What happens when you install nearly every World of Warcraft Classic add-on all at once? A cacophony of nonsensical sounds, the most cluttered interface imaginable, and, ultimately, the game ceasing to function entirely.
User-made add-ons are a big part of WoW, enabling players to customize their UI and tailor their experience how they like. WoW Classic, in particular, benefits greatly from add-ons, adding quality-of-life features that make playing the old-school version of Blizzard’s MMORPG more manageable.
There are over 3,800 WoW Classic add-ons available for download on Curseforge, a website and app many WoW players use to manage their add-ons. Recently, one user by the name Baltoboulbobbi (via Wowhead) took it on themselves to see what exactly would happen if they tried to play the game with every add-on installed all at the same time. The brave soul installed 3,703 WoW Classic add-ons all at once and documented their experience in a seven minute video that is equal parts hilarious and existential nightmare. Some add-ons had to be immediately disabled due to them pushing Baltoboulbobbi over their 16GB RAM limit, while others had to be turned off as they prevented the game from running entirely. That left them with 3,683 add-ons running at the same time.
Things instantly get out of hand. Immediately upon logging in, they first attempt to click out of as many windows obstructing their view as possible, only to discover over 100 add-ons in the middle of the screen that can’t be removed. Much of the screen is occupied by various menus, health bars, and charts. Nearly every action they take is accompanied by random sounds, ranging from farts, quotes from WoW Classic streamer Shobek, or cries of “Finish Him!” ripped Mortal Kombat. Leveling up is even more outrageous. Overall, Baltoboulbobbi is able to level up a few times and complete a few quests before the game crashes, putting an end to the ambitious experiment.
In the comments, Baltoboulbobbi pledged to attempt to do a 1-60 leveling challenge on WoW Classic’s Hardcore permadeath server with all add-ons installed if their video eclipsed more than 20,000 views. The video has now been viewed more than 100,000 times, and Baltoboulbobbi has made good on their promise, having done several live streamed sessions of them attempting the feat so far.
What’s even scarier is that while Baltoboulbobbi nearly installed every WoW Classic add-on available, there are far, far more add-ons available for download for the modern version of WoW. According to CurseForge, there are over 10,000 add-ons for WoW’s current The War Within expansion, and one shutters at the thought of what would happen were someone to try and run them all at once.
WoW Classic recently received fresh servers in celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary. Blizzard also announced that player housing will finally be coming to WoW alongside the game’s Midnight expansion, though the expansion sadly doesn’t yet have a release date.
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