Heaven forbit that someone be rewarded for their work and creativity. Everything we want must be free!
Strawmanning much?
We dont want those ācreativeā people to touch our game, please?
Why they cannot go and be creative in blender or in local sport associations?
Why do you (or anyone else) find it so necessary to disrespect whole swaths of people youāve never met? How do you know that most of them arenāt wonderful people? I find more toxicity in forums, with people stereotyping and āotheringā than I ever experience in game.
Because respect should be earned?
But to answer the essence of this,
if the game UI is broken so much that there are parasites organizing to exploit it,
should not it be a priority for game developers to fix?
WA must be removed from the game. Period.
What have you done to earn my respect? Or that of anyone here in forums? Maybe instead of waiting for it to be earned, we should treat others with respect until we have reason not to? That is how I was raised. It has more to do with being a respectful person than expecting people to jump through hoops for you.
Who told you that I need your respect?
I dont want people from water guild to do anything for me,
I want game developers to remove cancer (WA) from the game.
So you can download from their patreon without subscribing to their patreon?
Otherwise, yes they are selling the addon.
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Itās a pointless argument either way and whatās really funny is Iām arguing FOR an addon I actually despise.
I want cheap auras to get banned and the no life mythic tryhard raiders to be without it and be otherwise forced to do fights without it and shifting the onus on the developers to build encounters and balance specs playability around a human and the realistic limitations that comes with our own innate processing and response time. Blizzard admits and has long time relied on addon developers to bridge the gap between a kitchen sink of mechanics and classes with so many āinvisibleā and intermingled convoluted effects that then ānecessitatesā people to use addons to help them better parse and distilled information they react on (this "arms race as it were). You, as a player, are objectively not capable of playing as optimally as addons allow. You may not do modern content where that doesnāt matter, but itās still a fact nonetheless.
You struggle to understand the difference between what the cheap auras addon itself does and what a specific aura is. Iāve tried to compare it to a different addon and scenario and you donāt get it. Itās fine. Some people are too simple to grasp things. Iām that way with certain topics too. Doesnāt mean Iām right because something works a way I donāt like.
The addon itself is free just like addons like MDT is free. MDT allows someone to piece together packs of enemies to form a route through a dungeon. You can also import routes other people built. Nothing about the addon is paywalled but if someone wanted to charge for an import string that was for a route, which is PURE KNOWLEDGE of a configuration, thatās their perogative. You arenāt owed the fruits of oneās game knowledgeā¦just that you have access to the same addon with the same features to build your route using you OWN knowledge.
Thatās, again to my knowledge of this situation, what cheap auras and this mythic raiding tryhard is doing. He or his team built some super duper awesome āimportā that does a thing that is probably beyond the scope of the layman to build themselfā¦itās entirely mechanically possible to someone to type the same string of characters and click on the same buttons and go through the motions and recreate this aura someone else has already done, but what this dork is trying to do is get compensated for this āworkā. Itās eyerolling but NOT the same thing as building a forked version of an addon with NEW features/capabilities.
And if this final attempt at explaining the difference doesnāt get through, then just agree to disagree because Iām tired of typing essentially the same thing and if someone more knowledgeable of the specifics wants to correct me, then Iāll eat my crow all nom nom nom style.
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its a plug in not the add on
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No one is saying that.
The ideal situation is Blizzard reach out to these creators, hire them as devs to incorporate these features into the game. A lot of other games do this.
Because its programming work. They programmed custom scripts to help you do encounters.
You are not entitled to their work for free. It would be similar to hiring someone to create custom weakauras for you.
I see no issue here other than the entitlement that addons must be free.
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or, weak auras need to be removed,
and their āprogramming workā would not be needed in the first place.
As usual.
I feel like they search what were hot topics on reddit lol.
Also I donāt get notifications when you reply sometimes. Only reason I saw this is becauze I checked out the thread again 
The argument was about the ToS loophole these people are doing.
The rest of your post is pure rambling that had very little to nothing of what I was posting about to begin with.
Just want to point out that this thing isnāt even an advantage. Yāall getting worked up over nothing.
When the dude who makes MDT tried charging money for it, he had to back down quickly because the community reaction was FIERCE.
This, on the other hand, is a nothingburger.
No need for bunny quotes. Its literally writing lua code for the WeakAuras. Its programming, and that takes time an experience to do.
Its a miracle that theres so many excellent free addons for WoW by a very passionate community of programmers.
I refuse to pay for any addon. As soon as they become necessary to buy in order to play the game, Iām out.
I donāt like the precedent this is setting.
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Itās not unique to WoW, thereās just as much addon work put into games like KSP. Ton of stuff on Steam Workshops for many games, too.
Modders are wonderful.
Thereās no precedent, dude. I guess you missed the whole MDT thing.
Youāre right, I did miss it. I donāt care at all for competition or esports.
Iām merely posting on what I see, which is someone trying to charge for an addon.