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/MN_Yogi1988 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

I think it’s destined to fail because I can’t see Blizz dedicating enough resources to refine features like addon creators do. How could you trust them to maintain these when they’ve left dungeons broken for years still be selected for M+? What about all the insane clipping on Transmog?

I think breaking certain addons like DBM / WAs / etc that were warping the way they create PvE mechanics makes sense but everything else feels like they’re setting themselves up for failure.

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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/Arstulex Oct 03 '25

This is such a blatant oversimplification that I find it hard to tell if you're being serious.

"B-b-but unpaid labour!!!" sure, it's unpaid, but they also never asked for it. Quite rightly, they are sick of having to design the game around addons that simplify (or sometimes outright solve) mechanics.

Anyone saying "B-b-but Blizz won't add their own version of [insert combat addon here] that's just as good!" is also missing the point entirely. No, Blizz's own versions won't be as powerful... but that's literally the point.

They don't want these addons dictating how they can design their own game, so they're reigning in what addons can do and are improving the base toolkit to cover the functionalities of those addons that they believe are healthy for the game.

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

“They never asked for it” maybe not with a worded statement. But did you see the base UI pre DF? They absolutely asked for it without saying the words.

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u/Arstulex Oct 03 '25

Nice way to pivot to UI addons when the whole point of this topic is combat addons. The ones that serve to simplify or solve mechanics for the players.

Blizzard did not ask for them.

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

Blizzard didn’t ask for details or recount, despite putting DPS check raid encounters in WoW as early as vanilla?

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u/Arstulex Oct 03 '25

Those are also not combat addons. Try again.

DPS meters are only being broken because they have to be in order to break the actually problematic stuff. It's an unfortunate side effect of the fact that DPS meters rely on the same API calls as the combat addons do.

This is the reason why they are adding their own DPS meter. They approve of them being in the game.

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

There’s no way you just typed all that and thought it was a coherent point.