Have you ever thought of playing World of Warcraft without addons? Would you even be allowed in a guild without having them installed? Why has World of Warcraft players, and MMORPG gamers become so dependent on addons?
What if dps meters were removed from Warcraft? I think it would be bigger than the Cataclysm. So many players would be crying, and ragequitting. They would have nothing to brag about at the end of the raid about how great they are. I think a bunch of addons in Warcraft made playing some classes like bot mode where I could teach a five year old to play it.
I never realized how addicted to addons I was until I started playing Warhammer Online at release after playing Warcraft for two years. It was a living nightmare. How dare they make me think for myself. Of course as the game progressed some very valuable addons came into the game.
Did addons eventually ruin Warhammer Online? I think partially they did. Everyone relied on State of the Realm to decide where to fight. It made it easy to see where your opponents were, and which zones were going to be the easiest to flip, or which zone you needed to defend. Without that one addon it would of made Tier 4 ORvR a little more interesting I think. I even think it may have possibly kept zerg vs zerg warfare to a minimum. I think smaller groups would have ventured out more.
I have to say one of the reasons I hated Aion was that no addons were allowed. You were stuck with the way the devs decided the game should be. I hated the UI in Aion with a passion. I wanted my ezmode healing squared or healbot.
Do you like addons, or do you think it ruins the game?
