Originally Posted by Scorpia
Curse users are going to be using carbonite regardless of if it is available directly from curse or not. However, if it was available via curse, even if a delayed distribution, you would get an increased userbase. Increased userbase = increased donations. Period.
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Like I said above , I think it comes down to them only wanting to have one website for everything relating to support for the addon.
One website to upload addon updates to.
One website to check for user's comments on.
One website to check user's tickets on.
Having it on 2 websites is IMHO dividing and complicating their support efforts. If it's only available through one website they don't have to worry about people leaving comments and things on any other website.
Having it on Curse would be nice but at the end of the day only having one website they need to check for support related stuff is infinitely better then having it on two - the users who primarly use Curse can just click a bookmark or go to
http://carboniteaddon.com which will lead them here.
I really don't think you can use the argument that having it on Curse would mean more donations because everyone goes to
http://carboniteaddon.com which has donation links and a link to the Wowinterface page anyway. They aren't going to be starting at Curse and trying to find it on Curse. They would search for "carbonite +addon" on Google. The Carbonite addon website the one where you click for donations is the first result that comes up.