Update to Recent Suspensions

[Cobman]

There has to be a line, if you turn blind eye for bigger boobs mods, who says you cant mod other objects that can give you unfair advantage over other same paying player (like herbs and veins huge as everests). For those who are screeching at this, yeah if u break ToS be sure to face bans/warnings whatever, u pressed freely "I accept". If u dont like ToS well be so kind and look for other games, nobody will change anything for weirdos who mod in fucking online games, feel free to experience your mod fantasies in single players.
@Nzx Well spoken. He gets it

[Nnyco]

Fickedy-fuckedy. Blizzard should really shut the fuck up, sit down and probably focus on their bullshit instead of banning people like this for evidently no reason. Yes, true, modifying the game is against the ToS. Has been the past 14 years. Modding the game with skins and models is equally as old and at no point in time did this cause a banwave. Considering that the people doing that and figuring out HOW to do that are also the most loyal people, this was yet another plunder. No, this could not have affected anyone negatively. No, you can not get a gain out of the kind of modification you are talking about. No, you did not ban this for any other reason then "We can.". Fuck you for lying, Blizzard. And fuck you for still acting like you were justified after reactivating everyone involved. But i guess selling different color-options for your armor because they will never manage to get any coherence into these sets makes money. Got to ban the free competition first.

If Blizzard gets any more stupid they might as well move their headquarters into an asylum.

People changed the size of nods, flowers or even flags in battlegroups.

[steristumpie]

Blizz talking about Firehack? Ye it’s a fucking lua unlocker used primarily for one thing: enabling rotation automation ... aka as BOTTING.

Can’t believe it’s still around. Been going for close on a decade now.
See that derpy big attitude cunt in your guild with 98% parse consistently while managing to avoid every raid mechanic thrown at him? Chances are he’s not actually that good.
Ask him which lua unlocker he’s using and watch him sweat.

[Bhanzai]

So morons get banned for breaking ToS, and then morons come here to complain about how it should be okay for this reason or that reason, or any other moronic reason the morons can come up with.

Do stupid shit and you should be punished, regardless of how long you were able to get away with said stupid shit. But I digress, there's a moron in the white house who has been getting away with stupid shit his entire adult life and gets rewarded for it so I guess the morons may have a point.

[Aprete]

Fuck me you people are so self-righteous it's pathetic. Something you call "cosmetic" is literally taking money out of Blizzard's pockets, because if you wanted a dwarf mage instead of your current human one you would either pay Blizzard for a paid race change, or you would pay Blizzard in terms of actually logging into the game and playing to level a dwarf mage, which contributes to their MAUs. If you use a hack engine to replace your human mage with a dwarf mage, you're avoiding both of those legitimate ways to accomplish what you want.

Blizzard, as a publically traded company, literally cannot allow widespread undermining of one of its avenues of revenue generation. If a shareholder were to ask why micro transaction revenues were down and Blizzard responded "oh yeah some losers wanted to see big cartoon tits on their WoW characters and as a result have also avoided using race changes or level boosts, but we're 100% okay with people undermining the integrity of our game engine and client because they said it's just cosmetic" that shareholder would sell, investors in general would see that as Blizzard not actually being committed to profit, and things would go downhill very quickly.

You can argue as much as you want about whether you think the current prices for race changes are justifiable or anything else. But, while those services still exist and while your only other option is contributing to Blizzard's MAUs, they're absolutely within their rights to ban you, regardless of your little sad anecdote about how ethical the reverse engineering community is.

Wtf are you talking about ? I already told you that it was not the cosmetics that got people banned but the way that the launcher interacted with Warden and botters abusing that...why do you think that people got unbanned you dumbass ?! legit question though, are you mentally challenged by any chance ? you sound like one of those clowns that have absolutely no idea what they are talking about but they saw this one reddit post and now they think that they know everything about the subject, next you'll tell me that you're an anti-vaxxer.

So morons get banned for breaking ToS, and then morons come here to complain about how it should be okay for this reason or that reason, or any other moronic reason the morons can come up with.

Do stupid shit and you should be punished, regardless of how long you were able to get away with said stupid shit. But I digress, there's a moron in the white house who has been getting away with stupid shit his entire adult life and gets rewarded for it so I guess the morons may have a point.

Read my post about this and you too can stop sounding like a moron.

[Jodmos]

I'd encourage you to look into this more, if you actually care and you're not just complaining because you think it makes you look cool. You can make a macro that will play a particular sound file from the game whenever you /cry, for example. You could also pretty easily make a mod that plays the old gun sound effect every time you auto shot, and you could even go so far as to play a different sound for every different ability if you really wanted to.

Don't even need a mod. Just put the soundfile(s) in your sound/spells folder with the right name (same name as the sound used by default). Blizzard has it set up so that things in that folder are used over the default sounds.


It should also be noted (and people here saying it was fine to do the model changes, it was the way around warden that was getting them banned should pay attention) Blizzard in their statement has made it pretty clear that they put the warning in place (over bans) to avoid banning people using it benignly getting long bans but that from now on you use such things at your own risk. ie. Next time they will ban and it doesn't matter what you were using it for (and no doubt there will be forum posts with much whining about their ban).

