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.
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.
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.
WoW: Forever’s server architecture makes Asmongold’s fans hard to avoid. In most MMOs, players are grouped into servers — WoW calls them “realms.” In the past, influencers and streamers like Asmongold would pick a server and collect all their fans in one place. People who didn’t want to play with them simply avoided that server.
But Blizzard changed how servers work for WoW: Forever. Instead of realms, the game will group players together based on rulesets. In the new system, these massive personality driven guilds are much harder to avoid.
It’s more than just slurs too. Players have reported that Asmongold’s players are spamming guild invites to people as they log in for the first time, attempting to absorb them into the mass. Their chat also fills public spaces and trading channels with spam. OlympusMute wants to be an elegant solution to these problems. It doesn’t boot Asmongold’s players from the server, but it does keep them out of a player’s face.
