Official Blizzard addon manager

[Benjamin-sunstrider (Benjamin)]

It is Official Blizzard Addon Manager App

[Ishayoe-frostmane (Ishayoe)]

@Danellos-sylvanas

The SC2 Arcade was fraught with its own controversies in the beginning. There is a distrust that Blizzard won’t treat mods on equal footing.

There are a few major differences though, and also the arcade’s problem wasn’t that Blizzard were hosting it from what I recall.

I remember SC2 and D3 until 2015 both had this new battle.net experience where there wasn’t really any public community or chat, and the SC2 community didn’t have a games browser, but rather a map browser.

So basically if you made a game that wasn’t on the list of popular games, then you couldn’t get anyone to join because they had to magically pick the same map instead of picking from the maps that were actually available. This made the arcade extremely stale.

Furthermore there was no community or chatbox, so you couldn’t really even talk to other people about which map to play…

Honestly StarCraft 2 became absolutely bloody amazing with the release of LotV that fixed these issues. If only it had been that good from the beginning. I think SC2 wasn’t as successful as SC2 could’ve been if SC2 had better leveraged the incredible community that that game has and has always had.

Anyway…

An official Blizzard addon manager app (OBAMA - I like that one xD ) woudln’t suffer from this because the community is the game itself already, and we don’t want to host multiplayer games with addons.

And besides, it would still be possible to install addons from outside Blizzard’s addon manager, unlike with SC2 where they kindda tried to lock it down.

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

This would be brilliant, it could be part of the launcher.

There would probably need to be some big disclaimer saying they are not responsible for the addons themselves.

[Schmusedecke-alleria]

yes, app, that sounds better, thanks Benjamin!

[Baltic-stormrage]

I’m actually nervous about this addon change. We’ve just to follow like sheep to a new client ever few years? I’ve never even heard of this Overwolf before and when I looked into it they sound really untrustworthy with data. Guess I’m going back to the old days of updating addons myself.

[Coldsháde-argent-dawn (Coldsháde)]

Wait, so people aren’t just dealing with their addons manually?