the addons that have changed the blizzard default interface, i.e. the ones that blizzard have taken and built into the game officially, their creators should really be reimbursed in some way. Maybe free wow time forever or something nice.
the addons that have changed the blizzard default interface, i.e. the ones that blizzard have taken and built into the game officially, their creators should really be reimbursed in some way. Maybe free wow time forever or something nice.
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If Blizzard made a LFG tool (which they had and no one used) that forces you to add random people to your Battle.net friend list people would be crying rivers. That is what OQueue really does, it is more of a Battle.net friend finder than a realm group finder, but since Blizz didn't make it cynics fall in love with it.
When OQueue does the group finding on it's own, without needing the Battle.net friend list system to create a network of contacts, then you can say some guy made a feature that should be in the game. Right now it's just an addon that cleverly works around the system's limitations until the developers finish work on those limitations.
Maybe right now they don't have the human-resources to pull someone from something else to put them on that job instead, and possibly nor do they want to hire an extra person just for that?
Considering the going rate of a senior or even mid range programmer in the industry $35 - over $100 an hour (at times). I'm thinking more like 10's of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for some of these addons ( taking into consideration at times the thousands of hours of development work ).
But yes, it would be nice if they were compensated in some way other than the mesely amounts they recieve from curse ( if anything ).
But, on the other hand the user base could always send some beer.
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Not really possible to do unless they open up another channel for communications behind the scene, and make it available to addon authors.
Asking oQueue to work without battle.net whispers atm and no other alternative is like asking a modern pc to turn on without a source of electricity.
Last edited by Ronburggundy; 2013-10-03 at 06:49 PM.
Oqueue is great, Have said before Blizz needs to invent a lobby type system for group making. Spamming trade has never been useful. Look how the majority of games have worked on PC over the years you load a list of servers, search for what you want and play. Why Blizz went for random matchmaking has always puzzled me.
Since the addon author is in the thread I figured I'd post it here.
I just learned about oqueue and am trying to use it to get a group for Ordos. I joined a premade but didn't get changed into the leader's realm. My guess it is because I'm on a brazilian realm, so I can't xrealm with US servers even through the btag firends list and it's a server limitation thing. Is this really the case ? Ordos is prety much the only reason I got the addon, since it's pretty hard to get groups for him if you don't kill him on tuesday.
In some regards I like how you can que for content because it avoids situations I often find in games like BF3 or DayZ (Arma II mod) where there are tons of servers with like 3 / 20 people in the them, or similar.
Eventually they might fill up but nobody really wants to join the game with 3 / 10 or 20 people in it.
But with oQueue you can get a group of 5 - 10 , or whatever and then que into a game that wont be empty.
Together they work nicely. Separately idk.
Not sure what region BR servers fall into, but oceanic realms and players are not able to see US players or be transferred to their realms.
Unfortunately this is a common issue for non-US users. It has been suggested that leaders indicate what region they reside in when creating a raid / premade group, in order to avoid these complications, but at the moment it is up to the leader to specify this information.
Last edited by Ronburggundy; 2013-10-03 at 07:09 PM. Reason: Grammar
One of the real killer features is the karma / blacklist stuff. Blizzard could never implement that properly in their queue finder as that would eventually cause all the trolls/haters/morons to get left out in the cold with nobody to carry them.
Blizzard would never implement this - list like they've refused to implement account-wide ignores.
Blizzard pulling the ''resources'' card is getting very old very fast.
Because they're lazy. There's so many ADDONS that should be BASELINE. Can't they just buy it from the authors and polish them up? Quartz, Bagnon, MSBT, Bartender4(but with some good artwork), OmniCC... the list goes on. Their excuse is probably that there's no need since there's an addon for it...
Do you think Blizzard has dozens of developers sitting around playing Minecraft or Hearthstone waiting for a new task to be thrown their way? Any new thing you want done would require someone to be tasked with doing it, and any time that person (or people) spent on that new task would be time they're not spending on their current task(s).
Last edited by Khime; 2013-10-03 at 07:26 PM.
Why is it that at a company like Google you see workers encouraged to work on their own projects, some of which have evolved into major initiatives, yet Blizzard seems unable to do something similar, regardless of the fact that they are also a multi-billion dollar company? Why is there so much more enthusiasm at companies like Facebook/Twitter/Zappos/Air B&B etc, but that enthusiasm seems dead at Blizzard?
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No thank you, I don't use any of those addons so I hardly see the requirement for them to be baseline. Just because some people like having things a certain way or pretty flashy graphics doesn't mean other people want to see that. I agree with you that there are some addons that should be baseline, though I don't have any on the top of my head (haven't tried all several thousand of them), but the ones you listed certainly aren't required.
There does seem to be an issue with "Friend request sent" and "Friend request received" popping up alot when I've not done anything. It really does make me edgy because I keep thinking I'm spamming friend request to people.
I think oQueue-like functionality will make it into the game eventually. It's basically a b.net hackjob that tens of thousands are already using to get extremely beneficial functionality that other games already have. I'm sure that most if not all of the people knocking the idea or are skeptical about the utility of oQ have never used it and after five minutes alone with it they'd be singing its praises asking why the )#(*$ it's not built into the game. For one thing I'm sure using b.net in this way is unintended, for another thing there is precedent for popular addons being incorporated into the game in some way, most notably Quest Helper, and oQueue adds every bit as much to the game as QH did.
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Obviously if it were a tool developed internally by Blizzard the crossrealm b.net activity would happen invisibly to the user.