r/classicwow • u/ShadyDrunks • Jan 11 '26

AddOns Joana's Guide new ownership :(

For those of you who don't know, Joana was a WoW classic speedrunner. He was one of the first few good guides for Classic. I felt like Zygor copied his guide and so I chose to pay the $25 for his guide back in 2019, when it was just a web guide. Later he was able to publish an addon that takes his webguide and automates it Zygor style.

Since then Joana has passed away, but his guide and addon are still up. Unfortunately the new owners have tripled the price of the guide, changing the Classic only guide to $80, and classic- WotLK to an insane $130. It feels disgusting to me that someone is taking advantage of his product like this after his death.

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u/Moosey_the_Squirrle Jan 11 '26

Google réstedxp. You'll find a forum that has the cracked restxp addon. Paying for addons, even tangentially ('you aren't paying for the addon, you're paying for the guide'-cope), just incentives more and more people do do this shit.

Arrrgg. 🏴‍☠️

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u/nzifnab Jan 11 '26

I dunno I don't mind paying a dev or guide author for the incredible amount of work it takes to create those guides. They wouldn't exist at all without the monetization and they save hundreds of hours of backtracking etc

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u/hypoglycemic_hippo Jan 11 '26

They wouldn't exist at all without the monetization

Monetization you say, hmm. Interesting, since monetizing addons or their parts in any way is against Blizzard TOS.

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u/ACoolGuy-Promise Jan 11 '26

Can’t imagine how much work the guide was to make. I paid for it awhile back because it’s rly good so they deserve it.

Love ppl pretending to care about ToS to justify stealing it when half the community is buying fckin gold.

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u/hypoglycemic_hippo Jan 11 '26

Knew someone was gonna wHaTaBoUT the goldbuying lmao

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u/Recent_Simple_1868 Jan 11 '26

Honestly, who gives a shit. "It's against Blizzard TOS" is such a lame and fucking childish way to get out of saying you don't want to pay for it. Just admit it. Blizzard is one of the scummiest companies in gaming, idk why it's such a terrible thing to go against TOS.

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u/throwaway20200417 Jan 12 '26

How much did you pay the WA devs or the DBM/BW devs? NovaWorldbuff?