By now, every World of Warcraft player and his (or her) imaginary girlfriend (or sex toy) has heard about the impending removal of auto-targeting type mods from the game, ala Decursive. (Link to a good central thread with other links for you to chase.) Blizzard dripping tree, Drysc, summarizes the official position: “The general run-down is that we don’t want UI mods to be making combat decisions for a player, it should be in their hands and their responsibility to choose who and when to interact with the game. It borders on automation of gameplay, which is something we’re obviously very opposed to. Aside from that moral separation it ends up defeating the purpose of the challenges we’re implementing. With the release of the expansion and the game changing in some huge ways, it was the best opportunity to remove specific UI mod abilities.” Which, to me, could mean either: A. We decided AE curse encounters were stupid and are taking the game in a different direction, chillax noobs, or B. We still don’t learn from our predecessors’ mistakes. Since players are given only half the story … again …, I s’pose we’ll decide either: A. That wasn’t so bad, or B. God, that was stupid. (ALSO, could we get a firm fucking date on this expansion? Six-ish weeks away and we’re still guessing on live date?) (Archive: Player/Blizzard comments on disabling Decursive)
Decursing: Another Minigame within the Game!
5
