except that sending to a private channel was in fact de jour for addons. people don’t remember having to configure “sync channels” in their addons? most likely you never noticed because your raid leader sent the broadcast for you.
it was there all along
They said, if you read the post. Is that they are going to limit it. They didn’t say they were going to remove it and that’s the social dynamics of Vanilla. Maybe read all of it and try to understand exactly what they meant and are coming from.
dont play classic then LOL. keep playing BFA!
There was no problem with it.
People have this idiotic notion of “spirit of classic”
If the spirit of classic meant that much to them…
They would pull out a crt monitor, a mouse with ball in it, and stare at the ground to maximize their fps to heal, dps.
That ain’t happening.
You WILL never get the same experience as you did in 2004-2007. In fact people who actually think they will, have a serious mental illness.
P.S A lot of the players who are championing the classic experience, actually never played it.
Fellow Classic players. We don’t want an exploitable addon corrupting the layering and sharding phase or do we? Are BFA players really like that?
Maybe once BFA players experience a real social interactive #NOCHANGES game/world, they will see the light.
THANK YOU BLIZZARD FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION!
and yet I still have not seen a valid reason…
too many people who think LFD=LFG(hint they are different)
also just cause something is popular does not make it correct, or else everyone should be muslim.
People are complaining about an addon that got shafted before the servers have even gone live… and all I wanna do is start leveling and enjoying the journey again.
Can’t wait to get my Defias Mask either WOOOOOO!
I’m not sure you get where I’m coming from. I’m just stating hopefully in breaking the lfg addon it doesn’t affect those rp addons in the process. However if it does then it falls squarely in the shoulders of those who made it even after it was stated early in that they didn’t have a place in classic. Then they went ahead and did it anyways. I’m hoping in breaking the api for that addons that they don’t effect the RP addons, as they would be an innocent casualty. But time will tell. Wish they would have just left well enough alone and just accepted the social structure that was in game to begin with instead of trying to push the envelope. Maybe blizzard will find a way to break one and not the other. Let’s hope for their sake.
Nope
https://wow.gamepedia.com/API_C_ChatInfo.SendAddonMessageSendAddonMessage was added in 1.12 patch, the last patch of vanilla, and it didnt have the ability to work on hidden faction wide channels. You’re misremembering
New API Functions (from 1.12 changelog)
Add-ons can send hidden chat messages to players in the party, raid or guild, using SendAddonMessage("prefix", "message", "PARTY"|"RAID"|"GUILD"|"BATTLEGROUND"). When players receive these messages, a new event "CHAT_MSG_ADDON" is sent, with arg1-arg3 being the parameters to SendAddonMessage(), and arg4 being the name of the player that sent it. The combined length of "prefix" and "message" must be less than or equal to 254 bytes.So this addon not only formed groups, it also cleared the dungeon for you? Impressive.
The mental illness was believing that the community wasn’t vocal enough to usher in change. That was an incorrect assumption.
Call to arms existed in 2005 lol. Im not going to use a LFG addon, but all the addons from Vanilla that worked because blizzard allowed them to inter-communicate shouldn’t be broken just because the Vanilla community is so afraid that their community isn’t strong enough to just not use the addon. If people feel this strongly about it, and “are a majority” why is the addon actually an issue, when they’re the ones actually playing the game in mass? People with those addons will fall behind or just enjoy the game less and quit lol.
I’ve not written addon’s, no, but I do have coding experience and knowledge with C+ etc. I am well aware how much of an effect a change of structure can effect a piece of code, let alone changes in the language/functions.
But lets be fair here, within Minutes of the Blue post, and I do mean MINUTES, people are assuming a worst case scenario and also taking the leap that Blizzard isn’t mindful of this. Only if you take both of those huge leaps is there a possible problem.
Regardless, I just can’t see Blizzard doing it that way, as you and others have said, it will break to many other basic mod functions.
You do know the addon had auto features within the game, right? Discord doesn’t offer that service and they didn’t say they were going to completely break the addon. They said they would limit it. Please read the post over.
are you talking about yourself because all your gear is welfare epics.
I’m not sure if you know or not, but could Blizzard break the auto invite and talent reader portions of the LFG addon while still letting TRP function? Would they just have to go back to using a custom chat channel to communicate? I know either MRP or TRP used to do that.
Thank you Blizzard! For real… Thank you so much.
This was going to ruin the game.
WAIT.
Starman is that you? How fuming are you right now? Tell me tell me!
They didn’t say they were going to break the addon. They said they were going to limit it. Please read the post again.
An add-on to simulate retail.