World of Warcraft is tackling combat mods (addons) in the pre-patch coming this week. In theory, this update is only designed to hamstring addons that provide a concrete advantage in combat. In practice, there are plenty of other mods getting caught in the crossfire. Like poor Peggle Classic, a six-year-old addon with almost 600,000 downloads that creates the unfair combat advantage of… checks notes, being able to play Peggle in WoW.
Alright, I've got my tongue in my cheek here: Blizzard is not taking aim at silly UI minigames—though its sweeping changes are going to have broad and unforeseen impacts. The warning alarms have sounded for Peggle Classic before the patch hit the retail servers because, as one user in the mod's comments points out, "it appears the TBC Anniversary API was updated entirely to the new structure".
