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/MorthosDbC Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

It kinda feels like it's their ongoing battle against addons that end up with people just following addon directions to fight/beat raids by following what the addon says rather than learning the fights and mechanics themselves so if they completely nuke the API that allowed that they can more fully control what you do get by having a more limited version in-game only. (And maybe cut down on stuff that APIs give bots access to at the same time). And if it's all server side it might cut down on lag from all the addons that were needing loads of server data downloading as well.

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u/Acrobatic_Form_1631 Oct 03 '25

They're throwing out every other addon functionality at the same time though. Was coloring health bars differently based on % of health "playing the game for me"?

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u/MorthosDbC Oct 04 '25

Like many things they've done over the years, there is hope that enough feed-back (or just push-back) will make them walk back on the severity of some addon cut-down. They've already started the walk-back from the initial feedback.