The great streamer Asmongold is joining FFXIV

[Liam_Harper]

I've checked a few of the streams lately out of curiosity and expected to dislike it because of the endless posts about "WoW persona" and a rabid fanbase, but to be honest I haven't really seen it. He openly voices when he thinks something sucks and his chat are a fairly standard twitch chat but overall it's just a regular stream, excessive abuse isn't encouraged and he seems to be having fun with the game and is being fair with it.

I'm surprised people are so grumpy about his crowd of fans. A bit of queue time isn't the end of the world and it's nice to see it as an event of sorts to break the monotony of log on, roulette, log off. Sure the crowd jumping about with shiny weapons are a little childish, but the majority of it is harmless excitement. I imagine he doesn't mind it overall because it's a part of what MMO's are about, sharing an open fantasy game environment with thousands of other people. I'm glad they're all having fun being silly and making the most of it.

I'm also impressed he's made a stream about ARR questing so popular. Most of us believed it'd never work, but he's capturing that new-game excitement well. 150k viewers is massive, it's brilliant advertisement for the game and overall it's just a positive. Credit where credit is due.

[Nothv13]

I'm also impressed he's made a stream about ARR questing so popular. Most of us believed it'd never work, but he's capturing that new-game excitement well. 150k viewers is massive, it's brilliant advertisement for the game and overall it's just a positive. Credit where credit is due.

One thing I've noticed from watching many of the new FFXIV players that came from WoW on youtube and twitch is that they actually enjoy the ARR quest experience. As a FFXIV player we are quite jaded to the experience due to having gone through it and now viewing it as simply a roadblock, however new players from a game that handles leveling differently have a much different look on it.

[linayar]

I'm also impressed he's made a stream about ARR questing so popular. Most of us believed it'd never work, but he's capturing that new-game excitement well. 150k viewers is massive, it's brilliant advertisement for the game and overall it's just a positive. Credit where credit is due.

One thing I've noticed from watching many of the new FFXIV players that came from WoW on youtube and twitch is that they actually enjoy the ARR quest experience. As a FFXIV player we are quite jaded to the experience due to having gone through it and now viewing it as simply a roadblock, however new players from a game that handles leveling differently have a much different look on it.

I've always felt that people should not immediately "badmouth" ARR when introducing the game to others.

I understand the desire to "set expectations" so others can get through it, but people are different, and some can actually enjoy it, like I did my first time, when left to make their own judgment about it.

And to be fair, Asmongold is not done yet with ARR, so things could still go sideways (if it hasn't already), but it's up to him to decide that.