Here is the LFG Addon in action! Much worse than you thought

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@Afterlyfé-illidan

Really would like to see a blue stance on this. It definitely blemishes the fun of classic. This addon definitely gives it a retail feel.

I’ve transcribed the addon discussion that Esfand, Tipsout, Omar, and Brian had earlier today.

ClassicLFG

Transcript from the addon portion of the interview. Cite: Timestamp: 2:30:25 Brian / Omar: We are more or less based on the modern code base, which has more or less the modern Addon API. But at the same time; there are some things that we’ve added to it over time that weren’t allowed in classic and we’ve restricted some of those; especially in cases where it affected gameplay. So a really good example of this is castbar addons. Castbar addons that existed back in patch 1.12 could exist but th…

TLDR: They don’t care so long as it doesn’t play the game for you. They’ve already stripped out the portions of the API that they don’t want in the game.