Listen to that terrible cacophony of farts, beeps and voice lines from the mortal kombat announcer? That's the sound of 3683 plugins running simultaneously on World of Warcraft Classic. YouTuber Baltoboulbobbi brought the MMO to its knees with a ton of custom tools and effects just to see what happens. And what happens is a total nightmare.
There are so many add-ons in the first minute of the Baltoboulbobbi video that you can't even see the game world. It's an abomination that makes 2000s spyware browser toolbars look tame. While they try to find Wow Beneath all the clutter, car horns and visual effects blare in protest. His naked Tauren is standing in the corner of the screen for no reason and I think I saw four separate health bars.
“The game has become Mahjong,” says the video's text before Baltoboulbobbi gives up and decides to try a match. After dragging your Lightning Bolt spell to one of the 90 action bar slots covering your screen, you shoot an enemy and watch your game fail. A fart sound effect starts playing repeatedly and I'm pretty sure I heard someone say “Among us” there right before you can hear “Finish him!” for him mortal kombat announcer (or someone who does an imitation). Aside from when it hits zero, your frame rate never goes above 20 during all of this.
The rest of the video is horrifying for anyone who has played it. Wow Enough to know what it's like to accidentally leave a few plugins enabled, let alone 3,683. That they could even play it without the game crashing is impressive, and according to the video description, it was necessary to skip some that would prevent the game from working.
Normal players often install some addons to keep track of their healing or damage in a dungeon, or to give Blizzard's default UI a facelift. No one except Baltoboulbobbi is brave enough to add thousands of addons to their game just for the sake of it. 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 up a character from level 1 to 60 on a permadeath Hardcore server with all addons enabled. The video currently has more than 100,000 views.