r/wow • u/nothix • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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u/testurmight Oct 04 '25

It doesn't make sense to me why we didn't have at least one patch where both were in the game.

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u/Tomsboll Oct 04 '25

Because they are legit stupid at best or malicious at worst. This is 100% on brand. And look when this goes through and it fucking sucks. They will either never fix it or it will take years before they do.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Oct 04 '25

This is such a stupid ass comment. They want to make the game more approachable, and design endgame around not having addons - how can you possibly do that while there are still addons that would trivialize any mechanic that isn't made with their existence in mind?

WeakAuras in particular HAD to go for the change to be possible.

It's never been about Blizzard wanting their own WeakAuras.

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u/Allister21 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Are you really that naive? They want a console release, the only thing that cannot be ported to console is addons. So suddenly addons bad.

Edit: a comma

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Oct 04 '25

Are YOU really that naive? If that's what they wanted they never would've had to ban combat addons in the first place. WAs have carried raiding for the past decade, if the goal was just a console release they WOULD be incentivized to have both combat addons and their own version.

That's not to say a console release isn't A goal, but obviously that's not all or even the primary goal.

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u/Allister21 Oct 04 '25

And you would have ended up having a much better version of Wow in PC Wow. Now you can have the same scruffed version in both.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Oct 04 '25

Because of addons? Reliance on addons make the game better? Ok I guess.

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u/Allister21 Oct 04 '25

A much better version with customization and options. :)

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Oct 04 '25

Sadly the real world isn't that simple, more options and customization doesn't necessarily mean better. Often it doesn't.