A single guild is currently making WoW extremely popular on Twitch

World of Warcraft is having huge success on Twitch right now. This can be clearly attributed to a single, large guild.

There’s actually not much going on in World of Warcraft right now. In The War Within everyone is waiting for the first, really big content patch and not much has happened in Classic since the launch of the “Anniversary” realms.

Nevertheless, World of Warcraft is extremely popular right now, especially on Twitch. The game is regularly and consistently in the top 5. The reason for this is primarily a guild that does everything right.

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What’s going on with WoW and Twitch? If you look at the current charts on Twitch, you can see that World of Warcraft has always been in the top 5 in recent weeks or at least has been close to it. Sometimes in 6th place, sometimes in 7th place, occasionally in 3rd place. With 60,000 to 80,000 viewers, the now quite old game holds its own against competitors such as Fortnite, Valorant, GTA V and sometimes even Minecraft.

Why is WoW so popular on Twitch? This is mainly due to the WoW guild “OnlyFangs”, which mainly consists of well-known streamers. The guild plays World of Warcraft in hardcore mode, but also plays role-playing games like you might already know from GTA5-RP. This means that the streamers play the role of their character and act as their character would.

What makes OnlyFangs so special? OnlyFangs has imposed a lot of rules to make the guild function as entertainment. The participants had to complete a small personality test beforehand, which was then used to choose the people they played. This of course limited the selection of available classes. At the same time, the different peoples see themselves as smaller “factions” within the guild – so that the orcs, for example, act together or the undead work together. This always leads to rivalries and amusing incidents.

In addition, the guild brings together quite a few big names from the streaming sector. Part of the guild are well-known streamers such as Sodapoppin, Tyler1, Mizkif, PirateSoftware, TimTheTatman and Jaythebard. There’s something for everyone – regardless of whether you’re looking for wild, emotional shouting or more quiet entertainment.

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For viewers, the whole thing has something of a big daily soap, which you can understand at its core even if you have no idea about World of Warcraft. The fantasy setting is still easy to understand. Most of the drama and humor comes from the moment at hand – a grand execution is celebrated to punish a cheater, or a single moment of inattention results in the leadership of the guild being transferred to someone else.

Because the whole thing is spread across several streamers, it is virtually impossible to keep an eye on all incidents at the same time. While PirateSoftware has entertaining encounters with a simple-minded orc who now mutates into a philosopher with arcane intelligence, Sodapoppin tackles a dungeon that ends in the death of his character.

Voice Chat Makes Everything Better: What is particularly interesting is the fact that OnlyFangs uses an add-on that provides proximity voice chat. When you approach another character from the guild, you can hear them in voice chat – and they become quieter the further they move away. This creates a similar atmosphere to that in GTA-RP. Actually, there is no such feature in World of Warcraft, but an add-on makes it possible and adds a lot to the flair of the whole project.

Why is this so unusual? Normally, World of Warcraft is only available on Twitch for a very short time. Usually when either a new expansion is released or there is a “World First” race for a new raid. The fact that World of Warcraft has been in the top 5 almost continuously for several weeks is extremely unusual and can largely be attributed to the “OnlyFangs” guild, which organizes interesting, entertaining role-playing games in WoW Classic Hardcore.

Even if you can’t do anything with this entertainment, it should basically be a good thing for all WoW fans. Because the more relevant the game remains in the streaming area, the safer the future of Blizzard’s MMORPG should be. At least the story boss Chris Metzen also has 7 expansions planned…

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