The beta for the hotly anticipated World of Warcraft: Forever has been marred by fans of the streamer Asmongold who have filled the game’s public spaces with spam and slurs. To fix the issue, a player named Solastro created a mod called OlympusMute that hides any chats from players associated with Asmongold’s multiple associated guilds and fandom. Funnily enough, Solastro told 404 Media he used to be a big Asmongold fan too.
OlympusMute, named after the main Asmongold guild Olympus, is a client side mod that creates a mute list designed to prevent players from seeing anything from players associated with Asmongold. It works simply by hiding chat messages from players with Olympus in their name. It also auto-declines group and guild invites from the muted players.
Solastro is a longtime WoW player who told 404 Media he found the Asmongold related spam in WoW: Forever intolerable. He said it’s worse when Asmongold himself logs in. “The trade chat is spammed with people wanting to get near him, on his layer, etc. The guild invite spam is prevalent, as he’s encouraged his followers to invite as many people as possible to Olympus,” he said.
The mod, essentially, is an attempt at a nuclear block. It “hides all player chat from muted players: Say, Yell, Emote, Whisper, General/Trade/custom channels, Guild, Party, Raid, Raid Warning, and Instance chat” and “hides their chat bubbles in the open world,” according to its description.
There are good reasons players may want to never hear from Asmongold or his guild. “Turned on @Asmongold stream for 3 minutes and just instantly see them harassing some random player and spamming shit like this in stormwind,” X user @mrfishpsirit said in a post on X. The account shared screenshots of chat bubbles calling to “deport all greenskins” and sexually assault Palestine. Asmongold himself replied to the post with a list of slurs he’d invented for the game’s fictional races.
“When the army of followers is in a single location, the chat is filled with /yell messages that often include slurs (with special characters to not get flagged), racist chants, misogynistic terms, etc. It’s something I heavily dislike, but it was too pervasive to be able to /ignore each player, so I found another solution just to filter chat,” Solastro added.
I swear half the game is the most racist vile people you can imagine but theres such a huge chunk of lovely queer people who play too
So 4chan, but with elves and orcs and shit
Classic is especially bad about this since it requires a much bigger time commitment than retail. That tends to attract a very degenerate crowd (in additional to the more normal people)
Retail has a lot more furries from what I can tell
That’s a fantastic way of describing RuneScape too.
Some of the most toxic people you will ever meet and some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
reminds me of runescape
Perfectly describes TF2, not uncommon to see Genderqueer furries and Nazi incels on the same server.
Can’t this loser just get scurvy or some shit already
Rather than making me likely to try the mod for this game, this article makes me never want to interact with wow ever again. Sounds like a cesspool.
And thats sad because I genuinely miss certain aspects of wow and would love to have a go again with all the content they’ve released since like 2009 when I stopped playing. Or with this new entry.
Should check out FFXIV with all the other WOW refugees, it’s a good game
Just please, please, do not put provoke in your rotation if you’re a tank. WoW needed it because it was a part of the mechanics. In FFXIV it’s for tank swapping. Nothing more.
Soneone get Solastro a medal
At first, by “Mod” , I thought it meant moderator. Which would have been hilarious.
Why do they need a beta for 30 year old content?
They’re trying to make it good this time?
ACK MY KNEES
Me, a normal FFXIV player: “I thought MMO communities were super nice and helpful.*”
*The reason I bounced from WoW is because I started to hate the people I was interacting with, and FFXIV almost has none of this shit. You couldn’t pay me to play WoW again.
Isn’t random racist shit part of the wow experience?
Walking around town, it’s likely you will get some speck of shit on your shoes eventually. With these chucklefucks shitting everywhere, it’s like wading through a field of manure.
