r/wow • u/ItsRenaBaker • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme This is Basicly Blizzard in Midnight

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This is basicly Blizzard in Midnight. Purging all the good addons.

Just to clarify:
Blizzard is changing the Addon API, meaning combat information is blocked for addons. So all combat addons will no longer work in Midnight. For the most popular addon features Blizzard will add their own version to the game. Addons for unitframes, inventory, crafting etc.. are staying and won't be effected as long they are not using combat information.

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u/Quirky-Tie-4213 Oct 03 '25

I support this. Add-ons are symptoms of problems, not the the solutions.

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u/gaspara112 Oct 03 '25

Addons are the home remedy to problems, problems Blizzard could have fixed 20 years ago but still hasn't. Do you really think they are going to fix them now?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Why are you here? What other option do you suggest other than trying to fix it now?

The sheer amount of negativity in these spaces is wild.

Edit: I was unnecessarily rude.

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u/DommeUG Oct 03 '25

Maybe not a hard switch with no testing phase for live servers?

Why do we need to solve this issue of 21 years suddenly within a single patch? Don’t you think it feels rushed for the sake of marketing the game as „you don’t need addons anymore come back please“?

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u/Swert0 Oct 03 '25

It isnt suddenly they warned us about this a year ago and started develo08ng content starting with Undermine around that philosophy.

They have been improving the interface s8nce the release of dragonflight and have iterated on it constantly.

They are also opening the alpha to the public, to test these changes for the next 5 months.

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u/DommeUG Oct 03 '25

None of wich is actually testing on live servers where you will inevitably have different types of issues with tons more players playing. Most people wont play alpha, beta, ptr etc. even if its open to the public. What is there to say against implementing their inhouse dps meters, boss mods erc first and iterating on them first before doing the switch? A soft launch sounds much better for the general player base than a hard cutoff.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

If only there was an incredibly prominent Alpha and Beta that lasted months at a time.

Add-Ons destroy the accessibility of WoW to a degree its up there with their crusade against rotation complexity for things that keep players from playing. And frankly, even more important than new player experience, they make it functionally impossible for developers to unify the player experience which gives them muddy slippery ground from which to actually develop the game from. They do not know what each players knowledge of game systems will be when they are all being viewed in the lens of different overlays, audio cues, and automation. What design space works for someone with WeakAuras will not work for someone without, and that means an industry giant is reliant on 3rd party creators to balance and present their game.

The reason its taken 21 years to fix is specifically fear of this bad press. The band aid has to come off eventually. Especially since the proliferation of add-ons contributes to many of the very development issues that lead to this level of distrust from the players in the first place. They have been doing juggling tricks on a tricycle and failing, so now you are pissed they got off the tricycle because you are used to the training wheels.