Asmongold wants to play WoW Hardcore on Twitch, but he’s too famous for that

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Twitch streamer Asmongold promised his community that he would play a hardcore character in WoW Classic when Blizzard announced “Classic Plus”. Blizzard announced something similar for WoW Classic at BlizzCon 2023 with the “Season of Discovery” and Asmongold wanted to keep his promise.

What was the promise about?

  • Asmongold had promised his community that they would be able to play WoW Hardcore Classic for at least some time when Blizzard announced “WoW Classic Plus”. In WoW Hardcore, the hero only has one life and the player has to start over if the hero dies a single time.
  • Asmongold understands “Classic Plus” to be a further development of WoW based on an earlier game state, because in his opinion the “retail WoW”, i.e. the “modern WoW”, can no longer be saved. It is “too bloated” for that.
  • With Classic Plus, WoW would be developed in a different direction at around the level of 2009, with new raids and quality-of-life features.

    • Twitch streamer Asmongold says: “Stop watching streams at 3 a.m. if you don’t have any money!”

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    Streamer has to keep promises to play WoW hardcore

    That’s why he had to keep the promise: Blizzard didn’t announce a “Classic Plus” at BlizzCon 2023, but it did announce something similar with “Season of Discovery”. The season will now actually develop WoW Classic differently than in the original by bringing glyps, which classes are given new abilities:

  • Magicians can heal
  • Rogues, shamans and warlocks should be able to tank
  • You also want to hide some game content in the open world

    • That was enough for Asmongold to make good on his promise and create a hardcore character.

    Asmongold and his community are flooding hardcore servers

    So he wanted to keep his promise: Asmongold created a level 1 Warlock named “Classicplusx” on the hardcore server “Defias Pillager”. But he did that live on stream.

    As soon as he logged in at the alliance spawn point, hundreds of other level 1 alliance players had spawned around him.

    On the way to Stumwind, the crowd quickly grew to thousands, milling around him, casting spells, spamming abilities, and offering to donate gold.

    After about 37 minutes, in which Asmongold bathed in the crowd and his own importance (via YouTube), the streamer ended the show and said: He would like to play, but there were just too many people. He couldn’t do anything and didn’t want to kill anyone.

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    This is what lies behind it: This was pretty clearly a PR campaign, also to show how damn big and important Asmongold is in the WoW community. He demonstrated this impressively.

    Of course, he can’t “just” create a character on a server and then play WoW Hardcore “like a normal player” if he broadcasts it all live on Twitch.

    You can get an idea of ​​how much this popularity sometimes annoys Asmongold from this story:

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