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This.

Also, I'm disappointed in CCP Stillman's lack of understanding of the cognitive dissonance induced in people that love this game enough to never want to violate the EULA.

Vague promises about "it won't be enforced" aren't really reassuring.

Pretty much the identical concern I initially had. <3 My CSM

ok well im disabling eve mon's uploader dont want to get banned

You've mentioned EVEMON by name, now how about ISBOXER? Does using it breach EULA/ToS through keystroke broadcasting, mouse click broacasting, dll injection? Are players allowed to control multiple accounts from one user interface using broadcasts?

That would be great, but we were previously told in forum posts, that we wouldn't be busted because it wasn't against the EULA.

We're now being told that it's against the EULA and (in a forum post) we won't be busted. Oh also that forum posts by devs should be disregarded as official policy, in favour of what's in the EULA.

So next logical step is...

I'm going to stop cache-scraping as soon as I can disable the feature in EveMon. Unfortunately I've already been breaking the EULA - and the amnesty expired 3 days before the announcement.

Also this is arguably the most important point of today's announcement - but isn't in the dev blog - it's only on the linked Wiki page.

I'm sorry that this is how it's perceived. However the intent of clarifying this is to address in all honesty what our EULA says about specific items.

Our EULA is what it is. But if we were to make arbitrary exceptions to the EULA, that makes the EULA worthless. Misleading the player base about what the EULA entails is dishonest. We'd much rather explain what the EULA states and how it applies to different things.

But you have to remember that enforcement is an entirely different beast. I know what Team Security is tasked with, as do all of you because we discuss it and details about it on a regular basis. We focus on botting and RMT, and now also client modification used by known bots.

For years, CCP have been saying "cache scraping is OK". Then out of the blue we get a dev blog and wiki page telling us exactly the opposite: cache scraping is banned and CCP can ban you for doing it. Then, in the comments thread accompanying the dev blog, we get a dev saying in effect "it's banned and we can ban you for it, but we probably won't".

That's not exactly clarifying the situation to me.

I have a personal interest here: I have both written a market cache scraper and also run a website that uses scraped market data. Now, after investing years of development effort into both having been told it's OK to do so, CCP suddenly tell me I could be banned for it? That's not pleasant.

And there are many more people out there who've invested way more time and effort into developing third-party applications than I have.

It might seem like nitpicking, but when you've made a heavy investment into a game, suddenly being threatened with a ban for it rather makes one want to seek as much clarity as one can.

Perhaps you think the EULA is clear. To most people the EULA has been vague enough for them to continue with these activities in the hope that they were in a 'grey area'.

This is the first time it has been spelt out, and action threatened.

Muscaat spells it out nicely above.

I'm turning my evemon market uploader back on now that this clarification is out.

Edit: Thanks for the answer. :)