Asmongold Reacts To MOST Upvoted Reddit WOW Post - Almost Cries

Asmongold Reads A Letter To Blizzard Entertainment Reddit Post And watches a video that sums it up perfectly.
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[@datdosier420]

all they need to do is remove LFR/LFG....it will make it an MMO again.

[@bestofasmongold5736]

Maybe some of the RNG of it too

[@justing9130]

That would be a damn good start, but normal difficulty is still far to easy imo.

[@datdosier420]

@@justing9130 its just that,what has really truly killed WoW is that no one talks to each other anymore,there's no making friends through exploration anymore or looking for people to do content with in general chat or local chat for that matter,no one uses local defense anymore,if that's even a thing anymore....it just become a gear grab game and no longer a team exercise,kind of sad tbh and I have pretty much lost interest altogether.

[@omgnette]

@@datdosier420 honestly thats pretty much the new gamers era in general in alot of games people just dont socialize no more because they are trying to be elitists and socializing is a waste.

[@Vrory77]

They need to remove everything. Adding back 25 or 20 Man raids and 10 Man raids. Just like Karazahn and Gruul/Maggy/TK etc. 1 Difficulty is enough and make the EndCounter Progress-Harder. If you haven't beat the Content you want to beat the content which means you get not that bored. Because you want to archive the final Boss. Today you do Normal/HC and think.. well I have done the Content and no time for Mythic.. so what should I do now?. And you quite because of boring Content.

[@slayori9776]

Ironic, In the end the WoW Killer was WoW itself...

[@Golemoid]

to be honest, we all knew that from the very beginning.

[@Bunny-ys7km]

the scorpion stung itself

[@milankavalik5852]

Wargaming have the same problem :)

[@sylvesterpedersen171]

Yea. Who saw that comming. Well people must have known since cata that it went downhill fast

[@ShiftyShifts]

We have been saying that for years. The only thing that will kill Wow is Wow.

[@m4xx607]

I never played WoW and i dont know why this Vid was on my front page but this Letter was truly emotional.

[@row7820]

Same... It makes you think where the rest of our games are going...

[@eqeqeqe9547]

@@row7820 at this rate the next video game crash is coming..

[@darksouls8667]

It's the same for Dota... Cs..... Valve are going the exact same road blizzard are going to

[@tribalstyle138]

I feel the same except.... I did play EverQuest... And the franchise that destroyed my beloved game, that broke my heart, was WOW. I can't help but giggle in glee watching wow players live through what they did to my guild and my game.

[@paxluporum4447]

@@tribalstyle138 Weird question, but do you know of any videos comparing the EverQuest to WoW? Due to my age at the time I couldn't do a subscription service but I did manage a couple months for Dark Age of Camelot from my folks but I always really was interested in EQ. I hated, and I really mean it. Hated WoW for some reason. It just never clicked with me and I mean at all. What was it that didn't work for you?

[@jamesdagmond]

Once Activision bought Blizzard, I knew the good times were long gone.

[@bicarbxd]

I remember couple years ago when they bought Blizzard and we needed to link our account name to an email. Felt so weird to see an email adress in the login screen.

[@ghostleopard570]

Activision has brought many games to its downfall, all they care about is money. Look at destiny Bungie worked together with Activision, Destiny 1 was back in the day a good game until they released Destiny 2 and started all content put behind paywalls. Just look what cod has become nowadays, fps gamers are now more in battlefield, pubg, overwatch, fortnite. Even the new Halo games are turned to shite now. Older halo games still are great though due to nostalgic vibes they bring us today. It is a shame that nowadays the old things gets its new releases and pretend to think its initially better then the old version....... shame developers thinks that reinventing the wheel again makes things better, instead of realising its actually making it worse........

[@saulosilva1236]

WOW sucks for a long time, Activision buying it it's just the chery

[@haunter6947]

exactly

[@Daccura]

Yeah pretty much

[@gamingnarrativesandstories1700]

"Pretended to have fun..." That is very accurate for many games this year.

[@jarviscooper6339]

As a black man growing up in the ghetto who kept out the streets by playing w.o.w thank you blizzard for the game cause it made me not be 6 feet deep like a lot of friends but 15 hours a day in vanilla wow was unhealthy.wish I could get that old feeling of westfall and downing onyxia for the first time back

[@Rem694u2]

MOAR DOTS!!!!!!!

[@jarviscooper6339]

@@Rem694u2 leeeeerrrrrrrooooooooyyyyyyyyyyy

[@GholaTleilaxu]

So you choosed to PAY a monthly subscription and play a video game instead of reading and studying. When I was growing up in my ghetto (not American, but still full of gypsies) I had no video games or money to buy them, I barely had toys. I played with physical balls outside, on the streets. And we didn't get involved with drugs and gangs, because WE KNEW BETTER!

