply with it, it is well within their rights to decide to disallow/block your addon(s), while being used inside World of Warcraft. It is really that simple. |
1) Add-ons must be free of charge. Ties to 3#, potentially. Premium versions offer a smaller package for those that paid, leaving anyone not willing/able to pay having to install more addons, which may/may not affect performance. It is Blizzard's house and you are designing furniture. Your furniture makes the house look/feel better, yet Blizzard isn't receiving any money (outside of the 15$ that we all pay to play the game [I don't believe that Blizzard charges people to be able to make addons, though I may be wrong]) from your possible furniture sales, and they are all using up resources that Blizzard is supplying.
4) Add-ons may not include advertisements. Because they are annoying and, from what I've seen, affect gameplay. I used Carbonite (Ads) for all of 2 hours before ads over my castbar, target frame, minimap, chat frame, began to drive me nuts (especially since there were no ads, only ads for Carbonite for people to supply ads, thus giving more money to Carbonite, not Blizzard, while using up Blizzard's resources to display the ads). 5) Add-ons may not solicit donations. Kinda BS, kinda needs to be clarified. I've seen donation comments in blurbs after login. I've seen them in the settings. They are not obtrusive, I don't mind them. 6) Add-ons must not contain offensive or objectionable material. Covering their own butts. 8) Blizzard Entertainment has the right to disable add-on functionality as it sees fit. Once again, it is their house. If they don't want to have a couch, they don't need to let a couch into the house. Kinda didn't want to post out of not wanting to be flamed for my first post on these forums, I think. But, I don't visit these often enough to really warrant a need for validation. I was an addon developer for a small game for 4 years, which took up a lot of my free time and I got no compensation outside of the thanks and praises of downloaders and fellow coders. Tuck your donation buttons away, bite the bullet. Because, no matter what you do, whether it be to stop developing or to continue, Blizzard is going to push through with these changes, people are still going to pay to play the game, and other addon developers may possibly create similar addons to pick up where you left off. Less QQ, moar pew pew (send an email to Blizzard pleading your case). /equipslot 17 Flame Shield |
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