Thank you to all who answered to the survey so far.
To clarify some of your questions, and answer to your comments.
I use yes and no to the questions as I don't want deeper answers to this small part of the paper, since I have to consider very limited time. You are only required to answer the first 3 questions - so if you do not have an answer to some of the other questions because you do not play the game it refers to - you simply don't answer.
Ventrilo and TS are not addons. They are programs which functions by themselves. TS Overlay is an addon to Team Speak which functions in games - but is not an addon to the game.
I have chosen to look at Guild Wars and MU Online because theese games have very few to no addons. Only cosmetic to GW right?
I have chosen WoW because this is the game with most addons yet. They have clearly chosen to be very open towards addons allready in the design state.
To clarify:
An addon is additional elements or features made for a game or a program which functions without such additionals. Anything that comes with the game as you install it - or which are updates made by the game developers are not addons.
3rd party programs are programs that runs next to the game, theese are not addons.
Mods go a step further than ordinary addons as theese are changes to the game itself. For instance have NWN2 released a DVD with mods made by players - worlds which functions as games by themselves.
Last edited by Zazkia; Dec 08, 2007 at 10:55 AM // 10:55..
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