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

[Áurora-argent-dawn]

My quesiton to you again, if “your” addon dosent autoinvite people, what does it matter if blizzard brakes it and makes certain it cant add said auto invite features, to make sure no one else creates a version that can ?..

[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.

[Darkorbiter-emerald-dream]

Remove all addons. create the game as it was at its peak and greatest time. commit to the game and invest or don’t play. that simple.

[Celessi-turalyon]

OK, you obviously mean that the API needs to be changed to not let that work. I’ve asked you a couple times to clarify on that.

[Ariocho-farstriders]

It doesn’t disincentive people from building relationships. Reputation, building friendships, social interaction will all be more available and meaningful with this addon.

Please explain how.
An unsupported declarative statement, repeated, is still unsupported.
With this add-on, my frikking cat could step on my keyboard and get invited to an event.

[Freezergeezr-baelgun]

Unclassical.

[Celessi-turalyon]

WoW “peaked” while dungeon finder was around. If we’re going by subs.

[Patchs-proudmoore (Patchs)]

Remove all addons. create the game as it was at its peak and greatest time. commit to the game and invest or don’t play. that simple.

Lol ok

Addons are an essential part of WoW and the Vanilla experience. WoW’s addon API is a huge contributor to its success.

[Unudi-moon-guard]

Please explain how.
An unsupported declarative statement, repeated, is still unsupported.
With this add-on, my frikking cat could step on my keyboard and get invited to an event.

But your cat couldn’t socialize with people in the group.

I don’t care about your answer because you can lie if you want, but I want you to think back and ask yourself how much socializing you did with the people that asked for an invite to your group that you ended up declining or how much socializing you did after you got declined. In the moment, of course, not if you happened to run into them later.

[Kôringar-saurfang (Kôringar)]

Go back to retail

[Ariocho-farstriders]

Remove all addons. create the game as it was at its peak and greatest time. commit to the game and invest or don’t play. that simple.

Add-ons were, as I understand it, a huge part of the game in Vanilla. The in-game UI was was just too horrible, too lacking, to do without.

[Áurora-argent-dawn]

As i said, the version that works without autoinvition, is atleast tolerable, but if a version of said addon can create group by automation, even tailored based on talents, then yes, that needs to be borken so it cant…

Again the problem is if someone makes a variant of “your” addon, couse we know that its possible, and then we have a problem

[Darkorbiter-emerald-dream]

I heard that addons were considered cheats and people would be banned for having them in vanilla days, i would agree with this.

[Aeresia-aerie-peak]

@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.

[Alphons-alleria (Alphons)]

Removing the need to communicate to form a group is what is wrong with LFD/LFR because of auto invite.

Scenario:

You see PersonA saying “LF1M DM” in chat. You whisper some form of “invite”. You join the group and do DM, either in scilence or talking.

Next day you see PersonB saying “LF1M DM” in chat. You whisper some form of “invite”. You join the group and do DM, either in scilence or talking.

One of those people used the addon and one did not, who used it?

Can you tell the difference?

[Loquacious-dentarg (Loquacious)]

I’m fine with the add on if the auto invite/talent inspection are out but this statement is an outright lie.

[Williams-akama (Williams)]

So again, are you arguing that the API needs to be changed to remove the ability of addons to do that, or are you targeting this specific addon?

The API is already different from Modern WoW OR Vanilla. There are things you simply cannot do in Classic that were actually possible in Vanilla and still some things you cannot do in Classic that are possible in BFA.

Classic has the most restrictive API and I doubt that LFG garbage is going to last a week; I got 10 bucks on Blizzard stuffing it out simply because of this backlash.

[Kôringar-saurfang (Kôringar)]

It’ll effectively kill what makes classic so appealing

[Trudiner-moknathal]

This addon promotes LAZINESS! Period. If you think you don’t have the time, DONT PLAY! Not to mention Classic is very Casual Friendly!!!

[Holyshadow-elune]

Blizzard most not allow this to happen, break this terrible thing out of Classic.