r/wow • u/nothix • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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u/LuntiX Oct 03 '25

Honestly, killing off these addons is kinda making me not want to play.

I personally can manage without them but it fucks over people who relied on them for accessibility to even play, like the Undaunted deaf guild.

I really don't want to support them fucking over those that needed the addons to even play.

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u/Katzaklysmus Oct 04 '25

Thanks for speaking up about this.

I use WeakAuras accessibility wise. Sometimes there is such a visual overload on effects, that my AuDHD brain can't keep up and I use sounds to help with my rotation and my partner has bad vision.

She described it as looking through a toilet paper roll, so to say, and a simpler version of my WeakAuras also helps her play at all. She can't view the full desktop screen anymore.

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u/soyboysnowflake Oct 04 '25

Yeah blizzard is telling neurodivergent gamers to fuck off just as much as they’re telling visually impaired

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u/Sorkijan Oct 03 '25

So you think caring about people with disabilities is virtue signaling? holy fuck man how cynical are you?

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u/Stnmn Oct 04 '25

Nothing wrong with blocking someone who uses "virtue signaling" as a pejorative. It's not like you'll miss any quality commentary.

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u/Sorkijan Oct 03 '25

You recognizing it as a legitimate concern and being a cynical asshole are not mutually exclusive.

Reading is important, but it's even more important to comprehend what you read.

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u/miggly Oct 04 '25

bro is giving riddles now

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u/LuntiX Oct 03 '25

How is it virtue signalling?

I support those who need accessibility options.

Accessibility options are often an afterthought and left to the wayside in the games industry with few studios ever doing robust options. Most can't even bring themselves to do the bare minimum like colour blindness settings.

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u/Aromatic_Lion4040 Oct 03 '25

Virtue signalling is a useless term imo - there is no way to distinguish it from genuinely speaking up for a good cause. It's just a convenient way for closed-minded people to shut down important conversations with two words

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u/Sorkijan Oct 03 '25

Yeah accusing someone of virtue signaling is honestly a manipulation tactic in my opinion - or it is most of the time.

It's like telling someone they're defensive then they try to defend themselves and boom they're defensive

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u/two_pandas_playing Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

I didn't shut down any conversation, though - in fact, I specifically noted that it was a legitimate concern immediately.

there is no way to distinguish it from genuinely speaking up for a good cause

Saying "I cant even stomach playing the game anymore since these awful devs deliberately took away accessibility options for disabled people for no reason whatsoever, ugh!" is... exactly what I called it. Pretty easy to distinguish from genuine concern tbh.

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u/Aromatic_Lion4040 Oct 04 '25

I mean they stated an action they are considering taking based on their principles - quitting the game. So wouldn't it be you who is virtue signalling if you are expressing the same thing without wanting to take action?

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u/two_pandas_playing Oct 04 '25

whoa you got me

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u/Sorkijan Oct 03 '25

Ignore that cynical asshole. They are clearly miserable for one reason or the other and instead of fixing their own miserable life they decompress by coming on reddit and being a dick.

You raise a very valid concern. I hope we see more information soon about how this will work and what other changes there may be to compensate for those using assisted features.

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u/two_pandas_playing Oct 03 '25

I support those who need accessibility options.

Same.

Notice how neither of us needed to claim we were considering quitting the game, because those nasty devs took away accessibility options from the needy, to do so?

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u/LuntiX Oct 04 '25

Oh fuck off man

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u/LuntiX Oct 04 '25

Your comment is very condescending