Sure, and not needing to focus on integrating the thousands of 3rd party addons gives them more time to design the game. Lotta people like to point out how little content we get from patch to patch, and you think Blizzard writing all those addons into the game is going to help this situation? Really?
I mean, the official UI is already lightyears behind ELVUI. One tab in the addon has more customization than every aspect of the official UI in the interface settings.
It’s also easier to parse and change what you want, and you can save multiple profiles, and change how it looks based on whether you’re raiding, questing, or PvPing.
WoW’s default UI is terrible, and the few things they showed at the Dragonflight preview are things that most addon UI’s have had for a decade.
Just like Blizzard probably has different teams for encounter design and system design, etc.
And obviously they don’t have many people working on UI atm. But improvement can be achived over time. e.g. The new AH interface is just a small UI change, but a big improvement from the old one.
If the dev can constantly add store mounts, pets and transmog periodically, they surely can spare some time to improve the 15 years old bag UI. It is just a matter of will.
Sounds like it’s time to Ban WoW Addons Threads instead…
I’d rather not be stuck with default Blizz everything indefinitely.
They are incredibly slow to fix or add things, addons alleviate that.
You also make zero mention of players with disabilities of course, because why would you? Blizzard has been terrible at adding accessibility stuff in a timely manner. Addons help solve that.
That’s a no for me.
It’s ingrained into the fabric of the game.
I’m a firm believer in, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Uprooting the player base, especially this far into the game. 17 years would not be healthy for anyone. It could be disastrous.
I don’t understand why WoW forums are characters and not Btag like the rest of the Blizz forum format. They could just let us pick a character and that would be our posting character with btag. Why should people troll for free?