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. Funnily enough, Solastro told 404 Media he used to be a big Asmongold fan too.

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.

Solastro is a longtime WoW player who told 404 Media he found the Asmongold related spam in WoW: Forever intolerable. He said it's worse when Asmongold himself logs in. “The trade chat is spammed with people wanting to get near him, on his layer, etc. The guild invite spam is prevalent, as he's encouraged his followers to invite as many people as possible to Olympus,” he said.

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.

“When the army of followers is in a single location, the chat is filled with /yell messages that often include slurs (with special characters to not get flagged), racist chants, misogynistic terms, etc. It's something I heavily dislike, but it was too pervasive to be able to /ignore each player, so I found another solution just to filter chat,” Solastro added.

Solastro said he once watched a lot of Asmongold and added he was a “big fan” six years ago when the streamer launched the One True King (OTK) network, a steamer production company. “I also participated in OTK and was a big fan at the launch of his org, to the point where I participated in the Halloween cosplay contest, where I won first prize with my OTK knight costume,” he said.

“Where he lost me was with the shift to covering political events on his stream instead of gaming,” Solastro said. “My ethics and views do not align, which wouldn't have been a deal breaker had he kept to just gaming, but hearing his takes on the current political climate and foreign affairs turned me off. I came to his streams for fun, he was never where I wanted to go for political commentary.”

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.

Solastro said around 2,000 people had downloaded OlympusMute so far. “Which isn’t crazy, but for an add-on in a beta to reach that number in under 24 hours means there was a niche to fill,” he said.

Asmongold fans have thrown a lot of vitriol Solastro’s way since he released the mod, but he’s also gotten a lot of support too.

“It's always a vocal minority of passionate fans that are the loudest. I've gotten a lot of people thanking me for the addon, both in game and on socials. They say it's been a night and day change and let them actually experience the game instead of the crowds,” he said. “The people coming to Asmongold's defense was expected, but not at the level that came. Almost every person against the addon is slinging slurs my way. Which really just reaffirms the reason for the addon in the first place.”

Update 9/24/26: This story was updated to include an interview with Solastro.