oFollow Discussion

[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.