It caused more harm then good, if you ask me. Personally, i won't miss WAU and its excessive updating of Alpha versions. WoWAce always was and always will be a community from the developers for the developers - and I'm pretty sure Kaelten will make sure it stays that way, and so will I. Now we can offer a lot new and awesome features to the addon developers, and its all still for free. So now, after 2 years of trying, we shut down WAU - or rather, Curse shut-down WAU, because they payed for it.Ĭurse will still be paying the hosting bills for WoWAce, and we should be thankful for it. We even considered running a "Premium" version of WAU ourselves, but that was out of our scope at the time. We tried running Ads, we tried accepting donations, but as it is with Open-Source, people go insane if you add ads to fund yourself, and donating is a word not in their dictionary.
The only "real" change is that WAU will cease to exist, because it was no longer maintainable with its excessive use of bandwidth, and i perfectly understand that Curse was no longer willing to pay those bandwidth bills.
Wowmatrix windows 7 free#
Any Dev will still be free to do whatever he wants - as long as the principles we established for our community are kept in mind. No-one will have to pay to get his addons, and no-one will have to pay to host addons here. Me and Kaelten even discussed the possibility to add more release pages to that list later on - but all in due time.
All addons hosted here will still be freely available to anyone, you just will not get a mass updater due to bandwidth concerns.Īll we actually have to do with Curse it the possibility to directly push releases from WoWAce to Curse. WoWAce will in no way change to a business website.
Wowmatrix windows 7 update#
So, I wish that either all three would band together to provide a one stop shop for addons or at the very least ensure that addon information is exactly the same so if you update with one plugin all the others recognize the update.ġ3-08-08 Originally posted by Nevcairiel WoWAce relevant thread (). You could have one plugin on both sites with both being the same version and author but because the addon info differs it will see it as needing an update when switching between updaters.
Not only because neither site is a one stop shop for addons but because even addon information doesn't always match. I have both the free Curse updater and the older WoWI updater and can say they do not work well together. What bothers me most in this whole situation is that we are now back to scavenging multiple sites for the correct updates for our plugins. Personally, I would be willing to bet Curse was the one to bringing up the idea of cutting WoWM off and they coaxed WoWI to go along…which is most likely due to their premium updater being released as the article suggested. They seem like they may have been pushed into some sort of cut off agreement. WoWI on the other hand, developing a free application without limits and a premium service simply to remove ads, seems less of an aggressor. While I believe WoWM's side of the story, I also believe that most of the animosity has stemmed from Curse and their greed.
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