Quote Originally Posted by 'ElectronDF',index.php?page=Thread&postID=216304#p ost216304
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.
GCP does not decide anything for you.

I'd like to confirm that we don't use any run-time information from WOW. The only things that can affect the decisions are things that the user tells GCP, through keyboard and mouse. GCP is not using any "forbidden" information. GCP also does not add functionality, only makes it easier to access the functionality which is already there. We have been very careful to make sure that GCP does nothing illegal.

The functions we use in the addon (targeting, casting) etc are simply using features that Blizzard have supplied as part of their secure execution environment. They did this to ensure that those functions are only initiated by a key press. We do not change macros in combat, but it is perfectly legal to change targets in combat. We use a Blizzard provided feature for that. If Blizzard did not want people to do that, surely they wouldn't provide the function. I accept that using "illegal" stuff is bad, but I would argue that there is no issue with using everything that is provided.

GCP only issues 1 key per character for each user input key. We are not breaking or bypassing any Blizzard mechanisms, or Blizzards intentions in making the mechanisms that way. Our scripting functionality is quite restricted by the limitations imposed by Blizzard, but thats the rules of the game and we have no problem with it.

I accept that we write 1 addon to the addon directory. There are no directory or file deletion instructions in our code - anywhere in our code. We only ever overwrite things. We do this because the addon is the "receiving" part of our macro upload. It's not essential to GCP, but it does provide access to parts of Blizzards UI that provide some handy features. If this is seen as a problem, we could provide a version of the program that requires manual update, for those who prefer it.

The reason Blizzard banned the mods you are talking about is because they auto selected targets. We don't do that.

I fail to see why giving people access to multi boxing as a problem. I disagree with the assumption that because people are not "tech heads" that they are idiots. I would like to see more people multi box. I completely disagree with the fact that we should keep multi boxing restricted. I think the more people that multi box, the better it is for all of us. If we could become remove our "trivial numbers" label (a Blizzard quote, or at least paraphrase) then maybe game companies would do more for us.

I will re-iterate. GCP does nothing illegal. It provides no "extra" functionality. It simply makes the full functionality provided by Blizzard more accessible.

Phil