oFollow Discussion

[Owltoid]

I hear what you are saying, and surely if you formed the question like that you would get blank stares, but perhaps something like ....

"Is an addon that restores /follow functionality to BGs prohibited?"

That's not an accurate description. oFollow is not just an addon, but a combination of an external program and an addon. If it was simply an addon that used LUA code, I don't think you'd have anyone opposed. If it was just LUA code then you may have people saying Blizzard will remove the functionality in the future, but you wouldn't be accused of cheating (I am making that accusation of the users who use oFollow).

Now that it seems like the community has a decent understanding of oFollow, and that it does use an external program to interact with WoW and move toons accordingly, I support the "ban discussion of the product" bandwagon. It's a botting program - just not a very functional one.

BTW, the other site has a similar conclusion - Tim has stated that he believes it to be a botting program and it should not be used.

[Ualaa]

That's not an accurate description. oFollow is not just an addon, but a combination of an external program and an addon. If it was simply an addon that used LUA code, I don't think you'd have anyone opposed.

I agree, if the program is reading information from the game, and then acting upon it... it is something most of us should avoid, assuming we care about retaining our accounts.

But I wanted to point out, just because it is a program + an addon, doesn't make it automatically bad.

IS Boxer is both a program (which you pay for) and it generates wow macros/FTL/etc via its' addon.
Without the program running, your IS Boxer addon won't be much good.

Still, IS Boxer doesn't read anything from the game, and it sounds like oFollow does.
IS Boxer has no way of knowing if a spell fired off or not, if it was resisted or not, if your toons are in follow range when you issue the follow command, etc.

If oFollow reads anything from the game, that's too close to prohibited actions for me.