Twitch streamer Asmongold has reacted to a viral video in which a player flies through a dungeon in WoW Classic Season of Discovery to level up a group of players. He criticizes Blizzard sharply due to the hacking situation.
What kind of video is it? A video of the World of Warcraft
creator N_Tys went viral on X (formerly Twitter). In this video, he shows a hacker in WoW Classic: Season of Discovery
. The video features a mage apparently dragging a group of players through a dungeon to level them up.
However, the mage does not run but flies. We have already reported about hackers in Season of Discovery a week after the launch. Asmongold reacted to the viral video in his livestream and expressed his criticism of Blizzard.
You can watch the viral video on X here:
“This destroys the integrity of the game” – Asmongold criticizes Blizzard harshly
What does Asmongold say about the video? Asmongold is not happy about the video at all. In the past, Asmongold has frequently criticized Blizzard, most recently he was skeptical about the announcement of the Season of Discovery.
In his reaction to the viral video, Asmongold expresses his disbelief towards Blizzard, especially regarding the detection systems.
He wonders how it is possible that players are not marked by the anti-cheat system when they fly through dungeons. As soon as they exceed a certain height that cannot be reached by normal means, the system should automatically mark them as cheaters, the WoW streamer believes.
According to Asmongold, buying gold is one thing, but modifying the game files and flying through the world is on another level. “This completely destroys the immersion and the integrity of the game more than anything else!”
Where does Asmongold see the problem? Asmongold sees the problem with Blizzard itself. The company’s anti-cheat department is said to be “completely incompetent and totally underfunded.”
The department is too small to combat the many cheaters, and the employees that Blizzard has deployed there are stupid, Asmongold asserts. He often criticizes Blizzard and usually quite harshly, so this choice of words is not unusual for Asmongold, as he has proven here.
How does the community view the criticism? On YouTube, most viewers agree with Asmongold. The user BigBoyAdvance writes: “It’s funny how private servers have solved the hacker problem, but a billion-dollar company like Blizzard can’t.”
The user named TheUnknownOtaku jokes: “Actually, mages can fly. It’s a new ability, you just have to have a father who works at Blizzard.”
Even iframe1 cannot understand why Blizzard cannot solve the problem: “I really cannot understand how private servers can write a hacking/bot detection system while it looks like Blizzard isn’t even trying.”
For WoW players, hackers are not a new problem; it even goes so far that hackers form their own cartels and threaten players.
