That is impressively scummy. Time to make some noise on Twitter I guess.
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Iâm glad I was going to spend this weekend and the pre-patch to purge my addons and get rid of some that I donât use.
Very scummy of Overwolf and reminds me of the Rick and Morty episode where everyone deletes an app when an add wall is activated.
I wonât be using Overwolf and I think companies that find loopholes in laws or Terms of Service are disgusting
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So from curse to twitch to overwolf, it just becomes worse and worse, eh?
I completely agree.
I think the easiest thing for Blizzard to do is to declare that addons are henceforth âfree open source softwareâ.
That means anyone has the following 4 rights:
- You may use the addon as you wish
- You may distribute the addon as you wish
- You may make modifications to an addon as you wish
- You may distribute any such modified addon as you wish
With one, important caveat: If you modify someone elseâs code to make it yours, your code must produce the original copyright notification - that means the original authorâs name must feature in your derived work.
By doing this we can just continue having fun scraping Overwolfâs addons database and uploading it whereever we want, driving Overwolfâs investment into the ground.
Iâve never heard something as stupid as an in-game overlay to download and install addons. You canât install addons while the game is running for Christâs sake.
Twitch never felt the need to force people to use their app, but I was glad to swap it out for WoWUp.
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There was an app that worked for ESO and WoW, but I need to see if it will work at all.
Someone would need to offer them an alternative. As much as I hate overwolf and will not be using it - if I was an addon creator, Iâd love them. They are promising a lot of cash compared to Twitch
Honestly, hereâs an idea everybody:
Upload it to GitHub. Letâs make a tag for WoW addons on GitHub, and then addon authors just use that tag and we get our addons that way - by making apps that search for the tag on GitHub.
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Most are already doing that. A lot of addons I just git clone straight into the addon folder.
I figured that might be the case. Do they have a common tag or something so we can find them all easily?
Letâs make an addon manager thatâs built around this.
Overwolf is a disaster, and makes me happy that Iâve always manually installed addons.
Iâd rather play with 0 addons than intentionally installing a Spyware (Overwolf)
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So glad I stopped using and of these.
Recently found out one of the only ones I used to use (gryphon heart items I think it was called) was banned because of player misuse years ago
(I used to write up a herbal handbook and roleplay healing items with it. A friend used it for childrenâs books in game too. )
Now, the only other stuff I was looking into was gatherer (didnât install back because of the nodeshare script issue I think) and a bejeweld alike I used to use when flying or bored.
Way things are going, I suggest we, the users, beat these people at their own game.
I say we sell our own data to the highest bidder ourselves! Cut out these middlemen companies and contract out so the big boys have to block them or face loosing our sweet sweet data flow.
I just⊠Donât quite know how we could do it.
No you need to search them manually which isnât a big deal because you search once and then you got it. They also follow different branch stragegies. Either tags, or just master, or a release branch etc. Some are using other git servers which are not github.
DBM: https://github.com/DeadlyBossMods/DeadlyBossMods
Weakauras: https://github.com/WeakAuras/WeakAuras2
Details: https://github.com/Tercioo/Details-Damage-Meter
Elvui (using their own git server): https://git.tukui.org/elvui/elvui
TotalRP3: https://github.com/Total-RP/Total-RP-3
thatâs all the addons Iâm using right now.
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Yeah, but if weâre gonna make an addon manager using github weâll need a common standard.
Found it, it is called Minion.
Always felt very reluctant to use Twitch, so Overwolf is by definition out of the question. Thanks to you, i started to use Wowup and was pleasantly surprised. Very lightweight, easy to use and now comes this pile of manure⊠
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On the befalf of WoW community, overwolf, njet, nein, no, non, nope !
The community is behind me on this!
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I donât think it would be fair to tell people how to version their stuff. The client could easily follow those handful of versioning systems.
The problem with this is that addon creators actually earn money on other platforms. And while just offering a client that uses their git servers is absolutely allowed and fine, the ones who lose in the end are the authors.
What we need is someone with high trust (DBM, WA, wowhead etc) to launch their own client with the collaboration of the addon authors.
I follow this topic on twitter, reddit, mmo sites and wow forum and donât seen even one positive opinion about Overwolf.
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