Why did Asmongold stop playing FF14 if FF14 is so good with a good community?

[MonsutaMan]

^^This

& he is a streamer, so follows the wave. If Everquest was trendy, he will play that.

XIV is the most overrated game in gaming history. It is not as great as everyone claims, nor is it as bad as everyone claims. I would give it a 7/10. Gonna try and finish the MSQ........been saying that for some years now & still on HW......

[DPZ2]

For the OP:

Twitch is not the FFXIV community.

A better question: did Asmongold actually pay for a subscription or was he doing what pretty much every other twitch streamer did at the time: play the game via the Free Trial?

Another question: did Asmongold's Twitch runs in FFXIV result in actual subscriptions, or were they players who wanted to be with their idol via the Free Trial?

A third question: Did the OP actually sit through the FFXIV Twitch streams of Asmongold? Personally, I'd rather be playing the actual game rather than watching somebody I don't know from Adam play a game.

[Tahbitha]

Asmongold... Asmongold... Asmongold...

Hmm... something about that name sounds familiar - where have I heard that before?

Hmm..

Oh, wait.

THAT guy.

Eww.

[Thurmnmurmn]

For the OP:

Twitch is not the FFXIV community.

A better question: did Asmongold actually pay for a subscription or was he doing what pretty much every other twitch streamer did at the time: play the game via the Free Trial?

Another question: did Asmongold's Twitch runs in FFXIV result in actual subscriptions, or were they players who wanted to be with their idol via the Free Trial?

A third question: Did the OP actually sit through the FFXIV Twitch streams of Asmongold? Personally, I'd rather be playing the actual game rather than watching somebody I don't know from Adam play a game.

Considering he was in stormblood, yes he paid for the game. He also made pf groups all the time.

As for the second question. No way to know how many players he brought in since he played it at the same time as the wow exodus. So we had loads of new players to begin with.

[WeebPolice]

Yeah, that's Rich Campbell alright. He was actually a decent streamer from what I remember up until the sexual assault accusation was made against him. He had everything going for him and he threw it all away, lol.

Yeah, OTK. He ain't ever coming back.

Citizen, you should've seen the video circulating online at the time of when he was first accused. He was streaming with a friend when he received the news.




Sun and moon light your way.

[Swordsman]

Citizen, you should've seen the video circulating online at the time of when he was first accused. He was streaming with a friend when he received the news.




Sun and moon light your way.

Dude, I saw that video. It was the strangest thing to watch him go from streaming normally with his friend to looking at his phone with a stunned look on his face.

[PercibelTheren]

Honestly, if there's one thing the FFXIV community really doesn't need, it's Asmongold. I know what point you're trying to make but, in this case, it's most definitely a good riddance.

[Amenara]

The real reason is he loved doing all the level cap endgame stuff but isn't a fan of story based games which is a massive portion of FF14. Pretty sure he didn't mind the FF14 community and still praises the FF14 GM team for how quickly they dealt with issues related to the community being complete jerks to him when he was streaming. Obviously it was because he is a streamer that he got such quick resolution to issues since there were hundreds of thousands of people watching it and it was pretty much right there for the GMs to follow and see who is being a jerk.

[Kyrj]

The real reason is he loved doing all the level cap endgame stuff but isn't a fan of story based games which is a massive portion of FF14. Pretty sure he didn't mind the FF14 community and still praises the FF14 GM team for how quickly they dealt with issues related to the community being complete jerks to him when he was streaming. Obviously it was because he is a streamer that he got such quick resolution to issues since there were hundreds of thousands of people watching it and it was pretty much right there for the GMs to follow and see who is being a jerk.

It really doesn't help FF14 that all the engaging battle stuff like HoH, EO, Eureka, Bozja, Ultimates, and Savages are locked behind a massive MSQ wall. The MSQ is fine and all but it's far from engaging in terms of actually playing a game, it's more of an interactive movie. This is one of the biggest problems with FF14, I don't want to sit there and tell new FC members oh yeah you can't join Bozja night or w/e new exploratory zone in DT because you haven't done all of ARR, Post ARR, HW, Post HW, SB, Post SB, ShB, Post ShB, EW, Post EW and then all of DT.

I said this in another post but it's funny that SE learned that lesson with new Jobs and now every new Job unlocks in one of the major three cities and yet they keep making this mistake for new content that's actually engaging.

[Theodric]

Honestly, if there's one thing the FFXIV community really doesn't need, it's Asmongold. I know what point you're trying to make but, in this case, it's most definitely a good riddance.

I don't know much about the guy, admittedly, though what would he inflict upon FFXIV in your view?