LFG Addon: Blizzard comments

[Ravicus-icecrown]

Pops the cork, Party is on!

[Holyrunt-dunemaul]

Everyone knew it was going to be broken on some level.

Auto-invite is against tos.
If the app gives you access to channels you normally wouldn’t be able to access, that violates tos.

I suspect not much will actually be broken.

[Arcyne-emerald-dream]

#MyClassic

Stop spreading this crap. Nobody owns classic, and nobody is entitled to having it be played in their singular playstyle. I dont like the LFG addon either, but #myclassic is just ignorant

[Chuckymanson-aggramar]

“Due to extreme load” message on the forums…

Man, we’re hyped.

[ßoxer-gundrak]

BTW just like TSM we can list on discord with a discord bot that updates a db and have a addon updater update a central db of listings ingame like the AH scanners do.

trying to break it will break all addons cause it uses basic api technology….

[Aevelamue-dalaran (Aevelamue)]

ladies and gentlemen we got him

[Holyrunt-dunemaul]

I suspect they wont break it, just linit it’s functionality

Auto invite bad.
Being able to spam trade chat if you cant physically access the trade chat is bad.

[Ravicus-icecrown]

then break all add ons. Problem solved. #useyournoodle

[Juli-blackwater-raiders]

One final thought though: I’m going to cry/laugh if the fix comes in a few weeks and all it does is break the auto-invite. Lol

It would actually be the perfect strategy appease the streamers and the ones that don’t like it now and not actually completely break it when the time comes since everyone will be too busy playing to notice.

[Urskrah-zuljin]

Look at the blue post tracker.

[Balloon-aerie-peak]

and here we go, so you guys can all move on with your lives

@Bornakk

We’ve been closely following the community discussion around this add-on for WoW Classic, as well as analyzing it to make sure we understand how it works. After careful examination, we believe the nature of ClassicLFG is incompatible with our social design for Classic. Thus, in an upcoming patch (in the weeks following launch), we will be adding restrictions to the Classic add-on API that will significantly limit this add-on and others like it.

In line with what we shared at BlizzCon last year, we intend to be very careful about allowing add-on functionality that might undermine aspects of the social dynamics that are core to the Classic experience, even in cases like this where it’s clear that the addon author had no ill intent and was simply trying to provide a service to the Classic community. Ultimately, if a streamlined group-finding system was something we considered compatible with Classic, we would have kept the modern Premade Group Finder tool rather than choosing to remove it from the Classic client.

It’s difficult to articulate a clear-cut rule for exactly when an add-on crosses the line. However, when an add-on goes beyond presenting information or providing aesthetic customization, and attempts to create an interconnected social network that relies on other players also using that same add-on, we are likely to scrutinize it particularly closely.

[Holyrunt-dunemaul]

Im 99% sure that + trade spam will be the only thing broken.

You will still be able to spamm lfg since its a global channel

[Arcyne-emerald-dream]

Oh that’s rad. Really good news

[Andy-ysera (Andy)]

Well, I guess we don’t have to make these topics anymore since the problem has been fixed.

Unless people want to go out of their way to thank Blizzard for following up on overwhelming community feedback and keeping in line with the promises they’ve made for Classic.

[Cursedd-area-52]

#MyClassic

[Balloon-aerie-peak]

I could care less either way, I just want people to start talking about something else. I’m bored people! This conversation is boring now!

[Andy-ysera (Andy)]

We could go back to skeletons.

[Arcyne-emerald-dream]

Yeah, yeah, i’ve seen you do nothing but spam that throughout your posts. How meaningful.

[Balloon-aerie-peak]

I actually miss the arguments about the skeletons now.

[Chuckymanson-aggramar]

Yeppers. Although, I do dislike their decision. =/.

Not a deal breaker tho.