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I haven't had much of a look at the new WoW announcement. The two things I've heard are that the same idiots currently ruining the story are writing this one and that they're adding an ugly new draconic race.
They are also bragging about UI updates and making it fully customizable….. so they are doing what addons have been doing for decades at this point and bragging about it as a feature.
That's most big companies these days. Look at a lot of the content Stellaris has had added recently, it's mostly been QoL/popular mod content that eventually made its way into the game as official material. Except it's sometimes worse versions of the existing mod material that then leads to further mods fixing things yet again.
I was just kind of shocked the amount of attention they gave to that in the new wow expansion though. A whole 6 minute video patting themselves on the back. And nothing they do is probably going to beat the mods. I know I had a specific ui add on for my resto Druid that I would have to turn off for my other classes.
WoW has been doing this for years themselves, though.
Remember Vanilla with no inherent guides for questing? Now there's built in HUD features and GPS markers for that to more or less hold your hand the whole way rather than the player having to <shock, horror> read the quest text which says "Go kill some boars, there's some to the East".
Atlas Loot was extremely popular for multiple expansions and then either in MoP or WoD [I didn't play MoP] they brought in the official version. Which was so much worse and missing a lot of features like wishlists.
Various feedback tools like floating numbers for damage/healing done became built in.
LFG was also a mod in its own ways at times before and after the official version because again the official release sucked. Blizz even disabled some features so LFG mods couldn't work as they originally did like for speeding up world quests by auto adding/joining a group to blitz a world quest area in super fast time.
Decursive is probably one of the mods I remember most for how much easier it made dealing with shit across various classes due to differing cleanse abilities. Would often cause trouble however like when Spellsteal from mages would result in the mage becoming Mind Controlled because of what you stole 🙄
They seemed to really think the dragonrace would be the huge game changer that people would flock over.