The pre-patch for World of Warcraft: Midnight has rolled out ahead of the expansion’s launch in March, and that means the first stage of Blizzard’s big revision to UI addons is here. The devs have presented this change as a way to “level the playing field” for players, but there’s always been a big question lingering: why now?
Addon use goes all the way back to WoW’s beta days, senior game director Ion Hazzikostas tells our friends at PC Gamer. “What we started to see 10 years later in Warlords of Draenor was increasingly bespoke add-on solutions that were designed to simplify and solve specific mechanics,” he says.
The addon crackdown – or “disarmament,” as Blizzard has put it in the past – is intended to keep combat addons from changing the expectations for how high-level content should be balanced. Players with a ton of information naturally have an advantage in high-end raids, and Blizzard doesn’t want to have to keep balancing around both addon users and those who stick with the native UI.
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