CurseForge should be banned

[Jorvanus-arugal]

@Keremi-area-52

I would love it, the outrage would be hilarious. DF is the perfect time to do this with the UI update just break all the addons.

Literally 0 chance of this ever happening.

[Keremi-area-52]

@Jorvanus-arugal

Literally 0 chance of this ever happening.

I bet it will.

[Féyrre-wyrmrest-accord]

Sadly this would really hurt a lot of the RP community.

[Jorvanus-arugal]

@Keremi-area-52

I bet it will.

Blizzard has 0 reason to do this. Vast majority of people don’t care about curseforge versus wowup. Blizzard jumping in to just remove them all is just a ridiculous suggestion for a company with a declining user base.

[Keremi-area-52]

It’s weird how FFXIV doesn’t have add-ons (that aren’t bannable) but has more subscribers than WoW.

[Jorvanus-arugal]

Weird how you compare two completely different and irrelevant scenarios and think that you’ve made point.

[Keremi-area-52]

One has add-ons, the other doesn’t.

We are talking about add-ons.

FFXIV doesn’t suffer for not having add-ons.

[Jorvanus-arugal]

@Keremi-area-52

FFXIV doesn’t suffer for not having add-ons.

Oh so FF14 has been around since 2008 with addons, decided to ban then and nothing bad happened as a result?

Like I said, not even comparable scenarios.

[Magasmash-dalaran]

That’s been my experience-- that black box.

Once in a while it has a small video, no sound, nothing that distracts me from the thought intensive process of clicking the install button. (This is called sarcasm.)

And that’s been it.

[Firby-tichondrius]

@Maizou-proudmoore

I open Overwolf maybe 3 minutes every week to update addons and then close it. It’s not as bad as people are acting. Lol.

yeah i dont pay for anything on curseforge and i only open it every once in awhile to check for updates on the addons i use.

[Ithost-illidan]

I’m actually surprised that Blizzard allows addon businesses to exist. They are making money as a result of providing a service in their IP. To me this really is no different than RMT in the game for carries, collectibles, gear, etc… In game everything has to be GOLD ONLY. So why are addons any different? Why are they enabled with RMT? Most of this was easier to ignore before Curse started declining API keys and trying to force a monopoly on addons. Once they get their stranglehold on all of the major devs and addons they will push even more monetization. It’s incredibly obvious what’s going on.

[Dãnte-stormrage]

@Covidstrike-kelthuzad

Pretty sure Blizz cant step into other companies business practices and tell them to stop lol

They can when the entire businesses is based on the use of their products provided they can show that it has a negative effect on their business.

Its how they shut down honorbuddy.

[Ithost-illidan]

Yes, Blizzard can block them and their addons from working on their game. They can remove API keys etc.

[Caelin-boulderfist (Caelin)]

They would have to spend a considerable amount of time on updating their ancient as dirt UI to even be acceptable. Not to mention a complete redesign of fight mechanics, as they have made them more and more complex to account for the use of mods. More likely they will selectively target the features of some mods to curtail them if they find them are becoming too good.

[Necrophobia-rexxar]

@Maizou-proudmoore

The problem is Overwolf actually does pay and incentivize addon authors to host on Curseforge.

Correct. However, Overwolf is free too. We are the product?
Install Overwolf
Overwolf gathers user data
Overwolf sells user data to ad corporations
Ad corporations send ads that target each user
Some users click on those ads
clicks produce revenue
devs get a small cut of that revenue.

The fact that they take our data and are not upfront about it… malware. Yes, you click “I agree,” but the fact that the data collection info is buried deep in the legal jargon filled EULA instead of upfront and understandable to most people is intended deception…Malware.

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

Did curse break WoW.io? I just got WoW.IO updated and most of my addons now cannot be updated?

[Gallows-korialstrasz]

Walked away from Curse as soon as OverWolf got involved.

[Tacothebell-lightbringer]

You will have to do a re-scan with Curse disabled. Many addons are available elsewhere. I wrote up a post a week or two ago with links to a couple guides. I’m still using WowUp.io to update my addons. There are a few I am updating manually. There is a list of addons that are available on GitHub here: https://github.com/layday/github-wow-addon-catalogue/blob/main/addons.csv

Here is my post from earlier with links to WowUp guides for finding alternative sources that can be updated through WowUp:

CurseForge should be banned

Some addons are available from other providers, although they defaulted to installing from Curse (which is why you’re having trouble right now). You will need to change your addons to update from other providers. Wowup has a guide on migrating addons from Curse to other providers: The Wowup discord server has been very helpful when I migrated as many addons as possibble from Curse. It helps to enable wago.io as an addon provider as well (if you’re ok with a small ad that’s sandboxed to be as…

[Tiapriestess-whisperwind (Tiapriestess)]

I’m surprised this debacle of a thread is continuing given the release of a standalone CurseForge app. The one downside to that announcement though is that it’s Windows only at the moment. I don’t believe the CurseForge app that already exists in macOS supports the v2 API. Of course I haven’t had a chance to check that recently as I’ve been in the hospital for most of the last month with complications from a lung biopsy surgery, so maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised and the old CF app for macOS got a stealth v2 API update.

[Marakurta-kiljaeden]

So slight sidenote. The non standalone version cant be installed on Windows insider preview, the installer wont let it progress which I found odd. Not something I’ve run into before.

Standalone version works fine though for installing.