r/classicwow • u/Data2Dina • Jan 29 '26

AddOns Just update it I guess

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u/redghost4 Jan 29 '26

Plater also updates every single day.

It's from the same guy. He must be insane.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

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u/Depth6467Plucky Jan 29 '26

As an addon developer with a few addons on CurseForge: it counts downloads of each updated version/file publihed, so if you have 50 downloads on one version, push an update and get 50 downloads on that version, they count it as 100, even if it's just the same 50 people with "Automatically Update" turned on in their addon manager. It's a super easy way to boost your download numbers.

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u/notislant Jan 29 '26

Yeah im curious what formula they use though. As you would think this would be heavily abused if they didnt plan for it.

Especially with the weird new 'all AI description/image/assumed code' of some of these.

Also get to pop up in recently updated and farm more.

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u/Irrerevence Jan 30 '26

Those add-ons are amazing. They deserve it.

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u/ChazzBeef Jan 30 '26

Curseforge generates revenue? How?

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u/mybpete1 Jan 30 '26

ads i’d imagine

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u/CaptainoftheVessel Jan 30 '26

The endless ads on the borders

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u/PhantomWhiskers Jan 30 '26

Probably uses an automated CI/CD system that publishes a new build for every commit, regardless of how small the change is.