Hey man -
Thank you so much for what you’re doing for the community.
I used to be the kind of player who wants his game in its most vanilla state, likely due to making sure my account won’t get compromised in any way.
When word about addons got popular, I was immediately skeptical of using them because there was never any official confirmation/announcement from IMC about their legitimacy. Sure, someone from the staff did respond in the forum but that’s something they could just easily delete at any time.
Now that issues about some addons playing on borderline acceptable are heating, I know whatever I’ll say won’t matter until I’ve actually tried using addons in the first place.
So I did. I broke my own rules, I’ve changed my stance on a lot of things in the game (e.g. what’s OK and what’s not), and installed addons using Excrulon’s addon manager which was super easy to use. 10/10 UX.
I loaded a few that had features which I deemed should have been in the game already and I gotta say:
TOS is better with addons.
At least until they officially integrate those features in the game.
That said, better shouldn’t mean having an advantage over other players which your “addon that shall not be named” appears to be doing.
I assume you’ve already informed IMC about this issue before but it’s either they thought this wasn’t much of an issue or they’re too slow with handling things.
I am not against you personally using it and whether you let the public know or not that you’re using it, but putting it freely accessible for the public now seems not OK.
While I understand that it was first unintentional then you making it public was due to the attacks of some greedy asses who wants everything free, I hope you’ll take some time to think about the consequences of this in the long run which as you said could include the banning of addons altogether.
It’d be for the greater good if you take out the “addon that shall not be named” from public access, maybe build another more acceptable addon based on it to improve some aspects of the game like a toggle option to make town NPC windows automatically appear when you go very near them.
Thanks for understanding, and for the awesome addons.