Huge World of Warcraft OnlyFangs Guild set to end after targeted DDoS attack shatters Hardcore players

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OnlyFangs, a Hardcore World of Warcraft guild forged by popular livestreamer SodaPoppin, has disbanded after days of targeted DDoS attacks on Blizzard’s servers. Since the start of a recent event, the WoW Classic guild has been hyper-targeted with hackers bringing down servers during raids to spoil their games.

With the Hardcore guild’s raids ruined by DDoS server outages, every event the guild has ran over the last week has resulted in countless deaths. As a hardcore run, death means death, those characters are gone, and the guild’s massive losses as a result of the attacks have caused many to feel massive anxiety when playing.

World of Warcraft OnlyFangs Guild set to disband

In an announcement on Discord, Guild Leader SodaPoppin announced that the World of Warcraft guild is on its last legs. While the leader has reached out to developer Blizzard to revert character deaths caused by the rampant server attacks, recent events mean that the guild will likely end.

“So, clearly the DDoS attacks are centered on us,” the Guild Leader explained. “I’ve reached out for potential rollback, but it’s highly unlikely and I wouldn’t hope for it. So many of us died, but we still have people that can play, regardless, though I don’t feel comfortable dragging people through getting world buffs, flasks and consumables just to raid with the anxiety and the actuality of being DDoS’d again and dying.”

In the announcement, they claimed the OnlyFangs guild “is over” if Blizzard doesn’t rollback players to get their characters again. With DDoS attacks occurring every time the guild attempts to fight a major raid in the Hardcore WoW server, it’s clear that wrongdoing is at play, but that doesn’t mean Blizzard will revive deceased characters.

“It’s a terrible ending imo, but that’s the ending we got,” the streamer continued. “On a positive note, the beginning of OnlyFangs was so long ago, I think a lot of us forgot how awesome the entire event was, and I wanted to thank all of you for being a part of it.”

For more WoW coverage, read about the creation of the D.R.I.V.E. system from the new Undermine update, or read about how Ashbringer may actually be coming to World of Warcraft Classic after 20 years.

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World of Warcraft Classic

  • Platform(s): PC
  • Genre(s): Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG