Addon discussion

[Bykireto]

Addons? Planning to turn this comunity into the toxic wow comunity?

[raelgun]

Addons? Planning to turn this comunity into the toxic wow comunity?

The community was already toxic to begin with, its human nature, feature set of a game never changes the human trait.

[Colorful]

I honestly think it goes deeper then that, if parsers were such a problem then the API can be made to ignore the battle log, you can only make an addon within the API framework, if the framework does not read the battle log then you can't make an ingame parser, something else is playing a bigger role to this then DPS meters, SE are just using it as a cover up for a bigger reason and I think the consoles themselves or Sony is placing this restriction.

They already said that if we do get an API, it's going to be cosmetic modifications only. There's zero reasons not to have it implemented it already, unless they have a parity deal with Sony or something.

[Velox]

The community was already toxic to begin with, its human nature, feature set of a game never changes the human trait.

Games that existed before add-ons were objectively more friendly though. There has always been toxicity in playerbases, but the mandatory drive of add-ons and parsers have made it worse in modern MMOs. In my opinion, add-ons are one of the single worse things to ever come to gaming, but I come from a time before such things existed so I may just be having a "good ol' days" nostalgic moment.

[raelgun]

Games that existed before add-ons were objectively more friendly though. There has always been toxicity in playerbases, but the mandatory drive of add-ons and parsers have made it worse in modern MMOs. In my opinion, add-ons are one of the single worse things to ever come to gaming, but I come from a time before such things existed so I may just be having a "good ol' days" nostalgic moment.

I will be honest and say that before the internet became more mainstream then yes, things were more friendly but once more households got access to the internet, thats when games became more toxic, the feature set of a game didn't change the human mind set.

[Ashkendor]

Boy I sure am glad they've been promising the release of addon support since 2.1, although now I guess we can finally add it to the list of pipe dream additions like that accessible housing system they've been talking about since the end of 1.0

Er. We're supposed to be getting instanced housing in 3.3, no?

The community was already toxic to begin with, its human nature, feature set of a game never changes the human trait.

Well aren't you just a ray of sunshine? o.O

[raelgun]

Er. We're supposed to be getting instanced housing in 3.3, no?



Well aren't you just a ray of sunshine? o.O

Its always funny how people think addons or feature sets in games changes people, thats not too dissimilar about how some news articles think video gaming can make people violent, people can be dicks to begin with and have no social capacity, addons do not cause that.

[raelgun]

They already said that if we do get an API, it's going to be cosmetic modifications only. There's zero reasons not to have it implemented it already, unless they have a parity deal with Sony or something.

Pretty much the question like I asked in the opening post was, what could this be, this seems more like a sony issues then a specific console, DPS meter aside, what could be stopping the PS4 from running action bar addons or addons like weakaura, something is up and its not just PS3 can't handle it.

[abzoluut]

I like how they say "PlayStation". It's pretty clear it's not the PS3 in particular when it comes down to UI additions. It's consoles in general.

They couls not even add tp bars without "deleting" (party stat buffs) somethting from the UI. I wonder how they will phrase it next time.

[Ashkendor]

Its always funny how people think addons or feature sets in games changes people, thats not too dissimilar about how some news articles think video gaming can make people violent, people can be dicks to begin with and have no social capacity, addons do not cause that.

I was more referring to you categorically calling our community toxic. Certainly there's some toxic individuals, but the community as a whole is actually pretty friendly. There's far worse out there, mostly on games with a heavier emphasis on PvP aspects.