The Sword Cuts Both Ways

I’ve no idea about whether people charge for widgets, but I know I wouldn’t pay for them. Further, trying to force me to pay would remove any impulse in me to donate towards their development/maintenance.

If they want to be arrogant fucks, let ’em. Also, let ’em see how far the community supports them if they get lazy. This sort of thing is self-regulating, Judy, and I’m sure the majority reaction will be similar to yours.

The coolest part of the reaction will be when someone smarter and/or more dedicated to the game than these guys builds something better for free, and then innocently offers them the source so they can improve their own code. Oh, but sorry, they’ll have to adapt it and rewrite their code themselves. Cause it’s proprietary. Suckers.

I’m not sure about the legality of charging for scripts you’ve written to alter another company’s game’s GUI either.. but I suspect it’s borderline aboveboard. None of the content is WoW’s, right? It’s just a user-created body of code that calls WoW’s GUI API. Would it be illegal if more companies/games used WoW’s GUI API, and it could be applied to multiple games?