The pre-patch for World of Warcraft: Midnight has rolled out ahead of the expansion's launch in March, and that means the first stage of Blizzard's big revision to UI addons is here. The devs have presented this change as a way to "level the playing field" for players, but there's always been a big question lingering: why now?
Addon use goes all the way back to WoW's beta days, senior game director Ion Hazzikostas tells our friends at PC Gamer. "What we started to see 10 years later in Warlords of Draenor was increasingly bespoke add-on solutions that were designed to simplify and solve specific mechanics," he says.
