World Of Warcraft Classic is kinda wild when you think about it. It’s a
time capsule from 2004 that you can live inside, a swirling portal to a
place many people thought they’d never get to visit again. There’s no
denying, however, that times have changed since “Vanilla” WoW’s
rosily-remembered heyday. One recent development that’s been causing
some friction: streamers.To get more news about
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Currently, WoW Classic is still in closed beta, meaning access is
limited. A handful of popular streamers like Sodapoppin, Asmongold,
Dafran, and Esfand are among those who can play, and they’re already the
most visible presences in the beta. Some prospective players have gone
so far as to swear off so-called “streamer servers” entirely. This
largely stems from concerns that once WoW Classic is properly live,
streamers’ fans will constantly mob them, obliterate everyone else in
PVP through sheer numbers, overwhelm in-game economies, and generally
make toxic nuisances of themselves.
“Almost the entire population revolves around them,” said one player on
the WoW Classic subreddit, voicing concerns that are, so far, largely
hypothetical given the current scope of the beta. “When they are on, 2k
more people are on, when they aren’t it’s dead.”
While World of Warcraft has always put most things of
consequence—dungeons, raids, PVP arenas, etc—in their own
sequestered-off “instances” so as to create structure and keep jerks
from raining on people’s parades, modern WoW is much more heavily
instanced than Vanilla WoW was. Many fans regard WoW Classic as a chance
to return to the days when non-instanced “world” PVP was all the rage,
and massive spontaneous clashes between Horde and Alliance were the
norm. Not only that, there will be world bosses and, eventually,
limited-time world events for players to contend with in Classic.
As a result, some are worried that streamers will throw endless armies
of fans at PVP, bosses, progression, economies, and more, monopolizing
WoW Classic in a way that’s simply not possible in WoW as it is now. The
Wild West feeling of early WoW, they fear, will be trampled by
streamers immediately grabbing the spotlight and refusing to let go.
At this point, it’s hard to say if things will unfold this way once WoW
Classic is available to everyone. However, there have been some
instances of streamers and their audiences causing a ruckus in the beta,
as when Dafran disrupted an otherwise orderly tournament by attacking
the opposing faction, kicking off a massive, ugly brawl.
In another instance, Asmongold and a horde of Alliance followers kited a
black dragon world boss all the way to the Alliance capital city of
Stormwind. Havoc, as you might expect, ensued. True, Asmongold and his
friends pulled off a heck of a feat, but it also drove home the idea
that streamers can wield their influence in ways that bring entire
servers to their knees.
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