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.

[Kolsykol]

Annoying stalkers ingame and twitch chat in a nutshell: https://clips.twitch.tv/InventiveEnt...-c6UAe3ldEumqg

[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.

[Dravion]

Annoying stalkers ingame and twitch chat in a nutshell: https://clips.twitch.tv/InventiveEnt...-c6UAe3ldEumqg

That has to be annoying and get old real quick. People should just let him play the game.

[linayar]

That has to be annoying and get old real quick. People should just let him play the game.

I just want to say right now that I dislike your signature. Hmmph.... Anyways, carry on...

[Vahlnir]

Annoying stalkers ingame and twitch chat in a nutshell: https://clips.twitch.tv/InventiveEnt...-c6UAe3ldEumqg

I think just about everyone saw this coming. Even he seems annoyed and those are his fans. lol Well, probably most of them are at least.

[Lanadra]

It's nice to see he's having fun and his chat ain't being dumb about it. Although, if I was him I would be very annoyed at all the people constantly following me around every where. Let him play his way and experience everything as he wants.

While that may be annoying, it comes with the territory. From what I hear this is how it is everywhere he goes. He made the decision to stream FFXIV rather than play it off stream knowing full well this is how his experience would be. Trust me, he's not holding the horde of spergs following him around against FFXIV because again.. that's how it is no matter what online game he tries to play on stream.

[Awha]

Question why are people using spreg with what appears to be a negative connotation? As someone on the spectrum I am not sure how their behavior goes hand in hand unless people are saying being obsessive to the point of causing extreme annoyance. Which is not always a categorization of ASD.

I ask cause I do refer to myself as a sperg with my friends and stuff but it is for many reasons not just what I could see is being annoying.

[Iscah]

I am also very sick of Aspergers being used as an insult for people behaving badly on the Internet.