Infraction for Opioid: Useless Post

◊ Kaubel · 10/21/08, 11:28 PM

Post: WoWAce to close its doors (sort of)
User: Opioid
Infraction: Useless Post
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

http://elitistjerks.com/f15/a34-forum_rules/, #5.

I'm merging this post with the one before it.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by dinesh

I wish the same. I'm not them, so I can't say for sure why they switched now, but my (hopefully reasonable) guess is that they wanted to stop hemorrhaging money paying for bandwidth, and we all know that the 3.0 major patch is going to be responsible for a huge, huge, huge amount of addon downloading. Ready or not, the CC was getting thrown out for public consumption, and WA was getting locked.

This thread/announcement was started in July, and the patch didn't come until October. Shut it down before the next major revamp if they have to, but 3 months should be adequate time (sylvanaar earlier quoted spending 1500 man-hours or about 2 months as an unpaid hobbyist to make WAU what it was) to build a mature little utility app better than what the Curse Client is now (esp. with real corporate expectations and the nature of having total closed-source control over it and not having to muck through the open contributions.) If it wasn't ready for Windows/Mac/Linux platforms with no-lib updating (still a problem a week after the patch with MANUAL updating, as in I don't see an obvious link on the Curse site itself for 3.0-ready no-lib mods,) etc. then it shouldn't have been talked up as a viable solution that would be ready on patch day (and this is assuming the WoWAce guys were only sure about the transfer in July when they announced it, the Curse Client has been in development since May)