Here is my small 'addon author' perspective and experience:Ĭurse shares their ad revenue. It was decided to consolidate where both UIs were handled, in order to better support the community and the people who needed help with the UI.Exactly! The fact was that maintaining the UI on Curse had become an unnecessary hassle. Unless you can submit a link to a statement by Tukz or Elv which backs up this claim of yours, I will have to point out that this is just your own theory and is not based on facts.Īs someone who actually knows what kind of thinking went behind the decision to only host on Tukui, I can say that ad revenue was not a concern. Regarding ad revenue, how is that any different from Curse (or most other websites)? Access to the beta repository is a perk (along with not seeing any ads). They should donate because they want to support the community and give something back. It is important to note that people should not donate for Premium to get access to unstable beta versions. Access to the beta repository is a perk for people who donated and want to help test things, a closed beta if you will.

The only thing being kept away from the public is the work being done for beta versions of WoW, as those builds are generally very unstable and should not be used by the general public. The repository is open to the public ( ) and anyone can download the latest build straight from there if they want to. As unethical as it is, since they provide free versions, it is not against Blizzard's addon terms.Wrong. If their addon was hosted on Curse or WoWI, they wouldn't get ad revenue. The author(s) of elv and tuk charge money for fresh versions and force people to view their ad website in order to download the 'free' versions.

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