Blizzard takes the policies behind World Of Warcraft’s Hardcore mode very seriously. The mode itself is a permadeath version of WoW, where one mistake can mean the deletion of hundreds of hours of progress, so the whole point is the massive investment of risk vs. reward.
So, when a whole community of gamers is constantly losing accounts filled with massive amounts of effort and progress, many will try to complain to Blizzard to get those accounts back.
But historically, Blizzard has remained pretty stationary on their goals. From server issues to villainous grifters, Blizzard has very rarely gone through the trouble of reactivating lost accounts—that is, until now.
After one of the biggest WoW Hardcore guilds named OnlyFangs, a group solely consisting of fairly popular Twitch streamers, lost multiple accounts due to malicious DDoS attacks during a Blackwing Lair raid, Blizzard has announced an attempt to revive those accounts to keep the integrity of the game.
It would be an understatement to say that the DDoS attack on OnlyFangs utterly eradicated the guild and their progress. After the attacks, the leader of the guild, popular streamer Sodapoppin, announced through Discord that this likely meant the end of OnlyFangs altogether.
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