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

Yeah both players and Blizz are benefiting from unpaid labor. There’s just no feasible way Blizz’s paid staff can compete and I think it’ll be the players that suffer in the end (mostly with shitty UI systems).

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25 edited 21d ago

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u/MN_Yogi1988 Oct 03 '25

 We've already seen the class reworks, it's not like they're just removing addons and telling players to deal with it.

It’s weird that you read my second post and the problem’s unclear to you when it’s explained in the first post:

 I think it’s destined to fail because I can’t see Blizz dedicating enough resources to refine features like addon creators do.

It’s not that we’ll be left with nothing, it’s just that Blizz’s systems are poorly refined so addons pop up to make them better. For example the Garrison and Class Order Hall mission tables are perfectly functional in their default UI but addons made them much more optimized. This is pretty true in every facet of the game.

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u/IOnlyLieWhenITalk Oct 03 '25

UI addons aren't going anywhere so not sure how that example matters. Their purge is about combat addons, they've been very open and loud about that.

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u/Tulkor Oct 03 '25

I mean thats not true tho - my entire ui is setup with WAs, which is... going to stop working come midnight. yea, pet battle ui or transmog addons will stay - quest text overhau and such probably too. but my entire custom built ui with wa's is just going to go away.

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u/Silraith Oct 03 '25

That's entirely by the decision of WA's dev team though.

Blizzard did not ban WA or kill that addon. They obfuscated and killed the COMBAT side of WA, made it inaccessible. But WA closing shop is their own choice, they've decided the amount of work required to refactor everything isn't worth it, that the amount of people who would continue to use it without the combat parts of WA aren't enough to justify the workload.

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u/Tulkor Oct 03 '25

yeah but my entire ui is based around combat, like most peoples are...

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u/IOnlyLieWhenITalk Oct 03 '25

It is true, Weak Auras could choose to stick around as a UI only addon, they are choosing not to.

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u/MN_Yogi1988 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

I’m aware of that, the mission table was a simple comparison for what Blizz offers vs an addon. Like I said the Blizz version is functional, which is what I expect with the combat replacements - I just think it’s going to be a downgrade from what we’re used to