Discussion: User Created UI Addons?

[Reiterpallasch]

For the people who think addons are the devil and will ruin your game experience, I'm just going to reiterate the fact that you have the control over what you download, use, and the layout of your addons. Not anybody else.

You can be smart and do something such as this:



Instead of being a gigantic turd and doing something like this:



The interesting part about these screenshots, is that they both use roughly the same number of addons.

[Tonkra]

lapse of good taste or something?
both screenshots looking AWFUL to me. you play a game for the statistics, i play it for my roleplay gaming experience. for fun.

as i said

"and its not like it, that you as a player should be able to source out every fucking shit what is going on in the background of the game client. (i am 1 yard away from the target... woo* good to know for ya)
dont believe it, but it should be part of the gaming experience to know these things on YOUR OWN, if you are too close to the target, and that you get probably hit by pbaeo attacks by him.

thats a kind of cheating tool."



seriously its horrible that they are doing this to the FF franchise. we have no a user created UI's in offline FF's either, poor us.

[Reiterpallasch]

lapse of good taste or something?
both screenshots looking AWFUL to me.

It's a comparison of a similar number of addons, and how you can either be smart with it and take the time to lay it out properly, or just vomit them all over the screen.

you play a game for the statistics, i play it for my roleplay gaming experience. for fun

As it turns out, you can play a game for the roleplay experience and for fun, while at the same time being successful and knowledgeable. If your idea of fun is to be no more than second best, then by all means go ahead, because nobody is stopping you. You've clearly shown that you neither have the motivation nor knowledge of what it takes to be better than average, but don't try to push your ignorance upon others simply because you do not agree with them.

[Wolfie]

It's a comparison of a similar number of addons, and how you can either be smart with it and take the time to lay it out properly, or just vomit them all over the screen.

Let's not forget the fact that auto-hide for most addons has been a thing for years in WOW. When I was still playing, my raid bars, my DPS meter, team buffs/debuffs, non-raid chat log, inventory, minimap, and basically everything that wasn't related to me doing my job and killing the boss were hidden away.

I don't understand why people keep posting screen shots of horrible UI layouts and act like that was the de facto custom UI in WOW.

[Melisenna]

you play a game for the statistics, i play it for my roleplay gaming experience. for fun.

If you're going to play the 'I play it for what I want to get out of it, you play it for what you want' card, then can I ask why you form an opinion on something like this?
Addons would be for those who want to use them. If you don't want to, then don't?