[@rulfish]

@vena199204 Word. Loosen that macho testosterone or the comming future nazi feminists will eat you for lunch >.< Rofl.

[@JVYL]

I bet this is an old racist white man trying to be funny.

[@AvelierPlays]

Blizzard doesn’t exist, it died long ago...whats left is Activlizzard now

[@Eddy-vt7dr]

Active Lizzard ?

[@marwanamr97]

@@Eddy-vt7dr hahahahahahaaaaa xD

[@nestlycrunch8797]

I said that along long time ago but no one believed in my words, so i just kepted playing because i get bored.

[@pokeyerface]

@Portraitz excuse my plebiness , when did blizzard north left?

[@turkayjohnson5072]

Wisdom&Strength after blizzard scrapped their d3 project. D3 is a true piece of shit and a shining example of why blizzard will never be what they were.

[@whyit6158]

Sad thing is it’s not just blizzard. Besides a handful of smaller developers this is a trend across game development as a whole these days.

[@dogboy0912]

Yes, get-there-itus and going along with doomed plans to keep internal uniformity and civility (I forget, there is an actual name for this phenomenon) despite failure in the real world. Nobody wants to say "hey this isn't working."

[@Hangman1]

Levelling in wow - boring End game - boring Rep grind - boring Azerite grind - boring great job Blizzard

[@Werhakon]

finding rare mounts is okay-ish I'd say

[@Yepbeef]

Pvp is perfect at least 4Head

[@Werhakon]

@S K I only have 150 mounts though

[@takunveritas]

i miss pre-legion leveling. i proly come back. but now that im out, no, nope.

[@MrDT2012]

I wish I had money growing up to play this game when it first came out but now all I see is bad reviews to play which makes me weary to try :-(

[@Aglahad]

Broncos fan here: I felt this....we are trash

[@aronos]

Could be worse, you could be a Carolina panthers fan.

[@dilby3246]

I have both you beat being a lions fan

[@Aglahad]

@@dilby3246 Lions honestly show more promise right now lol

[@Aglahad]

@@aronos At least you have a QB and decent coach :(

[@yrvjutrtubxsyi]

@@Aglahad But the lions are known to get fucked over every single season ever, it's a fucking curse!

[@andherewegoagain522]

remember when some low level asked you to escort him or her to IF/OG/SW or do low dungeons with them? i did that a lot because it was part of the experience.... they even offered me (small) amounts of gold but i always refused taking it because it was a pleasure for me doing that.... you got an interesting conversation out of it, made friends with alot of them and just helped the game grew a little more.... nowadays you get leveled up instantly to the desired level cap, just to keep you in the game and don't lose you because of leveling/farming boredom.... boredom was'nt an issue for me back in vanilla and tbc.... you had to keep on going, nothing got handed to you by just sitting there. i quit wow back in 2014 and don't think i will ever get back into it, but the memories (good and bad) will last a long time.

[@saschko9122]

well said

[@Halosrighthand]

I agree with this a ton, but a lot of people never got to see when the game was like this. I mean you are talking about TBC after all

[@originalmagneto]

THIS! This was the reason I fell in love with the game in the TBC times. The slow progress of getting recognized in the guild by your actions, participation etc. was the reason I returned to the game every day. And when I participated and I was part of the “winners group”, I felt great. None of that happens today, even the new players...I feel sad for them.

[@sjorshoeijmans5442]

lmao you guys hahahaha

[@ZeranZeran]

Things like this are why I loved WoW.. and they never happen any more. They ruined the "Massively Multiplayer Online" part of this RPG.

[@EmperorPrinc3]

Team Fortress 2 had 100k+ players on last month. I'd say that's pretty good for a 12yo game.

[@NurseGundam]

And TF2 youtubers are still making pretty nice stuff to watch

[@aaroncruse7094]

being free af doesn't hurt

[@jeffreysimpson3109]

team fortress isnt massive multiplayer, you only play with a few people

[@SnackPatrol]

@@Sciuridae Eh, I'd beg to differ. Don't get me wrong it's still fun, but it feels like it has no....soul anymore. I've been playing since Beta 2007 and have seen the crazy path it's taken. I'd say like 2009-2013 maybe were the golden years- community servers still thriving, and could be joined still from Quickplay, massive playerbase that didn't consist of 33% bitter veterans, 66% 9 year olds from Honduras. People actually talked to each other. And don't get me started on the cringy art direction, I could write a fuckin' novel. Eh, I'll shut up now, lol.

