over 1 year ago - Mike_W - Direct link

This isn’t something that we are prepared to make a lasting determination on at the moment. Modifying the gameplay experience in a competitive environment is not something that we will likely encourage. It’s a big topic with many different stages. There is probably a fine line somewhere in there that we could draw eventually. Unfortunately, detecting if software like this is being used responsibly vs used at all is almost impossible. For this reason, in some situations, the whole program gets banned as a result of the possible abuse cases.

I know that it doesn’t seem like modifying those things will change gameplay or present the ability to abuse mechanics but it can. It might not be used this way in game right now but allowing it now could preclude us from using the things it removes as game mechanics in the future.

So, for now, we will approach each instance case by case. As we are not in a competitive environment yet, detecting these types of things is not a high priority task. If a program like this were to come to our attention as problematic, we would likely start by providing warnings before immediately banning people.

This topic is extremely subject to change and this post in no way serves as permission to use these programs.

over 1 year ago - Mike_W - Direct link

How about, not in a reliably competitive environment yet?