Originally Posted by Cairenn
Okay, I have a lot of catching up to do (d@mn that need for sleep), so give me some time here.
Couple things right off the top, though:
a) Some of you are really pushing it with the personal attacks. You know very well and good that we don't allow that on this site. Don't make me give you a vacation; and
b) You're right, we do wish we were able to have our updater ready before we had to block WowMatrix. But as I have said other places, - Shirik is doing this voluntarily around his school work, and as far as we are concerned, his school work is more important. He has been busting his @ss trying to get it ready, but he does have to sleep some times. He's d@mn near put himself in the hospital a few times, he's skimping so much on his sleep, etc.
- I don't remember many people offering to step up to the plate to help us get it ready. We don't have the budget to pay someone.
- Think about this next part really hard: Why would we take this action against WowMatrix if we weren't ready? If you follow the bouncing ball, you should be able to figure that one out.
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Volunteer work is just that. That's why there is a community. W-M was another "community" that could have been hooked into. Building your own client that works with only your site is short-sighted.
Now, if your client works with Curse, Ace and WoWI. I'll sit back and watch. However, if it doesn't ... again ... t's short-sighted. It's the new DRM of Add-On sites...
And I prey to god it's better than the Curse client which is horrendous, unstable, *ad crazy* and, worst off, it does
not "just update my add-ons."
*Edit:
Oh, I have the perfectly idea:
How about building an API capable of checking and linking to the downloads for add-ons and then let the community build their own updater apps?
Supply a EULA that states "you may not modify add-ons. You may not remotely store add-ons."
Done. Everybody is happy and Shirik doesn't have to kill himself to build a client (I'm assuming it's not as bad as Curse's).
This will build a true competitive market for add-on applications, which will drive the sites and community to out-do each other. Eg: improving the user experience immensely!
And best of all, it would build yourself as the key centralized add-on site, potentially eclipsing Curse (who remains closed-minded, short-sited).