Updating Addons goes Commercial

Fron — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:08:41 GMT

If you use a lot of addons, I use around 50, updating your addons can be quite a task. It used to be almost a full time job to keep my addons up to date and it always seemed like I was missing an important update. Then came a couple of different Addon updaters, namely WoWAce updater and the Curse Client. Neither one worked particularly well and you could only update a limited number of addons. I found the Curse updater to be more trouble than updating manually.

Enter WoWMatrix... This program is free and, at its inception, updates literally any addon. You can use it to find new addons and install them or to simply update your current addons or even remove addons you don't want anymore. WowMatrix got popular enough that some of the larger addon websites (Curse and WowInterface) decided to take measures to stop WowMatrix from working. At this time it still works, but a large number of addons cannot be updated with WoWMatrix anymore, making it not as useful.

Arguements have raged on the net regarding the actions of Curse and WowInterface.com and the summary is, Curse and WowInterface don't want WowMatrix using their bandwidth, which is understandable. The counter arguement has been, if you want to stop WowMatrix, make a better addon updater. So Curse has finally attempted to do just that.

Curse just recently released their new addon updater, however, and this is a big one.... you have to PAY for it. In order to use this new client you have to update to their "Premium" service. Oh yea you get other so called "features" like no ads on the website and beta key giveaways. Um.. big deal.

One large problem is, there is no way to test this client. Listen based on the Curse previous updater, there is no way I'm going to shell out $4.95 a month for this one. The old one was awful. Put a time limited demo of the curse updater or better yet a FREE (imagine that.. free) updater that has some ads on it (that don't interfere with functionality).

Seriously, I have a lot of addons that I need to update, but I'm not going to pay to get that done. Make the updater free!

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Updating Addons goes Commercial