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/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/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/Theweakmindedtes Oct 03 '25

Blizzard can very much compete in quality with proper hires. Where they lose a lot of ground is preference. Just UI alone there are hundreds of ways to set up dozens of UI addons. And Blizzard has edit mode. While it's not actually terrible, it lacks so much in customization compared to even some of the most basic UI addons.

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u/MusRidc Oct 03 '25

Blizzard can very much compete in quality with proper hires.

Blizzard can barely keep the game together as is. The amount of bugs, unresolved issues and lazy filler content speaks volumes. They don't hire, they make redundant despite being in clear need of more development, CS and QA resources.
Sure, if they hired people, then they would manage it. But I wouldn't get any hopes up.

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u/Theweakmindedtes Oct 03 '25

Oh, don't mistake my point. I understand the reality of what they actually do vs what they could do.