Nobody has this much irrational expectation without knowing that is what they are doing.
In your world, Blizzard would not allow any addons at all.
In the real world they allow players to CHOOSE if they want to use addons to make some things more to their liking and to help in some areas. Since different people have different needs, likes and preferences, there are a variety of addons to choose from and Blizzard allows people to create addons of various types.
Blizzard is not going to manage, control the downloading , or take responsibility for addons beyond making sure that they meet certain requirements.
Actually, I already feel dumber for allowing your trolling to get me to write all this, when in my head, I already know you are trolling.
I guess you scored a few points on me there.
Congratz.
I’m not trolling at all, its clear to me every one has simply become complacent with the current addon environment. It seems that any change is unimaginable or unacceptable to many people on this forum.
WoW is a competitive game, if people have developed addons that give you competitive advantages these addons should be available from blizzard.
Blizzard is allowing other players to develop the game, and these developments should all be available to download by every player on blizzards own website or launcher.
LOL, a “premium”. WoW hasn’t upped subscription cost since 04 when the game launched…but inflation has added about 36 cents to get the same buying power. you’re getting the game cheaper than ever (about 11 dollars in 2004 money).
So are you saying that you haven’t ever used one addon in all the time you have played WoW? With all of your posts you make it sound as if you refuse to download them from anyone but Blizzard. So with over 9k achievement points and all, you haven’t ever used one addon even though you yourself keep saying the game is basically unplayable without them?
Also, I personally don’t know of any game where the maker of the game supplies the addons, not one.
No im just saying that it doesn’t make any sense why developments to blizzard’s own game are not available to download from blizzard’s own website or launcher.
You just defined the API. All the Blizzard ingame settings are available to you, through Blizzard. Customize to your heart’s desire. Or, get someone else’s work.
It’s just someone getting upset they can’t make Blizzard do everything for them.
Have you ever considered that Blizzard can’t make the same quality of addons that many authors can, and that said authors don’t want to work for Blizzard?
That’s on blizzard to decide and they decided to make the API available for other people to make addons with. This has been the case since the original alpha.