World of Warcraft: Forever 游戏因 AI 扩展程序泛滥而面临挑战

World of Warcraft: Forever, a re-imaginging of the legendary MMO, comes out Wednesday. The idea is to recapture the feeling of discovery and wonder players had when adventuring across its world for the first time back in 2004.

But 2026 is a very different time. Subreddits dedicated to the game are already overrun with AI-generated addons that rip off longtime developers’ work, and a company that helps players track their damage output tells me it is making changes to its API because of the inundation of AI slop addons.

Warcraft Logs is a long-running site made by Archon.gg that lets players track and share their logs of particular in-game fights so they can analyze them for ways to get better. This works by players downloading Archon’s software which records the data of their fights and uploads them to the site. Warcraft Logs makes its API available for free to other developers. It used to be mostly hobby developers, the CEO of Archon.gg and Warcraft Logs, who goes by Sildri Silentcrest, told me. Now, it’s increasingly commercial projects, which are supposed to ask for permission in order to head off projects that would break Warcraft Logs’ terms of service or wouldn’t be able to scale.