You mean “you think you deserve it” but Blizzard has been very hands off about addon’s. The best you could hope for it that they fold a few of them into the existing UI but they are never going to take on the responsibility of running one for third party use. It would put them in a position if blame if something went wrong.
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Then do a good job. Twitch has one. Curse had one for years and I’m gonna go out on a limb and say they had less resources than blizz
Yeah, because they are the ones righting the addons right? They can’t “do a good job” because they are NOT CREATING THE MODS. Seriously, you need more coffee… Twitch has one because they pay a staff to monitor and run it, and make a profit of it. Blizzard wouldn’t make a profit off them unless they charged you an access fee.
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Are you aware I’m talking about a client to manage them? Not the addons themselves? Anyone blaming them for DBM being broke in an idiot and nothing can prevent that. Curse had an addon client for years.
There is no reason blizzard cannot.
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You do understand that the addon’s reside upon a server OWNED by Over Wolf. It doesn’t matter if God made the addon manager, if Over Wolf says you can’t connect you can’t connect. Period, end of discussion. It is there server and they can control who and how the data upon it is used.
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yes. which is why blizzard makes their own to avoid this bad situation of someone say you can’t connect. period.
do you understand now?
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I am a little surprised that Blizzard hasn’t come up with some way to host it. They have specific rules about what add ons can and can’t do. They block add ons that break the rules.
Building an add-on manager into the client would be a good thing for the community. They could even let creators queue up a release for when a patch hits. The bandwidth costs aren’t that much compared to Blizzard’s overall bandwidth costs.
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We are talking in circles. Blizzard is never going to run their own third party repo for addon’s. There is no upside to them for doing it and it will only cost them money and put them at risk. Lets just say for example someone uploads a malicious script embedded in an addon and it gets on the “Blizzard repo” and people download it. Now Blizzard is responsible for what it does. So to ensure that doesn’t happen, they would need a team to review all addon’s.
There is nothing to expense and risk involved in this, they won’t do it.
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Can we not trust a billion dollar company to have some security? QA? They have addons that are blocked already. You could probably start out with only super established addons like DBM and the big ones.
It wouldn’t be a shovelware site like steam. It could work, it would just require effort.
It’s not that trust them, it’s that THEY DON’T WRITE THE MODS! They are written by some random person out there in the world. I am not sure what part of this you are not grasping. The only way Blizzard could ensure that every addon they host is “clean” would be to tear them all apart and review them.
Do you have any freaking idea who many addon’s that is and how long it would take?
There is freaking world of difference between the two. The control the “addon” section in their UI, they can easily write code there to not load addon’s. How do you think they can tell you if you are running out of date ones? But that is miles away from approving an addon is actually what is says it is.
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For all of them? Yea
For the big ones like DBM, ELVUI, Details and weak auras?
Probably an afternoon?
Them hosting it would create more problems for Blizzard. While it would be nice to be able to download from Blizzard hosted servers as a long time player I know there will be a lot of players that will not be able to separate Blizzard hosting the servers from Blizzard creating the addons. Then you have the relationship between Blizzard and the creators because they may want to limit what addons they host.
While it seems like an easy answer it is more complicated then it looks.
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Now I’m thinking a Pi-Hole might be a project I try soon. Pi-Hole is a DIY adblock solution that uses a Raspberry Pi to act as an adblock for your whole home network. Doesn’t work on everything, I think Youtube ads still get through, but should block most.
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Can you tell me more about this addon? I’m currently using wowup but I’m afraid that it will stop working eventually…
The proper word is ‘Vulture’ capitalism. That coupled with cronyism and you have a society like ours, no equal opportunity, just what family you were born in or who you can extort to gain an immoral or illegal advantage.
Folks are just to dumbed down to realize they are in control simply by not participating in business’ that practice vulture capitalism.
MGSO? That’s highly recommended against these days, it’s a one-package-fits-all approach with a very easy installation but it’s generally regarded as being sub-optimal in terms of performance, bugs, dirty edits/references, and is not at all up to par with modern modding.
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Here is your golden opportunity, start up your own company.
What is overwolf?
Remember…
If it’s free, you’re the product.
And they don’t want people coming in to their store and stealing their product.
You can find it here:
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