[@GenDrake3]

@@jeffreysimpson3109 asmon was comparing tf2 to overwatch. for how old tf2 is a lot of fucking people play it. compare runescape to wow now. a lot of fucking people play old school right now with over 100k players every day. with how wow is doing nowadays id say runescape is doing better

[@SuperYtc1]

“He still plays the game.” Then Blizzard do not care about his whining. He is still paying them money.

[@jeromeace1282]

@Drejul Seems more like sentimentality to me

[@ich3730]

@@jeromeace1282 oh no it IS stupidity xD If you do something you hate, complain about it, and then continue to do it, you are stupid, case closed. Imagine an ape eating his own shit, screeching and puking, and he just does it again until he dies of malnourishment.

[@ramiensharifi958]

@@ich3730 true but it's asmons job so yeah

[@diousthomas8878]

@Keksimus Maximus He can't stop playing it because he has been with this game for nearly half of his fucking life, he tries to have fun, he tries to have faith in Blizzard but just can't but he can't stop playing it due to nostalgia, due to it making him have friends, he wants to have fun. And well if you see the likes everyone fucking agrees. Also whining, everything he said is fucking true so it is not whining it is more like stubborn due to nostalgia.

[@pawemarciniak4514]

@@diousthomas8878 im soo agree with you ehh i remember also those old days playing Diablo damn...

[@Colombianpapi92]

dOn’T yOu gUys hAvE PhOnEs?!

[@insulareshdxo9454]

Why can’t they just let the mobiles can have a blizzard/activision game., imo

[@cr9497]

@Sally Vee Hearth Stone on mobile is dope. Cant wait for Diablo.

[@randompie6793]

@Sally Vee Most ''good'' game devs don't invest in mobile gaming..

[@vitokoskullerx9345]

Bye WOW hello Black desert.

[@boyo1991]

i am actually for diablo on mobile... just release em simultaneously. IDC how long it takes, thats been their game forever, take the time to do it right or dont fuckin do it at all... there are some good bliz games, wow hasnt been one as of late.

[@black_ccks6286]

It's amazing with that Steve Jobs clip in that it is where Apple almost finds itself today.

[@p51mustang24]

iphones have been increasingly horse shit for years. Stuck with them due to work needs. Even the autocorrect is absolute garbage compared to google's.

[@TaigaGaoo]

Apple went to shit when Jobs, the guy who put it on the top, died. I don't think anyone is actually surprised by that, let's be honest.

[@black_ccks6286]

@@TaigaGaoo It's really just a different approach to how to run a business - revolution vs evolution. Even though they shifted from the former to the later, the big issue is that they've been pretty bad in doing a good job at all. Still surprises me they can get away with multi million dollar bonuses to their senior executive whilst there are still so many problems arising.

[@Erreul]

I was actually just thinking that, hahaha

[@devonsmart5079]

Hahahaha so fucking true

[@TheAlkatrazCrysis2]

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain"

[@PeteyVon]

I don't know if you'll ever see this, but you are absolutely right GreenNight from the past

[@peekaboo5925]

My friend that I met through OW got me to play WoW at the release of BoA. I was completely new to WoW and learned everything in a fast paced environment bc my friend was also what you would describe as an "elitist". But somewhere down the road of gathering better gear, we had to separate because they were going up the ladder in terms of ilvl and rank, while I was struggling to find a team/group that would do things with me as a new player. Yes, I even asked around guilds and discovered a new problem called scheduling or im not on the "permanent raid list" lol.... That was single-handedly, the biggest turn off as a new player coming into WoW.. the fact that no one wanted to take me through mythic dungeons and high level raids even though I have been through them many times with my friend. the fact that no one wanted to group up with me in arenas because I didn't have any "xp to link". the fact that all mythic dungeons and raids required you to have a preset ilvl. the fact that in bg, everyone was so picky as to ilvls AND class/race. It got to the point where I just couldn't fit in even if I wanted to. Tl;dr, the community was not welcoming at all. The community that I spent the past few months playing WoW 5 hrs per day was a waste of space, filled with elitists and assholes. The pvp system is not friendly to new accounts/players and encourages players to practice nepotism rather than learning to develop game sense or skills. I can wait 5 hrs lf group and still get rejected for 5 hrs straight bc im new, don't have xp, don't have ilvl that they want, don't need my class/race.... O..K..? IMO as an outsider that never played this game, it doesn't take an idiot to figure out that lfg shit needs to go and an auto queue system based on rating should be put in place. None of this nepotism and discriminatory practice....

