NIRN AUCTION HOUSE

OPacemaker

Is the Nirn Auction House add on against any ZOS rules?
Am I able to use it without any further "legal" problems?

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=1768#info

Best regards,
OPacemaker

Saturnana

Anything that can be made or achieved through the API that ZOS released themselves, is allowed. If they don't approve of an add-on's functionality, they'll generally change the API instead of taking action against the add-on (or its maker). Allowed and safe are two different things, though, and when this particular add-on was first released (halfway through 2017), it triggered all sorts of virus warnings for several people. I've been told that has been fixed and taken care of, but I remain suspicious.

Turelus

From my understandings it's not against the TOS, however as Insane said it's always been treated with suspicion because it requires a stand alone .exe to work.

starkerealm

From what I know, this one falls, very solidly, under, "use at your own risk." If someone does figure out how to exploit vulnerabilities in the system to scam you, you're completely out of luck.

Dolgubon

lnsane wrote: »

Anything that can be made or achieved through the API that ZOS released themselves, is allowed. If they don't approve of an add-on's functionality, they'll generally change the API instead of taking action against the add-on (or its maker). Allowed and safe are two different things, though, and when this particular add-on was first released (halfway through 2017), it triggered all sorts of virus warnings for several people. I've been told that has been fixed and taken care of, but I remain suspicious.

Nirn auction house, and TTC are not however solutions achieved through the API. I believe TTC asked ZOS prior to creating the .exe, but I'm not sure about nirn auction house. Regardless, for both the .exe file doesn't interact with the eso .exe so there isn't an issue with the TOS. But you should still be careful of any .exe files from a security standpoint.

Kelces

Someone mentioned it contains an ".exe"-file. That suggests at least some testing is needed yet to confirm there is no malware.

That aside, it should be completely legit. As far as I understand, this addon simply provides automation of the mail system to conduct trade. Just like if you were trading through a regular chat, like zone for example, it takes away the necessity of conversation and goes straight to the wares to be traded.

I have seen such a systen, though without an exe file, that simply provided a seperate platform to do RP with, where information was only visible for other users of the same addon, just like this one does.