dek wrote:
It's against their EULA because they don't want to be held responsible if you break the game fucking around with the game files.
They could make it harder to do by using all proprietary file types and hiding them and naming them nonsense and stuff like that, but ultimately they can't do much to stop you from taking what is effectively "blood_elf_female.jpg" and renaming it "human_female.jpg" and having the game load that file instead on your machine.
The changes are purely local. I suppose they could use their phishing scanner to also do a scan of all your game files and report back irregularities, but that would probably take up a lot of time and trouble, and it would have to be extra sophisticated to recognize that you duplicated one of their own files to do the hack.
I have no idea what their scanner thing actually does, for all I know it already does this. I just don't see why they would bother. Their main concern is covering their asses from you breaking the game then blaming them. They put it in the EULA, and if you complain they get to not only not be liable, they get to ban you and get rid of the problem altogether.
They also have to leave themselves free to ban you if you change files that actually affects gameplay, eg. removing walls in AQ40, without spelling out in detail what modifications are allowed and which are not. I've never heard of anyone getting banned for model changing.
