ayyy LMAO xD xD xD xD
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Tbh IMC cant even know if ur using a addon if it is just client sided, i mean, a exp viewer just check the information in your pc not in the server so there is no way for iMC to know that ur using it.
Question is, how i rlly know that the addon maker didnt made anything restricted and will get my ass banned whiout me knowing it.
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That was sorta what I said in my post but everyone ignored it probably because I wrote a wall of text. Oh well lol
You’ll never know 
BEWARE THE HAMMER
If you haven’t seen it already @fiotedev :
Sweet delicious botter tears being shed here. Seems your cxAnywhere managed to get a bunch of botters banned by IMC. I’m proud of you.
Um. Yes? Absolutely. It’s not the addon developer’s fault for providing it to you at your own risk. It’s not IMC’s fault, because they’ve been clear that addons that offer convenience instead of unfair advantages are okay.
Let me put it this way. If I put up an obviously malicious addon. Label it “DO NOT USE, THIS WILL DELETE ALL YOUR CHARACTERS WHEN YOU LAUNCH THE GAME”. The next day there will be a dozen people asking IMC for their characters back. People are too stupid to read or think anymore.
If someone runs rm -rf / and nukes their system, we blame the luser, not the place they found the command.
I tend to write my walls of text as one connecting point. Pulling this one single point out sorta invalidates everything I said to counter one viewpoint that I’ve mentioned. But since reading is a difficult thing these days, people have chosen to ignore my key points here and pick apart “easy to argue” points taken completely out of context from the big picture.
However I’m not really having a debate with anyone here. It is what it is and you’re all free to disagree as you see fit. Since what I’ve claimed here has no evidence to back it up therefore it falls under opinion, I can’t realistically debate it with anyone so carry on.
It really doesn’t though. The whole essence of your post is basically “so many people are using addons that it shouldn’t be the responsibility of the users to know what they’re doing”.
I pulled that quote to respond to the open question which best fit the theme of your post.
The point of the post is that there isn’t always going to BE an “obvious” when people are choosing mods. I’m not a moron. I’m not going to make this giant wall of text just to say people aren’t at fault for choosing to use obviously suspicious / illicit mods.
The point was ‘grey’ areas and potential for things to exist in the mod code that people can’t understand that do other things than what the mod was advertised to do.
A lot of the current mods like exp viewer, map seem to be perfectly OKAY. But if you look at things from a future perspective, until loopholes and security issues are fixed, there’s a whole unknown variable here that leaves the safety of using mods in questions here.
You’re answering your own question Flan.
You’re right, that is a totally reasonable concern, and that’s why I’ll be inspecting the changes to addons before updating them, and recommending others do the same.
The whole issue is solved by erring on the side of caution; if a prospective user isn’t capable of fully understanding or evaluating a mod to make their own judgement on whether it violates the rules, they shouldn’t be using the mod at all.
The mod manager was written to consolidate and simplify the install and update process. The massive influx of clueless people jumping in and using things without understanding them is an unfortunate but inevitable side effect.
IMC not even banning people with add-ons. People are getting banned because Steam cracking down players abusing chargeback fraud.
So I’m not crazy to have these concerns. But when you have an overwhelming number of people cluelessly installing these add-ons, for the sake of the game’s future, it’s best to try to do SOMETHING to control it.
I’ve recently started looking over the add-on code as well. If we can find just one example of why there may be a security issue to people, it will hopefully calm down the large influx of clueless people installing any add-on that sounds “nice”. I’m really just concerned over this more than anything.
Exactly. If your worried about getting banned for using addons… dont use addons for now untill things settle down.
so now you know
Here is a rehash of this discussion from 2 years ago.
http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?29773-Scapes-Addons-YES-or-NO&highlight=addons
Here is a rehash of the AFK farm discussion and the vague/gray answers you will get from devs
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Please-a-clear-statement-re-AFK-farming/first
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Because I wasn’t trying to be an idiot when I posted this. I had a real legitimate concern here that was lost in translation. It might have been my fault for poor word choices or maybe I was just being overly paranoid. Oh well.
Yea, the fear mongering is real. I’ve been looking through the forums and no one has posted a legit source or picture that IMC is banning people specifically for using add-ons. All I’ve seen is people speculating that they got banned for using add-ons and attach a screenshot of a VAC ban notice. VAC ban = Steam ban. Steam ban =/= IMC ban.
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