Inventory Management

| Tuesday, December 1, 2015









Kring said...

I don't know what's worse. Bad interfaces or addons which you have to download, configure, update and maintain. I hate both.

And I wonder why Blizzard didn't add a play store to their Battle.Net. Can you imagine how much money they could make with 30% of payed addons? And it would be a huge improvement for the players with a server side addon list and server side addon configuration.

Klepsacovic said...

I expect that a single-player game will have fewer and less frequent dramatically game-altering patches, so the addons should break less often. In WoW I've run supposedly out of date addons for months with few or no issues.

I'd argue that "configure" mostly means "customize", which is my goal anyway.

Charging for addons might be trouble. Since they're often UI improvements, it runs the risk of creating a worse game to have something to sell. That seems even worse than the risk of stripping content to sell later as DLC.

Beside that, tech support is expensive. It saves Blizzard a lot of money to be able to respond to all UI problems with "delete your WTF folder and disable addons". That will fix 99.99% of problems with the base UI. If it's theirs, then they have to fix it.

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