What occurs once you set up almost each World of Warcraft Classic add-on unexpectedly? A cacophony of nonsensical sounds, essentially the most cluttered interface conceivable, and, finally, the sport ceasing to perform totally.
Consumer-made add-ons are an enormous a part of WoW, enabling gamers to customise their UI and tailor their expertise how they like. WoW Classic, specifically, advantages vastly from add-ons, including quality-of-life options that make taking part in the old-school model of Blizzard’s MMORPG extra manageable.
There are over 3,800 WoW Classic add-ons out there for obtain on Curseforge, a web site and app many WoW gamers use to handle their add-ons. Not too long ago, one person by the identify Baltoboulbobbi (via Wowhead) took it on themselves to see what precisely would occur in the event that they tried to play the sport with each add-on put in all on the identical time. The courageous soul put in 3,703 WoW Classic add-ons unexpectedly and documented their expertise in a seven minute video that’s equal elements hilarious and existential nightmare. Some add-ons needed to be instantly disabled because of them pushing Baltoboulbobbi over their 16GB RAM restrict, whereas others needed to be turned off as they prevented the sport from operating totally. That left them with 3,683 add-ons operating on the identical time.
Issues immediately get out of hand. Instantly upon logging in, they first try to click on out of as many home windows obstructing their view as doable, solely to find over 100 add-ons in the course of the display that may’t be eliminated. A lot of the display is occupied by varied menus, well being bars, and charts. Practically each motion they take is accompanied by random sounds, starting from farts, quotes from WoW Classic streamer Shobek, or cries of “End Him!” ripped Mortal Kombat. Leveling up is much more outrageous. Total, Baltoboulbobbi is ready to degree up just a few instances and full just a few quests earlier than the sport crashes, placing an finish to the formidable experiment.
Within the feedback, Baltoboulbobbi pledged to aim to do a 1-60 leveling problem on WoW Classic’s Hardcore permadeath server with all add-ons put in if their video eclipsed greater than 20,000 views. The video has now been considered greater than 100,000 instances, and Baltoboulbobbi has made good on their promise, having completed a number of reside streamed periods of them trying the feat up to now.
What’s even scarier is that whereas Baltoboulbobbi almost put in each WoW Classic add-on out there, there are far, way more add-ons out there for obtain for the fashionable model of WoW. In line with CurseForge, there are over 10,000 add-ons for WoW’s present The Warfare Inside enlargement, and one shutters on the considered what would occur had been somebody to try to run them unexpectedly.
WoW Classic lately obtained contemporary servers in celebration of the sport’s twentieth anniversary. Blizzard additionally introduced that participant housing will lastly be coming to WoW alongside the sport’s Midnight enlargement, although the enlargement sadly does not but have a launch date.