So, if I’m wrong I apologize. I’m rather behind on the cursforge vs wowup situation but the way I understand it.
Cursforge (overwolf) hosts the addons and pays for the storage and servers to maintain the addons for download to the public by using their application or downloading the addon on individual level for manual install.
WowUp, which is a competitor and who just signed a agreement with Wago Io offers a similar application but still gets the majority of the addons that it is offering to install from cursforge.
And cursforge has denied access to WowUp to it’s API, Storage, and servers.
Was I able to sum this up correctly? Or am I missing something?
This sounds more like an issue with your internet connection or something else going on… Addons only take seconds to update. Even to download and install new addons takes seconds too.
For example here’s proof:
As you can see it took approximately 7-8 seconds to update an addon even as bloated as Narcissus… and Narcissus is a hefty addon at a staggering ~170MB in size with nearly 2800 files contained within it’s excessive number of 141 addon folders:
For comparison, major comprehensive addons such as Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) only weigh in at about 11MB, to give you an idea just how big of an addon Narcissus is and how it still only took seconds to update Narcissus with Curseforge.
Ublock is a wonderful tool to counter bad ad practices. With curse, the lite client is the least intrusive add on manager. I wish WoWUp was still functional, but like everything on the internet, it is subject to change.
I dont find it at all slow. And you cant really blame them if add on creators are slow to provide updates. That happened in the past as well, sometimes we’d wait weeks for new versions after game updates.
People looked through the original code of one of the clients and found traces of mal- and spyware who gather your data (OS) to sell it. And if this wasn’t bad enough already, the spyware running in the background used too much ram (inefficient programming) which can reduce your overall PC performance.
Aye, this is what I do too. I didn’t even know there were programs that did it for you until this drama all started unfolding. I figured it was easy enough to just download it on my own, and point it at the addons folder.
Then again, I use very few addons, and most of the ones I use are updated infrequently by design, so I understand it might be more frustrating with a more involved list of mods.
they spend the time and money to have the most comprehensive and up to date mod storage server for all of wow (even classic). And other games.
they cut off leeching freeloaders using 3rd party apps via api lockdown.
now they are evil.
Usually with freeloaders any attempt to get paid irks them. even if its the real easy to ignore ad panel of overwolf.
code just writes itself to these people. wowup didn’t give mod authors one 1 dime.
Overwolf runs the repo, runs the api access to it, they can do what they want. Those not liking this can run their own repo server(s) and tell wowup of it. Most add ons are GNU. Collect them up, maintain them…and run the file servers. and then do all the updates. file security. backend coding for submissions. you know…work.
ofc wowup won’t be chipping in on their monthly bills for that. They will leech as some other guy pays the bills. Kind of why overwolf cut them off at api level.
Like the old phrase, “If it aint broke, dont fix it… You’ll break it” And that is what they did with itunes too. I hate their new setup. Even the WoW forums. We used to have signatures on the old forums here. And this account is not linked to my main account so if I ever say I did something in a raid of arena, people will say “No you didnt your account has zero progress in that”. Then we get into an argument and… all because the new setup allows people to look at account armories even if it is blocked here. Old setup not the case.
I even have the Baby Blizzard Bear in idol form on a toon. Old version everyhing now days is usually better.
Curseforge. This is obvious but also the most easily acceptable one. Corporations want to make money, and for that they will/can do anything they can. Pretty much all corporations do scammy things like this.
Addon devs. Addons WERE NEVER MEANT to be as an income source. It was suppose to be a hobby thing. Addon devs back in Vanilla and early xpac DID NOT make any money from addons. Now, most addon devs want to make quick buck. I am not blaming them but this was not suppose to happen.
Blizzard. Blizzard now develops encounters/content with certain addons in mind. Meaning some people are pretty much forced to have these addons. The dependency of addons are getting worse with each xpac.
This is what I was gonna point out. Overwolf is the problem, not so much Curse, and they responded by making their own addon manager that’s standalone. Technically, it’s in “alpha” but it works great.