[@shadowswithin702]

come to Elder scrolls on line, it's a lovely community. Yes it was not very good when it came out, but zos have been working very hard. And now it's a lot better, not perfect but very good and hopefully you might find enjoyable. Or there is Final Fantasy 14, I hear that is very good to with a nice community. Either way, gaming should be fun. And let's face it wow is no longer fun, more to life than numbers.

[@donhammercocck5942]

I totally agree with your statement. I'm experiencing the exact same things you have experienced. Nobody wants to help out new players in WoW. At least i haven't met anybody. guilds kicked me out because I sometimes had to work the next morning, take my dog for a walk or spend time with my girlfriend. So I basically couldn't enjoy the end game content because I have a reallife and wasn't playing at least 10 hours a day. BUT I'm still playing WoW and enjoying leveling alts and sometimes doing some dungeons, quests, achievements etc. But I'm getting tired of those elitists and selfish assholes telling me to:"liNk Xp oR nO InViTe". I want to enjoy raids, rated bg etc. too. But i can't because of that selfish, toxic and picky community which takes a game way too serious. Still looking for a guild on Blackmoore, Germany that would accept someone who plays if he has time to play.

[@ukaros1912]

While blizzard and activision did kind of kill the game, the ones who started all of that were the players themself. It all started in wotlk. At some point one idiot came up with the idea of gearscore and everyone adopted it. 101 on how to kill a community In legion raid groups started kicking ppl not because they were bad but because the boss was easier with less players. Yes you heard me right: people got kicked out of the raid so one (or more) boss(es) would be easier and after that they would be invited again. (note that it could take raid quite some time to kill a boss). People stopped raiding for fun. Getting as much gear as fast as possible is all that matters nowadays

[@moersertrupp]

it gets even worse. I returned to WoW during legion once and tried to get back into raiding. I could link them achievements like Bane of the fallen king or Firelord and nobody would give a crap, because I don't have raid gear, that i can only get in current raids (which is not possible without finding a guild first)... so yeah fuck that community

[@thefarklenator4518]

david single I agree I just started playing it this week it’s awesome

[@Nanocyde]

I love how Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence is playing at about 6 minutes when Asmongold starts reading the titan forging comment.

[@PiFsc2]

Sometimes, the hand of fate must be forced. - Illidan

[@WarframeCrunch]

Lol Blizzard is dying not only WOW.

[@localoxalem7767]

What about de

[@WarframeCrunch]

@@localoxalem7767 Developers of Blizzard are slowly going out to other companies.

[@-lorentzen5925]

Blizzard North!! The masters of developers!! RIP

[@Mechagodzilla128]

Wow you don't know? Diablo is dying (people hate Diablo Immortal), WoW is dying, Heroes of the Storm is practically dead as they announced that they were abandoning that. Many streamers of Overwatch are leaving as it isn't fun anymore. The only thing that isn't dying is Starcraft, and that's because it is the national sport of South Korea.

[@bebra_shelby]

Mechagodzilla128 and also Warcraft 3 and Wow vanilla and Wotlk private servers :D

[@amitofthefleshtearers3707]

Is there any hope Gandalf, for Blizzard and WoW? There never was much hope, just a fools hope.

[@yayadrops4147]

hey, I'm a year late but what's the actual quote please? And from which book/movie?

[@secularteejay]

"The Sound of Silence" in the background is so fitting for this manifesto.

[@MrLittleBigMan97]

Stop. Playing. WoW. They don't deserve our time and money anymore. Update: don't have my notifications on so I had no idea this comment was getting so LIT

[@chickenmadness1732]

ya, supply and demand. If people stop paying money someone will have to fill the gap with a better game. I haven't played since cataclysm.

[@blub2121]

Private servers? I'm surprised people still subscribe... I've played private servers from 2010-2013 or so and even then they were pretty stable. Also higher xp rate = less time grinding = less time sink. I couldn't be bothered literally sinking days into levelling up, don't have as much time as I had when I still was a student.

[@ArcaneTurbulence]

@@blub2121 I stopped playing "regular WoW" about 10 years ago. What ruined WoW for me was the removal of a community around you. I remember going into Iron forge and seeing 400 people running back and forth from the AH to the bank, buying skills, Forging stuff at the great forge, People rummaging up a UBRS group in town chat.. Flight and dungeon finder also made the world feel empty.. You go into towns now, and they are empty. The world is empty. That is what ruined it.

[@chc2650]

@@ArcaneTurbulence Not necessarily empty, just populated with people from different servers which means you give no fucks about them and cant really trade with them.

