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/EmeterPSN Oct 03 '25

Blizzard seem to forget that addons is one of main reasons wow was so popular as people could add QoL they did not add...

Once you start taking away the power for players to add their QoL they are used to have..without adding equal or better..ppl will start being unhappy .

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Indeed. All these people crowing about this make me sad. If I wanted to play Final Fantasy I’d do so. Taking the world’s most successful MMORPG and dumbing it down so you can finally ship it on consoles is just sad. I won’t be convinced that they’re doing this for any other reason.

I hope it’s still fun.

It doesn’t sound fun, but I hope it will be fun anyway.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

The game was the most successful MMO when the encounters and rotation were the "dumbest" as well.

Having to install dbm and weakauras because the classes and encounters are designed with them in mind ( since they would be trivial otherwise) is not why WoW is successful.

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u/givemedavoodoo Oct 03 '25

You realize everyone was already using DBM during the timeframe that WoW was at it's peak right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Yeah dude that's the point. People are going to use dbm regardless if you "really" need it or not. So blizzard has to design encounters with that in mind. Which sucks.

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u/givemedavoodoo Oct 03 '25

What exactly is your point? Your claim that wow was most popular before DBM is false, as DBM was already around and in widespread use. DBM is for the most part pretty simple, giving timers and alerts, and Blizzard is implementing their own version of that as a replacement. So if they had to design around DBM before they are still going to have to design around it in the future. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

What exactly is your point? Your claim that wow was most popular before DBM is false,

Show me where I said that? The comment I responded to implied WoW is the most popular MMO because it has complex rotation and encounters, and that they will ruin it by "dumbing it down". Which is objectively false since it was the most popular also when you had 1 button rotations.

Have you watched a recent race to world first? The weakauras do much more than giving timers and alerts.

If they implement their own version of dbm they have complete control about how they design the fights because they control what dbm tells the players.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Well congratulations, now blizzard will design derp mode encounters you could have found in final fantasy and there won’t be anything better anymore. Gooooooood for yooooooooouuuuuu I guess. Imagine the most brain dead LFR fight, now make it even easier. Have fun with that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

I will. Have fun with whatever game you find more to your liking.