Or just a hide option. We shouldn’t have to install an addon to get rid of such an obviously superfluous feature. The text can alreaedy be seen in the chatbox, voice clips can already play based on the chatbox, and the face we have already seen when we visited the person.
I mean, I hope I was being helpful with the addon and all that, but I just can’t help myself from expressing my opinion on just how incredibly misguided and confused the UI team appears to be. The number of unnecessary and strange UI elements grow by the day, and simple things like proper scaling when switching aspect ratios just aren’t taken into account in their design at all.
WoW’s UI wasn’t made for the modern game, especially not its keybind layout and the way it treats buffs and debuffs, and Blizzard is spending all their time faffing about with low resolution textures. It’s irritating that I can’t invite a new player to the game and expect for them to have a good experience using the UI just booting it up. I have to spend as much time explaining things as I do when I want to invite someone to play D&D, and that’s a pen and paper roleplaying game where you have to know the rules by obvious necessity since no logic can be executed without your explicit knowledge, and one of the most complicated in the world at that.
Incidentally, as I was writing this post, I got a like in this thread, which reminded me of it:
They just keep adding all this useless nonsense and faff with no regard for how to make the UI work for basic tasks such as seeing what the opponent is capable of or checking what your status effects are. Why did the game need a giant non-click-through pop-up to inform me of this? Would it not be sufficient to write it into my chatbox as was done previously?