Here is one 
At least they are not EA.
Why did you have you mention " Boshy "?!
Poor little Bosy…
(If you don’t know what im talking about just google Boshy)
If people are into addon development to earn money, they’re in the wrong place - and they always have been.
If you want to dedicate a lot of time to it, your addon is probably going to become quite famous, at which point Patreon will solve your woes.
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This is why the DBM guy was on the verge of total collapse 2 years ago…
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While addon development won’t make anyone rich, I think it’s fair to give their authors their share.
I really see both sides. I won’t be using Overwolf but their monetization works better than Twitch’s one. There’s a reason twitch sold curse.
wowup is already getting 300 bucks / month on patreon btw, definitely a nice side income for those handful of commits here and there and considering he has no infrastructure expenses as he’s only scraping off other sources. DBM has 1.3k patreons but doesn’t disclose the sum. But safe to say someone could live off an addon like DBM
Their share of what? Most of us would do it for free! I have done it for free - twice: SquishMe, Decyka
Look, I don’t think most addon authors care if they get £15 or whatever from making an addon. It’s not that important.
There are those for whom it is important, like DBM as you mention, and they are also sorted. He’s probably making bank. 1.3k patreons probably giving an average of $5 each, which is pretty normal on Patreon, adds up to $6500 a month, which is a lot of money. That’s like a pretty good full time software engineer salary in Denmark - and our tax rate is way higher than his. (Unless he too lives in Denmark, but I doubt it)
He’s probably making more than I am, and I work in the FinTech industry - although to be fair I’m new there!
Also, the people who made all the core utilities of Linux - you know that OS being installed on over 40 billion devices - that Linux… that was made for free by the FSF as part of the GNU project. You know how much they charged? 0.
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Most commits on both the Linux Kernel and on the GNU coreutils are made by Red Hat, Intel, Novell and IBM nowadays. They all earn money with it. Torvalds has an estimated net worth of 150M. Stallman doesn’t disclose but he’s estimated around 1M. They’re fine. Don’t worry about them.
But that’s derailing.
If someone makes nice software and wants to earn money with it, we shouldn’t actively prevent the from doing so. That’s my whole point.
I’m not worried about them.
All of this is basically donations. It’s basically big-scale Patreon.
FOSS does not prevent you from making money. It prevents you from selling the software directly, which Blizzard already prohibits.
I’m not willing to get spied on and sit through 300 billion apps so someone can make £15. I’m only concerned about those who does it for a living.
That’s why I said: we need some high-trust entity to make their own addon manager and get the collaboration of the addon authors.
That doesn’t imply selling data anywhere.
Actually, it doesn’t
Right, which is what I’m suggesting. A common GitHub label and an addon manager that searches through that label.
You’re adding money into the picture - creating a custody that’s supposed to pay people for displaying ads.
That’s where we disagree.
Well, it doesn’t no you’re right - but in practice it does, because people can just copy it. When you buy an FOSS software, you’re donating, realistically.
Minion is the in-house manager of wowinterface, it pulls data exclusively from wowi… so it wouldnt be affected by this but thats also a huge limiting factor to using it, that and well it seemingly has lost any kind of update support for quite some time.
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While I understand some addon devs need support I think Overwolf is here not to help devs just to make money for themselves.
Addons are free, from players to players and it has always been like this.
By enforcing use of their app to update addons they want to monopolize it to make money under excuse it’s for developers good. What a load of crap.
Blizzard should speak up about this, this kind of practice should be forbidden.
All addon devs should move away from curse.
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WOW Matrix ftw.
It’s simple and just works.
Yes but it could be dead if they don’t cave to their new overlord overwolf.
It doesn’t work like that. The addon’s IP belongs to its creator, not to Blizzard.
Yeah but it’s unusable without adhering to Blizzard’s addon policy.
So then it can be a bunch of nice text you own. Gz on your IP.
Since Overwolf is already threatening to take away API access to independent addon managers like wowup (https://www.patreon.com/posts/overwolf-42560453) and pre-patch is next week, who wants to bet that they will make the d***move and revoke the access right on pre-patch day, or just before it, just to force as many people as possible into their trash, adware ridden client.
Going back to manually downloading and updating addons will be painful, but if the only other choice will be to install their client, i’ll gladly keep installing them manually.
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This would be the solution to addon hell to be honest, though it would require some extra effort on Blizzard’s side i would really love the addon manager for WoW in the Battle.net launcher?
And i’m pretty sure a lot of other people would love it as well?
This feels like a “use Overwolf… OR ELSE!” move to me. No thanks, lmao.
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