The Twitch streamer Asmongold had promised his community to play a hardcore character in WoW Classic if Blizzard announces “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 to play WoW Hardcore Classic for at least some time if Blizzard announces “WoW Classic Plus.” In WoW Hardcore, the hero only has one life, and the player must start over if the hero dies even once.
- By “Classic Plus”, Asmongold understands an evolution of WoW based on an earlier game state, because the “retail WoW,” or the “modern WoW,” is in his opinion beyond saving. It is “too bloated.”
- With Classic Plus, WoW would be developed in a different direction based on the state of 2009, with new raids and quality-of-life features.
Streamer must keep his promise to play WoW Hardcore
That’s why he had to keep his promise: Blizzard did not announce “Classic Plus” at BlizzCon 2023, but with the “Season of Discovery” something similar. This season is supposed to actually develop WoW Classic differently than in the original by introducing glyphs that grant new abilities to classes:
- Mages can heal
- Rogues, shamans, and warlocks should be able to tank
- Additionally, they want to hide some game content in the open world
For Asmongold, that was enough to make his promise come true and create a hardcore character.
Asmongold and his community flood hardcore servers
This is how he wanted to keep his promise: Asmongold created a level 1 warlock named “Classicplusx” on the hardcore server “Defias Pillager.” He did this live on stream.
Already during the login at the Alliance spawn point, hundreds of other level-1 Alliance players had spawned around him.
On the way to Stormwind, the crowd quickly grew to thousands, running around him, casting spells, spamming abilities, and offering to donate gold.
After about 37 minutes, during which Asmongold mostly basked in the crowd and his own significance (via Youtube), the streamer ended the show and said: He would love to play, but there were just too many people. He couldn’t do anything and didn’t want to kill anyone.
What’s behind it: This was clearly a PR stunt, also to show how incredibly big and significant Asmongold is in the WoW community. He showcased this impressively.
Of course, he cannot just create a character on a server and then play WoW Hardcore “like a normal player” while streaming it live on Twitch.
How much this popularity sometimes annoys Asmongold can be inferred from this story:
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