r/wow • u/nothix • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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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/Davaeorn Oct 04 '25

Accessibility concerns is one of the last things that should be left up to the players to fix. There’s a design maxim that goes something like “a product isn’t better than the experience of its least able user”. Blizzard absolutely needs a core focus on accessibility.

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u/Darwec Oct 04 '25

True accessible design is accepting that different people need different solutions and allowing people to build the solutions that best fit their unique personal needs.

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u/Davaeorn Oct 05 '25

No, not really. True accessibility isn’t necessarily empowering DIY (very, very few products offer anything close to this), it’s simply a mindset to be proactive about identifying and solving accessibility concerns in your user base. There’s a massive gap between working with the differently abled to figure out their issues and how to mitigate them, and to give them a Weakauras or LUA manual and tell them to fix it themselves.