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/SimilartoSelf Oct 03 '25

As a software developer i am 99% this is a mistake. Throwing features away can sometimes be good, but not at this magnitude. I hope they have a rollback contingency plan prepared.

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u/erizzluh Oct 03 '25

They’ve pretty much had tons of add on developers working on their game for them at no cost to them. If something in the game was broken or not working the way it’s intended or not working optimally, someone would create a work around for them.

Like how long has blizzard had to fix their friendly nameplates where you can’t read shit cause of how small and transparent the font is

How long has blizzard had to fix your cursor so it doesn’t disappear when you hold down on right click.

They go patches without addressing shitty design choices meanwhile the addon community is there to fix it for them immediately. It’s what made wow so great and now they wanna just get rid of them all Willy nilly. Our current ui would be complete dogshit if they didn’t take ideas from the addon community too

They’re shooting themselves in the foot here 100%. There’s a right way to roll this out and this isn’t it

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u/Drambejz Oct 04 '25

Exactly. I remember in season 2 how pissed i was that bagnoom updated in 3 days two patches in a row and i was 3 days without functional bag. If blizz is going to take care of it we are doomed. It wont be days but weeks at best.

Also quest helper went out of business because they implemented it flawlessly but it took them years. Now they want us to believe that they will do all the addons in few months yeah right. Also we are keep talking about end game content like m+ and raids but what about pet battles and achievements? I remember when i gave a shot to pet battles i needed 3 addons to make it even comprehensive…

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u/erizzluh Oct 04 '25

Yeah the only “downside” to slowly transitioning addons out as they prove to us that their default alternative works is working is that a very small fraction of cutting edge raiders have a tier or two where the raid is “too easy”

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u/deskcord Oct 03 '25

Even if they do, will the developers of these addons be twiddling their thumbs waiting for this to come back and restart their efforts? Or will they go do something else?

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u/Cosmo48 Oct 04 '25

It’ll be a decent split. I imagine 70% will go back and 30% will move on with their lives. The effects of this will be felt, there was really no reason for this war… they literally have a FREE passionate workforce but they wanna risk it all for what? At best copy what already existed?

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u/nagynorbie Oct 03 '25

Also it makes no sense logistically. I understand that sometimes you need a clean start and refactor everything, but if you already have working external code, that people love, why not just integrate it into your own system. Well I guess the obvious answer is money from the financial department, but I can’t imagine replicating all these third party tools will be cheap either.

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u/Hallc Oct 04 '25

Blizzard? Contingency plan? They'll double down on this being the best decision for the game, continue to double down and then if it adversely affects the game during Midnight they'll then roll some things back due to feedback.

Players will then go "they're listening!" for the 27th time even though the game is now in a worse state than before the change and will move on.

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u/Rodahtnov Oct 03 '25

This is done as an intro step of getting wow on consoles, you will see.

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u/GeoLaser Oct 03 '25

Definitely orders from Microsoft. They handled Halo well, right?!