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WoWMatrix is Out of Action

Since manually updating is less painful than the curse client, back to manually updating for me.

reply to klambert
Correct me if I am wrong, but they have blocked it before a few times right? Then WM found a way back in, so to speak.

Guess we'll see if they can this time or not. Else back to manually updating (and a whole lot less often)...ick

Re: WoWMatrix is Out of Action

reply to Anon
Fuck it. I went with Wowmatrix and had no problems. It's not about lazy, it's about wasted effort. Am I lazy because I drive to work instead of walk?

reply to Anon

said by Leathal:

said by klambert:

FYI -- Curse and Wowinterface have succeeded in blocking WoWMatrix from operating using any of their resources. They managed to drop this right before 3.1 went live (within the last day), so it is VERY unlikely that you will be able to use WoWMatrix to updaty your mods for 3.1.

In other words, you will have to either use the Curse/WoWInterface clients or manually update each mod.

Oh Noes! We have another lazy WoW player here who can't take the time download and install/upgrade their own mods! I hope your not like this in RL!

L.

reply to klambert
Who likes to go searching through laggy websites, and 13 different download links that keep redirecting you to another page with a download link to get to your 50 addons, unzip them, delete all the old data for them, drop in the new ones, and then make sure they are even working properly?

It's not about being lazy. It just pain in the ass to deal with. And if theres a program that will do all that for me.. Why on earth would i ever want to go back to the old way. Leathal.. lay off the crack pipe dude.. Its about convience, what are world is founded on.

reply to klambert
what's wrong with Curse's updater?

use the beta updater.

it's a reskinned wowace.

reply to klambert
I can see they why in it but it still sucks for us end users. Wowmatrix was one of the only updaters to work well out of the box.

reply to klambert
Curse has never not worked as far as I can remember. It installs, it runs and it updates. Perfect lazy player tool for updating all mods without lifting a finger.

reply to klambert

Re: WoWMatrix is Out of Action

reply to klambert
Curse works just fine..get there newest one..I have no problems with it at all

reply to klambert
They're already getting backlash from users for the java and flash requirements and such. If you want to do something constructive to help WoWMatrix go complain that you don't trust flash and jscript and find it crippling to you as a manual addon update person..

I also have ~150 addons. DIAF if you think that's excessive, they're situational and very useful to me. I'm a tinkerer and have even dabbled in LUA myself, addressing bugs or exposing data that I want to see from existing addons. Used to use wowace, got forced into wowmatrix when curse bought Ace.

Curse and WoWI are bitching they aren't making enough money from ads. Most 'techie' users that do use a lot of addons (and therefor a lot of bandwidth) use AdBlock or other methods to filter the ads anyway. We'll actually use *more* bandwidth in the long run now still with ZERO ad revenue. They're being f'in greedy. There's plenty of services out there to mirror files without having to invest a lot of dough, and if they stepped off of their high horse for 10 minutes I'm sure they could even cut a nice deal with WoWMatrix to share profits or otherwise.

We like WoWMatrix because it takes a lot of the BULLSHIT work out of addon updating/version checking.

I've seen a beta set of scripts to screen-scrape and do other nasty things to emulate WoWMatrix's functionality, and I fully expect the community to find a way around their new draconian stance if they don't either back off or provide a similar multi-site updater that actually works cross-platform as well.

My big question is: If the WoWMatrix folks can write an app to do it, and do it well, why can't curse and WoWI take some time away from their between the sheets love affair of late, and create a similiar app that shows their own ads instead??? It's not that f'in hard. Especially being the repo of choice from the authors they're in the best position to roll that out. Direct access to the addon databases, fast and efficient version checking, hell they could even do bit-level patching to really conserve bandwidth - Imagine that! Not that I'd trust either of them much between past issues with malicious code from their ads/updaters and their attitude throughout their WoWMatrix "problem" personally, but hey it's a better alternative.

TL;DR Version: The users want WAU/WoWMatrix/etc style updating. We have made that clear. Don't bitch when you aren't delivering the product in demand and people step all over you...

/soapbox

Edit: Small typo, small clarification

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