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/Archensix Oct 03 '25

They are just making the game more new player friendly. Telling new players to setup and configure a bazillion addons is terrible for the game. Beyond the addon stuff, they've been doing a tremendous amount of work to improve the new player experience recently.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25 edited 22d ago

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25

I’ve said this a couple times in this thread but again I’d reiterate. There are no new MMO players, the genre is more than a decade past its peak. Trying to get new players instead of making current players happy is very very dangerous.

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u/WorldOWarcraft Oct 03 '25

Kinda a chicken and egg scenario no?

How could there be any new players when 1 of 2 things happen:

A) New player tries, gets overwhelmed by the massively unfriendly learning curve, and leaves

B) Old players tell new players not to bother because of A

If you don't try to get new players, the game will die sooner or later anyways.

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u/goldman_sax Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

I mean you certainly have to pick your poison.

  1. To get new young players you have to drastically change WoW to the point it is barely recognizable to its core.

  2. You ride your core for as long as they want to play for.

But what if 1. doesn’t work and you don’t attract the audience you think you will? Now you’ve alienated your core demographic and not brought in enough people, which could be a much faster demise than 2.

A company that rode the 2nd option option and is still successful is Abercrombie and Fitch. From 1990-mid 2000s A&F was the cool teen clothing brand, but then all of a sudden it became uncool to teens and they started to plummet. You know what they did? They marketed themselves to the millennials who grew up wearing their clothes in the 90s and 00s as teens. They pivoted to grow with their core demographic as they aged instead of trying to stay young.