Preparations for the first raid at Sauercrowd are in full swing – but now apparently without a member of the collective Bonjwa.
Who is the streamer?
- Matteo “Mental” Ricciardi is one of the three founders of the streamer collective Bonjwa, which has significantly expanded since its founding in 2013.
- The streamer was in the Sauercrowd project since day 1, along with some of his colleagues from Bonjwa.
- During the time at Sauercrowd, Mental was part of one of the biggest highlights of the project: the trial against Chefstrobel, where he himself acted as a judge. This will not happen again.
This is what Mental says: In his stream on Wednesday, February 11, Mental explains that his time at Sauercrowd is over. HandofBlood wanted him as a judge again, but he no longer wants to do that, wishing to completely distance himself from World of Warcraft for the time being:
I think I’m completely out of Sauercrowd now. So no more court trial or anything like that. […] The project is super cool, I wish everyone who is still involved a lot of fun, but I’m unfortunately so out that I don’t want to deal with it anymore in a court trial.
Matteo Ricciardi in the stream on Twitch, around hour 4:16:55
He has developed a “real aversion” and can “no longer stand” WoW, as he continues to emphasize. It is possible that the desire may return someday, but at the moment he can “no longer see” all of it. If there are particularly entertaining hardcore clips, they might occasionally appear on his stream.
Mentals character on the Sauercrowd server is currently at Level 50; the streamer has reached this point without any deaths (Source: sauercrowd.gg).
A streamer quits, but Bonjwa continues
At the “shareholder meeting” on Bonjwa’s main channel, project manager Maurice Otto and managing director Niklas “Honor” Behrens discussed the stream’s statistics. Their conclusion: after an initial high with Sauercrowd, the viewer numbers are currently below the channel’s average. However, the numbers are not related to Mental’s farewell from WoW.
In line with this, the other Bonjwa members remain loyal to WoW. Honor explained why he will not participate in the upcoming raid on Molten Core on February 22. He only died for the third time at the end of January, his new character in the guild is currently level 20 and says himself: in the 2 weeks he won’t make it to 60. However, he seems eager to continue participating in the project.
Bonjwa streamer Leon Kress also seems to be very active in the guild. Moreover, Maurice emphasized: “Sauercrowd 2 then on the Horde side, it’s going to be great.” When exactly this is supposed to happen – and whether it will even happen – has not been confirmed yet.
Niklas explains at the end of the conversation about Sauercrowd that he is currently playing the ongoing expansion The Burning Crusade on the anniversary servers. Here too, he plays hardcore, but via an addon, as the servers do not offer their own hardcore mode. And he has his gnome on the hardcore servers as well, although he is now playing a bit more relaxed.
Blizzard has released The Burning Crusade on February 5 for the third time, and since then players have been gathering on the anniversary servers to explore the shattered world (again) and ultimately encounter Illidan for the first time (again). Blizzard even celebrated the release unusually: One of the best WoW expansions is released for the 3rd time, gets a new cinematic trailer after 19 years
