This game badly needs mods and macros.

This is where you're wrong. Third party software has everything to do with MY gameplay. I've already been in a Huttball match with Superman.

Mods are not a third party program, and they do not require a third-party program to install.

And, again, the exclusion factor is a very, very, very small portion of the community (i.e. hardcore, progression raiding guilds). And if you're a part of one of those, then you'll have a lot more stringent requirements to worry about than needing a few mods.

Any additions that alter how the game is played must also take into consideration a couple of very important things, namely what would these cost Bioware in revenue?

Creating an API isn't trivial, it means support costs go up, possibly more importantly it means they loose control of their creation, the direction of the game and it hasn't even been out a month...

Maybe when were on the forums and the date Jan 2013 we could revisit these discussions, but for now I for one am happy enough to play the game as is, which is wonderful and let Bioware gauge their income stream -- which from my view isn't tied to stealing players from older games, but drawing in the Star Wars fans and creating new gamers - who aren't dependent on macros or mods...

Any additions that alter how the game is played must also take into consideration a couple of very important things, namely what would these cost Bioware in revenue?

Creating an API isn't trivial, it means support costs go up, possibly more importantly it means they loose control of their creation, the direction of the game and it hasn't even been out a month...

Maybe when were on the forums and the date Jan 2013 we could revisit these discussions, but for now I for one am happy enough to play the game as is, which is wonderful and let Bioware gauge their income stream -- which from my view isn't tied to stealing players from older games, but drawing in the Star Wars fans and creating new gamers - who aren't dependent on macros or mods...

This is not third-party software.

Ok I think you have a different view of what a third party is than I do. I would think that I as a consumer and Bioware as the provider of a service or product represents two parties involved. Any addition to that specific make up represents a third party. From my perspective, any mod developers who aren’t specifically working for Bioware represent a third party.

With that I’ll end this by saying that you and I just aren’t going to find any common ground on our positions. I’m sure that we both will still have a high level of enjoyment playing the game in our own way. Good luck

Any software thats NOT part of the Game software IS third party.

Any software that's NOT part of the Game software IS third party. Whether HTML, XTML or otherwise.