Asmongold opens up about the hate he’s been getting for playing his favorite game. “He quit FFXIV”, “He’s a hypocrite for still playing WoW”. Yes, Blizzar could add another $7,000 TCG mount to the Pay-2-win World of Warcraft store and ruin another character like Sylvanas in a dumb cinematic and let the next expansion be like Shadowlands is now.. But here’s the truth, and the reason why Asmongold still plays WoW. This is a follow up to the “Blizzard Won, I Give Up…” video, addressing the criticism it received from Asmongold’s reddit, and something that Zack has wanted to share for a long time.
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INTRO 0:00
Why I Still Play WoW 0:30
But… Store Mounts? Responding to Hate 7:12
How Many Hours I’ve Played 17:23
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Hahaha he said ff14 Andy. the war is over boys!!! Ff14 has lost wow remains king of MMOs .watch all the ff14 players cry!!!!
I had to quit final fantasy because I couldn’t force myself through anymore msq to get through to the new content… I bought endwalker and all and I’ll never play it :/
Even as shit as the game may be, if you go play other MMOs. Somehow their worse than wow….. Fml
No Asmon, I don't have fun.
or just don't 6 month sub and just go by monthly one and if the game is not fun, unsub and return later. You don't have to go against the tide, just do what makes you enjoy gaming. I quit because it felt like a chore and another 9 to 5 job.
I play it because I want to, simple as
I'm a ff nerd never played WOW, HOWEVER i know you have for a long ass time. I hope they fix your game you love so much, ty for bringing attn to my game we will be here when you get back gl with Microsoft. I hope they are better to you then blizzard was for all those years, seriously.
I hope he enjoyed saying it. But it just feels wrong that he had to spend so long quantifying or justifying what he finds fun. Let the dude like what he likes.
All what he says its true. Wow gives that all.
liked for hippocrissy
if playing is just jumping around on cool mount, there’s nothing to explain lol
The thing Asmon says about collective bargaining power is exactly why Unions are important. Because one person cannot do anything alone and collective actions only work if they are sufficiently organised.
I think everyone should be capable of admitting to some hypocrisy in their actions when it is warranted. Playing the game you like is fine. Even if there's some level of hypocrisy in doing so. Not taking ownership of what other's choose to do is totally correct — taking ownership of your own actions is what one should do and usually Asmon seems to do too. Hence why people like him; being genuine and upfront. Here, I see more deflection than is necessary.
This is not to say that we shouldn't turn the same hypocrisy question right around at Asmon's viewers. If you don't like him playing wow so much, stop watching him while he plays it. Else, that's fine, but there's hypocrisy one must reconcile with. Do with your time (and money) what you please. When (legitimately) criticising others, which is fine, hold mirrors to yourselves too. It's good to be introspective.
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That's not just any mount FF 14 dwebs that's the gladiator mount you get for getting to 2600 in 3vs 3 arena this season .I would be showing off and walking around with it if I had it as well it's fucking hard as hell to get ya wouldn't understand
Bad: afk in Oribos
Rad: afk in Limsa
17:35 ylyl : all thoses games and hours put into them… While still being subbed to wow
Aka: blizzard don't care. Normal people unsub. But admin being on the 6month,(+free storemount ) recurring.. blizzard is happy for his contribution.
wow
WoW is not going to die, probably ever. There are people who have been playing it for the majority of their lifetime, and thus spent a shitload of time and effort on the game. Do you think they will just stop and never touch the game again? No.
Here in Europe it's kinda similar to what's happening to football (the real one, not that handegg stuff) or sports in general. For the last few decaded or even longer the fans have complained about how football is monetized and it's all just about money, corruption and so on and that the romance, the beauty of the sport would be killed by that. Do people stop watching or playing football? Do people stop watching or playing sports? No. Let's be real here, even though everyone and their mother are complaining about the World Cup being held in Qatar everyone is still going to watch it.
Same with WoW. People will complain about Blizz and their policies and maybe a few will actually stop playing, but the people who have put so much time in this game and have so many memories of it will not quit.
This comment section is embarrassing. Only epic gamers could turn a dude saying 'I like the game so I play it.' into multiple paragraphs about addiction, hypocrisy, and a conspiracy theory that this balding streamer is being paid to normalize complacency.
Let's be real. Most of Asmon's viewers are children who think that the world evolves around what game you play. I genuinely don't care if people give me crap for playing WoW because I'm not 12. Who cares what people think of YOUR hobby. Wishing Asmon the best. I hope his community will grow up one day and stop with the COPIUM bs.
Sure 1463 days is alot BUT.. its also your "job" & it comes with alot of benefits.
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I accidently bought a store mount once, subbed for 6 months pre classic.
I hate to say it, but it feels as though your fight is doomed to fail. WOW is in the "milking it for everything they can, before it dies" phase so I don't thing there is anything you can do to change it. Blizzard doesen't care and they can't rollback years of bad decisions. My honest opinion is that you should let it die so we can get some better MMOs, maybe a WOW2 at some point. 20 years of leading the genre has really slowed things down.
You know when you play a game for a long time and finally you get to the end of it and finish it? You start feeling a bit empty, like there is a game sized hole there now, asking yourself well what now. You go install a couple of games after it but nothing really grabs your attention until one random day you see some game or think of some game and it hooks you. I think Asmon is afraid of that hole, WoW has been a big part of his life it seems and is afraid to let go.
If you can influence %70 of the playerbase to unsub and lose a big company like Microvision Blizzard (or whatever it is called nowadays) that much money, the first thing that happens will be you going to jail.
