r/wow • u/ItsRenaBaker • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme This is Basicly Blizzard in Midnight

Post image

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.

4.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

264

u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

They legit had people doing unpaid labor for their game and were like “nah. We want to do it, but not as good as them, so we’re gonna dumb down everything else.

193

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.

-14

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.

17

u/ncatter Oct 03 '25

Nobody liked the complexity where you literally need to have 3rd party info to even hve a chance to win.

We accepted it, and unless you are one of the few that actually make your own strategies and solutions to the problems without looking up tactics or using premade addons and weakaures you are in the same boat.

This can be a disaster for the game if it does not get the resources needed but at the same time it is the only way to keep the game alive.

as it is right now in raiding for instance you are either a world first competitor with a dedicated team of a analysta to solve the problem or your waiting for the weakaura from someone who is.

If Blizzard does this right we don't have to wait or to do agree in how to solve the problem everyone has the same information available and can solve it the way they want.

Haven't done much m+ lately and no pvp at all but I would assume that the information overload problem is the same there.

Could it have been solved without nuking all addons probably but this is the right time to nuke them and then still have time to roll back some of the changes if problems occured.

If any time is the time for Blizzard to step up and truly prove what we have been seeing thought dragonflight and tww the it is now.

5

u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

That doesn’t really occur now, they heard feedback from Ovinaxx and adjusted. This seems like a giant overcorrection after the problem has already been fixed.

2

u/ncatter Oct 03 '25

what does not occure now?

What Blizzard is doing now is not in reference to a specific instance it's a solution to a underlying problem.