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A bit tangential, but a related fun story from many years ago during my time as a WoW GM. There was a popular add-on (Titan Bar I think?) that had a bug in one
by jonathanlydall 3y ago
A bit tangential, but a related fun story from many years ago during my time as a WoW GM.
There was a popular add-on (Titan Bar I think?) that had a bug in one of its versions where it would always call the API which showed the "write a ticket to a GM UI", if you tried to cancel it, then it would just pop up again, the only way to stop this dialog from being in the way (aside from uninstalling the problematic add-on) was to put something in the text box and press submit.
It was a very bad day or two for the GMs, many players didn't even know about GMs or that that you could submit tickets to them, and trying to explain to a customer that you're a customer service representative who's contacting them because they submitted a ticket likely due their one add-on was more often than not a tricky one.
Because it essentially destroyed the ability to perform reasonable customer service response times the developers put out a hotfix which also put that API call behind protection, making it impossible to be called except from Blizzard's own LUA code.
- anonymoose33282 3y agoTitan Panel I think was the name? It was the one that kinda "unified" a lot of UI elements into one bar (total gold, repair percentage, stuff like that).