If you read previous posts by the community team, they have said that if you use said 3rd party software (prior to the news) it could result in your account being penalized, as currently the use of 3rd party software is against the Terms of Service.
Personally, I hope they do not allow the use of Overwolf as it will then breed the demand for more and more addons, which would then turn this game is a yet another boring piece of trash, where people are more interested in what addons to run, so they don’t have to put any effort into their gameplay.
Of course this is just my personal opinion and I personally believe addons are cancer to a game.
if she wanted to be treat like a woman atleast she should act like one, and not like a 13 year old toxic teenager. we all know thats probably a 40 year old dude behind a female name.
read the shit he/she been writing to others, i just give him/her the same treatment as she/he is giving others.
The difference is, people here are talking about the topic (being toxic or not is a point of view), you are here seeking my attention since you brought NOTHING related to the OP.
Once again, 0 interest in you.
So either shut the fuck up or start discussing what’s being discussed here. You can always PM you know, but I assure you’re gonna be ignored.
This was very well-put and a super thoughtful post. I just wanted you to know that I appreciate you taking the time to explain yourself so clearly. You’ve articulated exactly why this statistics introduction elevates toxicity and attracts more of the min/max elitism crowd.
Love this post & Agree with the sentiment on how elitism negatively impacts MMORPG’s. I must however ask whether or not you had the same experience with every player/group you’ve encountered at that time in wow before your build was adopted? More importantly, did elitism impede you from reaching your goals in the game?
When using accepted pre-sets, it varied, but mostly not; it was only when I tried to improve that I got that kind of shutdown. Occasionally I’d encounter newbies who hadn’t been ‘tainted’ with that kind of bias, but generally anyone who had any kind of experience was equally aggressively against deviation from The Holy Guides™.
Most of my ‘goals’ ended up being met because I learned to stick with just my friends/guild and not try to join in with the community at large. And from others at the same level, that was a fairly common outcome. Most were laughing at me, like what did you expect partying with randoms, there’s a reason they’re not in a top guild.
Eventually I quit because lifestyle changes meant I couldn’t rely on my guildies to be about when I was - outwith raiding - and I couldn’t deal with having to argue with every random that thought they knew better about content they hadn’t done because they read a blog post once. Tried it again several years later (Legion era), and it was so much worse. I would list mythic runs with no achievement requirements and realistic min gearscores and get bombarded with eager requests, most newbies, and those runs went well to be honest (had to do some teaching, but they were faster than the “max efficiency” runs I joined with bloated requirements that spent more time trying to wall hack past a group than it would take to kill it)… but I’d also get random abuse from people listing the same run but requiring everyone to be +10 ready for a +5 and thought I was ‘stealing’ people from them (ignoring that those players didn’t meet their “carry me” requirements) or somehow just offending them by daring to imply the bar could be set lower because it outed their standards as stupid, and it was just so exhausting. Some would relog alts to continue to harangue me after I blocked them, they were so upset that someone would dare make their own ‘newbie friendly’ party and not fail. I wound up logging off stressed and angry each time and just gave up again.
So I guess long term, yeah, elitism drove me away from a game I was actually pretty great at, and definitely better than the majority if the self-proclaimed elitists. And I know a fair few others left for exactly the same reason. Because it isn’t about being good or bad, it’s about robotic compliance that neutralises the need for skill, and those that buy into this can’t deal with the cognitive dissonance that following the steps someone who might be good says is good doesn’t make you actually good.
Overwolf is the only program I’ve installed in 5 years that has compromised the intergrity of my PCs security. Literally installed malware on my machine.
I will never install that program again even if addons are added to the game. It is not worth the security risk even if they “fixed the issue”. I don’t trust that company at all.
I don’t think addons are necessarily always a bad thing. However I’d rather not see them in New World. I’d rather New World devs spent some time optimizing their UI and allowing the user to have some flexibility in customizing the experience (looking at you chat channels)
But I’d be especially dissapointed if addons were allowed and Overwolf is used as the delivery system.
edit: IF addons are approved I would be happy to install them manually. I will not use Overwolf to install them. And I encourage others to stay away from that brand entirely.