Their trash. I used Minion from WOWUI for years. I just wish people would abandon curseforge and jump to wow ui
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Specially when they do not own the content. They are acting like the ADDON are their to block access to. Complete Scam.
Iâd like to thank Overwolf for generating this publicity, and thereby alerting me to wowup and CurseBreaker which I hadnât known about previously.
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easier to find out the ip of the ad server and block it with hosts then modify the client, assuming the client will function with it blocked
This sucks and sadly most the big addon devs will likely stay with Curse/Overwolf due to $$ specially when they are being told they stand to be paid more per download in the future. I have no issue with the addon devs making some money for the time they spend but that should come strictly from donations not add revenue.
Making money on add revenue per download etc. is profiting and is against Blizzard ToS, I am surprised Blizzard has not sent its army of lawyers after this as they usually fiercely defend their ToS.
Maybe Blizzard will do something noble here and integrate an addon client into their launcher and require all addons be hosted there.
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im not saying bliz makes all the addons or any addons. iâm saying they should host the addonâs people create and have an in client button to update them.
they could have a disclaimer saying community based addons are not guaranteed etc etc.
like, the steam store has the community workshop tab.
all people have to do is click a button to install them
and they can easily search for them via key words/ tags.
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I donât care about ads, I care about invasive ads overlaying my game client and yelling at me if I turn it off.
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This would be a great idea imo - the Blizz Workshop!
Thank you for posting this very informative thread. Iâm looking at the wowup.io manager right now and just wondering the opinion is on that client?
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Reception to Wowup.io has been very positive overall, but Overwolf is threatening its very existence currently.
The PR guys at Overwolf have reached out to Asmongold for a potential interview on his stream, so Iâm kinda curious to see where this is going.
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addons via client only
Wait, theyâre removing the website manual downloads? It was bad enough the site has become buggy af, but theyâre completely taking down curseforge? Source?
Sarwen - the problem is that many people dont have the technical skills to manually dl and install the addons.
You basically said many people are not computer literate. If they were incapable of downloading and installing software, then they wouldnât have WoW, in the first place. They wouldnât be capable of installing the horrible new overwolf client, either. Saying the majority of the WoW playerbase have no idea how to install software or do any kind of basic file management, is one way to insult the player base.
One can still use a search engine (like google) to discover addons and youtube or other sources of tutorials on how to get and use an alternative addon manager or do it manually. There are other addon managers and not all of them are curseforge only, so people can still skip doing it manually.
As someone upthread already said about manual addons, download, open, copy, paste, yes to replace - ezpz (Yes, I get it, doing so manually 20-100+ times eats time, and it does take more technical know-how to automate it, but it is worth it to learn if you hate Overwolf, enough. Odds are someone else who already has the skill will make and share it.).
Have fun manually install 50+ addons
More like 12.
I have 72 currently so I will never update manually. 
There is no way in hell Iâll be playing WoW if in the middle of an Arena/BG match I have ads for RAID Shadow Legends pop up outta nowhere simply because I have add-ons 
Especially since this isnât a mobile F2P game.
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I never trusted the Twitch deal.
Source Forge, Curse Forge, WoW add-ons, all are labors of Love, and the pillars, the foundations are built on FREEWARE. Open code.
Wolves indeed.
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The operative question here for me is just how invasive is Overwolfâs client.
If the ads stay in-app only then I donât see the problem, speaking solely from a technical end. I have unlimited data so I donât have to worry about whether Iâm âpayingâ for use of it. The thing Iâm most concerned about is download of real, honest-to-goodness malware. Viruses, keylogging programs, etc. If it just means I get Company Xâs ads overlaid in my Facebook, I ignore those ads anyway.
Thereâs a different point to be made about supporting corporate interests vs. individual developers, I get that. But right now Iâm also trying to prioritize options. Downloading 20 add-ons individually is near the bottom of my list, above only the option to play without any add-ons. Iâm using WOWup right now and love it, but if it goes away âŚ
- What is the real, not imagined, danger of using the Overwolf app, andâŚ
- How easy would it be to drop Overwolf in the future if another independent app came online, and scrub it and all of its ads from my system?
Overwolf is bad, agreed. I am not going to use their client. The addon devs that stay exclusively in cahoots with Overwolf, I donât want to support them, either.
Someone like me who will use an alternate addon site(s) source(s), and alternate addon manager, manual addon updates, or just F it and not use the addon at all are actually looking at our options and taking action against Overwolf. If the majority of people abandon the platform, then we win. If weâre willing to face minor inconvenience and tediousness to take Overwolf down, weâre showing our commitment to flipping Overwolf the bird, not gaslighting. WoW as a game is tedious and inconvenient, so WoW players should already have the tools to cope. If WoW is that broken without certain addons and enough unsub (and communicate to Bliz thatâs why they unsubbed), then Blizzard will do something about it, even if it is develop those features directly into the game.
If the majority of people are a bunch of whiners, who are too dependent on their nannies to update their nannies to play the game for them and just flail about crying for papa Activision to take down the big bad wolf and will instead just go grovel and use Overwolf, anyways, then we lose.
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If this is all true and Overwolf follows through on this, one of the other addon clients should step up and reorganize, expand on what they have and let addon authors migrate there instead of using curseforge at all. Overwolf gets nothing out of this if itâs not needed, so make it not needed.
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I donât plan on using overwolf, but the problem youâre going to run into is bandwidth⌠and that costs money. I can bet that there is quite a bit of bandwidth required for curseforge and even more around new expansion release time etc. Youâre not going to find someone who can simply donate that.
I would fully support donating to a site that became a new venue for mod downloads, but yeah not that sketch group.
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