These incidents were primarily linked to DDoS attacks targeting Blizzard's servers ... occurred in order to identify characters eligible for recovery. The response from the WoW Classic Hardcore ...

World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore characters who permanently died during recent DDoS attacks will be restored, Blizzard says, citing the disruption as "a cut above anything we've faced before." ...

Ian Walker loves exploring niche communities and researching the development of classic video games. Blizzard announced on March 24 its intentions to revive hardcore World of Warcraft Classic ...

Constant World of Warcraft DDOS attacks are resulting in huge deaths of hardcore players, but shouldn't these charcaters be protected?

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on WoW Classic have currently led to hundreds of in-game deaths in the Hardcore community. However, few guilds have likely been hit as hard as ...

After a series of DDoS attacks against members of OnlyFangs, a World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore guild run by Twitch titans Thomas Chance ‘Sodapoppin’ Morris and Tyler ‘Tyler1′ Steinkamp ...

Things took a turn for the worse when a DDoS attack caused several guild members to wipe (die in-game). On March 25, 2025, Clay Stone, Associate Production Director of WoW Classic, updated the ...

The resurrections come after a string of targeted DDoS attacks against popular ... Hardcode mode was introduced with World of Warcraft Classic. It’s a super intense, extremely difficult style ...

My wife basically ended the hardcore character by deciding it looked fun and wanting to play herself (but not hardcore, and she liked wotlk and especially cata, so that version of classic.) ...