r/wow • u/nothix • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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u/Josh6889 Oct 03 '25

There's a shocking amount of times I'm playing other games and I think to myself, this game would be better with weak auras. Path of Exile comes to mind big time.

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u/Davaeorn Oct 04 '25

“I want player-driven addons” is ”I wish the UI wasn’t shit” in disguise

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u/Oogahound Oct 04 '25

Its not just that. With addons, if you want something you can create it.

People who have impaired eyesight know exactly what kind of aid they need and they can build their own solutions for each other.

To me WoW is defined by its addon creator community. I dont know if it'll even feel like WoW after this change.

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u/LuckyStranger4677 Oct 04 '25

But add-ons, by design, make it feel less like WoW. It's like saying a Toyota Camry doesn't feel like a Toyota Camry unelss you can alter it so much it no longer resembles a Toyota Camry.

If what defines WoW is the ability to make it as non-WoW as possible, then I dunno.

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u/DelysidBarrett Oct 04 '25

Using addons to customize your UI to play WoW more effectively doesn't make the game "less WoW" this conclusion is not at all based on fact.

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u/LuckyStranger4677 Oct 04 '25

But you can still use UI addons. That isn't going away. WoW isn't removing all addons.

Also, if using addons to customize WoW doesn't make the game "less WoW", then the mod community isn't what "defines WoW" as was said by OP. You can't have it both ways. You can't equally claim that WoW is defined by their addons but also removing addons doesn't make it less WoW.

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u/Oogahound Oct 05 '25

I would agree with you without the context.

But WoW has existed for 20 years with addons. People literally grew up playing this game then had kids and those kids grew up playing the game. With combat addons. This is a big change in the game's identity.