You know what? If you ban addons, your player base is going to shrink

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From what I’ve heard, you’re planning to ban all combat-related addons in the game (DBM, Healbot, GladiatorLossa, BigDebuffs, WeakAuras, Wago, etc.).
Let’s be honest: you’re only doing this (you, Microsoft) to expand the World of Warcraft universe to consoles. Fine — so be it.

But I’m certain that during the transition and launch period, you will lose more players than you will gain. Especially if you merge the two platforms. You could have at least tested it separately first — just like GTA does, without mixing the two worlds.

Many of us simply don’t want to “re-learn” how to play — especially healers who now have families and full-time jobs. We’re the least likely to be open to a drastically different playstyle and control scheme after so many years.
You’re taking on a huge challenge, but trust me, this won’t lead to a good outcome.

And then there’s PvP.
How? :smiley:
How exactly does Blizzard imagine PvP with an Xbox controller? :smiley:
Not that I personally want to play WoW on Xbox — but it is a very valid concern.

For this reason alone, I don’t believe you’ll attract many new players (not even in PvE). On the contrary, you will lose a massive number of existing ones.

I don’t want to play like this either. Luckily, there’s Classic, and plenty of other games that welcome me instantly when I queue — unlike Solo Shuffle.

This is a terrible decision, and I’m already considering unsubscribing and deleting the whole thing. What’s the point in continuing like this?

I’m pretty sure I’m not the first one to say this.

Warm regards,
A WoW healer main of 20 years

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WoW is not coming to consoles…

From a recent interview.

Is World of Warcraft Coming to Console?

  • No plans to bring World of Warcraft to console. There’s no reason for Blizzard to hide bring WoW to console, as they would just say it.

  • The focus remains on the PC based experience and all of the class changes are about reducing complexity, as WoW is a very complex game.

  • There’s members of the community who celebrate that complexity, but there’s a difference between having depth and complexity.

  • The goal is easy to learn, impossible to master and Ion believes that the skill ceiling is going to remain “incredibly incredibly high”.

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And the game has shrunk because the game has gotten too intensive, too tool reliant for performance.

I know a multitude of people who instead of downloading weakauras and learning how to configure it (or in some cases even because of it) who have quit the game and haven’t returned. A lot of those eyes are looking with interest to the alpha now.

No but its also not the only opinion in the pond

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The new Xbox is literally a PC.

Blizzard is developing an in-House dbm, bigwigs is still available (as a skin), weakauras need to go 100%, all pvp addons need to go 100%.

We learn all the time. What is this nonsense argument?

It’s getting significantly easier and the healer interface isn’t looking bad.

Pretty sure that there are controller players at glad / legend level.

Looks like you just needed an excuse to quit. If you are sad that pvp addons get banned, you are one of those inflated people who need them desperately.

Anyway, can some poor souls have your gold?

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No one has to re-learn how to play don’t be so dramatic.

Quality of life addons will be missed for sure but overall the change will be for the better. If anything the insane addon requirement for raiding alone will open the door for many to try new things.

We’ve seen time and time again whenever Blizzard changes anything about the game there’s outrage and people “quitting” yet all these years later they’re still here - myself included.

Why not just give it a try and THEN decide if you quit?

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This is my only concern to be honest.

All other addons are evolving as intended. Inhouse UI, and addons allow for visual customization of said inhouse UI. With out WA.

Except Party Frames. I havent seen anything but a post saying “we are working on it”. And that has me concerned. Especially because they have yet to say something about a replacement for the “targeted spells WA”.

The new nameplates does have targeted spells WA built in. So I expect it to be in the party frames as well. But I have to see it to beleive it.

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nah i believe this is the right decision
wow should remove all the addons and fill the gap with the things that comes from the game itself/ im saying this as someone that is playing the game since the second season of burning crusade till this very moment. and i still dont use most of the addons that other players use for the game and i was very very successful in everything that i tried in the game.

i know they are not the best and these days its full of bugs and broken things. but i think they know what they are doing

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Watch drainerx replays, he did shuffle r1 as hpally with controller in dragonflight,dont remember the exact season anymore but if the vods are still up the title was tagged with controller.

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And just like all those other people, you have no clue what you’re talking about

Because if Blizzard WAS to bring WoW to console. They’d have done it years ago.

And sorry to shatter your illusions sonny.

But keyboards and mice have been a thing for consoles for DECADES, long before WoW was even a thing.

A console would have bundled WoW with a mouse and keyboard.

But you can thank clickbait trash dataminers on WoWhead for this latest round of “wow is coming to console” trash the PC master race continues to cry about.

Completely ignoring the fact that Blizzard long ago stated they were looking at stopping prolific combat add-on use as they were tired of building raids around those add ons.

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wow should remove all the addons

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Sure, but then all means ALL. No more TSM, no more ATT, no more rp add-ons and whatever else is out there. Have Blizzard develop features for all of those, but the advantage TSM users have over non users for example is huge. Same with ATT, no more easy to list collecting, either Blizzard gives us a proper way of tracking that or there is no way of tracking.

Also why are my quotes not working :sob:

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hello zantria
yes they have to cover it all if they want to remove the addons,
and im sure they have a plan for it otherwise they would never do such a big risk

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yeah it will shrink. But Blitzz showed us many time they don’t care, for example when we made tonnes of reports proving certain people are boosting rating for money and dropping mmr by auto loosing the games and…these people are still here lol. Idk why Blizz needs to make things complicated all over again

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Yeah mmo are evolving phenomenon.you either relearn or get left behind and this is not the first time they are making a change so stop being so dramatic .

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This is the same false assumption as saying they added controller support in Shadowlands for Console support. Or that WoW would go to Gamepass once Microsoft took over Activision-Blizzard. Neither of those did happen.

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It’s really not going to shrink. You can circle up on the forums, Reddit or whatever and hype each other up, but you’re still a tiny slice of the overall (silent) playerbase. No reason to pat yourselves on the back over it.

Also, for future reference tell ChatGTP “rephrase it to fit a forum post, no dashes”. :wink:

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Been shrinking since vanilla WOTLK so…what else is new?