Originally Posted by Sasky
There are some scripts (which likely violate the TOS) that you can find online and use to extract assets from the compressed data files.
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Which is pretty absurd in my opinion - these files are not protected in any way other than legal rubbish. They could've been just zipfiles, or ZOS could've given addon developers an unpacker. Instead, people waste their time reversing data formats, writing their own unpackers (the simplest of which doesn't even need reversing anything). And as Sephiroth wrote, addon developers waste their time reinventing the wheels that are already there, so they have less time to develop something new for ESO.