There aren’t any. This was a lie started by a misleading video from a streamer.
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In the end, it’s just another add-on that makes people pay less and less attention to the game so they can watch Netflix on their second monitor.
So a super popular thing became standardized… that’s not a problem. That’s literally the Devs taking hints based upon the bulk of their players adapting/altering their play without prodding by the Dev team.
I’m not even sure what this slippery slope nonsense is supposed to be focused on… are people worried that before we hit Phase 4 we’re going to have flying mounts and transmog? /sigh
There was no widespread auto invite addon in vanilla, and that’s that. Sorry. We’re playing classic, not retail.
Anyways, there’s no further way I can state my point, so have fun trying to find groups in classic with this addon, as it becomes blacklisted by a number of guilds/people.
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There was, and there were innkeepers and meeting stones.
How does auto invite kill a classic interaction?
There was no discord in classic either, will your guild be using that?
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I’m telling you, in 5 years, a lot of you are going to be just fine watching your character just play itself.
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How does this addon comeplete the dungeon for you automatically?
the problem is that people looking forward to classic want a game where those popular features aren’t standardized because the social environment was distinctly different. I don’t know how much simpler I can make that explanation.
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DPS meters made people not only care about how well they pressed their buttons, but also had the negative impact of judging and excluding people based upon the arbitrary number they can put on the board.
UI updates let you literally draw on your screen, some of which have been used in the past to help direct positioning and lay out pre-ordered movements for the raid to go to.
You harping on this is just being silly if you don’t realize how drastically ANY add-on can change the culture of the game.
I am happy to be blacklisted by illogical people.
All day. Big smiles.
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Well I better go out and make it. I’ll never use it, but hey!
I’m sure you won’t be inconvenienced at all, seeing as how most people agree that this doesn’t belong here.
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Actually, it was. Many people used the Vanilla addon “Call To Arms” and it worked the same as the current one. In fact, it helped people find others to guild and be social with.
The difference is the Retail version does auto grouping, cross server, and teleporting into the instance. These are things that broke down a lot of the cohesiveness that was developed in Vanilla. The group-finding part is likely to not be an issue.
For clarity, while the video was taken in BfA, you can load ClassicLFG in BfA yourself just by adding it to the addon folder since the API is similar enough that it works, and it does appear that a auto-invite checkbox was added to the addon in a later version, though I still don’t think that violates any “spirit” of vanilla given that many addons did auto invites and accepts in vanilla.
If blizzard hates that specific feature they can disable it just like they disabled auto-invite in BfA under certain circumstances. It’s not a feature that the entire addon depends on.
DPS isn’t an “arbitrary” number, and excluding people based on skill is something any raid leader has to do unless they want to become a no-progression bottom-tier social guild.
It is call chat. Not complicated.
It is an add-on. It isn’t standardized at all. And since they are still granting us access to the API, that means NEW add-ons will be created for Classic that never existed for Vanilla but are still possible and not against the ToS. This add-on isn’t going to force anyone to get it or be unable to play without it.
Me and dead owls don’t give a hoot over what “most people” think.
Especially illogical ones.
That’s perfectly fine, you’re in the minority. We know who will be more affected.
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