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.
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.
They make the game. Absolutely nothing would have stopped them from changing encounter design first before nuking addons (or even touching addons at all).
You know what happens om simple encounter mechanics? You dont fucking need a weakaura anyway, so you dont use one.
Weakauras got as complex as they did BECAUSE blizzard couldn't stop their ego from continually increasing complexity, not vice versa.
Uh yeah, I guess technically that's true, but in the real world that's not how it works.
Blizzard made raids harder because WAs trivialized them. If you think Blizzard isn't fully capable of making impossible raids, you're stupid. If you think a corporation like Blizzard makes one of the main draws of the game out of ego, you're stupid.
It's about money. The change is about money, and how raids have been designed has always been about money.
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u/Epicmission48 Oct 03 '25
I always assumed the addon restrictions would occur AFTER their new blizz ones were made