Did Blizzard add Hardcore realms to WoW Classic?

World of Warcraft Classic data miners were in for a surprise when it was recently discovered that Blizzard may be in the process of implementing “Hardcore” realms. In a tweet from Twitter user @Solanya, they write:

#Warcraft 10.1 PTR has a popup for “hardcore” realms in its interface code

Global strings don’t exist so no details, but there are warnings on realm selection/character creation https://github.com/BigWigsMods/WoWUI/blob/ptr/GlueXML/HardcorePopUp.lua… (

@Meorawr found this but he’s too shy to tweet)

The actual string of code they are referring to is:

function HardcorePopUpFrameMixin:ShowRealmSelectionWarning()
	self:SetBodyText(HTML_START .. HARDCORE_WARNING .. HTML_END);
    self.screen = HARDCORE_POPUP_SCREEN.REALM_SELECT;
    self:Show();
end

function HardcorePopUpFrameMixin:ShowCharacterCreationWarning()
	self:SetBodyText(HTML_START .. HARDCORE_SECOND_WARNING .. HTML_END);
    self.screen = HARDCORE_POPUP_SCREEN.CHARACTER_SELECT;
    self:Show();
end

This potential announcement of Hardcore realms has caused a lot of excitement among the WoW players, especially those apart of the Classic Hardcore community.