I completely agree. Such add-ons make the game world smaller, hurt community and in-game economy.
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The supporters of the LFG addon are losing it over that blue post.
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Exactly! For those of us who started playing day 1 we had no such addons and had to read the quests, figure things out ourselves and work with others!
DBM and Questhelper addons both need to go. The war is not over, we just had our first victory with LFG.
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I agree with this. Questing addons seem to just replicate what you would get from searching on the web. A leveling guide that is in game, however, would be far more impactful.
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If you’re arguing that questing addons have no impact on WoW then you’re also arguing that there was no difference between how Morrowind and Oblivion handled quests.
Nope, they expressed concern about letting add-on communication go live back at Blizzcon. Before the game even launched an add-on that realized those concerns surfaced.
Expect stuff like sending your Gatherer nodes to a guildie not working either.
That was the point. Some quests made you actually explore.
I did the entirety of Vanilla with out a quest helper, and the only quests I didn’t complete, were typically ones that went grey before I could finish, or group quests that I skipped.
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dbm should have been broken a long time ago
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Looking up the information in general impacts your personal experience. I could easily replicate Oblivion’s quest system in Morrowind by having the wiki open on my second monitor.
but impacting your personal experience is not the same thing as being harmful to the community as a whole.
If having that information about quests ruins the personal experience or not is a subjective matter up to the player. They existed in Vanilla and the community managed just fine.
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The LFG addon created a separate in game social network that would have infringed upon the more organic Vanilla social structure that is one of the selling points of Classic. A questing addon doesn’t do anything even remotely similar. This is not a witch hunt.
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I second that. It’s literally cheating. Just because it’s been around for awhile doesn’t make it ANY better.
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LOL, these salty posts are going to make for an interesting weekend.
If people want to cheat themselves out of the game experience, that’s on them, and also the major difference between the LFG addon and a quest addon.
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You’re missing the sarcasm of my post.
I actually do not care what add-ons are used, but if Blizzard is going to go out of their way to break specific add-ons, then they should at least be level handed about them.
There was an add-on during Vanilla that tried to coordinate groups similar to LFG, but never really took off.
Questing mods, such as Carbonite, came much later in WoW’s existence. In fact, boss mods, decursive, etc… were around longer than them.
If we want the “REAL” WoW Vanilla experience, then Blizzard should just break the questing and map mods to give us the truest WoW Classic experience ever.
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Closer to vanilla as well since this type of things was there already.
Questing addons existed in Vanilla. DBM existed in Vanilla.
Vanilla also had crazier addons than exist today. Buff/dispell on movement.
How about you guys play with no addons, the rest of us can relive the Vanilla experience
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There were questing Addons in classic. I don’t see a problem if they’re in classic.
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Looking up quests in a wiki is not even close to the same thing as having a GPS tell you exactly where to go. Beyond that this is an MMORPG, very little of what you do has no impact on other people.
By having these quest addons tell you exactly where you need to go it removes the need to explore, get lost, ask for help, meet new people etc. Beyond that it also FORCES other people to use these addons if they want to keep up with the pace of leveling of everyone else.
Finally to say they had no impact on the original Vanilla is a bold claim, have anything to back that up? Sources?
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Blizzard is disabling a portion of the API.
It affects every add-on that used peer-to-peer communication.
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And an LFG add-on was created in Vanilla. But screw authenticity when you can pick and choose, am I right?
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