No chance i will install that. I had my doubts before after reading some stuff about them. Now, after reading your comment there is ZERO chance ill install that. ZERO.
No way to opt out of targeting advertising, no way to opt out of system profiling…ZERO chance
2nd of dec it will go.
Yes sir,i read the info tab.
I’ll give you my review then but for now i cant tell.
W/e platform we get to have an auto updater for addons,it’s welcome for me anyway.
theres other addon managers wowup and others
wowhead had topic about new one called ajour been using it since with no issues
it will find the addons you use and you can update them it out of date
Well I hope the hackers that ddosing blizz will start to wreck overwolf instead I would even cheer for them. I hate them for trying to make profit from something like the addons and trying to force me to use their useless client.
My thoughts are that if you have to use an addon manager to manage your addons, you have too many addons. I am far past the time of installing third-party helper software for a game. Each such piece of software has its own issues, I don’t want them.
In contrast, I’m lazy as heck, and if I can get a program to do the boring things for me, I will. There’s no benefit in checking my addons manually once in a while, even if I only have a few. I’ll let WowUp do that for me, so I can spend my time doing better things.
If I have one addon, I’ll fire up WowUp, and update it. If I have two addons, I do the same. If I have a hundred, I still do the same. In all cases, it’s done within a minute tops.
If I were doing it by hand, updating even one addon would take more time: I’d have to check it’s page (probably bookmarked, or on a pinned tab or something, so I’m not counting extra for finding the page), see if there’s an update, download the zip, extract it. That’s already 3 steps, and two different programs, while an addon manager can do the same thing in 2 steps (check if there’s an update button, click it) in one program. And the more addons you have, the more time a manager saves.
I value my time, and it’s better spent on interesting things. Updating addons is not interesting, and isn’t a good use of my time.
That’s all fine until something goes wrong and the addon manager goes bananas. Ie, tries to update itself and fails mid-way. Then you might be out of an hour or more. Which is more than I am spending on updating the two addons that I have per year. Different perspectives.
Then I roll back to the previous version and just use that for a while. Done in ~15 seconds. Mind you, none of the addon managers I have used recently (Twitch, CurseBreaker, WowUp) have ever failed me so far, so I’m not worried. But like I said, if it fails mid-upgrade, I’ll just roll back to the previous version. It’s not like the manager needs to be the newest version at all times.
I get it, doing it manually works for your two addons you update twice a year. That’s fine. But doing that doesn’t scale. As soon as you update more frequently, or have more addons, or both, a manager will come in real handy.
why you go say that /cry gonna have to uninstall overwolf just in case your prophecy comes true.
No you dont make it for a living. However you still dont work for free. Its how the world works mate.
No? You dont have to pay anything.
No they wont.
If Blizzard would crush down to overwolf (according to your logic) then Overwolf would crush down on wowinterface etc in the same manner because they can forbid them by law to operate.
Big disagree here. Besides, there’s no such thing as too many addons. ElvUI counts as 2 addons, while it has the feature set of like 20 different addons.
Not to mention that manual labor is error prone and cumbersome, better automate it.
Never had this before in 2 years time.
I have tried WowUP and Ajour but they missed some that Twitch still found, so today I gave in and visited the overwolf site, I was able to install JUST the curseforge app without the full overwolf, I could use the app without registering an email address or anything else and it updated my addons. Other than annoying ads, it did the job and I closed it as soon as it was finished.
I’m suspicious of this app, don’t get me wrong… but so far it does not seem any more intrusive than Twitch was… but I will keep an eye on it.
Taken down by who? lol… WowUp and similar apps can pull addons from other sources, Curse isn’t the only source.
That depends. Addon makers can either do it for free and use github, or get additional income and use curseforge. I’m sure some will prefer to distribute them for free, but not many people will refuse additional income for the work they do in their free time.
Are they backing down? Do they actually care? Find out more in the next episode!
Sure, it depends how big the addon is but many authors just push to GitHub anyway and use Webhooks to publish their addons to Curse, WoWInterface and such…
0/10 wouldn’t use, its mostly malware and extra BS in hopes of them roping you into using their nuisance software which starts clogging your PC with so many extra bits. I wouldn’t approve. I’m personally going to keep using twitch app till it ceases to update then go from there to WoWup or w/e the other people I play with use.
It’s not a malware and it’s not malicious. 
Yes, however if the additional income depends on the number of downloads from curseforge, the easiest way is to make the github repository private.