[Brewhan]

Ever since the honorbuddy shutdown ive stopped botting all together. At worst I had a 6 month ban back in WoD for using honorbuddy to automate my garrison chores on 10 characters and also leveled up for me. Those were good times having a bot do 1-100 leveling for you, doing quests and everything. It was always a fine line riding on the edge, hoping to wake up in the morning and still see your char level. The dreaded DC from game always worried me that I just got banned and would get an email soon.

[Berndorf]

Ban em all. Good riddance.

[Dizzeeyooo]

Tmorph users would like to have a word with you.

Except no-one ever got banned only for using Tmorph.

[Shadowroxxor]

The sub numbers must be catastropic

[iamthedevil]

I truly love when corporations man up, and this is the great example. Good for blizz. I appreciate the transparency. Plenty of complaints, but this is not one of them.

[Jotunhammer]

Listen, its very simple.... This IS Blizzards property and you have a privilege to play it, play by the rules, obey the rules and if you don't like the rules, feel free to find another game, I don't care if you wanna run around with nothing or you want to look like Zod or Znork or whoever, if it breaks the Terms of Agreement, learn to live with it or find another game that lets you customize to the best of your ability.

Those complaining about the ban's, everyone agreed to the ToA(ToS) to when you still do it and know its is wrong, there is just saying for y'a

"If y'a do the crime, you GOT to do the time." don't beotch out, just take in on the chin and don't do it again.

[Willias]

Fuck me you people are so self-righteous it's pathetic. Something you call "cosmetic" is literally taking money out of Blizzard's pockets, because if you wanted a dwarf mage instead of your current human one you would either pay Blizzard for a paid race change, or you would pay Blizzard in terms of actually logging into the game and playing to level a dwarf mage, which contributes to their MAUs. If you use a hack engine to replace your human mage with a dwarf mage, you're avoiding both of those legitimate ways to accomplish what you want.

Blizzard, as a publically traded company, literally cannot allow widespread undermining of one of its avenues of revenue generation. If a shareholder were to ask why micro transaction revenues were down and Blizzard responded "oh yeah some losers wanted to see big cartoon tits on their WoW characters and as a result have also avoided using race changes or level boosts, but we're 100% okay with people undermining the integrity of our game engine and client because they said it's just cosmetic" that shareholder would sell, investors in general would see that as Blizzard not actually being committed to profit, and things would go downhill very quickly.

You can argue as much as you want about whether you think the current prices for race changes are justifiable or anything else. But, while those services still exist and while your only other option is contributing to Blizzard's MAUs, they're absolutely within their rights to ban you, regardless of your little sad anecdote about how ethical the reverse engineering community is.

Eh, Blizzard's primary form of income from WoW is still likely subscriber numbers, and if that isn't their primary source of income from this game, you have a lot more to worry about than titty mods.

From what I've seen of the scene, people mod their characters into things that wouldn't normally be available via other methods. Can't race change your character into a naga for example, but I know I've seen mods do that, and you certainly can't level up your character's proportions.

And you can mock the WoW-porn scene all you want, but it's oddly a sign of a game's longevity. When it dries up, it's usually a sign that the game is, well, fucked.

[SinR]

Imagine going on Reddit and complaining you got permabanned from WoW cause you made your Kul'Tiran girl have a giant dong

[furydeath]

It wasn't against Terms of Service in vanilla so we can do it in classic right :F

[tripleh]

My guess is the number of players using this is really high. That blizz had to rethink the banning, due to the sheer numbers. There at risk of loosing more subs, with activision laying workers off. Would put more of there coworkers at risk of being cut.

[lialcw]

Haha. I do mods for restoring old models. Now they are going to ban mods? Old models must kill blizzard's mom.

[Lime]

Funniest thing about this was people posting screenshots of completely empty Lion's Pride Inn on RP servers

Didn't happen. People were posting screenshots of the inn on non-RP realms, but labeling it as an RP realm's Inn.

The joke was that everyone on RP realms were using it. The reality is that those places were still completely packed.

- - - Updated - - -

Tmorph users would like to have a word with you.

There was never a mass tmorph ban. Countless people have used it and never been banned, including streamers on stream. I'm not even convinced anyone ever got banned for it, considering there was never evidence of it beyond some random Joe potentially fearmongering.

[seleri]

Haha. I do mods for restoring old models. Now they are going to ban mods? Old models must kill blizzard's mom.

I doubt they really care if you edit your models to look like the old ones or give your orc bigger boobs (which is what a lot of people use it for) or basically anything aesthetic. Pretty sure they just don't want people using it to gain some kind of game advantage, even if it's as minor as making herbs/ore giant to see them from far away, but since there's no way to efficiently distinguish between the two (from what I understand) then it's all banned.

It would be nice if there were some officially whitelisted model edits, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.

[lialcw]

I doubt they really care if you edit your models to look like the old ones or give your orc bigger boobs (which is what a lot of people use it for) or basically anything aesthetic. Pretty sure they just don't want people using it to gain some kind of game advantage, even if it's as minor as making herbs/ore giant to see them from far away, but since there's no way to efficiently distinguish between the two (from what I understand) then it's all banned.

It would be nice if there were some officially whitelisted model edits, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.

You have no idea what you are talking about. I didn't do any models editing. I did db2 edits since old model FILES are still in the client.