#UsefulThingsDetected
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Wow seems like they don't like that players can figure out how many people are playing, almost ironic since its happening before all the tourist burnout.
They dont want to care about fation balance so they hide it to us, so we cant complain.
I feel like this has more to do with the mass guild invite addons and less to do with blizzard hiding subscriber numbers. Or else they'd have done this when mainline wow hit really low numbers during some expansions, no?
There was a post on the forums on how players were able to use the /who command to determine which layer they were on. It could be that someone had developed an addon which took advantage of this, and this was Blizzard's low key way of crippling that, with breaking the Census addon(s) simply being collateral damage.
This isn't a good change. I can hardly believe this was done for the sake of the games performance (making the who function protected so addons can't sent tons of requests) which is about the only valid reason as to why they should ever perform a change like this. This is evidently no more than them simply wanting to do everything in their power to obscure information from players. I don't like this at all.
There was a blue post stating that /who will not reveal your layer, as the /who result page could show anyone from any layer.
They are getting ready for Q3, killing players census simplifies things before the investors, who are the ones that set the population/subscription targets.
As long as it means revenue it's fine, otherwise you get the axe like the second Diablo 3 expansion and the uncertainty of what to do with Diablo 4.
I, for one, am outraged
Judging by the reaction of some people you would think being given this data is part of our subscription fee or something, we're not entitled to any of this data, I wouldn't give this overzealous community anything.
Some of the comments. This is like a blow up post on twitter about anything. No facts yet. No data given to us, yet. Somehow though, it's all been figured out here in the comments section. Let's fall back to the basics, it's their game, It's their API, they did want they wanted with it. End of story.
You guys should calm down.It's not like you can't use /who at all, they just did so addons can't use /who, meaning that addons to help with layer hopping will not work.
#nochanges ayy lmao. idc about this really buts its going to be fun to see how far the slippery slope goes