Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[Thoosa]

No but surely they could do something server side or api side that doesn’t just allow people to throw files in on their pc and it says “yeah sure, I’ll render this cheat for you showing safe spaces on your screen”

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

No but surely they could do something server side or api side that doesn’t just allow people to throw files in on their pc and it says “yeah sure, I’ll render this cheat for you showing safe spaces on your screen”

Don't know how those work, I'm not even sure they use the same framework as what most add-on use, but I'm pretty sure you could just fetch some data in the computer's memory to get camera position, angle etc. so that you can use another software to draw AoEs and whatnot. Pretty sure that's what being done already, too.

It's not like mods, where you, as far as I know, actually change some data in the game files (or at least redirect them), because in that case, you just need to read your own VRAM/RAM, so yeah, you can't do that serverside unless you actually scan the computer itself.

[Thoosa]

Idk either, but I think Wow uses something in the battlenet launcher and they use an api to control things mods can access, but I don’t know if this is a big issue in WoW too.