"Is nobody else playing it?" - Asmongold tries Self-Found mode on WoW Classic Hardcore, left surprised to see the server empty

Zack “Asmongold” decided to try out the new Self-Found mode in WoW Classic Hardcore, only to find a shocking, unfortunate discovery. Upon making his new character, he found almost nobody in the human starting zone except for two or three people. This is peculiar, as the Alliance side of Classic Hardcore was bustling just a few months ago.

Many think Blizzard simply added the feature at a weird time or that the game mode is dead. Asmongold wandered around on the Classic Hardcore server and revealed that there were, as he said, “dozens” of people playing:

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Asmongold, a well-known World of Warcraft streamer, learned on Thursday that Solo Self-Found (or Self-Found) mode was added to WoW Classic Hardcore. This is a more complex, challenging way to play Hardcore that forbids players from using anything in the game other than what they find. When he tried playing this mode, it had only been out for one hour.

After reading the rules of Solo Self-Found and finding out you can opt out of the challenge mode at any time, he rolled a character and was surprised to see nobody hanging out in the Human starting area of WoW Classic:

Zack ran from the beginning of the Human starting area all the way to Goldshire at level 1, just to see if anyone could be found in the first settlement that Human Alliance players get to in WoW Classic. As he ran, he read comments from his chat saying people were playing Elden Ring or “AAAA games” and didn’t have time for this. The OTK co-founder did come across a familiar face, though:

The WoW player that Asmongold spoke to said that the mode is dead, thanks to association with TinyViolin, a WoW Classic Hardcore player who allegedly caused nearly an entire Hardcore Raid group to die.