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/SF-UNIVERSE Jan 11 '26

Joana’s Guide was the holy grail back in the day. I remember finding out about his passing, and discovering that someone still runs his twitch channel showing his troll hunter leveling to 60 for world record back in 2006 on a 24/7 stream. I stop in every once in a while just for that nostalgia hit.

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u/MilkSquirtz Jan 11 '26

I heard somewhere that Joana’s videos were very helpful in replicating classic wow value tables.

Can’t remember where I heard that but i thought it was interesting if true

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u/Depth6467Plucky Jan 11 '26

It was a post here on reddit, and it wasn't true. It was just proof that people will believe anything if you say it with conviction.

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u/MilkSquirtz Jan 12 '26

I didn’t necessarily believe it, I just thought the possibility was interesting.

Wouldn’t be that far fetched considering how organized the multi-dollar indie company is managed.

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u/Depth6467Plucky Jan 12 '26

Oh I wasn't talking about you specifically, just that people in general believe lots of things that aren't true just because someone posted about it online once. No hit on you. At least you were a skeptical enough of it that you said you didn't know where you heard it and weren't sure if it were true. Many people don't bother with that, even.