Blizzard's World of Warcraft add-on policy change

Blizzard says no to money-grubbing app developers.

World of Warcraft is insanely popular, and not only do over 11.5 million players subscribe to it, but there's also a huge amount of mods for the game too.

With the modding and add-ons for the game that add functionality, there's also a few mods that take the 'fun' out and replace it with advertising, donation requests and lots of other distracting (and at times annoying) things.

Blizzard have just recently decided that they won't stand for that, and that any add-on should be free and actually improve your experience ingame, releasing a list of revised rules for the add-ons.

We had a huge look at the game, blog-style, and didn't find the add-ons to be too bad, but rules is rules, and they're now updated.

These updates are as follows:

• 1) Add-ons must be free of charge.
• 2) Add-on code must be completely visible.
• 3) Add-ons must not negatively impact World of Warcraft realms or other players.
• 4) Add-ons may not include advertisements.
• 5) Add-ons may not solicit donations.
• 6) Add-ons must not contain offensive or objectionable material.
• 7) Add-ons must abide by World of Warcraft ToU and EULA.
• 8) Blizzard Entertainment has the right to disable add-on functionality as it sees fit.

It's a good move on their part, and should make it more enjoyable for the WoW players out there - just be ready for a few apps to be removed if they won't comply with the updated rules.