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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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Imagine there was a racing league that for some reason decided to ban rear-view mirrors. So none of the cars have rear-view mirrors anymore. Then some enterprising fellow rigs up a mirror on a small flying drone and syncs it up to float perfectly in the car where the rear-view mirror would normally be, giving the driver the full function of a rear-view mirror.
Would that be cheating?
Because that is basically GINA in a nutshell. It's adding capabilities that were deliberately removed from the client for being unclassic. But people say this is ok because they aren't actually PART of the game or the UI. They just float on top of it. Sort of like a rear-view mirror that isn't attached to the car, but just floats inside of it where the mirror would normally be.
I think it's rather obviously that this grossly violates the spirit of the law, even if is technically within the letter of the law ("does not modify the client"). This is why I think the correct argument against GINA does not hinge on whether or not it technically violates the prohibition against client modification, but simply that it is UNCLASSIC AS HELL and does not belong on the Green server. Because nobody back in the day was using real-time log readers to place floating GUI elements overlaid onto their EQ screen. NOBODY. It did not exist. It's unclassic as all get-out and the people advocating it know that. Keep it on Blue. It doesn't belong on Green.
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I don't care about people wanting to get rid of it, but argument is painfully disingenuous. This isn't in any way unclear, GINA was never a secret, this is far, FAR from the first time people have stated this opinion on these boards. It's simply something you don't like that you want to get changed. Get out of here with the "spirit of the rule" garbage, it doesn't mean anything when the devs have known about it for years and outright stated GTG. At any time they could have walked right over and said "GINA is banned, have a nice day".