It won’t. You can just download them manually.
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Bartender4: GIthub
DBM: Github
TRP3: Github
Import them to Wowup and you can have auto-updates without touching Curse.
Skada and Healbot I can’t find on Github, but DPS meters and click-casting unitframe addons are relatively common.
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Well, then they may need to change where they send their updates. If Overwolf is going to muscle in and make people abandon curseforge, then mod authors are going to have to start putting their mods elsewhere so that folks can get their hands on them unless they want to demand folks download the things manually.
Minion is what I use, you can get it from the wowinterface website, which has existed for many, many years, and is a generally trusted site Is say, even if it did drop in popularity from back in the day
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overwolf isnt going to make people abandon curseforge, people are doing that of their own volition due to overwolf…being overwolf with ads and malware.
?? Do you even understand what’s going on?
Overwolf has purchased curseforge, and they have a hardline stance against any addon program that scrapes data from what they consider their own property. They want to effectively shut down any program that doesn’t meet their strict expectations, meaning a lot of folks who rely on programs like wowup.io for example, may be forced to install Overwolf to get their addons if Overwolf becomes the only source of easy access curseforge addons.
And some folks, if faced with that choice, of either installing Overwolf or not using curseforge for addons, will sooner abandon curseforge and go elsewhere for their addons.
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looks at post history no i have absolutely no idea whats going on
im saying that nobody is forcing people to abandon curseforge, theyre doing it on their own
except for Overwolf.
That’s how monopolies work. They force you to use their service because they deleted the alternatives by force.
Not by stifling competition by offering a legitimately better alternative. But by removing their competition.
In this case, other add-on managers that do not go through Overwolf first.
Want to use your own add-on manager? Too bad. Overwolf deleted it.
See how this works?
theyre not shutting down github or wowinterface, just restricting access to 3rd party managers to curse. i think its a ****ty thing to do but its hardly the same thing as forcing people to abandon curse
It’s like Curseforge is Walmart, and people have been using Uber and Lyft drivers to pick up and deliver products for them. Now Overwolf is the new management taking over Walmart, and they don’t want to deal with Uber and Lyft, so they are trying to force everyone to order from Walmart. com.
You have a few options:
- Order from Walmart. com (Use Overwolf)
- Drive to the Walmart and pick it up yourself. (Download the addons manually)
- Continue to have Uber and Lyft drivers pick up your packages despite what Walmart wants, which Walmart may or may not be able to actually do anything about. (use other addon managers)
- Buy your things from another store that is willing to work with Uber and Lyft, or has its own delivery network that you like better than Walmart. com. (get your addons from WoWI/Github/TukUI/etc and use clients that work with those distribution platforms)
- DIY the thing you were going to buy instead of getting it in a store at all. (learn to make your own addons)
- Determine that the thing you were going to buy isn’t worth it after all, and go without. (use the default UI)
Option 1 is out because we don’t want to use their client, for a variety of reasons, all legitimate. Option 2 should be out because we don’t want to reward bad businesses behavior with income, ad traffic in this case, which will be just as bad if not worse on their site. Option 3 is fine for as long as it continues working. Eventually they may just turn off the APIs and then Option 3 is shut down. Option 4 is going to be the best, most sustainable option for most people, while Option 5 is a perfectly valid option for those inclined to learn, particularly for smaller and less complicated addons. Option 6 kinda sucks, but it’s there are a fallback option of last resort.
As a player, to keep continuity of updates for my UI, I’ll be using option 3 from right now until I can effectively do option 4.
As a developer, I will move my projects off Curseforge to support people who want to use option 4, while continuing to build small addons for personal use when they don’t really offer anything that other people want.
We should encourage as many people as possible to do the same.
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See the thing is people aren’t understanding is that you don’t ALWAYS need to be updating your addons, With the exception of things like bigwigs, Weak aura’s, DBM you can pretty much run a set of working software and just update it when you encounter a problem which wont be everyday.
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What, even now?
Thanks for reminding me where I encountered Overwolf before.
I have no idea, I mean several years ago when I last used it, it was nonfunctional at the primary purpose. Served up the ads just fine though.
That was right when Discord was becoming a thing, so I swapped to Discord for comms and never looked back.
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The guy said minimal addons, not zero addons. It is fair to say that you cannot personally enjoy it, or that you personally are so dependent on your addons that the difficulty of the game will increase without them. It simply is not true that the game is unplayable. The game is unplayable when down for server maintenance.
@#$%!, WoW without addons isn’t as game breaking as Two Point Hospital without the middle mouse button and purposefully against key remapping software.
Saying “just manually install it” isn’t defending. Just because i say that, doesn’t mean I’m ignoring the situation. I’m fully aware and understand the Overwolf situation and why you guys hate it. Them trying to monopolize the thrid party managers to make people use their own ad-filled one that has rumors of malware is pretty scummy. I only hope this topic gets more awareness and i hope Acti-Blizz finds out and sue Overwolf.
Going back to manual installing, i think this part of the situation is overblown and it’s really not that tedious. It only takes like 20 minutes max and you don’t need to update every single day. It’s done by choice.
It takes a lot longer if you’re running upwards of 70 addons like I do.
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Even then, it really don’t take that long. And you don’t have to update every single day or every single time theirs an update. Heck, you don’t even have to check every single update.
That’s done by choice. You choice when to update.
You are VERY wrong on that. I will never update manually.
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I’ll just go back to installing/updating them manually as was the way before the addon managers. Overwolf can go to hell.
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