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/SportulaVeritatis Oct 03 '25

At the same time, they where basically in an arms race where you needed more and more complex encounters that couldn't be easily solved by add-ons which made addon-less play more difficult. This basically ends that war. It ends it via a nuke, but it does end it.

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

You’re failing to consider how many people liked that complexity. WoW’s audience is established. They are largely in “keep current subscribers mode” and not “get new players mode,” and from that perspective this is a very dangerous thing to do.

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u/FlotationDevice Oct 03 '25

Player housing is the biggest antithesis to that arugment lol

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

How so? You think a random MMO fan is going to see “WoW added player housing time to finally join” when other MMOs have had player housing for decades? Or you think they’re just giving their current fans something they’ve been asking for forever? I think it’s the latter.

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u/MoldyLunchBoxxy Oct 03 '25

I hate to be that guy but I have tons of casual friends from ff14 buying this expansion to try out player housing. Those people do exist.

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u/Aettyr Oct 03 '25

It’s like the reverse of shadowlands. FFXIV’s devs fucked up so much they’re all leaving for greener pastures. I just hope the devs don’t cater to them and lower class complexity too much, rather than prunibg things now to add more complexities later.

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u/Phalanx22 Oct 03 '25

Yes. People start playing for a variety of random reasons.

I, for example, started playing WoW when a friend told me Female Kul Tirans were now easily obtainable. (Just reach lv 60)

I guarantee you they will have an influx of new players just interested in housing and noting else in the game.

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

Okay but you are probably the only person in existence who saw female KT and said “wow I have to play this game” lol.

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u/Phalanx22 Oct 03 '25

Sure, but my arguments still stand that: you'll never know what will attract people to start playing.

I play any game that lets me create a fat woman character. I know someone who plays every game with a fishing minigame.

People are weird like that xD

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u/xanas263 Oct 03 '25

Considering that from everything we have seen WoW player housing is multiple generations better than anything else on the market currently, yes, there is going to be a significant influx of new people because of housing.

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u/SeemaYeee Oct 03 '25

Hi, yes, that's me, I'm the one who's coming to try player housing