Overwolf Curseforge app open alpha

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 https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseForge/comments/jf3380/curseforge_open_alpha_for_wow_new_timeline_and/

Download from here -

Feedback here -

https://curseforge-ideas.overwolf.com/
 https://discord.gg/vN7sz59

Disclaimer : I don’t work for either Curseforge or Overwolf. I’m posting this for more visibilty so that the Overwolf team can get more feedback on their new addon updater client.

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Well had a go with it both in a Sandbox and with my main install.

Here are my thoughts -

  • While it does install Overwolf and sets both Curseforge and Overwolf to open at startup you can turn that option off
  • If you tell it not to open at boot then it deletes its entry in the startup list
  • 13 Locales including English are supported
  • You can ask it to quit both OW and CF when you quit it
  • It doesn’t seem to leave any processes running when you quit if you have selected the option to have it quit both OW & CF
  • While there is an overlay option for World of Warcraft it is off by default.
  • Selecting and detecting my wow folder seemed to be fairly straightfoward
  • You don’t need to login anywhere to update addons. AFAIK this is because the Twitch infrastructure hasn’t been fully ported over to OW yet. This may change over the next month or so while they properly intergrate Twitch stuff in.
  • Yes it has an “update all addons” button. Refresh button has been moved onto the right hand side , otherwise it’s basically the twitch client with the twitch stuff stripped out leaving only the addon section.
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More things I’ve found -

  • appears to have support for eye tracking software
  • MD5 checksums are exchanged when installing overwolf things
  • Like the battle.net desktop app Overwolf has an agent program too
  • appears to use Chromium. So does the BDA too
  • only thing I can find that it logs from me is my computer name was in one of it’s log files. But only as part of detecting what hardware I had.
  • The privacy section of the overwolf app allows you to turn off the options to use data to optimize preformance/stability and to customize overwolf for you but doesn’t allow you to turn off the “Use data to make overwolf work” basic option
  • The basic overwolf service means OW will “need to store and process data such as what app you install and use , your app subscriptions, as well as privacy and settings configurations”
  • In this section you can also request a copy of your personal data but only if log in as it’s under account privacy preferences. you can also request to a full data deletion. This is to comply with GPDR restrictions in the EU
  • There is a “remove ads” button on the right of the app that when clicked brings up a thing for Curse Premium
  • There are no ads on the app right now only a thing that says ads help support mod authors. However I am running a custom hosts file so some ad hosts resolve to 127.0.0.1. I still see advertisements tho so not all ad hosts are blocked. So what I’m seeing might be a generic message as it can’t load the ads properly.
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Thanks, so basically it looks like it can be trusted…at least for the moment?

I never used OW, but I read a lot of negatives things about it, so I was scared to install it, and delete twitch.

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I’m finding the opening, updating, and immediately closing being a reasonable solution. It’s what I did with twitch but with more clicks since you had to navigate like 3 menus to get there.

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I’m using the OverWolf Curseforge app and it works quite well. I like that I can set it up to completely close out when you exit the app.

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Beta is out - https://medium.com/overwolf/announcing-curseforge-beta-c49066521b58

At work at the moment so can’t test it myself yet.