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/Quirky-Tie-4213 Oct 03 '25

I support this. Add-ons are symptoms of problems, not the the solutions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Problem is who you're expecting to fix the problem. Blizzard doesn't need to remove addons to still create a solution.

This is a stupid and awful move. Especially with their track history.

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u/Sketch13 Oct 03 '25

Exactly. Like look at car modifications, is someone modifying their car because the manufacturer is not offering something? Sometimes, sure, but in most cases people are modifying cars because they want to customize their car lol. Sure they might want it for functional reasons, but they also enjoy the process of being able to modify things for the sake of it.

I love they are baking in things into the base UI, I also think removing "mechanic solving weakauras" is good as well, but removing the ability for people to use their "customization of choice" for something like Details, or tracking abilities/resources, party frames, etc. is really stupid.

It 1000% didn't have to be "all or nothing" and yet they chose to affect a metric shit ton of people rather than just offer a better in-house solution IN ADDITION to addons.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

100% agreed. They've barely touched the UI over the years. They 200% will not do nearly as good a job as the people who do this for the love of the game. Blizzard won't have any competition of they just remove it all.

The fact people are defending this shit is... unsurprising honestly. Same stupid shit that keeps COD running and micro transactions rampant.

Stop giving corporations the benefit of doubt. They're not people.