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Addons and rights
Anyone remember the mazzlegasm ? Two years ago there was an addon for World of Warcraft called MazzleUI which to advertise itself had your character /yelling "I've had an intense Mazzlegasm" across the entire zone, and many of the users of that addon didn't find that funny. WoW addons can do ...
Blizzard: No Charging For Addons
brokentoys.org — Announcement on the official forums Which sucks for these guys . (more) Blizzard: No Charging For Addons
Rights, Profit, Drama
brokentoys.org — The recent Blizzard add-on mess has brought up - in my mind anyway, as well as some others - some age-old questions about player rights in games through exposing a pretty core dichotomy in how people look at online games. On the one side, you have ... (more) Rights, Profit, Drama
Everything Blizzard Entertainment!
blizzplanet.com — Recently, Blizzard Entertainment added two job openings under the category titled Unannounced . I wrote an article about it a few days ago. We have now a few interesting bits concerning these job openings for a unannounced game. Update : March 24—The ... (more) Everything Blizzard Entertainment!
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Devs respond to addon changes
WoW.com — ... into the game soon (and Tobold makes a point that Blizzard may want addons to be worthless). As far as we've heard, there's no word from the folks ...

Episode 84 - Secret Special Ending
Channel Massive — ... accounts OnLive Announces Cloud Based Gaming Service.  Wow. Pong Creator Disses Online Gaming Chronicles of Spellborn in open beta SOE’s Smedley gives vague 2010 release date for DCUO and The Agency. Rumor: The9 may lose WoW in China SOE’s G.I.R.L. Scholarship Program - Hey SOE.  How about you up the ante a bit? Blog-O-Steria New policy on WoW Addons Addons and rights (via Tobald) Rights, Profit, ...

Add-on debate: Rawrcast mention
Of Teeth and Claws — A few weeks ago Blizzard released their revised add-on policy, which was instantly blasted by most members of the WoW community as being a negative change.   For a sample of the reaction, check out the near frothing-at-the-mouth insanity from the commenters at WoW Insider, or the more thoughtful reflections on Tobold's site and the Broken Toys blog. ...

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User Interface News – Add-ons Going Away?!?
brigwyn.com 3/25/2009 — I’m not so sure that this is completely true or not, but we are noticing that Blizzard is pushing back hard on Add-on Developers that charge for their add-ons. Recently they published a new add-on policy ( link ) This typically isn’t news worthy for us players, but this ...
Possible addon business modelsWoW.com
Ever since that new addon policy came to light, some addon devs are furious , and threatening to stop publishing their addons completely. But others are being a little more optimistic -- instead of shutting down their addons, they're trying to figure out new ways around Blizzard's rules in ...
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Ao poucos o wow está incorporando funcionalidades de addons ao jogo, (ex: gear manager, o tempo de wintergrasp e etc.), mas o outro dia, o wow insider linkou as novas políticas da blizzard para os addons , resumindo, seria algo assim: 1) É proibido cobrar, fazer propaganda ou solicitar ...
WoW UI AddOn Development Policy UpdateWoW Vault - The Ultimate Resource
The guys and gals over at WoW Interface have been in deep discussion over the new rules that Blizzard released on Addon development.Addons must be...