![]() I fully understand and respect your views as they are very valid. Prior to requesting that they remove access to my addons from their service, I inquired as to how their service works, and recieved the following: If you're downloading an addon that's hosted on WoWInterface, through WoWMatrix, the file is sent to your computer from WoWInterface's servers. WoWMatrix doesn't pay the storage bills or the bandwidth bills for the addons you download through its program. WoWMatrix makes money off of providing access to addons it doesn't host. No similar understanding is attached to WoWMatrix.Ĥ. While the erstwhile WoWAce suffered from this problem to a lesser degree, it was generally understood that everything on WoWAce should be considered beta. They'll just download an addon, deem it broken, and tell their friends that "Addon X sucks, don't use it". Users who find and download an addon through WoWMatrix will never see that warning. On a release site, an author can place a big, bold warning at the top of the description stating than an addon is under development, currently in beta status, is not yet complete, and/or may be unstable. WoWMatrix doesn't show the author's description of an addon anywhere. This means that users who download an addon through their program have no way to give feedback to the author, or report problems they may encounter.ģ. WoWMatrix doesn't show an addon's real download URL anywhere. They are making money off of providing access to an addon, and they can't even spare a few pixels of screen space to give its author nominal credit?Ģ. WoWMatrix doesn't show an addon author's name anywhere. Why? Here are some things to think about :ġ. However, as an addon author, the concept bothers me greatly, and I have actually requested that they stop making my addons available through their program. I personally know many people who use it, including my roommate. Subsquently, you can double-click the WowMatrix green icon on your Desktop each time you wish to install or update your World of Warcraft AddOns.I'm sure many of you use the WoWMatrix program to update your addons. If a 'Windows protected your PC' message appears, click More info, then click 'Run Anyway' to proceed. Double-click the green WowMatrix icon to run WowMatrix.ĩ. Click the 'Unblock' button (if there is one).Ĩ. Right-click on the green WowMatrix icon on your Desktop and select 'Properties' from the menu.Ħ. When the download completes, you should see WowMatrix (with a green icon) on your Desktop.ĥ. (If asked if you wish to replace an existing copy, select 'Replace'.)Ĥ. Select the Desktop from the list and have it download there. Drag it to your desktop, then skip to step 4.)ģ. Otherwise, if the download begins immediately, wait for it to finish, then click the 'Open Folder/View Downloads' link. If you are then asked to select a destination folder, proceed to step 3. (If, however, such an option does not show up, left-click the above link instead. ![]() Right-click on this link (yes, those two blue words just before this!) and select 'Download link as./Save link as.' (or a similar option) from the menu. We have seen cases where users, after downloading WowMatrix, unknowingly open an outdated copy of WowMatrix rather than the newly-downloaded copy.Ģ. Your in-game AddOns will remain untouched. IMPORTANT: If you already have one or more copies of WowMatrix on your computer, please first drag all of them to the Recycle Bin, to avoid any confusion. To download WowMatrix for Windows, follow these steps:ġ. WowMatrix Step-by-Step Download Guide for Windows ![]()
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