Everyone may have their own things that concern them about boxing. I am scared it will get taken away, since it is too much fun to give up. Things that scare me in general, decisions and access.
I think Blizzard is bothered by a program or even an addon that can decide things for you. Can you have a program that looks at screen pixels and sees when a player is getting hurt and makes a macro (outside WOW) to let you heal that person when their life gets to 50%? That seems like a lot of no. You have to decide who to heal. You have to decide when to do it. You can't modify macros in combat (I think that is right) so the same keypress heals differently (not talking about smart macros, I mean actually changing macros). I am not saying anyone or anything does this. Just saying things close to it scare me. So I guess I only want macros changed in WOW, not by an addon or program. I guess I would like a stupid scripting program so you can't do too much with it (too many "ifs" or loops, or changing targets within a keypress, etc.)
I don't like addon updaters. They make you sign in and have program that can change things. Sure I sound paranoid, but what if something goes wrong and they delete your addon directory on accident. Sure they say they are sorry, but does that fix it? I know how to unzip. I know how to copy a folder to another drive and folder. I know when I want to update addons (maybe I like that it works and don't want to screw things up--settings---until the next patch). The part to me is I am not sure if I want my addon or a program to have much if any access to my computer. They might check back into their servers if they want, but they shouldn't be able to see or change anything on my computer.
Just a little from the past. I loved an addon for buffs way back in the day. You pressed a key and it cycled through people you were in a group with. Push your key 5 times and bam, all party members were buffed. It had a timer that watched the lengths of the buffs and warned you, then you just pushed your key 5 times and done. No thinking, no worries, no problems. It even let you pick which buffs for which classes or chars (for pallies). Blizzard stopped the part where you could change targets in the addon with a keypress cause they didn't like the decursive addon being able to debuff people without people even paying attention. Just press a key and cycle through party members debuffing away. We can probably get around that now, but I just don't want to piss off the people that deliberaly took something out of the game for a reason. They probably won't like people doing something they specifically tried to stop.
I am just scared that people could do too much if you give them too many tools. It is fun to play with tools, but the idiots of the world can ruin it for everyone. I hope you have a sense of trying to idiot-proof this so it doesn't draw too much attention to boxers and make something go away.
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