This whole Asmongold thing has been a not so great ride, forums have been pretty disinteresting with so many obsessed with hating on him, defending it by associations, etc, of course loving him would be nice to be kept in a few threads rather than 20 but the negativity has been like this hot garbage fire. Back when the forums went into "ist" and "ism" wars on the developers for the racial split it was also like "ooof". Been some wonderful bait by our professional pot stirrers though.

Having watched the video, and a small handful of others, I can't find a reason why we shouldn't be very excited he's bringing so many eyes to FFXIV. It is good the GMs have taken some actions on what I saw recently. Makes one think of saying GCBTW lol, but then again the thing to remember is the forums, and the people being weird to him in game included, make only a fraction of the player base so.. best not to continuing the painting by association, it's just a small excited fragment - as is probably most stuff in communication in general (here and in everywhere.

Hope he continues to enjoy his time with the game, and FFXIV can benefit from this all - if FFXIV, as it is already doing on it's own merits as well, could continue to get more and more popular and achieve greater funds, and the company of course allows FFXIV those funds (important.. lol), that would be pretty neat (memory problems begone! ). Or far more dangerously, but I think still could be potentially really exciting, a new mmo being produced calmly and unlike FFXIV 1.0 was (not rushed, still be baked in the oven to chef kiss perfection).