Shame on Icy Veins (LFG addon promotion)

[Moldrum-arathor]

It’s gonna affect the game and players behavior

Obviously. It’s mere existence is causing you to spazz, for example.

[Starman-zangarmarsh (Starman)]

Obviously. It’s mere existence is causing you to spazz, for example.

I laughed so hard at this.

[Ravicus-icecrown]

Oh shoot, this could have been asked on the AMA.

it was asked as a question and partially answered in one response, I will try to find it again.

[Shizard-tichondrius]

I seriously hope they block this addon from being used. I want the classic experience, not a bunch of retail features added in to it.

I don’t want anything associated with LFG added to classic regardless of how it works.

Please ban the addon, Blizzard.

[Ogimirak-medivh]

Point of Clarification

Okay, you guys are misunderstanding this thing. If you’re going to hate it, the first thing you should do is figure out what it is. Then, you can decide to hate it.

This addon is performing highly specialized chat management. You tell it what channel to sit in and it listens. When people say “LF1M Healer VC” the addon uses natural language parsing algorithms to translate this into metadata amounting to “a party consisting of one tank and three DPS is forming for Deadmines”, and adds that to a list that it can display in the UI.

The addon can also send messages to chat. When you are forming a group, you can tell it what dungeon you’re doing and then it will continuously monitor the status of your party and post updates to the chat channel periodically in natural language to alert other players and other instances of itself. Finally, when you want to join a group that your instance of the addon has listed, it will send a tell to the party leader asking for an invite.

This addon cannot and does not:

• start with players simply interested in a dungeon and put them together into a party by itself
• teleport anyone anywhere
• do anything across realms
• exclude people that don’t use the addon from participating in groups with which it is involved

Now that you can understand that it’s not technically dungeon finder, tell us why you love it or hate it. Thanks.

Good summary. How does it handle ignore lists?

[Starman-zangarmarsh (Starman)]

I seriously hope they block this addon from being used. I want the classic experience, not a bunch of retail features added in to it.

This existed in vanilla, so you are getting that experience.

[Ravicus-icecrown]

If it’s every 1 to 5 minutes, I can expect lots of spam.

we can break it ourselves by just reporting it as spam

[Skateboard-zuljin]

Icy Veins has always been crap.

[Ravicus-icecrown]

This existed in vanilla, so you are getting that experience.

summoning stones and inn keepers existed in vanilla, as a dungeon finder. LFG was not introduced until 2.0.1, which is TBC.

[Durrus-sargeras]

I don’t know. Presumably it doesn’t have to. The game will squelch messages from players on your own ignore list in world chat channels.

I have not seen this thing in person. My description is based on reading https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/45344-wow-classic-addons-classiclfg/ and being a developer myself.

[Starman-zangarmarsh (Starman)]

summoning stones and inn keepers existed in vanilla, as a dungeon finder. LFG was not introduced until 2.0.1, which is TBC.

OMG…THIS ADDON EXISTED IN VANILLA.

[Shizard-tichondrius]

As already stated, you are incorrect Mr. level 12.

[Starman-zangarmarsh (Starman)]

Nope, I have screenshots Mr. Backpedal.

[Tankshow-whisperwind (Tankshow)]

Once again, I would like to thank you for posting this on the forums and letting us all know about an addon that some of us didn’t know existed. -.-

[Ogimirak-medivh]

I don’t know. Presumably it doesn’t have to. The game will squelch messages from players on your own ignore list in world chat channels.

That’s a good point

[Andycloud-hellscream]

Then, proove me that it won’t affect it ?

You are always trying to act like the best but can’t bring arguments even once lol.

[Starman-zangarmarsh (Starman)]

I can understand that with such a low degree of intelligence need addons.

Seriously?

[Shizard-tichondrius]

Don’t care what was in your private servers.

[Chete-moon-guard]

You are a champion, however past threads on this addon have clearly demonstrated (as does this thread) closed minded face-to-wall bangers do NOT care to have anything explained to them. They run with the fact someone said it was bad so it is bad!

Sheep.

[Starman-zangarmarsh (Starman)]

Don’t care what was in your private servers.

LOL WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? I didn’t play on private servers. My God, dude. Grow up.