Because it’s against the TOU/EULA to do so. It’s not a job, it’s not work, it’s a hobby project for a game they do not own the rights to.
Also, this same person went to defend for Overwolf when it released the last time it had blowback. Further, trying to point at people that basically just talk on a screen and ‘newscast’ WoW stuff (IE reaction channel) is yet another thing that shouldn’t be getting paid.
Overwolf is awful, and I’m tired of posting about it because people keep opening new threads in regards to this every 10 minutes.
Overwolf has security issues, including one-click critical security breaches from last May. Further they’ve had issues vetting their ads previously, as they’ve had Ads that gave some users Malware as a result of clicking on them.
Not to mention the issues with Overlays that Overwolf has done, along with the old(not defunct) team up with Teamspeak that had tons of security issues.
Another thing people point out is their data analytics and how much they sell users data, which you have to CREATE an account, then go turn it off in the app which means they already have a decent chunk of the data they like to sell anyways like e-mail, name, gender, etc. It’s still not default off, and it still requires you to CREATE an account to do it.
Another is that when you download Curseforge, Overwolf tags along whether you want it to or not. Both launch when you run Curseforge, and again you have to opt for Overwolf to shut down as well when you close Curseforge.
Yet another is that Overwolf is a very ‘bloaty’ app, which again is substantiated and even Soul agreed it is but people go ‘well since you only run it before you play the game and install addons it’s fine!’ but not really especially for those that ‘forget’ to opt to close both out at once.
There’s a reason Soul specifically quoted and showed screenshots of what addon devs said on tweets but didn’t show any evidence of posts from the other side.
There’s a reason they quoted MysticalOS(DBM dev, who makes the most out of all addons and lives off it) as well and talked about his points so much. Which, coming from him is honestly kind of funny how he thinks WoWup and people not giving them money is ‘stealing’.
Addon authors can keep pushing like they somehow deserve to earn more money than what they were getting prior to Overwolf and such but they’re going to push addon users away and increase the likelihood of Blizzard or Microsoft stepping in later.
PC security, and information sales wise? Yeah, they’re far worse than Blizzard.
But these threads are becoming spam at this point.