so reading up on the latest news on this dumpster fire of a purchase it seems as if Overwolf, the notorious adware company that bought Curseforge is now going to cut off the API of any other addon manager on the market effectively forcing you to download manually, or use Overwolf.
their ‘‘reasoning’’ behind this is that they want to effectively paywall the addons to ‘’’’’’‘support’’’’’’’ the addon developers monetarily while still taking 30% of the revenue themselves
since blizzards addon policy clearly states Addons MUST be free of charge, and cannot solicit donations or advertiesements Overwolf is basically going around this by trying to monopolise the entirety of Addon websites and managers to either force you to pay via their subscription, have bloated adware on your computer, or manually download and upkeep sometimes upwards of 100 addons
how is this allowed? when is blizzard going to just make their own integrated addon manager? its so tiresome having to deal with companies like this
I really hope that add-on creators leave curseforge. This is outrageous. Or even better would be a workshop type place facillitated by Blizzard themselves.
Addons cannot promote payments or advertisemens themselves → Overwolf just buys up the entire market and forces all independent enthusiast platforms out → Locks the API so no one else can use it to download addons in one place
So Overwolf can just pay to basically destroy years of community enthusiasm for addons, and now FORCE players back to either 1. spend hours each week managing addons manually, or 2. indirectly pay them money for a service that has been free for a decade
Yup, it is scummy. Best we can do is boycott Overwolf so they don’t get their money’s worth, and hope that AddOn authors do the same and move elsewhere.
It is just … I would say that addons are used by majority and the ones with most impact should be already implemented in wow UI. It was just a matter of time when someone tries somehow to monetize it.
Blizzard does what blizzard does, it is not their problem that some people can do it 10x times better. But what you suggest would be lovely. Just a simple ticket to blizzcon and some merch stuff for creators of addons. It would be + karma and everybody would appreciate it.