This "I won't win this" is the same, that many other people think. And if a person with this much influence says, they can't win… how can you expect for a random that only have this game left for themself to quit.. in hope that 70% others do.
I don't think this is fair to say. The extreme doesn't have to be "make other people quit the game". If not even a big streamer will take a stand against what they always critqued, no one will.
Why should they change the game in a positive way, if it's "good enough" to not fight back. There is no action behind the words.
I respect asmongold a lot. But the most "extreme" action he did as a respons to blizzard.. if we can even use this as a reason.. was playing final fantasy 14. And don't get me wrong, this was a big hit.
I myself was someone who gave FF14 a chance, because asmon did. In my head asmon is the posterchild of wow, he felt like he was always there in my yt recommendations, no matter how less interest I had WoW at that time.
At the same time he will always bring people to WoW, because people want to play with asmon, no matter the game. He will always advertise the game and his action will always reflect on the state of the game.
I grew up with wow, but I couldn't keep up with the game as much as I wanted and it got worse with every expansion. I don't hate the game, the core is something I always enjoyed. I tried every expansion, I enjoyed the start and just lost when I saw how much is expected just to play the game.
I really wish they would put more effort in classic and tbc, which got me absorbed for the past years, before I found FF for me. I would love to play with the friends I made, but the state of the game just got worse and worse with time and the cheap cash grabs with panic releases just made it even worse.
We will always lose and I accepted it now. When I critiqued classic for its changes on 30 instance limit on one server, the community came back full force insisting that no one ever reachs that. In the mean time I was trying to farm the blade of eternal darkness for my brother for weeks in with over 60 IDs per day. It was already a horrible frustrating droprate and we already put so much time in. And then they made us risk our raid ID for some cheap implimented solution to fight fly hacking bots, like this is how they will solve it., Then the bots just server hops and didn't care at all.
This communty eats itself for everyone that has problems, that the majority doesn't have. FF14 tries to make everyone happy. And you see it in their game design.
This "the majority won't be affected" mentality is something that the devs don't have, while in world of warcraft, every interaction where the community comes in and shuts the minority down, it's one less problem that they have to deal with.
Asmon you can't play a game because it's fun. That's illegal
stockholm syndrome… got it.
i dont care about what people think about the game, the company or me playing it. i like the game so why would i stop? people say blizzard made classic/tbc/wotlk just for money but the truth is some people enjoy those games.
Thug life~
Why was no one perfect in the ad I seen 🥴
Don't you guys ever just start talking to people in the game?
tbh story mounts are fine, FF players are pretty fine with it too but thats because in FF there are alot of other mounts that look really good and u get ingame, they just need to put out Store Mount quality Mounts into dungeons and raids and release less store mounts and its okay
During the mage tower I had a blast farming up the spelltome mount by completing all the encounters. Then they release this awesome tiger mount for subbing which looks even better than the one I just worked for. That feels crumby. Completely unearned. But I am subbed mainly because I log in and do dungeons with my friends all weekend and it’s so insanely fun.
When did we have to start defending and rationalizing the reasons why we play certain games. Play what you enjoy and don't worry so much about what other people play or why they choose to play it. Everyone wants to argue and debate every topic nowadays.
Yeah i also loved running around oriboros
I love the fact that every single video I've seen of Asmon streaming the last two months has involved perpetually circling this area on a nice mount. Encapsulates the spirit of MMOs perfectly. lol
I don't think PUBG will do well in China for much longer… I think their government is taking a stance (or maybe they alrdy have) against violent video games… Their new regulations I think has put like well over 1000 video game dev companies out of business (I think almost 2000, albeit most of those probably are mobile devs) and you've got companies like Tencent now buying some companies outside of the country out of concerns that they may not be able to keep an income up if they don't… Plus people are given far less time to be able to play games…
That guys point was. That Asmon talks about "if 70% of players blabla. then better blabla" but he never did that himself, he never quit or stopped paying his sub to Blizzard. And that is in fact hypocritical behavior. Suggest something that people should do to make a point but at the same time not doing yourself. = hypocrite.
Also, saying people are not intelligent because of wrong spelled words in their non native language (most likely… you can't know that). Is seriously very lame and if I would watch Twitch, I would have reported that guy, for that. It is not okay to say that. How about you try to type in a language that is not English in a YouTube comment box and try to fix the words based on if they are red underlined or not. Good luck with that, I wanna see that for sure. Seriously, this dude should check his attitude he has currently.
The weeb is probably mad asmon is back to playing wow more than ff14 😂 like people really thought he was suddenly gonna quit wow for that weeb shit.
im playing cause im addicted. everyone is addicted. what to discuss here? playing classic btw. F the casuals that supported retail bs
What do you call it when you get a really high damage blow to a Hinterlands creature?
Hippocrit!
Probably around 70 percent of players quit since wrath? 🤣
Paid blizzard stream. Reeeeeeeeeee
your own fault for shitting on it all year only to find out you still play it
dude an Apex stream with the boys would be dope
Sorry Asmon, I tried to come back to the game and 2 months in it just didn't feel like how it used to be, I felt sad about it too cuz I really wanted the game to get better not get worse, world quests, classes balance, the grind is MUCH worse than before, it feels like the game does not respect your time anymore and wants more money to boot, I switched to GW2 and it's great, I legit feel good paying Arenanet money for GW2, I can't say the same for Blizzard about WOW
Боже, да всем похуй
Jesus, its insane how many idiots are in the chat