Harassment to Asmongold on his 1st day stream is an Embarassment to FF Community

[Kaurhz]

This was like watching Discovery Channel. A bunch of primates jumping around.
"This is not who we are"?
This might not be what we would like to be, but unfortunately, this is who we are.

Let's just get a David Attenborough narration on the whole process.

[Conundrum]

Then he should have done it offstream, or streamed selected highlights.

These antics are now disrupting the gameplay of actual Cactuar players that cant get on, and they are NOT IMPRESSED.

Like it or not Asmon IS an actual Cactuar player.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Even if cactuar players have their gaming disrupted (though not by very much imo).

Hmm, I think Cactuar natives would disagree... There's congestion and long login queues... lots are unhappy with not being able to play on their server.

[Rae88]

Hmm, I think Cactuar natives would disagree... There's congestion and long login queues... lots are unhappy with not being able to play on their server.

Let me put it in perspective. There were reports of a queue on Cactuar of 700? A thousand? When I played WoW Classic at launch I was in a 18,000 person, 7 hour queue.

[Conundrum]

This was like watching Discovery Channel. A bunch of primates jumping around.
"This is not who we are"?
This might not be what we would like to be, but unfortunately, this is who we are.

Asmon has done one favor for us. He shown everyone EXACTLY what this community is.

[Kes13a]

I like the mental gymnastics behind the conspiracy theory that WoW players who wanted him not to play FFXIV infiltrated the game 1 month ago when he said he would be joining, learned how to play the game, leveled up to 80 and cleared all Savage and Ultimates in order to be ready to grief him at the starting zone.

Contrary to, you know, the more probable option that FF players who dislike him because he likes a different game decided to bully him out of the game. There are no shortage of those people in here, as the other 92 pages thread is proof of.

It's a really sad scene to see. What could have been an important milestone in the history of FFXIV ended up being tarnished by people involved in a Team Jacob vs Team Edward kind of immature drama.

whats even more impressive is the mental gymnastics you must go through to accuse the players on 16 other worlds in two other NA data centers, as well as the 7 other worlds in the Aether center of going out of their way to get to the same server he was on to harass or even just follow and get in the way. not only that, but go to the other games that he has played on and do the same thing prior to him even thinking of playing FFXIV. we must have a lot of psychics here.

I am glad he seemed to have fun regardless and hope he continues playing. aside from that... I dont pay his sub, he can do as he wishes ^^

[Taebok]

During Asmongold’s first day stream today, people in Cactuar were crowding and blocking NPCs, spamming Holy and flashy magic, killing quest mobs, killing all other mobs, blocking mobs with Mounts, for hours.

Um ... This is exactly what WoW has been like for 15 years.
I imagine he felt right at home.

[SniperCT]

WoW is go go go because the only thing that matters is endgame. There isn’t even a story now.

I mean, this is flat out wrong. There is a story. There are cutscenes and plot and cinematics and NPC dialogue and everything FF14 has. The Jaina storyline from BFA is as good as Shadowbringers, IMO. And Legion before it was excellent.

Coincidentally, that Jaina thing was the last time I really enjoyed the story in that game lol

It's just that much of the rest of the story isn't all that well written and going in directions that a lot of people don't seem to be liking, though YMMV of course.

But there is a story and frankly there's been more story in game in WoW since WoD to now than there ever was pre MoP. (MoP was really where they started to tell a larger cohesive narrative, actually, but didn't really perfect it until Legion)

Most of the story is however locked behind doing the endgame grind, and I don't think that helps matters.

[Krotoan]

Asmon has done one favor for us. He shown everyone EXACTLY what this community is.

Because everyone is having this exact same experience when they swap games right? This is totally not an outlier.

[Taebok]

Asmon has done one favor for us. He shown everyone EXACTLY what this community is.

95% of the "community" doesn't play on Cactuar.
95% of the players on Cactuar did nothing.
So save the drama.

I played an Undead Warrior on Tich for 10 years.
I know exactly what the WoW community is.
FFXIV community is a billion times better.
There's no comparison.