Future Plans for the Curse Client

belsambal — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:56:21 GMT

I was considering upgrading to a premium client, then you went ahead and broke my wine/curse combo again. If you aren't willing to make a native linux client, could you at least try to see if you can make the client work with wine?

Annihilator7 — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:09:58 GMT

I find two thing here humorous and sad:

1: that people think the premium membership is against Blizzard's EULA. The addons are still available, unaltered between the free and regular users. The subscription is for faster DLs, simultaneous DLs, an update all button, and no ads. It's completely legitimate.

2: Massive QQ about the update-all button being for premium members only. If it's that important to you, get a membership. If nobody's going to pay for it, as some people here are claiming, then... why are you so upset? do you realize how little money we're talking about here? You can't get a Starbucks coffee for $2.50, come on... If it's worth QQing up a storm about, it's worth $2.50 to you. If it's not worth $2.50 to you, it's not worth QQing about.

Kaelten — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:25:38 GMT

Thanks for the feedback guys, some good suggestions have came up here.

Please keep the comments on this post on topic. I'm looking for feedback on features and ideas for new features. Not criticisms (especially non-constructive ones) on Premium vs Non-Premium.

We've also been in contact with Blizzard, and we've satisfied any concerns they've brought to us about Premium.

Rikcon — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:03:07 GMT

i mean that free users have no limits.....

Rikcon — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:02:37 GMT

Make it FREEEEE!

HerX — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:11:55 GMT

Well seeing as this "premium membership" extortion plan is against Blizzard's EULA I think you can expect their lawyers to contact you soon. Plus the idea sucks completely on your side, I know I for one am uninstalling Curse Client as soon as I get home from work today. Thanks for the nice community site, thanks for buying out the only real alternative that we had besides curse client (well it's actually now just renamed to curse client from what I've seen so far) and I wish you don't fall to hard once the ppl stop using your site because of the greedy premium membership plot that makes no sense at all.

altairwolf — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:35:44 GMT

The Premium membership is garbage....

I dont' want Beta Keys.. they are useless to me.

I don't care about a dumb Avatar.. I don't post on the message boards.

The Arthor support is against Blizzard User agreement....

So what is the point of going to paid except to get that update all button?????

Hostile — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:20:13 GMT

I could have sworn that I already left a comment on this post...

I would think that it's enough to limit free users with capped downloads and forced ads, but I fail to see the logic in also taking away the update-all button.

Every other subscription-based download site I've seen (ie fileplanet.com, ign.com, etc) is content with charging for increased download speeds and the removal of ads, but why not Curse? Why do you have to go the extra step and take away a core functionality of what every updater has had to date and all your users expect to be there? An update-all button is a core functionality of an update program. I can't remember the last time I had a WoW addon updater that didn't have an update-all button and I've used various applications through the years.

It just doesn't make sense for Curse to do this, it comes across as petty and just greedy. No one is going to pay you $2.50/month simply for this feature. No one.

getixmice — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:12:52 GMT

I understand that linux users are probably a small percentage, but a native linux client would be a greatly appreciated addition. Thanks!

JU1CYFRU1T — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:53:17 GMT

Is anyone else having major issues with the Curse client on their Mac? I am running a 2007 17" MBP, and the client is almost unusable.

Here is an example (note this happened more than once):

I was trying to reinstall SexyMap, and decided to try the client. I went to the SexyMap page, and pushed "Download via Curse Client" button. Everything seemed okay... it dowloaded the addon, I could SEE it in my addon folder

BUT, when I would type in /sm I constantly got the "Type /help for a list of help commands". I tried redoing the update with the client, but no luck. The only way that I was able to get SexyMap working was to manually install it like I would have normally (after deleting the old version of course).

I can't remember all of the addons that this happened with, but I know SexyMap was one, and so were the SunnViewport Skin Packs. Sunn worked fine, but I could NOT see the skins in-game until I manually installed them.

Is there something that I am doing wrong? Is there an updated beta? I am at work, so I don't know exactly what version of the Beta I am on.... I will edit later.

Any help would be GREAT.

Trmptplyr_07 — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:19:04 GMT

I think auto error reporting would be a great idea. Like if a addon errors, that error message is automatically sent to the author

Zoidberger — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:49:12 GMT

I do understand that you have your server costs and people to pay.. but I don't see why I should pay 2,50$ a month for 1 ( ONE ) button namely Update all... I Don't use any other stuff the curse client has to offer and I don't care about advertisement in it as well... but: I am not willing to pay so I can click one more button.. Let regular users use the update all function and premium users all the other stuff.. I don't care.. There are other auto-updating services around.. maybe not as good as this one but still they are there.. and I would rather like to donate something out of free will than being forced to pay a monthly subscription just to be able to use , again, ONE more button.. I don't get it.. really.. but hey it's your decision to scare away people

gizmovision — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:51:54 GMT

Hey, hey! An update on whats going on, to bad we didn't get even a listing in the clients news section it was going premium and of trial time, i read through the news too...I'll wait for the next big , or those fixes and finishes

For our Mac users we'll also be bringing:

* PPC Support

* 10.4 Support

* A true, native feeling custom UI.

Some of these things include:

* New features, such as UI Synchronization between computers.

* Cleaner, more intuitive, interfaces.

* Bugs will be squashed and problem code will be eliminated

all of which i need.

woffen5 — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:35:56 GMT

Sounds very good. The old curse client used to be holy heck bad. This one is just amazing, and it sounds like its getting even better. :)

Himehroyd — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:51:43 GMT

oh. Then I retract my comment. I misunderstood.