Of course they have incentives, if people don’t like curse any more, they have plenty of incentives to switch.
Most people will still continue using curse even if the people here don’t like it, we’re a minority.
The devs get paid for uploading to curse, why would they bother uploading anywhere else, specially if overwolf says “if you upload here you can’t upload anywhere else”
To be fair they are the one paying for the bandwidth. They only want to stop people from bypassing the launcher to download content from their servers.
All add-on makers needs to do is stop releasing their content on there and roll their own solution, free market will then do his thing when they start losing money.
Well, I don’t know, maybe you are right, but the worse that could happen is having to install the addons manually.
I used overwolf in the past for hearthstone but I found it annoying and uninstalled, so I don’t really know what the fuzz is about
If it comes to installing manually or paying to not deal with ads and there is no other option, i’m probably paying.
The ironic part of that is addons are so small and modern websites so bloated that I’m 100% positive that they burn somewhere between 3x and 5x as much bandwidth on the site as they do on serving addons.
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GL, someone was saying earlier that the author of DBM said on his discord that half his monthly paycheck comes from curseforge, about 1000 a month
Yeah since I kinda already have to install a few them manually I don’t really care that much
Elv ui, TSM, Raider io, etc…
ElvUI and TSM have their own clients.
If you are using TSM without the client, you are missing a lot of functionality.
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i use the elvui installer honestly, that’s what was kind of nice about wowup, it also pulled from tuk.
I don’t think i’ve manually installed an addon in years.
To each their own, but manual installation is easy, and certainly less work than dealing with malware.
Yes, Elv ui is the only one I install manually. The other ones have their own clients.
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And Ajour (and probably Wowup) support pulling updates for those straight from their respective sites.
More devs should do this.
I really like Ajour myself. It does update from the Tuk/Elv servers.
TSM however will always be its own system since it has the realm pricing data included. But that’s not too bad to run.
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Than the dodgy players who make addons can go get a new website to host their addons and ban Overwolf from accessing the new page while allowing all other addon managers free access.
Also if I made an addon, I own it, I have the right to tell who can or cannot use my addon, step 1 would be to not allow Overwolf from using it. All players need to unite and stop allowing Overwolf access to their addons.
Easy sure, go to the addon page and download the new file, unzip to your addon folder. Easy once, easy twice, easy 5 times? Not easy when you run 70 addons.
When you have as many addons as I do, manually updating is a pain, I’d rather just deal with the ads
This is true
It’s a little less clear than that. To have the right for you and others to use your addon with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, you must agree that the code of your addon is fully visible, that there will be no charge, and several other terms. Blizzard does not go so far as to specify a license such as GPL that you must publish your addon under, but if they did, that might clear up any ambiguity over the right of other sites to host addons.
Yeh of course, you must agree to whatever terms there are for the addon to work with WoW, but I doubt it is allowed for Overwolf to stop your addon from being used primarily within their app, I should still have the right to decide who gets to use my addon should I choose to. And if the website rules state otherwise, than fine I can just host it somewhere else.
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