So alright, let's go ahead & break it down. Your original quote (to which I responded):
Several times in this quotation (bolded sections) you assert that Blizzard:
- doesn't care about 3rd-party tools
-
can't care about 3rd-party tools
- has never 'reached out to modders' with an ancillary tool (except for the Art Tools plugin for 3dsMax)
And my point was, they 100%
have, as of this latest Patch. With the help of
@MindWorX they have taken the 3rd-party modding tool "JassHelper" and
made it a native part of the vanilla Trigger Editor in the World Editor. They have
literally done exactly what you asserted multiple times they can't/won't/don't.
I was being coy about it in my original response post, but it seems you've missed my point entirely, so I'm just laying it all out now.
(Yes, I'm aware JassHelper doesn't interact with MPQs which is a big part of this discussion. However, I was merely responding to your comment alone, which didn't mention/refer to MPQ-related tools but simply to Blizzard's connection with 3rd-party tools, which has
demonstrably been changed in recent months)