Quote Originally Posted by raelgun View Post
Addons will be developed by outside sources away from SE, SE will have to approve it, but as something is developed by another person that goes through this method, any backlash doesnt fall onto SE, why do people think addons are just being developed by SE, they are developing the API for it, not the actual addons.

And regarding not mentioning it on forums, there was a huge thread a while back, and numbers were discussed, hell even the BLM buff that we saw was given as feedback from the playerbase reporting that they were falling behind other jobs in 2nd coil, no one was reported there at all, only those against parsers actually got warnings due to not being civil.

Also with that link you posted, ive seen it, and yoshi doesnt say you will get a ban from parsers, hacking tools yes, he clarified that for certain as you can hear, also, something of note, look at the description of that video, look whats on the link and thats a official interview.

To paraphrase "Our official answer to anyone using any 3'rd party program is no, don't do that, but we understand the pc gaming culture is going to do what it wants to feel competitive, so if you use a parser, be sneaky about it and don't let it be known" So did he say "you will get banned if you use a parser"? no. He did say that it was still against the rules, so do with that information as you may. And don't get me wrong, I'm all for parser's/meters and think the ideology behind why they're not used is encouragement to people to continue being bad instead of making themselves better players. But just wanted to point it out that parsesr are, in fact, against the rules.

As far as SE not developing, but approving addons, aren't we just arguing over semantics? Approval=control, whether they develop it or not.

And as far as the BLM thread, how do you know that no one was reported? I mean, is there a newsletter that I don't know about? You guys have a union meeting Tuesday nights after raid? Bad jokes, obviously, but unless an official source stated there were no actions taken against those admitting the use of 3'rd party tools, I'd like to be on the side of caution, personally.