Quote Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume View Post
Im not so sure. Yoshida said in one of the recent media tour interviews, when asked about an officially sanctioned race to world first event for EW, that for one to occur, third party tools would have to be hard cracked down on. Im paraphrasing of course, but he said it.
Do you have a link to that perhaps? Hard cracking down on third party tools means no discord communication, no excel sheets for BiS calculations, hell not even streaming because looking through vods lets you look for when mistakes happened.

Quote Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume View Post
The problem isn't the devs designing the encounters around the addons or not. It's that since they exist, a notable portion of the raiding community requiring them. Ive been gaming and working with software all my life and this is the first time I have ever seen a company allow software that modifies the code of the game running. These aren't xml UI mods. These are what's known as "trainers" in the industry. It's baffling that these have anything more than a zero tolerance policy.
But cactbot only reads packets, it's not modifying game code. Or are we talking about something else now?