Addons, er det egentlig juks?

[Taykun]

Ifølge blizzards sider er IKKE noen som helst slags addons eller macroer ulovlige. Det som er ulovlig er third party tools. (programmer og prosesser som kjører _utenom_ WoW, og "hacker" spillet fra utsiden.)

 

En addon kan ikke gjøre noe annet enn å hente informasjon som blizzard har gjort tilgjengelig...og utføre handlinger som det allerede er mulig å utføre på vanlig vis, og gjennom bruk av macroer osv.

 

Hvis en "addon" teleporter deg rundt dit du vil, er det ikke en addon, da er det et third party tool, som er høyst ulovlig og slås ned på av blizzard. Bruk av third party tools resulterer i bann / utestengelse hvis man oppdages.

[geiran]

Sakser fra wow forum som gir glimrende forklaring:

 

UI mods fall into two categories:

 

Macros - these aren't really mods at all, but they can use LUA code to do neat things in game. These are found ENTIRELY inside the game, and the code is run by blizzard's interpreter, so they make the rules on what macros can an cannot do. Therefore, blizzard won't ban someone from using any macros.

 

AddOns - These are extra files, put into the WoW Interface directory on your hard drive which supplement the existing LUA and XML code that blizzard created that makes up the user interface that everyone uses.

 

Addons are made up of LUA files, and XML files, both of which are also run by blizzard's interpreter. Therefore, blizzard won't ban someone from using any addons.

 

3rd party programs are actual programs that get loaded into memory and executed using their own code. They run separate from the game similar to how ICQ or MSN Messenger runs in the background. The difference is that 3rd party hacks try to read, or change data coming into or out of the WOW game client(to the network card), or they try to read or write to memory space used by the Wow Game client.

 

Speed hacks, for example, often interfere with data flowing from the game client to the network card by intercepting the "i am here" signal that he game client sends to the server and making it seem that the player is moving faster than they should be. The server accepts this as truth because blizzard left it up to the game client to limit how fast you can go. (oops blizzard?) This strange design is caused by a need to let the game client do some of the work because the server is too busy to be expected to do everything.

 

Anyway, the distinction in 3rd party hacks is usually the fact that hacks run as their own programs and interfere with the game client.

 

Mods aren't anything more than REALLY extravagant macros.

 

(Note: Cosmos is known to have an external EXE file that gets run as it's own code - however, it doesn't interfere with the game client - in fact, all it does is download LUA and XML files, puts them in the right places, then QUITS long before the WoW game client even starts.)