WowAce

This addon will only work until August 30.

After legion comes out, the cam will be fixed.  [confirmed]

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20748204616?page=8#post-147

I suspect that the instant popularity of this addon helped convince the WoW devs to compromise on zoom distance. If so, you really made a difference in people's ability to enjoy the game. Thank you. /salute

thanks for the addon i enjoyed every second of the game this addon made possible on beta realms you can use "/console cameraDistanceMaxFactor 2.6"

blizzard is such a little bitch about that topic. it would be sooooo easy. create certain points in the world and ajust the max camera level so it scales down smoothly when coming near that points and place such points at every situation you think the camera exploids something and let the rest of the world watch. even further they could detatch the camera and make a free camera to begin with a specatator mode like record demo play demo demo2avi stuff like that setting up waypoints like malu05 did with his advanced camera giving people power over day time and weather for god sakes publish the damn world editor and let people create .. give everyone his own space to build in and call that the garrison that would be real housing. im getting carried away here :) thanks for the addon cheers

Ketho.. the hero we need but not the one we deserve.

Seems broken on beta. won't zoom out.

MaxCam\MaxCam-v1.0.lua:105: bad argument #1 to 'MoveViewInStart' (speed cannot be negative)
[C]: in function `MoveViewInStart'
MaxCam\MaxCam-v1.0.lua:105: in function `CameraZoomOut'
[string "CAMERAZOOMOUT"]:1: in function <[string "CAMERAZOOMOUT"]:1>

Locals:
(*temporary) = -2

it is becaus blizzard have fixed this exploit bug on the beta realms, and this addon will not work when legion goes live

on beta you can use this "/console cameraDistanceMaxFactor 2.6" to check how far you can zoom out :)

Thank you Alexeht, this command works now on live. :)

So we will probably have 39 max distance in new hotfix which is enough! Thanks to everyone downloading addon, and writing posts on official wow forums. Hopefully addon will stay after hotfix so we will not have to mess about with console commands :)

I've found myself mostly zooming not further than 40 typically, so that's indeed a sweet spot.

Over 35k downloads in 2 days says everything that needs to be said. Bravo.

A blue said this 7 hours ago

Game Designer 1041 posts
7 hours ago
We’ve been closely following the discussion around 7.0.3 camera changes, and especially feedback regarding specific sources of visual and physical discomfort. We recently released a client hotfix that addressed a number of mount-related camera issues, and we have another update in the works that addresses screen/FOV distortion resulting from addons that alter the viewport. Many developers on the WoW team are sensitive to various forms of motion and simulation sickness, and it’s an issue about which we care deeply. The last thing we want is for anyone who loves the game to feel unable to enjoy it due to physical discomfort.

Obviously, the cap on CVar-controlled max zoom distance has been a major focus of both community and our own internal discussions. My original post on the matter was not as clear as it could have been regarding our motivations for the change in the first place. It placed too much emphasis on “competitive advantage” in terms of a level playing field, when the core concern I was trying to convey is that “whatever the maximum allowed, that’s what competitive players will use in order to maximize performance, even at the expense of the game’s overall look and feel.” That shouldn’t be a terribly controversial statement: When you’re trying to dodge Fel Outpouring waves on Kormrok in Hellfire Citadel, the farther out you can zoom, the sooner you can see when they’re headed your way; why wouldn’t you zoom out as far as possible? (Corollary: Around what expected zoom level do we tune the speed and lethality of the waves?)

In the course of working on Legion, and trying to improve the overall look and feel of our combat, class abilities, and the ways in which players interact with the world, we took stock of all aspects of that experience, including the camera. World of Warcraft is an avatar-driven open-world RPG, placing the player in the shoes of a hero who adventures throughout Azeroth, yet with the previous max console zoom, that hero would commonly take up less screen real estate than characters in isometric games like Diablo or Heroes, or even many Starcraft 2 units. At that zoom level, details of your character get lost, and details in the world vanish. The game ultimately is designed to be experienced with the camera zoom range available in the default UI.

Now, that is not to say that we don’t at times fail in creating an overall experience that is smooth and free of frustration at those zoom levels. When a tank can’t see around a boss like Archimonde to know where incoming demons are in order to corral them, that’s obviously not ideal. There is much we can do to keep WoW’s scale from spiraling out of control, as well as UI and camera improvements to the experience of fighting huge monsters, and we’ll be paying close attention to feedback along those lines as we move into Legion.

We intended to limit the console-overridden camera zoom very early on in the Legion Beta, which would have left us with many months to iterate on gameplay and feedback that arose from the change before releasing Legion. However, due to an oversight (we capped one way of overriding it, but not another) the change did not properly go through until the very end of the development cycle. Since then, we’ve heard from many players that they’ve relied on increasing the camera zoom to counteract a number of sensitivities, ranging from motion sickness to headaches from spell effects.

Recently, a number of players have reported some relief through using a new addon that allows them to bypass any and all limits on zoom distance. That addon takes advantage of a bug that has existed for some time but gone unnoticed (passing a negative value into a function). In an upcoming hotfix, we will be fixing that bug and thus causing that addon (and others like it) to honor the standard camera limits.

However, in that same hotfix, we will also be raising the hard cap on camera zoom to a midway point between what was possible prior to 7.0, and what is possible through the in-game interface options. This increased cap will allow power users to once again be able to extend their camera distance via a console command, should they so desire. The choice of the new max was informed by reports from players regarding what zoom distance eased the discomfort they were experiencing. Ultimately, we would prefer to address the underlying issues rather than relying on increased zoom to mask those issues, but now that patch 7.0.3 is live and we cannot properly iterate on the sort of changes that would be required, reapplying the band-aid is preferable to leaving an open wound.

We look forward to hearing your feedback once these changes are live. We want to continue working to improve the readability, usability, and accessibility of our game from a visual standpoint, including camera functionality, and community feedback and discussion are invaluable when dealing with such an inherently subjective area.

Big thank you to Ketho for reigniting the discussion on the zoom change and ultimately leading to a good middle ground for everyone.

Ketho,

You deserve a medal.

Thank you for spending the time to make this addon and put it out there, even though you probably knew before you did it that it would not last long. Since people were able to use it to test if being able to zoom out farther would help lessen the effects of the eye strain, headaches and motion sickness (and other health issues) we've been experiencing since the pre-patch, MaxCam helped turn the tide and get Blizzard to compromise on this.

Again, thank you so much!