Poké Maniac
Banned
I come back and first thing I see is neogaf crying over a tweet where someone called their favorite streamer an asshole. Jesus Christ. You're all fruitcakes. Go play some games.
Everyone should play Final Fantasy. We all winI come back and first thing I see is neogaf crying over a tweet where someone called their favorite streamer an asshole. Jesus Christ. You're all fruitcakes. Go play some games.
What's worse than toxic masculinity?
The FFXIV community is welcoming him with open arms:
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The official forums are also showing their support and keeping its own community in check:
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FFXIV rocks!
I come back and first thing I see is neogaf crying over a tweet where someone called their favorite streamer an asshole. Jesus Christ. You're all fruitcakes. Go play some games.
I come back and first thing I see is neogaf crying over a tweet where someone called their favorite streamer an asshole. Jesus Christ. You're all fruitcakes. Go play some games.
Yeah, this place blows. Don't know why anyone would stick around.
Yeah, this place blows. Don't know why anyone would stick around.
Imagine going to the mat fighting for blizzard
Do you play, Strange?The official forums are also showing their support and keeping its own community in check:
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FFXIV rocks!
It's more that this person was speaking as a representative of the FFXIV community. It's like it's their word over others. Fuck that shit.\Personal opinions are just personal opinions. I dunno why there's an uproar about somebody calling somebody else an asshole. This isn't Ree
You're banned now, but still... WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE?Yeah, this place blows. Don't know why anyone would stick around.
Yeah, this place blows. Don't know why anyone would stick around.
The FFXIV community is welcoming him with open arms:
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Even the Japanese FFXIV community is reacting positive to Asmon:
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GMs are actively banning the stream snipers:
The official FFXIV discord dedicated a whole channel to him:
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The memes are flowing:
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Wholesome content is being streamed:
I love all the positivity that is coming from the FFXIV community. Meanwhile, the twitter vultures have locked their accounts and went into hiding while Blizzard stays salty:
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It's really nice to see all this positivity supplant the negativity. This is the difference between practicing what you preach by actually fostering a positive community and holding your fanbase in contempt and looking down on your customers. It's one of the reasons why I love FFXIV and its community. Nobody gives a sh*t about your political views, your opinions, you ethnicity, sexual preferences or social status, as long as you treat other players with respect everybody is welcome to play the game.
Makes me wanna resub. Probably will, actually. No way I'll get addicted to fishing. Again.
The real WoW killer was WoW itself tbh. Took them like 10 years of missteps, but they managed to do it.Companies like EA spent millions of dollars trying to make a "WoW killer" MMO.
Turns out it just took a five-word Tweet from Adam Holisky.
Its just a sign of the arrogance of the WoW dev team and its sad to see. I take particular interest in this because I kind of feel the same way Asmon does about WoW. It has become my go-to game and so much time/effort has been vested into it...not to mention the sub money spent, money spent on race change/faction change/server transfers, etc. But Blizzard is not what it once was. It never will be again and that's ok. I'll probably still stick around playing BC classic (raid logging) and eventually WotLK classic and then once I kill heroic Lich King...that's it, I'm done. I'll finish playing WoW where I feel the peak of the game existed and where I should of stopped playing in the first place. I know its been said before over and over but I really do think WoW has lost its status as the king of MMO's and it will start to fade into the background more and more now. It will never 'die', even Ultima Online and Everquest still exist, but with FFXIV huge surge in popularity and most of WoW's big content creators at least giving it attention (if not full-on switching over), and all of the MMO's launching this year and going into next, I just don't think WoW is going to be able to establish its footing again. 'Death from a thousand cuts' as it were, although most of the blame is on Blizzard for their gross mismanagement of the game.
I have recently given FFXIV a fair shot and now that I am into Heavensward, it has become very clear to me that FFXIV is a passion project and something the developers have poured their hearts into. The story, the music, the world-design, etc are leagues beyond WoW which only holds up in the music department and art design is usually pretty decent but I still feel like FFXIV overtakes WoW there. Where WoW completely tears their game systems down every expansion and replaces it with some new system which will be better for their player-engagement metrics, FFXIV seems to just build on what they have and respects the content they have already created. They have created this near-perfect system of players needing to play through all of the old dungeons, MSQ, etc and experiencing the same game those who played years ago experienced and then making it easy to find groups through Duty Finder to get these done. A "classic" FFXIV would never be needed because for better or worse, classic FFXIV already exists within the game as is. I don't feel rushed, I don't feel like the community is built around DPS meters and god-parsing...it just feels refreshing.
