Judging from my past experiences with WowArmory.com, I'd hope they let the alternate sites/software stay up.
WowArmory seems to break itself on scripting and suffer lag/loading issues over the years. Whenever it acts up, I just use armorylite.com or other sites that take snapshots of the real WowArmory. It's not "cheating" or "hacking server/character data". But it's a lifesaver when I need to lookup info on a character and the official site is sluggish.
Same thing can be said for the offical WoW forums. The search function rarely worked in the past. Everyone I talked to also shared the same experience in that their forum software worked poorly.
Why is it that people choose 3rd party mods for displaying Raid Frames, quest trackers, and other things that Blizzard assimilated/copied from older mods? Even though I have to update 3rd party mods myself, they do the job better.
Milking WoW for all it's worth is a fine strategy for a company.
But there comes a time when you want to play the game and enjoy it but you can't because fan-based stuff gets shut down, bugs, crashes, oh god the bugs and crashes, lag, and general lack of updates make you sit there waiting in Dalaran all day until you are allowed to "have fun".
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Judging from my past experiences with WowArmory.com, I'd hope they let the alternate sites/software stay up. WowArmory seems to break itself on scripting and suffer lag/loading issues over the years. Whenever it acts up, I just use armorylite.com or other sites that take snapshots of the real WowArmory. It's not "cheating" or "hacking server/character data". But it's a lifesaver when I need to lookup info on a character and the official site is sluggish. Same thing can be said for the offical WoW forums. The search function rarely worked in the past. Everyone I talked to also shared the same experience in that their forum software worked poorly. Why is it that people choose 3rd party mods for displaying Raid Frames, quest trackers, and other things that Blizzard assimilated/copied from older mods? Even though I have to update 3rd party mods myself, they do the job better.
Milking WoW for all it's worth is a fine strategy for a company. But there comes a time when you want to play the game and enjoy it but you can't because fan-based stuff gets shut down, bugs, crashes, oh god the bugs and crashes, lag, and general lack of updates make you sit there waiting in Dalaran all day until you are allowed to "have fun".
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