FF14 devs just keep doing your thing because my god

[Penthea]

- Better Add-ons

Honestly I'm so glad I don't have to deal with add-ons anymore. Blizzard are VERY lazy when it comes to updating their ui because they can rely on third party developers to do it for free with add-ons. This isn't good because third party software isn't QA tested by Blizzard which means they are prone to being buggy, and no keeping your add-ons up to date isn't enough to escape problems.

I can't even begin to count the amount of times I have experienced issues while doing content because someone's add-on stopped working correctly. 10 minute raid boss pulls reduced to nothing because someone's add-on bugged out which lead to a wipe. Delays on pulls because someone's add-on stopped working correctly. Someone uninstalling add-ons mid raid because they saw that a particular fight is far more demanding on their pc than usual so they need to purge some add-ons to get some fps back. This didn't happen every time I raided but it was rare that we went a full lockout without some manner of add-on delay happening at least once.

Never mind how having add-ons made me dread patch day. Instead of logging in being excited about new content I would log in thinking "oh god what's broken this time". Sometimes add-ons would break so badly that they made other add-ons also malfunction, and then I'd have to remove each one by one to find which one was causing that domino effect. And if that was an add-on I absolutely needed for raiding then I would have to hunt for a replacement if I had a raid that day and hope it would suffice.

Sure a person could say "if you hate them so much why did you use them?" and the answer is: I had no choice.

Not only was I doing content in which having specific add-ons was mandatory and it was like this almost across every raid team, the base ui is so crap that I had to get other add-ons just to be able to play my class effectively.

WoW has been around for 16 years and you still can't move your action bars with its base ui. You still can't move most individual elements. You still can't resize most individual elements. So many of the options we take for granted in other mmorpgs, including this one, are completely absent from WoW's base ui. Blizzard's sheer laziness with keeping their ui up to date forces so many players into using add-ons, particularly raiders.

So yea everyone is entitled to their opinion but personally I'd rather deal with no add-ons and play a game that gets regular ui updates that I know won't randomly bug out, than play another game that rarely gets ui updates so you then have to rely on third party software to bring the game up to date and then deal with the issues that come from a lack of QA. Sure you get more options with add-ons, but that can also mean more problems. I don't miss dealing with that at all.