The great streamer Asmongold is joining FFXIV

[SturmChurro]

I'll always envy the ability to play a game for the first time. I remember having a lot of fun back in ARR when everything was new and shiny. I doubt I could bring myself to push through ARR ever again, though. Even after the revamp. It's not even necessarily a case of disliking it so much as finding it so time consuming.

Same. A one and done story for me. It's too much, and it's linear. I only really play linear games once for the story anyway. Few times will I ever play them more than once - and that's really only if it has decent gameplay... which ARR most definitely does NOT. SWTOR, for example, had a Bioware style story, and each class had a bit of a different storyline, so it was worth making and playing alts for the story.

I can see that his Fanbase would also be heckling him with "SKIP, or ZZzz, This story sucks! Lichking did it better. Game looks boring!"
And pretty much just try to distract him or just meme on the game and try to ruin it for him. Which would be a bummer. FFXIV offers alot, but Id Say its MSQ is its biggest selling point. A good fun game is around the corner, but a good storyline isn't as easy to find. FFXIV has some great character to.

If he will progress offline, maybe even just make little vids about his journey, Id say thats a smart choice.

ARR is probably worth a skip, especially if you are going to be streaming the game. The story overall is probably around 2-3 LARGE RPGs in length, and it would be BORING to watch, as half of it is not even voiced. Not to mention, any 'fun' content is locked behind this story, so all there is to do is run around from dialogue box to dialogue box doing dungeons that offer zero challenge, and a couple skills.

Part of the reason he's doing it is because people want to see him play. There would be no point in doing the MSQ off stream, especially when he's not going to boost. That means that the MSQ would be a majority of the content as he levels, although he can choose to distract himself with side contents if he wants.

No skip means weeks of Zzz's on stream, I'd say. Maybe he can make it into a sort of podcast for his viewership.