The WoW Classic hardcore community currently uses an add-on and the honor system to track their progress, but official hardcore servers could be coming.
By Cameron Koch on
World of Warcraft's Classic Era realms could receive official «hardcore» servers in the future, if a since-deleted line of code found in the recent WoW 10.1 public test realm build is to be believed.
WoW Classic Era realms have seen a big uptick in players in the past few months thanks to a community «hardcore» challenge where dying even once in Blizzard's old-school MMORPG means that character gets deleted. The challenge has had its popularity bolstered recently by various WoW steamers and content creators also getting in on the fun.
#Warcraft 10.1 PTR has a popup for «hardcore» realms in its interface code
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