37-year-old conquers gaming as a cool nerd, but now everyone can see what he’s really like in MMORPGs

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Former Blizzard developer Jason “Thor” Hall (37) has had a great year on YouTube and Twitch as Pirate Software. His growth was huge: he was the wise and relaxed explainer of the world who has a confident answer to everything. But the image is currently going down the drain; a different side is showing up in MMORPGs like WoW Classic and Ashes of Creation.

This is how pirate software occurs: 37-year-old Jason “Thor” Hall has had a successful year. As Pirate Software, he has 2.7 million subscribers on YouTube and an average of 17,250 people watch him on Twitch.

With clever methods by exploiting the platforms’ algorithms, he managed to become a successful influencer within a short period of time. In the last 365 days, his average viewers on Twitch increased by 660% (via sullygnome).

In his videos he appears as a relaxed and experienced man who gives his viewers the answers to life or career questions that plague them. For every question, no matter how complicated, Pirate Software has a coherent answer, which he delivers in a calm voice while drawing a diagram on the screen:

  • This is how video game monetization works
  • This is how you can provide yourself with food cheaply
  • This is how video game companies are fighting against the ubiquitous bots. He knows everything.

    • As a mid-30-year-old, Pirate Software, with his sonorous voice and calm manner, is the voice of reason among the young, jittery influencers that otherwise exist. He is also a gamer through and through and an insider – after all, he once worked for Blizzard, as he repeatedly emphasizes.

    Jason Thor Hall is the son of the man who was the role model for the “nerd” in South Park:

    17 years after the legendary WoW episode, we finally know who the MMORPG nerd from South Park is

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    A bad pull in WoW is the beginning of the crisis

    What’s the problem? At the beginning of 2025, this casual image of the experienced player who knows everything and always stays calm will go down the drain.

    We have often reported on MeinMMO about his appearance in WoW Classic, where as a magician he abandoned his group during a pull and fled because he was apparently afraid for his character. During the actions, 2 of his teammates permanently lost their characters.

    Ultimately, Pirate Software was kicked out of the OnlyFangs guild because he failed to take responsibility for his mistakes.

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    Pirate Software is in even more trouble with the MMORPG “Ashes of Creation”.

    There’s a video going around here from streamer Quin69 showing Pirate Software:

  • Teabagging an opponent – ​​which is considered a “very unsportsmanlike and indelicate” act
  • threatens an opposing guild to “sweep them off the server”
  • generally behaves like a schoolyard bully
  • makes megalomaniacal statements that point to “Do you actually know who I am? I’ll have you banned!”

    • The video comes from the enemy guild “The Federation” and paints a picture that runs completely counter to the image that Pirate Software has built. He doesn’t seem at all like the calm, collected dude who has an answer to everything.

    Comments say:

  • “You can see straight away that he worked for Blizzard. He accepts 0 feedback from the community.”
  • “It’s really fun to watch live how a streamer destroys his career instead of looking back years later.”
  • “He’s such a vengeful person who masquerades as a nice guy. I love it.”

    • New Zealander Quin69 is clearly having fun making fun of pirate software. The video currently has 165,000 views.

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    Another pull in Ashes of Creation goes horribly wrong

    This is the current incident: After he was already accused in WoW of speaking grandly and setting high standards that he then undermines in the game, the same thing seems to have happened to him in Ashes of Creation (via reddit).

    There is currently a video going around of him wiping his raid due to a failed pull and in the same breath accusing someone of being responsible for this mistake that he himself made (via azure.io).

    When it is then proven that he himself made the mistake he criticizes, he again denies responsibility for the wipe.

    This is also a hit for the people who are bothering him at the moment.

    Pirate Software – A man under fire

    This is what lies behind it: You shouldn’t take this all too seriously. Of course, Pirate Software has an ego. He is a “typical MMORPG player” who lives out the dark sides of his character in PvP – that’s kind of part of it.

    Many people were annoyed with Pirate Software anyway because he was so omnipresent through the YouTube shorts and seemed so confident. The failed pull in WoW was now the chink in the armor these people have been waiting to take a closer look at. And now they’re attacking him.

    Pirate Software is now showing nerves in the unfamiliar situation and reacting defensively. He doesn’t want to put up with anything, reacts bossily, threatens to ban people and exploit his power and contacts – none of this goes down well with his opponents.

    The best thing would probably be for him to take it easy for a few weeks until the excitement around him dies down.

    You can tell that there is a lot of malice and gloating towards him at the moment because he is now being roughly dragged down to the dirty ground by the moral high horse that he has put himself on through his behavior.

    Of course, it’s easy to tell from a distance: But a little self-irony would certainly do him good here. Because many of his viewers are MMORPG players themselves, they certainly understand that you can have a bad day in the raid or behave like a scumbag in PvP: Streamer lets his group down in WoW Hardcore and is thrown out of the group cool Twitch guild – That’s his statement

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