We can prohibit and warn against the use of software which we know without a doubt to contain components which violate the EULA. As EVE grows, so does the amount of third-party programs developed for EVE and we cannot realistically review and condone these tools on an individual basis and use of such programs is therefore done at your own risk. There are a lot of great third-party developers creating fantastic tools to supplement the EVE experience and this is all fine and dandy. Automating the mining portion of the game is obviously in violation of the EVE EULA so use of 'Hypothetical Software' would suddenly become a EULA violation despite prior endorsement by CCP.
#Isboxer eve eula update
Some weeks later, the developers of 'Hypothetical Software' releases an update, version 1.1, an update which adds macro mining functionality to the program's existing features. 'Hypothetical Software v1.0' is released to the joy of all and is eventually endorsed by CCP as a fine supplement to EVE the program is officially declared to not be in violation of the EVE EULA/ToS. Let us make an example to illustrate why: Use of third-party programs is, as outlined in Stillman's blog, done entirely at your own risk and we'll quite simply not be able to state outright that this software or that software can be legitimately used under the EVE EULA since they are after all third-party programs. I will make this very clear: CCP does not officially endorse ISBoxer or any other multiboxing software. Multiboxing software can however be in violation of the EULA.ĬCP can and will not officially endorse or condone specific pieces of third-party software and ISBoxer is no exception to this. Multiboxing is not inherently in violation of our EULA, a player is not breaking the EVE game rules by virtue of simultaneously operating multiple accounts alone. I encourage those of you who haven't read it to give it a look, this blog actually makes for great coffeetable reading and those of you who've already indulged may even want to print out your very own copy to share with friends and family! The dev blog also touched on the subject of third-party programs and I feel it is very relevant to the discussion in this thread. Hello ya'll, hope you're having a good day.ĬCP Stillman recently wrote a dev blog about client modifications and our stance towards them. Multibox away, my friends! And as always, Be a Good Citizen! TL DR: " Our policy on ISBoxer has not changed in a long time." And, as stated by CCP, this is effective regardless of whether some guy with his infinite wisdom believes that ISBoxer *must* be violating the EULA because it *looks scary*.
#Isboxer eve eula trial
So, to be clear, standard ISBoxer usage is not cheating, but if you go looking for hacks (such as one they mention in the dev blog) or try to exploit EVE trial accounts, or other illicit activity that we all know is against the rules, then you should expect trouble. Note that ISBoxer purposefully does not sandbox EVE's trial accounts (and has never). We only care about the instances where people are messing with for the purposes of cheating, and running multiple clients at the same time is not in violation of our EULA in and of itself unless it involves trial accounts". The important part is that as far as banning people goes, "unless we determine that people are doing things beyond “multiboxing”, we will not be taking any action. (But, we have always done our best to stay within the rules and will continue to do so! And, sometimes the details of how ISBoxer actually works are lost on people and they genuinely have no idea.) So that's fine, and nothing new - standard disclaimer. They can't do that because, from their point of view, whether it is against the EULA or not could change at any time and without notice to CCP. So first of all, as is expected from game publishers, they have to state that they have absolutely no control over any third-party software (including ISBoxer) and therefore cannot endorse or promote it, or specifically tell you that the software does not violate the EULA. We only care about the instances where people are messing with our process for the purposes of cheating, and running multiple clients at the same time is not in violation of our EULA in and of itself unless it involves trial accounts. But the same goes in this case, that unless we determine that people are doing things beyond “multiboxing”, we will not be taking any action. As such, we can’t say that multiboxing software isn’t against our EULA. Our stance on third-party software is that we do not endorse such software as we have no control over what it does. Some of the multiboxing software out there is powerful enough to count as “client modification” if used for that purpose.
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