Every time I come back to WoW I have the same problem: Most of my AddOns have stopped working because game develops patches every week and AddOn developers don’t maintain them so often. Most of this trouble should have had a solution already by the time we are in the game now. Have Blizzard ever thought about this? I mean, I know AddOns aren’t really Blizzard’s trouble, but fact is game has many flaws that we solve using them and most of the user’s experience is only complete with them.
I know that there are for sure things that can be done to help with this. I can’t tell how a trouble it is to play the game with all the stuff one has to set up before doing so…
Find add-ons that have been recently updated. Monitor the development updates of those that haven’t. Cut loose any that are abandoned. Encourage addon developers with communication and support.
But accept that Blizzard is going to update the addon environment as they see fit, and that it’s the addon developers’ responsibility to keep up, and the users’ responsibility to find addons which are compatible with the current status of the game.
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It’s only particularly bad right now due to under-the-hood changes going into the new expansion, and how they’ve been rolled out. Usually, you can load most addons out of date without much issue, but this shift has been more pronounced.
Best you can do is just update to alpha versions and hope, or see if anyone made a working fix to ones that aren’t maintained anymore.
I’ve disabled some addons that are slower to update, since they’re minor and not necessary. Anything necessary for selling a Mythic raid or keeping my UI functioning is big enough to be updated frequently, or to have a workaround established.
Yup, I know, but there are more stable environments such as Classic Era where AddOns outdate very often too and probably it shouldn’t happen, considering the game isn’t receiving any new stuff, only SoD, but both are in the same client so…
This is not a Blizzard problem and all of these addons are done for free by people with their own time.
Solution 1:
Make your own addons that way you can keep them up to date. You can have people yelling at you about the addon being broken all the time and why they have not fixed it.
Solution 2: Don’t play with addons at all problem solved.
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have you ticked “Load Out of Date Addons”? i have one addon that been out of date for a long time called LagBar (it shows home and world lag and FPS in a small window). developer that made the addon gave up updating it. but it works fine
Yes, sometimes an “out of date” addon doesn’t contain anything that has been changed by the new WoW version; it’s just out of date because no one updated the version tag in the Table of Contents file of the addon, and the “Load out-of-date addons” option instructs WoW to disregard that. Sometimes that’s enough.
OTOH, the devs dropped a lot of addon API changes when the 11.0.2 prepatch hit, so many very popular addons are genuinely broken until their developers catch up.
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As people have already said, check the “load out of date addons” option, disable any that dont work or cause instability, and consider finding alternatives to the ones that have been abandoned and no longer function properly.
Pre-patch and the launch of a new expansion are always a volatile time for addons, so expect them to break and not always be updated the moment an update gets pushed. There really is nothing blizzard can do here that is reasonable, as they don’t have any control over addons or the people who create/maintain them
Set your addons to alpha release.
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