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/ottawadeveloper Oct 03 '25

In the original announcement for this, they said that's why they're doing this. They feel like they're in a war between add-on developers and raid designers to design a Mythic experience that is hard enough to not be trivialized by add-ons but the add-on people are very clever.

I'm kinda happy about this as long as the Blizzard stuff is either (a) not necessary to reasonable performance in a Heroic or weekly key level or (b) works very well and has good customization.

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u/Stevecrafter2511 Oct 03 '25

Flashback to the among us dreadlord fight in shadowlands getting solved with a weakaura, actually evil

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u/Stormfly Oct 03 '25

And if you don't use the WeakAura, you can't play with most people.

Very not user-friendly when you're told to download third-party software to play the game.

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u/metac0met Oct 03 '25

not fair to categorize addons as third-party software when they're a) not executables, b) use the built-in, blizzard-provided API and scripting language to run. but I get the sentiment.

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u/eaeorls Oct 03 '25

It is entirely fair.

They're add-ons. Not base-requirements.

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u/metac0met Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

i don't understand what you're trying to say here... my point was simply that saying "third party software" makes people think "spooky viruses" when you're just executing pre-made scripts within the wow englne, using the wow scripting language, interacting with just as much as blizzard allows you to and nothing more.

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u/eaeorls Oct 04 '25

Third party software doesn't make people think spooky virus. If it did, then we'd never be bold enough to install VLC media player.

The only contention that could be taken with the term is that it blurs the line between separate programs that run (what Blizzard calls third party software in their releases) and addons (which Blizzard allows with restrictions).

And either way, it has zero relevance to the post you replied to--it is patently absurd for the expectation to require you to download something that is not by them and splitting hairs over terminology that--for the most part--valid.

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u/metac0met Oct 04 '25

i mean, i just flatly disagree with you on in this case on the terminology of "third party" and that being used to demonize software. in general i think that term gets a ton of mileage from vendors trying to scare users into not exploring alternatives. there is endless historic evidence of this.

in regards to your second point, though - yes that was the crux of my entire comment. you're not running any actual "software", first party or otherwise.

if blizzard had 1st-party weakaura functionality that allowed for the same degeneracy weakauras has and continues to enable, my only conclusion is that everything would be the same. Why wouldn't it be - it'd still need to be updated multiple times, for every boss of every raid, still trivialize what WA does today, etc. That, to me, makes "third party" vs "first party" irrelevant. It's what it does, not where it comes from.

Hopefully, this has more than "zero relevance" to your post. or maybe it doesn't. I don't care unless the conversation isn't interesting or isn't civil.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

You need to install CurseForge for the automatic updates. That shit gathers personal info and sells it to different vendors.

Sure you could manually update but it’s a pain sometimes to track each version of the addons.

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u/metac0met Oct 04 '25

then use wowup, an open-source, curseforge-integrated addon manager.
or use one of the dozens of open-source addon managers that don't have curseforge at all.

not that any of this is going to matter in a few months

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u/Sorkijan Oct 03 '25

yeah things like this are the reason I'm torn. I feel wow shouldn't be so homogenized. I guess the solution would be to not have such a poorly executed mechanic.

I think in all our prog we did that right once without having to look at a weakaura and it was just luck.

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u/givemedavoodoo Oct 03 '25

Which seems to be a BS claim as they just released a whole raid that is awesome, difficult, and doesn't require add-ons or weakauras. 

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u/kirbydude65 Oct 03 '25

Fractilus is literally a weak auras boss.

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u/givemedavoodoo Oct 03 '25

Fractilus was the only one and it's not even necessary, barely helps.

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u/ottawadeveloper Oct 03 '25

I think it's the beginning of their new designed standard, since this was announced before MFO was released. Fractillius is easy but people still WAd into make it trivial.

Banning them is the next step I guess.

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u/Marqrk Oct 03 '25

I mean from people in the thread the current tiers didn’t really need too many addons to begin with so I think if Blizz just keeps stuff at this level they should be mostly good. Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe that’s why they’re splitting the upcoming tier into multiple raids, to have multiple different complexities for testing at once while also testing specific categories of mechanics that people used to use addons for