Do you want the games you play to be good games, or to be good for the business that owns them? These are not the same thing.
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Hey remember when there was hype and excitement going into an expansion?
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There was hype for Midnight until they killed by nuking addons.
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New update some good changes.
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So do I!
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As a classic player I know this doesn’t effect me a lot. But with all these changes I can’t imagine what kind of errors add-ons will be giving after all this happens. It’s going to be a complete mess and people who don’t follow everyday WoW news are going to be furious.
At the end of the day hopefully this will still be a win and eventually they get a great customizable UI. But my hope in blizzard developing anything besides the bare minimum is pretty low.
MysticalOS the DBM creator, can’t get much more authentic than that. 
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I think what has happened is the API is 1 big thing. It’s not like there’s a bunch of isolated sections that they can just turn off individually and why we see a complete shutdown. If this is the case then nuking it makes sense to rebuild it up correctly. Trying to segregate and use theirs and current ect ect wouldnt get anywhere as they would still function and you just make the code alot worse. Hopefully they get it done by midnight what they want to have done and included for players and possible addons. I just think people don’t realize that the API isnt segmented but just a big single thing. So to make it segregated you break it and rebuild it ground up. Probably better.
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Of course they do. Accusing them of that is childish.
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The nameplates shows that they don’t play the game or playtesting. A lot of problems on the nameplates should not made it to PTR.
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The new name plates aren’t on the PTR.
A big problem is the rush… they’re not waiting until their own systems are ready for prime time to disable 3rd party addons, they’re just disabling at an arbitrary point.
It’s like jumping out of an airplane while still trying to make a parachute… better hope it’s finished before you hit minimum opening altitude…
I’d say that’s more likely to be the class/spec staff…
You are on cope, the blizzard nameplates have million problems. The nameplate positioning behaviour, nameplate text customization and aura on the nameplates should not made to the PTR.
NPC in a Midnight dungeon can have 10 nameplates visible, all of them are starting with ‘Vilebranch’ on green environment. You should go to Azure’s Vault and Brackenhide Hollow to check how bad nameplate positioning behaviour. You literally can’t interrupt with these nameplates. Sin Rogue have about 14 auras on nameplates with zero customization. I have zero faith and trust for Blizzard to make replacements for all addons.
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Imagine having to take every toon you have made and having to reset them and learn the two buttons, at this point why not make the one button assist for everything THERE now the toons have been dumbed down for those less intelligent or quick with fingers. SHEESH. I am not going to purchase Midnight until after the dumpster fire comes down to more a bon fire mode LOL
does this mean plater isn’t going to work anymore I’m too lazy to read.
I can’t play this game without plater. honestly I’ve done away with all the other addons I don’t even use dbm anymore…but I need plater. the stock nameplates are impossible for me to play the game with I just can’t do it…well…won’t do it I guess.
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yes, that is what it means. They are massively updating the in game nameplates but by all accounts they are awful.
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Coloring the health in green when there is a dispellable poison, blue for dispellable magic, purple for dispellable curse, or anything like that will not be possible either. Color or glow for your atonement targets, prescience targets, etc. is dead as well.
This is the biggest L for me. Party frames changing color to indicate a dispellable debuff was huge for me as a healer. Everything else I could tolerate to a degree but this sucks.
Please for the love of god make this a default feature.
Also super disappointed my elvui bars won’t work anymore. I think the default blizz bars are hideous. I guess I’m going to be fully uninstalling elvui since I only used it for action bars and party frames. 
They aren’t on the PTR… they are only on the Alpha.
Only time will tell. 