| Originally Posted by avhmia |
| The problem with windower, though, is that it is fed by a very progressive mentality. It started with people being frustrated that SE gave them no way to window, so they made a way. Then you couldn't see party TP and alliance MP, so they made a way. Then you couldn't tell distance from target, so they made a way. Then they didn't like the macro length restrictions, so they made a new macroing system. Creeping, it goes further and further towards the gray areas. Already windower macros have been used to bot summoning/enhancing/healing skill ups. |
I hate to use slippery slope arguements, but in this case, I really think that it applies. What started as "I just want to be able to Alt-Tab the game" has turned into (for a lot of folks, but by no means all) "I just want to see my teammates TP" and "I just want to have something else count my shadows/help me find the sweet spot" or "I just want to have something to help with the boredom of magic skilling", etc.
Right now there is a guy developing (or rather who has developed) a very basic copy of Windower. But there are people bulling him about the fact that "no one" wants something so simple. Except that they do. A program that just allowed me to alt-tab with no other functionality (even if it's functionality that I can easily disable) would be fantastic. Even more fantastic would be SE wising up and just implementing it for themselves.