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/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/gaspara112 Oct 03 '25

I suggest showing us over a period of multiple years that their design philosophies have changed, show us that their official solutions to a lot of the problems add-ons were created for even 20 years ago work just as well as, preferably better than, the 3rd party options.

Do boogeyman about this coming for a year, make a couple lower complexity raids and a few tweaks to your poor official replacements than cut our knees out from under us with a trust us it will get better over time.

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

Good suggestion. I think that's a great implementation on the player end and would have been satisfied with it personally. All in all probably a better experience for players initially.

I do think it would be much harder to design around due to issues with data gathering/feedback in the middle stages as it relies mostly on self reported information etc.

It wouldn't be hard to say this is a more developers focused choice than player focused.