Blizzard has announced that it will make exceptions to its hardcore permadeath policy and allow some characters to return to life. According to a report in Ars Technica, Blizzard made the pronouncement in response to a string of DDoS attacks that seemed specifically targeted to cause the in-game deaths of members of a high-profile raiding guild.

Hardcode mode was introduced with World of Warcraft Classic. It’s a super intense, extremely difficult style of play where a character’s death is…