oFollow Discussion

[MiRai]

For everyone who is interested... at the moment, oFollow comes with a one time cost of $30 and a warning label stating "use at your own risk".




I'm going to let all you others try it out first.

[zenga]

oFollow comes with a one time cost of $30

I was under the impression one could not charge for addons according to the WoW ToS?

[MiRai]

I was under the impression one could not charge for addons according to the WoW ToS?

The way to get around this is by charging for the program and providing the add-on for free (e.g. Zygor leveling guides).

[zenga]

The way to get around this is by charging for the program and providing the add-on for free (e.g. Zygor leveling guides).

So they basically charge for a self-extracting exe file, but the one purchasing can legally spread the actual addon around?

[MiRai]

So they basically charge for a self-extracting exe file, but the one purchasing can legally spread the actual addon around?

Zygor's guide is strictly an add-on, but they're charging for the guide portion of it. If you know someone who has access to the Zygor add-on, then yes you can just install it and go. Whether that's "legal" or not, I have no idea and I won't pretend that I know the answer to that.

As for oFollow, it obviously looks like it relies on an external program to do some type of calculation for you, so I doubt you could just install the add-on and be able to use /follow as usual.

As per whether oFollow breaks the TOS is unknown at this point, so I have no issues discussing it until we find out more about it; but as the oFollow site states: Use at your own risk.

[Jafula]

As per whether oFollow breaks the TOS is unknown at this point, so I have no issues discussing it until we find out more about it; but as the oFollow site states: Use at your own risk.

As far as I am concerned it breaks TOS;

It is replicating something Blizzard removed. That's generally not a good idea.
It has to read game/screen memory (hence instructions for setting scale). That's what bots do.
It has to send movement keys that are not initiated by a human. Goes against Blizzard blue posts of what key presses are ok / not ok.

I wouldn't recommend anyone use this.