Yes, I’m agreeing with you. I (personally) don’t see the logic in it, so I’d like to also hear what their thought process was here 
Just a heads up to those who are curious.
ClassicLFG still works perfectly fine as it has for the last two weeks, it still parses chat LFG messages and organizes it for easy consumption and communication.
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“You don’t need addons except for these ones that I think are important.”
You’re a jerk.
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This thread has had a lot of views. Blizz can we get a blue post as to why you broke this addon function?
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It probably broke a lot of the gold seller spammers since they were likely using /who to find people to invite to their channels.
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From what I understand the way to determine which layer a player was on was using /who functions to do so. Then the abusers would whisper folks on different layers to invite them.
/who is an old function in the game and to break it would mean that something very significant was up. The live version still works, so what’s the difference? Layer abuse immediately came to mind.
Looks like I might be right. Wowhead also thinks it’s to break the census addon as well, after they posted that big breakdown of all the players and such showing the total EU/US character counts. The census showed around 4.4 million characters between EU and US, and I’m sure most accounts have at least 4 or 5 characters being counted in that, so that pegs the player count around 1 million players.
This 1 million players is the peak count and is only going to decrease as time goes on. The census addon would allow for people to plot the rate of decrease vs time and investors would be able to partially predict things based off that.
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Menu, Interface options, Social (iirc), block guild invites.
Tada.
Did you just assume that we don’t have guilds? Maybe we have guilds we made with friends. Perhaps I would feel bad for leaving that guild to join a bigger one.
How about everyone stop trying to generalize the entire game pop. There are many reasons people pug in lfg. Not all guilds have 5+ people online that can make a viable party. There are so many launch hype auto invite guilds out there it’s rediculous. For one I’m waiting out the launch hype storm to settle into an actual guild.
I would really like Blizzard to confirm or deny this and give us their reasoning in breaking such a core feature of so many addons. A feature still available in retail. What could be the reasoning? Hmm???
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They probably won’t do so and if they do, they will give some roundabout excuse like “it degrades server performance.” My guess is that due to classic only having a small amount of realms, it’s easy to create a character on every realm and scan each realm for data. On retail, that would be exponentially harder to accomplish due to the shear number of realms.
This makes a lot of sense. I haven’t received a single one of those since the patch and I normally would get at least 3 per session.
Sucks to have WIM broken for that.
If they wanted to break that from happening, they would just remove the ability to invite people to channels or put an internal cooldown on how frequently someone can invite people to it. Also, they would just kill the API for addons to be able to do such things.
They specifically targeted the /who API functionality and all fingers are pointing toward keeping the player count secret.
Did this also break shift clicking on names in chat? I’ve noticed that shift clicking no longer does a /who. If so, that just sucks.
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yes, it broke it as well. essentially blizzard removed the feature entirely with this.
I’m going to have to go with that as being their primary reasoning as well.
I haven’t seen anyone complain about gold sellers since the change. Breaking the census was probably a bonus secondary thing for them however as I don’t really think they’re too keen on people knowing that much detail about server pops.
This is absolutely beyond stupid.
There is literally no reason for this. I don’t understand, the logic behind their reason doesn’t make any sense at all.
This needs to be reverted. I liked running the census addon.
No, it didn’t break it. I used shift click on player names 5 to 10 times last night and it worked every time.
Its only broken if the addon is trying to do a /who search