This person has installed 3,683 WoW Classic add-ons and the result is a total nightmare

Hear that horrible cacophony of farts, blips and voice lines from the Deadly battle announcer? That’s the sound of 3,683 add-ons running simultaneously World of Warcraft classic. YouTuber Baltoboulbobbi brought the MMO to its knees with a bucket of custom tools and effects, simply to see what happens. And what happens is a total nightmare.

There are so many add-ons in the first minute of Baltoboulbobbi’s video that you can’t even see the game world. It’s an abomination that makes the spyware browser toolbars of the 2000s look tame. As they try to find Wow underneath all the clutter, car horns and visual effects fire in protest. Their naked Tauren just stands in the corner of the screen for no reason and I think I saw four separate health bars.

“Game has become Mahjong,” says the text in the video before Baltoboulbobbi gives up and decides to try a fight. After dragging their Lightning Bolt spell to one of the 90 action bar slots on their screen, they fire at an enemy and watch their game freeze. A fart sound effect starts playing on repeat and I’m pretty sure I heard someone say, “Among us‘ there just before you say ‘Finish him!’ by the Deadly battle announcer (or someone doing an impression). Except when it hits zero, their frame rate never exceeds 20 through all of this.

The rest of the video is horrifying for anyone who played Wow enough to know what it’s like to accidentally leave a few add-ons enabled, let alone 3,683. That they were even able to play it without the game crashing is impressive, and according to the video description, there were a handful of omissions that would cause the game to not work at all.

Regular players usually install a few add-ons to track their healing or damage in a dungeon, or to give Blizzard’s default UI a facelift. No one but Baltoboulbobbi is brave enough to add thousands of add-ons to their game just for fun. It’s no surprise that it’s basically unplayable, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fascinating to know that it’s technically possible to live like this.

Baltoboulbobbi wrote in a comment on the video that if it gets 20,000 views, they will try to level a character from one to 60 on a perma-death hardcore server with all add-ons enabled. The video currently has over 100,000 views.