In-game menu way too big

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yo blizz, this menu is MASSIVE, (like, can be seen from outer space massive)
can you guys shrink that down to how it used to be? thanks!

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Moveany lets you scale and move it…

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That’s a useful tool, but players shouldn’t need to use an addon just to fix something that wasn’t broken yesterday.

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I agree, but I can’t actually fix it, all I can do is help by providing possible solutions.

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You know, I don’t actually think the new menu size is too big. Most games have massive full screen menus when you hit Esc or Pause or whatever. WoW has always had a weirdly tiny little box. Even the new one is still a relatively small box relative to the size of the screen.

It’s definitely jarring though.

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Even if you adjust UI scale, menu still huge lol.

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it’s just completely inconsistent.

character screen has buttons of a “normal” size.

…but when you’re in game, the menu is ridiculously… big looking.

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It was a bit jarring at first, but I actually quite like it. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but I like a big menu. I have a large monitor. No need to be shy.

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i’m old too.

glaucoma means i can’t focus on something so insanely huge.

simply opening the menu causes physical pain.

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Thank you friend!

To anyone reading this thread, or who else is frustrated by the menu, here’s what I did to return the game menu to how it was BEFORE the patch:

  1. Download the Moveany addon
  2. Once you open up WoW again with the addon, type /move in order to open up the addon
  3. Where you see ‘+ Game Menu’ , click that, and then click Game Menu under it
  4. Now what pops up is the Game Menu frame. Set the ‘Scale’ to 0.80. And it will auto-save.

Boom, you’re back to how it was BEFORE the awful pre-patch change.

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You’re welcome.

Also, weird, I didn’t even look for +Game Menu, I just turned on “Scale Frame with SHIFT” and did it manually…

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I think we might have different versions.

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I tried that once, but we really shouldn’t need an addon for this.

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While I generally agree.

Blizzard seems to have gone with a ‘good enough’ attitude to UX design, we get basic functionality out of the box.

But they outsourced to unpaid fans, if we want fancy, it takes an addon.

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