Worse case scenario Al, alot/some of these mods are guaranteed to be shut down.

I personally would never pay for a mod, I would either rip it from TPB or find another mod that performs the same functions. I would be willing to bet that alot of these developers look at making these mods to a "job" so they feel they should be paid, as soon as that "pay for this mod" is taken away I'm willing to bet they jump ship either with OR without releasing the code to the public to continue on for free.

I don't think it will effect wowecon, as IIRC the premium features were contained within the website, not the addon?

Honestly, I'd have no problem with Blizz Strongarming WoWEcon around a bit.

Whenever you try to get a reading on a value for an item, you have to scroll thru 50-100 illegal private servers to get to your realm as it is.

I'd love to see them smack around ANY addon that is directly working with (especially their website) private servers. Especially if the operators are charging a fee for use of their addon.

I didn't mean to imply that I paid for the premium features - I always wanted to have them, but never felt compelled enough to pay for them. I agree that some of them might be shutdown....let's hope not.