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

[Mostly_Raxus]

"Why did he quit?!!?!?!?!!?"

[Me a player that also had to do ARR with no skipping and reading all the dialogue for every uneventful boring fetch quest while just wanting to get to endgame to play with my friends, unable to do the content i like from MMORPGs, you know, the parts where you get to play with friends ]: "hmm i wonder"

at this point this is a single player game that gets support for limited multiplayer, its not a mmorpg anymore, its just another game to add to the list of Square enix phoning it in.

[Larirawiel]

Isn't it interesting how even Asmongold had to quit?

He never said, that he had to quit.


Cheers

[Ranaku]

I think we all know the real reason why Asmongold stopped playing FF14.

Isn't it interesting how even Asmongold had to quit? Despite this being the "best community"?

Cause a MMO isn't fun if the streamer has a horde of, at best young if not underaged, fans and trolls following him into every corner of the game. And those weren't people from the community, it were his "followers" who didn't even played the game before him.

If i had hundreds of people running after me ingame all day long i would also stop playing the game.

So it is not like the game doesn't have a welcoming community, as seen with preach and all the other streamers which were welcomed very well. It is just simply that Asmongolds own fanbase is literally born out of the deepest cesspools the internet has to offer.

That aside, don't you have anything better to do Gaius/Titan? For example making more marketboard alts for your RMT ventures?

[Mostly_Raxus]

If i had hundreds of people running after me ingame all day long i would also stop playing the game.

basically, it was a lot of "totally not toxic ffxiv players" mad that he was going to ruin their "perfect community" of fur babies and underage housing adventures..
so they stream sniped him, were chasing him with mounts and body blockers, going as far as to block his camera...

this community is just as bad as any other, in some cases a lot worse, i know you clubs dont card...

[Ranaku]

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There is a little bit of truth to what you say ofc, i met my fair share of toxic people in the community too. So yeah, XIV has also some very toxic and questionable people in it.

The problem with Asmongold tho is that he attracts exactly those people since that is also what his bubble of followers is made out of. You don't see that problem with any other streamer really which had all a great experience. Cause they don't attract the toxic knuckleheads of the internet.

Another point is that his success and his persona is build on attracting that kind of people, from his own bubble and ofc from others. So idk why people here wonder why he stopped. He actually played the game much longer than most people know, on his alt stream where he is just off persona. So the answer to the question of "why he stopped" is very simple, it's just not profitable. It's always really funny to see people wondering about why a streamer stopped with a certain thing with their on persona streams, the answer is in 99% of all cases money and views. You need to keep in mind that they are a business in the end not a "real" person. They have to make money with what they do.

[Mostly_Raxus]

The problem with Asmongold tho is that he attracts exactly those people since that is also what his bubble of followers is made out of. You don't see that problem with any other streamer really which had all a great experience. Cause they don't attract the toxic knuckleheads of the internet.
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i dont really see any difference between his audience and say Preach's audience, besides Zack's audience is generally 2000%ish larger, but i waill say both have played many more games than just ffxiv, and generally speaking they dont run in to these problems quite the same, yeah its happened, but never with entire discords and reddit threads made to stalk him and plan to grief..

the community, these forums were plagued with what if senerio horror stories of how he would ruin the game before he ever logged in, they gaslighted the "inclusion" side of the community in to thinking he was the problem, that he would take away their precious safe space, when it was them that became the problem, so afraid he might gate keep, they became the gate keepers, and were a ok breaking their precious ToS if it meant they could get rid of him.

this isnt a good community, its just full of people afraid to speak because a sub group of the community has enough sway to mass flag any that dare have a voice they didn't give them.

[Ivtrix]

Ah, the infamous Rich Campbell, citizen. No one has heard from him since.




Clear skies and safe journeys.

Guy was part of asmons org too which was the sad part

I hope he never shows his mug online ever again

[Swordsman]

Shout out to that one streamer who realized this and stalled so hard that people got sick of him and dropped his stream and then he also got accused of sexual assault or something.

Ah, the infamous Rich Campbell, citizen. No one has heard from him since.




Clear skies and safe journeys.

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.

Guy was part of asmons org too which was the sad part

I hope he never shows his mug online ever again

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

[Neoyoshi]

Sorry, i had accident recently and injured my brain, as a result i don't quite remember or know who this is?
(kidding btw, i did hit my head really hard though on the wall waking up)

[Avatre]

Cool story...NEXT