as it was stated above, theres is literally no good reason for blizz to do so and alot of bad ones
Well I disagree. I don’t see why it would hurt anyone if they had a list of endorsed managers that follow guidelines set by them.
because, as was stated previously in this thread, they would need to do too much and theres no positive in it for blizzard. they would need to invest in a site for repository, hire people to monitor the addons that get submitted and uploaded, and every person would be opening tickets clogging the system asking blizz to fix the addons they had nothing to do with except provide a download for
I bet they still get the tickets, though. Like I said, trade chat was going nuts when the ELVUI issue caused action bars to go away. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got a lot of the tickets anyway. They can can letter a response that they don’t support them and reach out to the developer.
I do agree it’s unlikely they will do anything about it.
yeah and their response was essentially “turn off your addons, not us”
if they have an official repository it will be their problem and thats too much liability for them to deal with
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Many have.
Access to the API that makes that possible. Overwolf isn’t creating a monopoly. They are controlling their API, for good or bad but that is a different discussion. As the the owners of that API and intellectual property it is in their rights to do so. This costs money to build and maintain. It costs money to run curseforge.com.
There are other addon distribute methods available including wowinterface.com, tukui.org, and even github. So the third-party addon tools will still use those. Whether addon authers start using these other sites is yet another conversion.
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That’s how it starts. It’s like micro-transactions in AAA games. They release without them, but then get added in later. If they make X amount of money this year, quarter or month, they have to make more than X next month, quarter or year. If putting adverts in or untrustworthy code in is what will do that, that’s what they’ll do.
if? https:// medal. tv/clips/3317393/
edit if i need to ill go through my history to find the ads on HotS too
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So the issue is that someone has to pay for the server to host files, which is NOT cheap.
Second thing, the mod authors that put there mods on curse get income from the clicks (to download? I think…not 100% sure) so they will make sure their mods are updated to curse first and foremost.
So while wowinterface may be free to DL from even using a 3rd party addon manager, Overwolf does NOT want 3rd party addon managers to work with Curseforge since they would get no ad revenue that way.
It’s always about $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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You don’t need to convince me, but you can go through your history if you want for other people. 
these arent mine, theyre from rambush:
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Why do you think Twitch and soon Overwolf can do it profitably, but Blizzard can’t?
its not necessarily a question of profitability, its a cost/benefit analysis and its not worth the added costs for blizz to do an official repository when compared to the downside. edit theyre not going to monetize addons so its just added cost
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Basically if Overwolf gets their way I will be paring down my addons to just absolute necessities because I will not install their CRAPWARE. Period. Screw them and the horse they rode in on.
I am using ElvUI and they have a nice updater app that is pretty lean, though you do have to register to their site or just use Wowup.io for that and you don’t even have to sign in.
Bottom line is, I will just manual install the few addons that I will require for raiding and such.
The cost and benefit to Blizzard would be the same as it is for Overwolf.
Whatever downsides you’re saying Blizzard would deal with are the ones Overwolf will have to deal with. So why’s it worth for them, but not Blizzard?
again: right now blizz can say “turn off your addons/wait for it to update” when given tickets about problems.
if they had an official respository? that requires, like i said previously, a whole host of people to hire to vet the addons etc etc etc. they wont be directly monetizing addons even in this case so its a huge net loss for blizz monetarily
theres literally no upside to blizz having an official repository
Overwolf has to hire people to vet their addons “etc etc” too. So why’s it not a huge net loss for them?
they have ads (which blizz will never do due to the massive backlash it would cause on an offical site) and they sell your data via their malware infested client to 3rd parties
The twitch app didn’t need to do that stuff. Nor do the other apps.
twitch had other ways of making money edit they didnt need to put adverts on the client, they encouraged people to watch twitch and donate that way
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