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Originally Posted by Donkey Hotay
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Here's some irony that only GINA users are capable of understanding:
This project is in part possible due to preserved logs from the classic era.
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Originally Posted by kylok
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Pardon me, but I would argue that you, and people who share your opinion, are upset about a YouTube video in which you saw real time graphical overlays. I, like most other players here, had no idea this existed before seeing this video. I highly doubt that another player using this program drastically impacts your gameplay experience. I have never in my tenure on this server been asked before joining a group or guild, as a condition of joining, if I used a log parser. I'd argue that the vaaast majority of players not only do not care about this topic, but are completely unaware of it as well since the impact on gameplay is so small. An attentive player can keep track of their own buffs/spells/raid mob cooldowns without this program.
Would you please explain to me how having these timers and alerts provides an unfair advantage to a player since they utilize information that is made available to every player?
And to be clear, I do not and have not ever used this program - I'm attempting to defend this on principle.
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They’re 3rd party programs that read game data and use said data to display information in real time that was not intended to be easily displayed by games chosen UI.
If altering the UI on Green could be considered cheating, GINA is 100% cheating.
Like I said, you can rationalize it all you want. Most cheaters do.