Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

Re:Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and soft... by antidamage on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @12:09AM (#12302452)

Because as far as I know it has the only useful mod management tool. It's nice, works and doesn't cause problems. Every time I come back to WoW, there's the Curse client, ready to help me get my mods and settings all sorted again. It has never failed me.

Are you able to say why you think Curse is terrible?

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Re:Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and soft... by Nullabillity on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:34AM (#12302713)

> It's nice, works and doesn't cause problems.

That's a bit of an overstatement. It's very slow and, like any ClickOnce application, is a pain to get working under Wine.

Searching around there were apparently better tools, but Curse shut down their access. Imagine if GitHub were to stuff their desktop client full of ads and then require you to use that instead of the Git CLI.

And if they do merge it with Curse Voice (as they claim to plan to) then I expect it will stop working entirely...

For syncing/backups you can just symlink Interface/Addons and WTF to somewhere in Dropbox/Owncloud, no need for a specific application (and subscription) for that.

Full disclosure: A few years ago I published an add-on on Curse and apparently I still have free premium ~80% of the year after that. I still use their client because they're the only game in town these days, sadly.

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Re:Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and soft... by SSLy on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @12:51AM (#12302593)

Curse has a not-bad generic mod client, but many games have homegrow utilities that blow it out of the water. Many MC launchers or ModOrganizer for Skyrim come first to mind.

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