Thank you for inviting Asmongold to the media tour!!

[hydralus]

At this point I think YoshiP may as well just have a funeral for dungeons. They've historically been the first thing on the chopping block when they want to reallocate resources to other segments of the game so hoping they'll expand on them sounds like a fool's wish.

[Derio]

Mythic dungeons will not happen. Yoshi has repeatedly stated why.

[Breakbeat]

The problem in this case is the YT algorithm. It vastly prefers thumbnails with faces which show strong emotions. That's the reason why the thumbnails of almost all videos are so ridiculous.

Cheers

Yes, fine. That doesn't have any bearing on the fact that he does this in nearly all of his thumbs. And his thumbs aren't screenies of a stream. They're produced thumbs. He literally takes a shot of himself making that silly "eye-popping" look, pastes it over a screenshot from the game, and adds titles.

Algorithm wouldn't push that image of him if he didn't put that image out there to begin with. Algorithm can't promote what's not there.

I could get onboard with your angle if the algorithm was just grabbing frames out of his videos, but it's not.

[Fyrebrand]

I know a game that is exactly like WoW. You can go play it right now, if you wish.

[MilkieTea]

My mom passed away years ago, I also battle depression and anxiety, as well as OCD, agoraphobia and claustrophobia (a bitchin' combo, I assure you) and I still cannot stand to look at the stupid thumbnails he uses on his videos.

(Ridiculous 'eye-popping' unshaven face over random video game background. "Asmongold saw a pixel then THIS happened..." /Retch)

My point is that this is not the Bizzaro universe; celebrities on Earth can and will have their personal lives picked apart by the public, and will continue to be harassed and trolled regardless of said personal life issues. It shouldn't be any surprise that the health of his parents, or his mental health, have no bearing at all on how others treat him.

I mean, at least here in the US, we're still absolute jerks to mentally ill people. We still believe the "if I can do it, they can do it," nonsense. We look at them with disgust on our faces. Homelessness wouldn't even exist if we had compassion and understanding for those that cannot do what most of us can do (namely, work and carry responsibility).

I digress!

Zack is a celebrity. As such he's gonna have to deal with the limelight.

Wasn't the point of what I said but go off, I guess? Your hearts in the right place but you really missed the point

[RitsukoSonoda]

I'm not sure why 'Mythic+' type dungeons are super opposed. People who are casually playing, in it for the story, still get to clear the dungeons at an easy mode level. From what I've looked into, 'Mythic+' would be totally optional and more than likely have people setting up PFs to go for higher and higher tiers with set expectations. How does anyone lose?

Feel free to correct me if Im wrong on anything

Probably because people are tired of the easy mode players joining the optional "harder" content because they want shinies and then decorating the floor the entire duty while they wait for 7 other people to clear the content for them just so they can roll a 99 on the loot and run off with it. So they'd rather the easy mode content get harder so people have more incentive to learn how to actually play the game. At least then the duty doesn't fail as often due to having 2-3 of these easy mode players in it since the odds of getting this type of easy mode player decrease.

[DBriggs304]

They're opposed cause we don't have that type of content here, don't need it nor what it brings.

The game that has that content is still up & running. Enjoy!

[Dawn_FF14]

Yes, fine. That doesn't have any bearing on the fact that he does this in nearly all of his thumbs. And his thumbs aren't screenies of a stream. They're produced thumbs. He literally takes a shot of himself making that silly "eye-popping" look, pastes it over a screenshot from the game, and adds titles.

Algorithm wouldn't push that image of him if he didn't put that image out there to begin with. Algorithm can't promote what's not there.

I could get onboard with your angle if the algorithm was just grabbing frames out of his videos, but it's not.

He doesn’t edit videos. He pays an editor doing all these. What we see is just someone doing his job to generate as much income as possible.

[TroySoFab]

My mom passed away years ago, I also battle depression and anxiety, as well as OCD, agoraphobia and claustrophobia (a b****in' combo, I assure you) and I still cannot stand to look at the stupid thumbnails he uses on his videos.

(Ridiculous 'eye-popping' unshaven face over random video game background. "Asmongold saw a pixel then THIS happened..." /Retch)

My point is that this is not the Bizzaro universe; celebrities on Earth can and will have their personal lives picked apart by the public, and will continue to be harassed and trolled regardless of said personal life issues. It shouldn't be any surprise that the health of his parents, or his mental health, have no bearing at all on how others treat him.

I mean, at least here in the US, we're still absolute jerks to mentally ill people. We still believe the "if I can do it, they can do it," nonsense. We look at them with disgust on our faces. Homelessness wouldn't even exist if we had compassion and understanding for those that cannot do what most of us can do (namely, work and carry responsibility).

I digress!

Zack is a celebrity. As such he's gonna have to deal with the limelight.

So..... because some people are mean to mentally ill people in the US, that means we should be mean to a streamer when he is going through a rough time? No thanks! Let's just try and be decent human beings.
Being open and honest as a public figure is an important and brave thing to do. If he's not acting himself on stream, people are going to wonder why.

[Controller]

I'm not sure why 'Mythic+' type dungeons are super opposed. People who are casually playing, in it for the story, still get to clear the dungeons at an easy mode level. From what I've looked into, 'Mythic+' would be totally optional and more than likely have people setting up PFs to go for higher and higher tiers with set expectations. How does anyone lose?

Feel free to correct me if Im wrong on anything

It's funny people here ask for this because if you go on the forums or even listen to Asmon himself.. none of them like M+. They don't like the dungeons, they don't like the RNG it brings and they just don't like feeling like they have to do chores in the game. We wouldn't like it either, remember the RNG weapon from old school Dia? It'll be 10 times worse if they added this here. Not to mention the fact YP himself has said no on making harder 4 man content plenty of times already. I'd go as far as to say it's pointless asking for it because this game right here used to be harder. In everything. But guess why it's not. Because players complained things were too hard.. hell people in stormblood complained that the single instances were too hard. Yes those! It's why we have a VERY EASY MODE on those now. That'll be my guess why it's opposed by a few people here.