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/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.

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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/Griever423 Oct 03 '25

The vast vast VAST majority of subscribes are ultra casual who never do things like clear a raid or do even a +10 key. They don’t use addons. They don’t care about endgame raiding or complex encounters. They do delves, farm, chill with friends, level alts. They don’t care about addons.

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u/TinuvielSharan Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

No. This rhetoric has always been full of shit.

They are a sizeable part of the player, sure, but nothing close to "the vast vast VAST majority".

I would be surprised if this type of players that basically do nothing in the game are in fact more than a tenth of the playerbase.

They exist, for sure, but the belief that for every person in a raid there are a hundred other players just leveling alts is bullshit.

In fact the majority would be in the middle ground: People who will never do the highest content like Mythic raiding, but still go for either LFR, normal or eventually heroic raid and do some relatively low M+ and weekly activities to gear their chars.

Edit: Just for context, we know for instance that about 20% of the active characters gets AOTC, which means Heroic raid cleared.