Blizzard will restore World of Warcraft Hardcore characters lost in recent DDOS attacks, an unprecedented move for the game. Forced disconnects leave players vulnerable for a brief time to prevent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

DDOS attacks—Direct Denial of Service attacks—are continuing to hammer Blizzard’s servers, and there appears to be no sign of stopping. Just a few weeks ago, the massive World of Warcraft ...

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 ...

Check out how we test and review games here A massive wave of targeted DDoS attacks saw the destruction of one the biggest Hardcore World of Warcraft Classic guild: OnlyFangs. Alongside other ...

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 ...

"If this is just how it is, then yeah, that's the end": WoW Classic's most famous hardcore guild calls time for now after multiple raiders lose their MMO characters to DDoS attacks ...

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.