In anticipation of the launch of WoW Classic, parts of the PvP community issued a warning to all Twitch streamers. They are not welcome on PvP servers.
What did the PvP community explain? In anticipation of the release of WoW Classic, tensions have been rising between:
- Players who want to experience WoW Classic as it was back in the day
- and Twitch streamers, for whom WoW Classic is an opportunity to be in the spotlight and grow their channels – after all, WoW is booming on Twitch
Parts of the PvP community of World of Warcraft Classic do not want to see streamers on their servers. They make it explicitly clear that they are not welcome and measures have already been taken against them.
Are streamers not allowed?
What is the problem? Some PvP fans fear that streamers could negatively impact the game by zerging the PvP, attracting many fans, or engaging in antics to become more successful.
For PvP fans, player-versus-player combat is serious business. They want to keep to themselves and not deal with any “clowns” who bring along their fans, who only cause trouble.
“Blacklist” – satire or real?
How does the community plan to deal with streamers? Two months ago, it was already mentioned on reddit that 4 “well-known hardcore P-server guilds” plan to level up quickly and defeat Ragnaros within the first week. They sent the streamers this message that they will start an attack on them after 9 days.
In addition to the warning that streamers are not welcome, it was mentioned back then: Part of the community is currently working on an addon for WoW Classic called “The Blacklist”.
The addon puts streamers and their guilds on a list and makes them invisible to their own faction. However, the opposing party can track them at every step. Streamers have a tough life on a PvP server utilizing this addon. They can hardly participate in any activity and are directly marked for elimination.
If this addon becomes as widespread as its creators hope, streamers can neither
- trade
- nor join a guild
- and cannot communicate in chat
Is this serious? It’s not entirely clear. Some think the reddit post was meant as a satirical response to streamer Sodapoppins’ suggestion: He and his streamer friends wanted to create a blacklist against stream snipers.
Others took it quite seriously and were shaking their heads at so much anger.
However, the core of this aversion is genuine. In recent days and weeks, the topic “streamers vs. WoW Classic fans” has resurfaced. There are reservations against streamers that are being expressed.
Streamers want to go to “one server” – rest streamer-free
What do the streamers think about this? Streamers like Asmongold are currently very angry about these reservations and express their frustration on their channels (via twitch). They find this treatment unfair. They explain that they just want to play WoW Classic and have fun.
Asmongold in particular finds the hatred directed at him to be quite exaggerated.
It has come to the point where well-known Twitch streamers are going together to the server Faerlina – while leaving other servers “streamer-free”.
What do you think? Shouldn’t streamers be allowed to play on PvP servers of WoW Classic?
