Curse and WoWInterface fights backFollow

Petty and childish? You try running a free website using tons of bandwidth and come back and say that.

They've spent all their money on bandwidth. There's none left to fully develop anything properly.

is it really that hard u download the addons yourself? srsly...

I can't believe some of the responses in this thread, especially from some of the veteran posters here.

When I first started playing this game shortly after launch, many addons were hosted privately and quite frankly were just a flat out hassle to maintain as a user. With EVERY patch breaking mods back then it was almost too bothersome to deal with. Then slowly but surely sites like WoWI, Curse, WoWAce and a few others that have since faded, took hold.
Thousands of different mods came flooding into this game all the while making OUR user experience more enjoyable. The best part? It is FREE!

It is kept free when these said sites host ads and collect site specific quality addons. The economical side of this has already been beaten to a pulp here so I won't go any further with it except to add this....it is all still FREE!!!!!!!

I realize some of you are here to do your average e-peen stroking by flaming a post on the interwebs and thats cool, but for some that act like they can't live without WoWmatrix....sad. I'm currently running 122 total addons myself and updated 63 of them in a matter of 10 minutes just before I posted here.

Ok, I just opened wowmatrix (and will probably continue to use it unless WoWUI's updated manager is decent....curse's is horrifyingly bad) and I noticed a few things. First of all, a number of addons I could easily find on other sides just got the updater changed to those sites (there were a couple, but it's worth noticing WoWMatrix is already responding to this). Even though some of the major addons I enjoy using using are only hosted on WoWUI, I will keep using WoWmatrix...

Honestly, I don't care about an auto-updater. It's a nice perk of what I like about WoWmatrix, but it's not really why I use it. I use it cause it provides a comprehensive list of addons with short descriptions. It also tells me what I have installed. That's what I really want - Just an addon organizer. The updater part was just a nice perk. If WoWUI's updater providers that (for all my addons, not just the ones they can provide), I will embrace it whole hardily. However, if it's like curse (that knows they don't have it so tries to force you to download the addons they have over others.....I killed Curse updater cause it kept suggesting crap to me even after I told it not to!), I think I might just give up on WoWUI's website altogether, just like I did curse's.

Edit: Also, just noticed that curse does not appear to be actually blocked, or they haven't changed the source links yet. If curse actually backed out at the last moment, this seems like a ******* move to make WoWUI look bad. However, from the design ideals I saw in their updater, it wouldn't shock me that much....

Edited, Apr 14th 2009 3:32pm by CrimsonNeko

Out of curiousity...

A) How many WoW Addons are open-source?

B) What if WoWMatrix went and started carrying all of the Addons (that the authors would let them) on their own bandwith and kept doing what they are doing using their own site/bandwith?

C) What happens when people start only using WoWMatrix's site/downloader and only using the Addons that are supported on it?

I seriously doubt all of the authors would blacklist WoWMatrix.

The point (for me anyway) that I am seeing in this thread is this... If I can no longer use WoWMatrix will I go and manually update the addons myself? Yeah.. I'll have to, but I will only be updating after a patch or if I 'break' an addon and I wont be updating every 3-4 weeks.

The answer to this little problem is extremely simple:

I will not update my addons until WOWMatrix has bypassed the lock.

It will probably take a few days, however, my major addons will all work (they always due) and my convenience addons will be disabled. The fact that these major sites have decided that patch day is the right time to pull out the pitchforks and torches just goes to show how incredibly stupid they are. I know that a large portion of the addon community, including myself, will specifically NOT go to Curse and WowInterface strictly because of this childish maneuver. They really screwed the pooch on this one. Before I would always go to these sites and preview, check out the author, view screen shots, and do my initial downloading before even loading up WOWMatrix. Although I recognize Ryne's point of view and argument it doesn't change the way I feel.

It's a disappointing day for the WOW community all around.

So now that I've gotten rid of wowmatrix and uninstalled every addon I had I want to replace them with ones from from curse and wowinterface. It appears now that I can't install addons into my addons folder as none of them are even showing up. I hates my life.

Anyone got any latest info on if WowMatrix has been fixed yet? I just checked the main site but could not find anything.

Details? OS? What steps are you taking to install them? This isn't curse's fault, you're doing something wrong.

I'm not a wowmatrix user (I suffer with Curse client an manual updates), but I honestly feel this move was a mistake on the part of Curse and WOWI.

Their market (us) is largely concerned with convenience, and not who's stealing whose revenues. I absolutely understand where Curse & WOWI are coming from on this, but simply disabling wowmatrix (especially on a patch day) could have no other effect but making them look like the real villains.

Why? Because as other have pointed out, neither has a solution that comes close to wowmatrix in terms of functionality and efficiency.

The real solution would be to produce a superior product, get it out in to the market so a subset of the population gets used to it, then cut off wowmatrix at the knees. This solution paints Curse and WOWI in a much more pleasant light, especially if this product were a joint effort (split the ad revenue, perhaps?), and there'd be much, much less sympathy for wowmatrix in the aftermath.

The path these sites have chosen to take, though, is to cut their market off from a tool they really like and offer, in return, either a vastly inferior product (Curse Client), or a shrug and a heap o' nothing (WOWI).

Arex, I installed Curse yesterday and had it do its thing. Didn't delete any of my addons. Some of the addons it didn't recognize b/c WoWMatrix had messed with the files.

Now if the Curse Client would stop crashing every time I close WoW I'd be happy...I blame Vista.