World of Warcraft players are a notoriously picky bunch. They know what they like, what they don’t like, and have absolutely no issue with telling you exactly how they feel. Loudly, and with many, many petitions and forum postings. And that’s just the basic game. When you get into modifications, you’re into a whole new ballgame. And just making sure you have the most up to date software installed can turn into a major undertaking.
Some guilds won’t even let you go on a raid unless you have the proper addons, and anyone who’s had to try to help the less, shall we say, technically inclined know that getting everything to work right is sometimes half the battle. Now of course, we have software like the Curse Client Addon manager.
Put simply, the Curse.com’s software client allows you to manage all your favorite addons without making it complicated. Click the refresh button up at the top of the screen, and the client automatically checks all of your installed addons for new versions, and gives you the option to update them if a newer version is available. When you are looking for something new, you can search via name, category, or author. The interface then displays the description of the addon, the version number, and has a link to the addon where it is hosted. Curse hasn’t forgotten the Mac players either, there is a version of the client that works with the Mac OS as well.
There are a few things that set the Curse client apart from the other addon management software out there. Yes, you have to log in to download the addons, but registration for the website is free. The Curse.com website also has a very active community on their forums, and many times you can discuss future versions of the addons directly with the authors themselves. Curse also has a subscription option, which adds the ability to update all of your addons at once, removes the advertisements, and allows you priority access to the servers when it’s time to download. The subscription price varies based on the time period you are signing up for, but it runs anywhere from $2.45 a month (the best deal, billed annually) to $4.95 a month (billed month to month). The subscription fees help to cover bandwidth costs, and a percentage is passed on to the addon author, making it easier to help support your favorite.
As a WoW player myself, I feel confident recommending the Curse client over the other options available. I’m also able to show you something very something very special, a sneak peek of the new 4.0 client which is still in alpha, and won’t be available for download for about 1-2 months. All I can share with you is a screenshot, but having used the new client myself, I can tell you it is significantly faster then the 3.0 version, and works great with Windows 7 and Vista.
I agree that having this add on is great. I can focus on having fun. I’m excited for the new client to be available for download.
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great read thanks for the write up!
I’ve been using the Curse client myself for quite some time. Looking forward to the new version. Hopefully it’s just as streamlined as the current v3.0 that I use on my pc now. Thanks for the review m8.
I have been incredibly impressed with the quality of Curse Client. It’s a really nice piece of work. The WoW addon community has some very talented coders.
It is too bad that they are offering a pay version of the much better WowMatrix, which is available for free.
I am glad to see curse is finally updating their client. I have a few problems with the curse client though that I feel worth mentioning. Currently on Mac the curse application is seriously bug ridden, with errors popping up randomly for a long time now that are still trying to be fixed. ( http://www.curse.com/forums/5299.aspx )Their client as it stands currently is just not good enough on the mac to be considered usefull, maybe v4 will fix that.
But more importantly is the problem of the stance that curse seems to be taking, they should have updated the client ages ago, and I cant help but feel they have only been spurred into action because of the recent introduction of MMOUI’s Minion client.
http://minion.mmoui.com/
Which in itself was only created because of the WOWMatrix fiasco when both http://www.Curse.com and http://www.wowinterface.com cut off WOWMatrix from downloading updates from their site.
Sadly the current state of affairs in the WoW mod community is making everyone lose, WOWMatrix is by far the best and easiest updater client out there for all platforms (including linux) but it is unfortunately now limited in its range of addons, this has left all other parties involved scrambling to create their own clients while leaving users frustrated and having to wait for several months for functional clients to be created. Instead of working together as MMOUI is trying to promote with its clients modular system, Curse seems intent on fracturing the community yet more when all people want is a simple way to update all their mods quickly from one place, regardless of any particular website affiliation.
We can’t be using the same software on Mac. I’ve been using Curse Client for a year or so and it’s been working perfectly. Can’t recall a single crash. Better yet, it doesn’t require premium accounts yet to be ad free.
MMOUI’s Minion is rubbish though. At least at its current iteration. I have high hopes for it, but it has a long way to go to be at Curse Clients level.
And finally WoWMatrix worked usually fine, but had a habit of deleting addons for me and cause other problems.
Im honestly left wondering at the sheer number of people pouring praise onto the curse client here, I can’t be the only person experiencing problems with the Curse client as the support forums clearly show the problem exists for others, many other forums I have browsed have also had users complaining vociferously about curse client problems. To be honest alot of the comments here sound like hired bloggers hyping up the curse client with absolutely no criticism of this “wonderfull” client… I wish I could have that client! xD But my personal experience is of a slow loading, error prone, hashed together non native look and feel mac client that fails to detect quite a few addons, the minion beta has had more success at finding all my addons, although it has problems installing them just now (thats a mac specific bug at the moment that has been reported and is due to be fixed), but it already seems to be alot better programmed, especially with the whole modular system, considering how young it is I don’t think it has long at all to become competitive with curse. And I’ve never had wowmatrix delete an addon before, this sounds like FUD to me. Alot of WoW players wish wowmatrix was still as it was in its heyday, just as many have warned against curse client, and not many know about Minion yet. I guess we’ll all just have to wait and see what happens in the “WoW addon client” wars. xD
What do you do if you have two people in the same household that wants to have this app? It won’t let me sign up more than one! Help!