The great streamer Asmongold is joining FFXIV

[Kolsykol]

The worst of it has passed. Initially a large group of people were getting on their biggest mounts to hide quests destinations, tagging mobs so he couldn't kill them, and other things. There's also a rumour being suggested on the r/ffxiv discord that a discord has been set up just to mess with him and there was chatter in zone chat on how people should impede his progress. It's pathetic behaviour.

What's especially sad about it is that outside of that he seems to have been enjoying the game thus far.
Like just stop ruining peoples good time people....

[Fredco191]

He seems to be having fun despite the crowd following him around. But then again, he's probably used to that.

[Istaru]

GCBTW .....

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

The worst of it has passed. Initially a large group of people were getting on their biggest mounts to hide quests destinations, tagging mobs so he couldn't kill them, and other things. There's also a rumour being suggested on the r/ffxiv discord that a discord has been set up just to mess with him and there was chatter in zone chat on how people should impede his progress. It's pathetic behaviour.

Ive been watching since after he created the character, so I saw the madness. I dont consider that "embarrassing the community" as dreadful as Im sure that beginning would be for anyone. But several hours in and he's been progressing at a very good pace. Some annoyances but were quickly squashed by the tools provided.
Probly the one challenge he cant help is being followed around the open world.

If that Discord thing is true, THAT right there is no good and shame on those people lol.
But I can say they have been largely unsuccessful.

[Eien713]

My God. I can't stand the annoying idiots following him around everywhere and ruining the experience. You can't see anything; they oneshot everything; and they use Performance just to be pests (looking at you, annoying moron spamming that equally annoying high note). Gosh! I'm surprised he hasn't quit yet. This makes the whole community look so damn bad. Just let the guy play the game like a normal person. Is that so hard to do? They've been at it for almost 8 hours now. Don't they have anything better to do?

[MothKira]

While the attention seekers/harassers situation is sad and annoying. I'd look at the positives.

Asmon has been super positive about ARR so far, he's doing a bit for stream of course as usual, but he's mostly positively excited about his chad tank role fantasy, enjoying simple ARR gameplay and gear, paying attention to the story more than your average player, reading everything.

One truely great moment at the very beginning of the stream : he idled in the main menu talking to chat, and the ARR cinematic started playing. The ARR cinematic is maybe the best piece of media to hype players about the game, and he was super positive and hype about it. I'm really glad hundreds of thousands of people got to see it.

While yeah out of 200k people you're going to find trolls, i think this stream will be positive in exposure for the game. I personally started playing because I was exposed to the game on twitch years ago - and in my eyes, a surge of new players is very healthy for an mmo. i'd stray away from generalizing 200k internet randos on the worst most vocal people, just like we don't want the ffxiv community as a whole to be associated to the couple hundred of trolls hounding him.

[KizuyaKatogami]

While the attention seekers/harassers situation is sad and annoying. I'd look at the positives.

Asmon has been super positive about ARR so far, he's doing a bit for stream of course as usual, but he's mostly positively excited about his chad tank role fantasy, enjoying simple ARR gameplay and gear, paying attention to the story more than your average player, reading everything.

I think it’s a bit too soon for this tbh. He hasn’t even gotten into the worst parts of ARR yet. Early ARR is fine. It’s the Titan and Coerthas arcs along with the post patches that kill people. We’ll see how he fares against that.Not trying to be a downer to him, i wish him the best of luck. Just saying lets keep realistic expectations for now. It's easy to get overhyped for these things.

[van_arn]

I think it’s a bit too soon for this tbh. He hasn’t even gotten into the worst parts of ARR yet. Early ARR is fine. It’s the Titan and Coerthas arcs along with the post patches that kill people. We’ll see how he fares against that.

There’s also the heavenward burnout of “I made it past arr and now I’m burnt out so I’ll quit” phase

[Ilenya]

There’s also the heavenward burnout of “I made it past arr and now I’m burnt out so I’ll quit” phase

That would be post patch stuff, I assume.

[van_arn]

That would be post patch stuff, I assume.

Yeah, I’ve seen people burn out in 3.0 because it took all of their effort to suffer through 2.x.