So on Patch Day, we who were using WoWMatrix for updates got nailed by a collective action undertaken by Curse and WoWInterface. It's already been explained to death, argued to death, protested to death. Why it was done has been offered as a defense of how it was done, and that logic has been challenged, and it too was argued to death.
There does come a point when you have to acknowledge the fact that there will forever be differences of perspective on these kinds of things. Curse was not wrong for shutting off WM. WM was not wrong for providing superior service, which they did. The users were not wrong in being royally pissed off about being caught in the fight between the two. From these perspectives, each party was in the right.
Curse completely mishandled the act of shutting WM off; I've already said how a week's notice would have been sufficient for WM users to find alternatives, but Curse decided 15 hours was plenty. WM was using the same technique of providing its service that web developers used to do, when they linked graphics hosted on other sites into their own pages, using resources from the target server that the target couldn't recover. That was wrong of WM, period. The users (myself included) failed to either do due diligence to determine that we were supporting a proper business entity, or failed to care about where we were getting our "free stuff". From these perspectives, everyone was in the wrong.
I refuse to contribute another word to the hair-splitters on both sides who want to convince anyone that they were more right than wrong.
Regardless, it is time to quit. WM is dead, for all intents and purposes, and we are left with survivors. I choose to deal with Curse, as they have shown the most inclination to do what is necessary to serve their customers, and that term includes those they might like to get money from someday -- like me, for instance. I choose not to support WoWI, not because of their actions, but because of their reactions; their responses to posters in their forums has been snide in the extreme, and their sneer is practically audible through the written word. There is no excuse for that, particularly in people who want to offer a premium service. Their customers also include people they might like to get money from someday, and right now, they are poisoning their own well.
It's time to quit this. Everyone who works on WoW, whether on an addon site or not... get back to work. The rest of you, yeah, you can continue spewing, even though it's wasted effort. I'd like to suggest that you probably have better things to do with your time.
