Talk Is Cheap

WoW Ace Updater will be going bye bye soon.  I’m sorry to see it go but I understand why they aren’t going to continue it’s use.  Wowace.com had huge bandwidth bills due to massive use of the updater they developed for all the ace addons in their repository.  Thousands of dollars a month worth of bandwidth they say.  Curse.com had been ponying up money for months for wowace.com’s BW bills but will no longer do so.

A couple of the main developers at WA have been employed now by Curse and the Curse Client updater is coming along people have said.  It’s not there yet though apparently.  I’ll find out soon I guess.  There is no way to install without externals yet though.  That means for each addon you have to install (and WoW has to load) all the code libraries that the addon uses.. many of them over and over and over as many addons share the same libraries.  WAU allowed users to only install and load into wow each library only once, saving a lot of WoW booting up time.  I sure hope that the Curse client will include that option too.

Another option is wowmatrix.. I’m a little more inclined to trust Curse’s client than wowmatrix but meh, I haven’t looked into much yet.  I did find something I found funny though on wowmatrix’s “safe-computing” page about how to protect yourself from people trying to infect/keylog you.. one of their nuggets of wisdom..

“visiting a website that prompts you to install a program that could contain a keylogger or spyware…”

Isn’t that exactly what they are asking you to do?  They certainly wouldn’t have a virus/trojan/keylogger in their executable because they say they don’t and are warning you that somebody else might try to do that in the exact way they are.  Aaah I love the smell of irony in the morning.