A Tribute to Addons: TooltipWealth
Heartbourne on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 12 Comments Tags: a tribute to addons, tooltipwealth A Tribute to Addons is a column featuring new, cool, or useful addons. Send a tweet to @Projectlore with your suggestions, or leave a comment.
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Today, I'd like to share a questionably moral addon. Its called TooltipWealth, and it might reveal more information about your fellow players than they are willing to share.
One of the features of the Achievements system is that it tracks various statistics about your gameplay. For example, it remembers the greatest amount of gold that you have ever held and how much gold you have acquired over the lifetime of your character. This is interesting data, but not just for the player. Pretty soon after the achievements system hit live realms with patch 3.0, gold spammers started using the achievements interface on the Armory to target wealthy players to buy gold or to find poor players to sell gold. It was promptly removed from the web interface of the Armory. Players can still view this data in their statistics tabs of the achievement pane in-game.
Well, TooltipWealth comes and blows the top off of all of this. Using the achievement API, the addon queries the server for wealth data from the server for any player that you mouse-over and displays it in their tooltip! You can choose to display the most gold they have ever held, or how much gold they have handled. These numbers can be significantly different; a player who spends a lot of time buying and selling on the auction house may have only held 20,000 gold at one time but traded hundreds of thousands. It can be configured to show only players from your faction, and only in capitol cities. It is very prying, as you can see level 80s who have only held around 1,000 gold, and it also reveals the super-rich who have at some point held several dozen thousand gold.
I don't know how useful it is, but it definitely raises some questions and provides some entertainment. Do you think the addon has gone too far, or is there no right to privacy about wealth in WoW? It could be useful; for example, a suspicious person who is identified as very wealthy could be attempting to scam you. I will continue to use it, and chuckle at passersby in Dalaran
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Reader Comments (12)
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cool addon
I Guess the 50 gold please days are over for me =(
Joking, i think it's pretty nice but maybe some people dont like it.
i dislike this addon, if u want to keep your money secret thats your choice
Dur, bad? Really. Basically it gives anyone looking to hack/scam their way into accounts and simple and easy way of picking marks. I've seen similar mods for various games, and the results are always the same. I'd call for Blizzard to ban it as they obviously saw fit to remove those stats from public access.
I have to agree with Cuppincakes, This addon is not appropriate under any circumstance and should be removed as well as any of the API querys than can lead to this kind of information being leaked.
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Urziel - 80 Warlock
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While I view addons in general as a positive, this addon is quite intrusive and should be rendered inoperable by Blizzard ASAP.
I see it all before me.. Hackers get the tool target people of wich they suspect may have alot of gold and choose their targets accordingly.
And of course no one has to know how much gold i have, because due to that, "friends" can turn into leechers in a blink of an eye..
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Add-on sucks.
But we are in the age of information. We just can´t avoid it.
Get used to loosing your privacy
Personally, I think this is an invasion and dangerous.
Invasion: Noobs looking for a quick gold or two will constantly hit you up for gold with this addon. I, myself, have been verbally attacked by such noobs until I put them all on ignore because they saw my gold holdings and demanded I share. Last I saw, we were not playing a communist game.
Dangerous: Gold farmers and hackers will see your toon and make it a point to try to hack your account to get it. It becomes an incentive for them.
Yes, this addon helps settle arguments among noobs as to who among them has more gold, but the wrongful application of this addon far outway the "niftiness" of it.
My 2 CDN cents.
TooltipWealth brought to you in part by JustHackMe addon, 100% account information for 100% theifs...
Tune in next week when we show you how to know the account login name and password just because we have a glitch in our system.
(/sarcasm)
Bad addon, even if the hackers can't tell your account log in from it it still does add to the annoyance of "please sir may I have some more" level 1 alt rolling/begging... now if only I can remember the name of that addon that lets you block all whispers from people below level x, that was the most usefull addon to not be pestered by level 1 warriors who want to "help you get to 40 by the end of the night".
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