I think people have been asking the community to build raid windows that look like that.

I think it’s strange because nobody’s done it before (to which one may answer, “change is hard, judy, but deal”) and because it violates the sense of community, of “working together to create awesome stuff” since he wants it to be so exclusive. That’s why I’m bothered so. Also I’m a goddamn socialist.

Also, it’s not even ORIGINAL. The widely-used CT addons ( http://www.ctmod.net ) were the first to create raid windows, MT windows, special player-target windows, boss alerts tailored for every boss in the game, raid-leader warnings, ready checks, polls, the ability to check how many people in the raid have a certain thing in their inventory… many things which were so good, so useful, that blizzard eventually put it into the default UI (after CT had been doing it 2 years).

As far as I can tell, RDX uses “prettier” default raid windows, but really, if you worked a little you could customize your CT windows to be prettier (and I do, I custom-shrink mine and turn them a different color). RDX also apparently has additional features tailored for every boss fight to show, for example, the exact people who get encased by webbing during the Maessina encounter

I’ve heard of SecondLife before–that’s the one where you’re SUPPOSED to make RL money off of the game, right? Blizzard, on the other hand, has a strong stance against making money off of the game. I don’t even know the legality of “copyrighting” an addon to this game. I assume the code that WoW-employees wrote to enable addon functionality (and to uh, run WoW itself) is proprietary…

I would donate money to the CTraid people. That’s a good point. But not to RDX because they’re arrogant fucks. It’s about the attitude. That’s all it comes down to–I’m really bothered by the arrogance. I guess it’s kind of like if one person decided they wanted to charge for dashboard widgets or something–widgets, like WoW addons, are generally thought of as free. Actually do people charge for dashboard widgets?