Thank you Square Enix for banning the griefers harassing Asmon. Faith restored!

[Lanadra]

I don't remember anyone saying that it was his fans harassing him.

I and others did say that it was members of his community/followers. Not everyone in his community is a fan of him.

You're going to have a hard time coming up with evidence that those getting banned aren't also members of his community.

GCBTW dictates that all is the fault of the horribly toxic FFXIV community. Asmongold has no fans/viewers that would do weird shit to or around him. It's all toxic FFXIV players who want him to quit asap. /s

[lezard21]

Now even the media is covering this incident, I hope the toxic players are proud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bav9...el=GingerPrime

[Cidel]

Hmm. now any chance we can get Asmon to report and follow bots around?

[Lanadra]

Now even the media is covering this incident, I hope the toxic players are proud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bav9...el=GingerPrime

Cease thine bellyaching. Instead of constantly whining about the negative, how about you be glad the GMs are dealing with the filth?

Edit: Watching the video, even Asmongold's primary reaction isn't 'oh how horrible this community', no, his response is 'Wait, the GMs are actually dealing with them? Fucking awesome'.

[Hazama999]

The way he reacted to the GMs actually doing something was funny.
I take this to mean GMs in WoW don't do jack **** in cases like these?

[Lanadra]

The way he reacted to the GMs actually doing something was funny.
I take this to mean GMs in WoW don't do jack **** in cases like these?

I mean, on his stream he almost immediately assumed nothing would be done so why bother even really reporting. Thankfully he's now seeing visible action being taken and taking note that our GMs do in fact enforce. I'd say that's about as good a counter signal you want to these idiots harassing him, knowing that it will be dealt with.

[Kaurhz]

Cease thine bellyaching. Instead of constantly whining about the negative, how about you be glad the GMs are dealing with the filth?

Edit: Watching the video, even Asmongold's primary reaction isn't 'oh how horrible this community', no, his response is 'Wait, the GMs are actually dealing with them? Fucking awesome'.

Don't see why it would be anything else. He probably has enough common sense to understand that what he encountered doesn't represent the entirety of the community and that creating such a comment based on such limited interaction just adds fuel to the fire. - Of course he was going to get swamped, probably not the first time he's had it in a game, and probably won't be the last either

[twixelstix]

The way he reacted to the GMs actually doing something was funny.
I take this to mean GMs in WoW don't do jack **** in cases like these?

GMs in WoW do not care.

For example from personal experience, the day after the Pulse shooting there was a character named after the shooter jumping around Stormwind and eagerly getting people to laugh with him and yuck it up, and anyone who tried to speak out was subsequently ridiculed. I got an automated response from the GM after I reported that was basically, "Wow, that sucks. Sorry. You can ignore him."

[Rae88]

The way he reacted to the GMs actually doing something was funny.
I take this to mean GMs in WoW don't do jack **** in cases like these?

From what I can gather (don't know too much) they're a bit more disconnected. I'm pretty certain the same GMs that handle WoW actually handle all the Blizzard games. Saves costs but at the same time it's less personal. They rarely need to talk as they have all the tools to do things (which helps explain why Asmon may have missed the GM's message follow up). I think Blizzard feels very much more corporate these days.

[KaijinRhada]

The way he reacted to the GMs actually doing something was funny.
I take this to mean GMs in WoW don't do jack **** in cases like these?

I remember having pretty good interactions with WoW's GM team way back in the day (Vanilla to Cata) and actually talking to someone, but my last few interactions on reporting issues in Legion onward until I quit again have been lackluster and full of automated or scripted responses. To me it felt like a steady decline in how they carried out their jobs in regards to communication, much like how there's been a decline in the quality of dev/community engagement over time there.