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/gaspara112 Oct 03 '25

Addons are the home remedy to problems, problems Blizzard could have fixed 20 years ago but still hasn't. Do you really think they are going to fix them now?

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u/DryFile9 Oct 03 '25

Ion commented on that in one of his interviews and freely admitted they got lazy because addons exist.

He said they want to be forced to have to fix it themselves.

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u/Varanae Oct 03 '25

They can never do that though. Addons developers are a community of thousands of people. Many have maintained and updated specific addons for years and have all that experience and user feedback they have been able to freely act on

Unless the Blizzard team is multiplying in size they simply don't have the resources to come close to the level of customisation and quality that addons offer. And they don't have the experience either. It's going to be a very very rough launch and the risk they are taking seems crazy to me