World of Warcraft: Midnight has now officially ripped the bandaid off—as of this week, many UI mods (addons) have been disabled and prevented from functioning, and even non-combat addons are required to update to Midnight’s new infrastructure. Thus ends the two-decade reign of interface addons, with many functionalities now replaced by Blizzard’s homegrown systems.
As for the reason? Turns out, if you build an entire game around requiring 12 separate WeakAuras (programmable UI elements) and nameplate mods, that’s not the best experience for anybody. Even as an experienced player, I spent ages futzing around to get my WeakAuras just-so.
“But we’ve seen this become more and more pervasive as this trickles down… to tools that pickup groups are expected to use and configure.” Pick-up groups basically mean any group of randoms—which, yeah. If a complete newbie decides to get started on Mythic+, only to be chewed out for not having DBM, I can see how that’s a problem.
It’s not like there won’t be speed bumps. Blizzard’s constantly working to try and make sure every functionality—some of which were important for accessibility more than just providing raw mechanical advantages—are covered.
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