Every update, Blizz changes stuff that breaks addons on mass. For the love of all things sane… PLEASE STOP! There is no excuse for this! As a software developer, I would have lost my job many years ago if I had this much contempt for my customers!
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I think Blizz have their work cut out for them just making sure they don’t break their game when updating, let alone worrying about addons that other people are writing.
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I am with you when there is nothing in the patch .
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-Blizzard Internal Coding Team
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Bloody hell, the add ons have to adapt to patches, which they eventually do, not the other way around.
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add-ons are inevitable casualties of
code adjustments…
not much they can do about that…
that said,
i think they’ve re-lipsticked this poor
old sow, one too many times.
time for a full-on structural revamp…
these cosmetic jobs are getting kind of absurd.
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Just because they allow addons for their software doesn’t mean they have to design their game around it.
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Something tells me you are not really a Software Engineer.
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and they fail at that 
-chat whispers no longer show in the main window even if checked
-big bag broke and has to be reset to work.
-camera adjusting was reset to default setting had to put it on “never adjust” once again.
thats just what i noticed theres probably more waiting to be discovered lol
i guess they dont have testers for any of that they just yolo or something.
*just found another one. “show numbers for cooldowns” was unchecked as well.
jesus.
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Addons are passion projects made by players who are not paid. Blizzard does not write them nor create them. Blizzard is not going to deconstruct every addon, see how they are written, then only update the game in ways that wont effect them, that is an insane ask.
Many addons are designed around only working on certain versions, and something as simple as changing the version of the game (10.0.2 to 10.0.5) is enough to break them.
Players will tweak and fix the addons eventually. But they are not paid to do it and will do it when they want/can. Be patiant and support your local mod makers.
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If you don’t understand why a patch would break add ons that were made for the previous patch, then I don’t believe you work in software design.
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Blizzard isn’t breaking addons. The third part authors need to update their addons
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What Blizzard customers think Blizzard does to their addons:
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Blizzard is not obligated to worry about third party addons.
They do what they do within their game.
The addon creators need to stay on top of it to continually fix, change, etc things if they want their addons working well still.
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As a software developer wouldn’t you be on the testing side updating your software from there? The PTR exists. Addon developers, if they want to be up to date, should be operating based off of that.
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Blizzard need to make a REAL good UI and stop the mods must have’s. I can’t believe that an AAA games has such a CITSHOW UI.
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My addons have pretty much been broke every since DF hit.
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Most of the time when addons “break” on version updates, they aren’t really broken. In the addon’s manifest you specify the WoW patch version number. When that version increments on WoW’s end, it results in the WoW client seeing the addon manifest value no longer matches, and therefore flags it as out-of-date and gives a generic warning about how it could potentially be broken.
Most of the time, all the addon devs (or you, if you’re feeling especially motivated) have to do is go into their manifest file and update the version # to match the current WoW patch #.
P.S. - Since you claim to be a software developer, I would have thought you would have known something like this -.-
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Really, though?
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It’s the add-ons that need to update for the WOW client. Get pissy with the add-on developers to update their software faster, not Blizzard.
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