[Addon] Jamba - An assistant for multiboxers. Old Thread

[Fizzler]

This has probably been brought up before, but does Jamba constitute "illegal automation"?

Blizzard has made it so you cannot do "illegal automation" in World of Warcraft Addons (addons have to behave according to Blizzard rules). Other software programs that are not addons need to be approached very carefully. Jamba is a WoW addon. Using any WoW addon is fine and shouldn't get you into trouble.

Edit: If Blizzard want to stop certain addon behaviour, they usually change the wow api code that addons can call.

That's not true. There are many things that one could do with addons that are illegal. The scripting system is of course made in such a way that these possibilities are minimized, but you can definitely be creative enough to get yourself banned.

Some examples of addons that might get you a ban:
- An addon that gathers names of players (or other info) and saves it into settings files (just like the auctioneer tool saves its statistics). (datamining is illegal)

I was under the impression that data mining is when you exploit the data in a stream that is not already available to the public. Auctioneer is not showing you information that is private or privy only to Blizzard it is only organizing that public information for you. At least that is the way I understand it, perhaps I am wrong.

Either way Blizzard has left it general enough to take whatever action they deem necessary.

now back to talk of Jamba!