That might be true. But why is it so popular in WoW and not in most other games? Is it bad game design on blizzards end? Is the WoW player base more demanding in terms of being able to adjust things to their liking?
I can’t think of any game that I played my whole life where I felt the need to customise my experience like I felt in WoW. Be it League of Legends, Counter Strike, Fifa, or any game that I played as a kid on my PS2 and Xbox. It just wasn’t a thing.
Indeed it is not a hyperbole
But this is the WA and other addons fault
The players brain became so smooth they frogot how not in stand in swirlies if the addon not says so and actually how to play without them
Define most. If a game is modable you can bet your shiny metal butt on it that there are going to be a bazillion mods for it. Not even FF14 managed to escape that.
Those games are exclusively PvP. There have been cases in LoL however that I personally experienced and from what I can see is still very much a thing (overlays say hi).
Counter Strike is infested with cheaters its unreal.
Fifa I mean, what could you really mod there or wanted to? And I seem to recall most play Fifa on a console.
That was 2 decades ago. We also had way less possibilities.
For Fyrakk it was the designs fault. You had an insanely tight dps check combined with people needing to soak a random color pattern where a false soak or non soak resulted in either a dead person or a wipe respectively as half the raid received a corresponding debuff that allowed them to soak Orb A but forbade them from soaking Orb B outside of immunities. You also had to get into position asap or you were begging for a wipe and unlike lfr-normal-hc you couldnt just say grp 1-2 go left and 3-4 go right.
Thats why they made the Aura no longer private further down the line but kept the private aura for Smolderon because the smolderon mechanic was doable without a weakaura (I remember some guilds not even using the macro+wa combo). Same goes for the Infernals in P2 Fyrakk, that aura being private was never an issue. The intermission 1 thingy was just utter BS.
Amirdrassil was another case of Ion proving that he learned absolutely nothing from Sepulcher. And lets not even start talking about Tindral.
I totally agree
I knew the post would get a reaction, it’s not surprising. The majority of players would be completely lost without an addon
‘You have to understand. Most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.’ - Morpheus
Sums up the addon situation pretty much. It has become such a base part of the game that at this point people would riot if Blizz would decide to close the door on it, despite some of them being borderline cheats and playing the game (more or less) for the player. The fact that it is still ok to use them in competetive PvP just goes to show how little they care about it.
Add ons are for cheats and vagabonds
Blizzard is known for allowing mods to their games. Look at games at warcraft 2 or starcraft. You are able to make your own maps and modifiers and play with that.
It is a design decision they allow customization.
Yea I agree this addon may be questionable and on the surface appears to be breaking ToS. Very odd that Blizzards Warden or anti cheat program has not picked this up as yet and taken action. If we still seeing these premade groups then it either is not breaking the ToS or they are not actually using these addons and it may be an isolated case.
In my view leaving this PvP addon in place will do far more damage to the game in the long run. Let’s face it nobody want’s to pay a sub to be constantly losing. I assume these premades have already done their fair share of damage already as we all know of some players that simply quit the game and move onto other more fair play games.
I really don’t think all addons need to be banned just because of some bad apples and cheaters though.
I agree with the op. Many addons do the player job about paying attention and stuff and It should be banned.
But dear op, I m holy priest playing with “lightweaver” stack. I ve a 32" monitor. WA helps me to replace the lightweaver buff stack in center, under my character.
I m not a owl or a chamelon with 180° vision
Of course. Always naming the minority of people with dissabilities as a justification.
How about just people in general? Maybe I like the color red more and want my UI to be red. I dont need a dissability for that.
Or maybe OP is right and WA does have too many functionalities. If disabling WA makes WoW better for the 99% of people that dont have dissabilities then it should absolutely be done.
Not everything has to be about minorities here.
Back to the subject at hand… you cant ban WA. Its impossible.
The reason is that the game has become way to complex because of a 20 year arms race between Blizz and Addons.
If you dissable WA the game would be so difficult it would become unplayable.
Think of what you said: WA warns you of mechanics. And if you raid or do M+ with that WA you will also noticie that the “trumpet noise” is permanently on. There are things to dodge and do all the time.
In fact, if you want to use WA properly you have to dissable some of those noises. Otherwise you cant play either because there are so many mechanics. Which ones you dissable is up to the user.
Nothing is impossible. It just means an overhaul and coding some hand holding visuals and then also finally dumping/firing the AH who constantly wants to turn the game into an e-sport.
It’s just simpler and easier to leave things be.
They are talking about banning all addon’s i really do not care for WA but others are a must for some players, i understand your concerns but there is more to the game then raiding and m+ 
Its not about turning the game into an e-sport. Some people simply like challanges, and Blizzard has to cater to them as well.
Think of SC, the first e-sports. While you had all the Koreans doing crazy e-sport stuff, you had (and still have) 6 leagues of “normal people” playing the exact same game. And you need things for people living in the “bronze league” and people in “platinum league”.
Well same thing for WoW. You need LFR difficulty and Mythic Raiding difficulty. Its hard for some people to understand that people have different tastes, and also deserve a “spot” in WoW. Not everything has to be tuned down to “casual” level of play because casuals think its the only way to enjoy WoW and anything else is “e-sports”.
How would you do a Mythic Raid difficulty (or even Heroic Raid) that someone can actually play ? Right now, you cant. Not with out WA. Lower tiers of difficulty dont require WA if you simply pay attention a bit. But if you dont pay atention, you also need WA to remind you of stuff.
Dont be a “social justice warrior”. Simple esthetics are also a must for many people. You dont need a dissability for that, and dissabilities dont make you more special than anyone else.
In the context of WA atleast.
And as you have seen, banning WA would have consequences to some players (not only dissabled ones). And keeping WA also has consequences to some players (not only dissabled ones).
Whatever you do, someone will be hurt here. The decision to keep WA or not is ultimately decided by the least ammount of affected players. Regardless of dissabilities. Because they are not any more special than someone with out dissabilties.
Very true , very well put.
Hey, another topic we agree on! 
It will only make certain specs completely unplayable, but go ahead.
I never understand why people are so focussed on removing buff-indicators for other people, or a custom resource-bar or custom castbar. But everyone their oppinion.
I especially think that as some have already said, Blizzard does not dare for fear of a rebellion of the players (who would be totally lost without an addon)
imagine all this player cry (the forum would be funny)
Sometimes popular opinion is the garbage take tho
Or imagine all the work required to re-do all the encounters from the ground up with out WA. And all the work required for a propper UI.
The main issue here is that anything you are targeted with is a “buff” of some kind. So you can have say… “Deluge” buff in my case for RShaman and “Targeted by X boss mechanic” buff … The only difference is that you dont see the icon of some of them in the top-right corner where all your toon buffs are. But they are still there.
So if you want addons to custumize my UI and all thoes buffs… you can also do the same for boss mechanics.
You would need to re-do the wow engine from scratch. That is why WA is called like that. With the word AURA in it.