I am trying to decide which one to use. What is your experience with either one?
Wowup.io for me, I like it.
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The second one. The one without the wolf in it and stuff. I do like wolves though dont get me wrong.
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I have tried both and can honestly say I’m not a fan of either one. I’d have preferred to keep the Twitch client, but since that isn’t an option, I’m using the one that’s closest to it, which is the Overwolf one. So far, I haven’t had any issues with it, though I do wonder if content creators are going to leave the Curse platform over the monetization issues (though they’d be getting money because we’d be watching ads, supposedly–still no adds in beta thus far, though, and no payment options to opt out of those, which I will happily do to avoid them.)
WoW.up didn’t come with a dark mode, by the way, and for me that, that was just painful on my eyes. It’s been a few weeks since I uninstalled it; so, it’s possible they’ve added new features and the like, but I really just prefer having the cohesive, streamlined, dark theme, and ease of something that is so much like the Twitch client that I don’t really have to think about it.
To be fair, …I don’t understand why Curse wants to shut off updating of addons for a week, either. That just seems like they WANT to encourage people to not use their platform at all and move to somewhere else. It’s really odd to me. I also haven’t kept up with that issue, either, though I was dreading playing WoW for the first week or so of Shadowlands without addons. It appears they’re allowing it now for release of Shadowlands, but I got the impression they’d be shutting it off shortly thereafter? I’m still confused on this and will likely be searching for ways to update my addons when/if Curse stops allowing for it for a week or whatever.
Every product Overwolf got their hands on turned into crashing buggy BS. I hate them as a company, and I hope they burn.
But that’s just me…and literally everyone I know.
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The existing Curse Rewards program paying out $$$ and gift cards to addon authors will continue to be a thing with Overwolf.
This is in addition to ad revenue , the ad revenue is going to be an extra payment into author’s pockets.
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Neither. I install my mods manually.
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Curseforge/Overwolf wasn’t the ones picking the timetable it was the former owners Twitch.
It’s time for them to officially migrate over the backend Curseforge runs on. Originally this was only going to be from the 30th with anything requiring a human to manually review being frozen from the 23rd. Essentially if an addon fall off the automatic moderation queue there’s a chance it couldn’t get updates.
Their blog however didn’t make it clear what was and what was not covered by manual project moderation so it was updated after consultation with Twitch.
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I have used overwolf for in game overlays on sc2 and dota. So if you play any RTS games, maybe check out overwolf, because you can kill two birds with one stone that way (:
Or the other one. I mean they’re both package managers basically if you’re gonna just use them for wow. Probably won’t notice a difference
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I have been using Overwolf for a couple of weeks now and have had zero issues with it. It finds all of my addons and updates them quickly. I have a second copy of WoW on my computer HD in case my main files on the ssd get corrupted. I keep everything updated on it including my addons, so overwolf, to me, is the best option as I can switch between locations easily in the app.
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At the moment, I’m using Ajour. It’s fine, but unremarkable… just like WoWup.
However, when the new CurseForge app is out of beta and they’ve begun offering an ad-free subscription model, I’ll be using it instead. Why? Because I’d like to be able to show some support to addon authors without having 30 different Patreon subscriptions to keep track of.
I’ve actually read Overwolf’s privacy policy in its entirety. It’s no more onerous or egregious than any other software or website you’re using. Including this one.
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Yikes that name on a gnome is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
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WoWup is the best addon manager I’ve ever used. Does exactly what I want to do with it and they don’t try to force a single unwanted feature on me.
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Wowup.io will always be better.
Overwolf’s reputation exists, and it isn’t a very good one.
There’s been a bunch of updates since you uninstalled it and one of those was a dark theme as well as several other QoL features that have improved it.
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I have been using the new Curseforge app and have no complaints. No intrusive ads or anything.
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You guys using wowup. How do you stop it from updating every add on every time you load it ? and it seems to be updating some to previous versions for me ?
LIke i have the theon altoholic ( dont know the exact name) it updated it to be regular altoholic.
But anyways everytime i load the program it updates every addon.
Anyone else notice this or test it? if interested open it update close it then open it again and see what i mean. Anyway to make it stop doing that ?
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DO NOT GET OVERWOLF. They have malware!! WoW.Up is the safe way.
Thoughts on Overwolf the company aside, Wowup seems like a much better app because it ties into more sources than just Curseforge. I was manually updating ElvUI because I couldn’t be bothered installing the TukUI client just to update it there so now I can do everything in one place.
I prefer to not have my email address sold to the highest bidder. Thanks.