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

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 ...

Blizzard steps in after the recent debate regarding the unfortunate permadeath of characters in WoW Hardcore caused by a massive DDoS attack.

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." ...

The resurrections come after a string of targeted DDoS attacks against popular WoW streamers. The resurrections come after a string of targeted DDoS attacks against popular WoW streamers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If they suffer a drive failure I expect them to restore it from backups, and if they suffer a widespread DDOS, I expect they will revert deaths during the period they had no network communication.

This is the hazard Blizzard is hoping to avoid. Either they prevent DDOS, or they prevent permadeath by DDOS. Anything else kills the hardcore severs as FU players get their jollies by destroying ...