Its just a sign of the arrogance of the WoW dev team and its sad to see. I take particular interest in this because I kind of feel the same way Asmon does about WoW. It has become my go-to game and so much time/effort has been vested into it...not to mention the sub money spent, money spent on race change/faction change/server transfers, etc. But Blizzard is not what it once was. It never will be again and that's ok. I'll probably still stick around playing BC classic (raid logging) and eventually WotLK classic and then once I kill heroic Lich King...that's it, I'm done. I'll finish playing WoW where I feel the peak of the game existed and where I should of stopped playing in the first place. I know its been said before over and over but I really do think WoW has lost its status as the king of MMO's and it will start to fade into the background more and more now. It will never 'die', even Ultima Online and Everquest still exist, but with FFXIV huge surge in popularity and most of WoW's big content creators at least giving it attention (if not full-on switching over), and all of the MMO's launching this year and going into next, I just don't think WoW is going to be able to establish its footing again. 'Death from a thousand cuts' as it were, although most of the blame is on Blizzard for their gross mismanagement of the game.
I have recently given FFXIV a fair shot and now that I am into Heavensward, it has become very clear to me that FFXIV is a passion project and something the developers have poured their hearts into. The story, the music, the world-design, etc are leagues beyond WoW which only holds up in the music department and art design is usually pretty decent but I still feel like FFXIV overtakes WoW there. Where WoW completely tears their game systems down every expansion and replaces it with some new system which will be better for their player-engagement metrics, FFXIV seems to just build on what they have and respects the content they have already created. They have created this near-perfect system of players needing to play through all of the old dungeons, MSQ, etc and experiencing the same game those who played years ago experienced and then making it easy to find groups through Duty Finder to get these done. A "classic" FFXIV would never be needed because for better or worse, classic FFXIV already exists within the game as is. I don't feel rushed, I don't feel like the community is built around DPS meters and god-parsing...it just feels refreshing.
More people are watching him than people are watching Games Done Quick. That's kind of funny to me.He has 100K people watching him play FFXIV right now.
More people are watching him than people are watching Games Done Quick. That's kind of funny to me.
Asmongold is a popular WOW streamer who is known for his harsh criticism of Blizzard. He recently decided to give FFXIV a try, prompting many haters on Twitter to clamor for his removal from the game. In this context, Blizzard Lead Product Manager Adam Holisky endorsed a tweet by one such Twitter user who was openly instigating a harassment campaign against Asmongold. Said Twitter user asked his followers to keep reporting Asmongold in order to run him off quickly.
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As a Blizzard employee, insulting your customers is one thing, but condoning their harassment is really crossing a line. If that mindset is in any shape or form representative of Blizzard's current corporate culture, is it any wonder they are slowly circling down the drain? Think of Asmongold what you will, but he's certainly never harmed anybody or engaged in the kind of disgusting ostracism on display here.
I'll let Asmongold speak for himself. His response is mature, level-headed and says it all really:
Let me just say as a FFXIV player, that he's certainly welcomed to play the game and I hope he enjoys it as much as I do. I know many people in the game who are happy to see him try it out.
P.S.: Like Asmongold said, don't engage or harass these people over social media. While I think their behavior towards Asmongold is horrific, I wish them no harm and we should not stoop down to their level. Critical discussion and valid criticism in this thread is fine though.
Not trying to be a hater...but I honestly can't take you seriously if you use pronouns in your Twitter bio. Like what does being a "furry" even mean?
More power to Asmon though. Glad he's enjoying the game.
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Blizzard isn't willing to admit how much pull influencers such as Asmon have with WoW and other games. One person going to the forums saying they're quitting WoW and going to FFXIV means nothing to Blizzard. Seeing someone such as Asmon publicly saying the same thing should send shockwaves of panic through BizzHQ due to all the people who've never played FFXIV now saying "Well, maybe I should try it too." that would've never have tried it otherwise. You couple that with all the other "normal" people you've watch leave WoW (either forum posts or you knew in game) that have done the same and you have them thinking, "Well, let's see what the hubbub is all about." How many people will WoW bleed before they realize they're living on borrowed time?
More people are watching him than people are watching Games Done Quick. That's kind of funny to me.
GDQ fell off for years already. Overly strict assholes with bland, or little to no humor. I wish a better version of it would reveal itself. GDQ is so damned stale. I miss when it was cringe and genuine on that old ass couch with Blue glAss in tow, annoying the shit out of half the people while making the other half laugh. They keep banning people from the event for the stupidest shit.