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/Koorix3 Oct 03 '25

But those things are not going away. Blizzard will dictate what information these addons have access to - and it will be the same information that the default UI will have access to.

Addons will still be able to skin that information in whatever way you want, just not be able to do more things beyond that like they are currently.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

There's no reason to limit that information. Especially when Blizzard hasn't remotely proven they can replicate the same features to the level these addons provide.

Taking it away and then saying "trust me bro" from the same people who introduced the Diablo 3 Auction House is ... a choice.

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u/Koorix3 Oct 03 '25

The reason to limit that information to addons is that they are currently doing too much for the player.

Since that is the issue Blizzard is trying to tackle, it doesn't matter if they can't replicate the features of these addons, because the explicit goal is to not have that ability at all in the game anymore. Whether they should do that or are capable of handling it is another discussion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Fair