[@Hylia22]

FF14 is great but TOO BAD YOU INCELS HAVE TO PLAY U.S SERVERS LOL

[@TheAndreceva]

I'll give you the solution to Wow. Unsub and go play another game, it's cheaper and you'll probably have more fun. If you think Blizzard cares about what people say, you're crazy, as long as the cash is flowing, the rest is irrelevant. If you wanna communicate with them, gotta talk their language.

[@jkbraden]

Agreed. I'm not even cynical about Blizzard but I think you're right that only crazy people think Blizzard cares; because THEY'D be crazy to care. You can't please everyone. People get sick of playing WoW and blame the game. No, it's the same game it's always been for the most part. The players changed, they got bored. Not Blizzards fault IMO.

[@groundhogx2941]

André Zanatta that’s literally every gaming company today, dude. If you want to avoid dealing with this type of bs, you have to find a new hobby entirely.

[@andreistan2830]

I gave up playing wow. Now i play warframe. 100% free, the best community, fun to play, not so much grind, good story. (it is not so fun to begginers, but it is worth the wait)

[@nanithefk866]

@@@andreistan2830 i hate to break it to you bud, but Warframe is extremely grindy once it gets to the endgame. Or at least after you complete all the planets because after that there is no actual endgame, it just becomes a grind for prime weapons/frames and rivens. Tbf though I'd definitely come back to it if they implement any actual endgame, the gameplay is really fun at its core.

[@andreistan2830]

@@nanithefk866 i unlocked all nodes. I don't feel like i'm grinding, because i can buy all the prime parts i need.

[@cosmicgrim7963]

I love that fact that "The Sound of Silence" by Disturbed is playing in the background.

[@commonlogic3646]

The shity version of the song...

[@cosmicgrim7963]

@@commonlogic3646 they are both good, but I do prefer the disturbed version

[@commonlogic3646]

@@cosmicgrim7963 no way... It fucks up the whole concept of it being low key, melancholic and sad. Made it fancy.

[@cosmicgrim7963]

@@commonlogic3646 that's why is a cover

[@commonlogic3646]

@@cosmicgrim7963 yea sure but it's bad

[@leftyzappa]

"I don't want a relationship with Coke"...pause to let the double entendre sink in. ROFL

[@dend1]

I don't play wow anymore. I'm just here to enjoy the drama.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

same, I also fap to the blood elf and night elf I still fap even though I do not play I fap

[@darthbane2669]

lol I never did I laugh at the fanboys who put their lives into this game.

[@mtggeeksgaming5064]

@@darthbane2669 You should try reading sad comments on youtube videos, like the 12 year olds who laugh at people who enjoy something. That makes you really question what people do with their lives and time.

[@Spazik86]

same here

[@sargentwaag1483]

Only thing I miss is my fellow gamers. Server, Guild and the guys who did lv 19 WSG with me.

[@CadenRoss]

This is relatable to me and I don't play wow.

[@alsymphony7868]

too real.

[@rustle495]

This is relatable for most players that joined gaming before ~2008-2010. We all watch in disbelief how our favourite games and franchises from Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard, Activision, Valve, Bethesda, Rockstar etc. become minigames between opening lootboxes or getting another tick on your XP bar. And when you think about it rationally, nothing is preventing us of just dropping these companies alltogether and turning our gaze towards Santa Monica, Obsidian, CD Project, Digital Extremes and hundreds of good, honest, passionate and creative small Indie Devs that would love even a fraction of this support we give to companies that view us as payers or entitled manchildren who know nothing. It's hard to invest so much of yourself into one beloved thing just to see it crumble, but greed and exponential demands of sharholders ruined what was once our childhood. Even by literally uniting all of us, there is nothing to be done here, only to hope that after these companies implode completely, something good will be born out of the ashes.

[@CadenRoss]

@@rustle495 a few companys like Bethesda I know made mistakes but I100 percent believe they we're mistakes their marketing lead Pete Hines isn't stupid he wouldn't have sold people bags with improper materials I have a feeling the ads got pushed out and weren't reviewed enough and it was too late. Cuz it's gonna happen people were gonna find out. And fallout 76 wasnt that bad but yes big company's have been ruined. But this sheep mentality we live in ruins games as much as companys do too. A KZbinr will say anything and they have a band of sheep that follow everything they say. Idk if this had a million spelling errors cuz I'm on mobile just yeah it's sad really.

[@TheBen1tez]

eh it turned into one of those mobile games for pc. What are they called ... those Idle rpg games. That's what that shit feels like now. Nothing is immersive. Feels like they're at the that thin line where they can literally code the game to just let you log out while your character runs around and collects xp for you lol. Then you log on in the morning while your character does this all night and you pretend to play warcraft. This is the feeling I get. That's how boring WoW is, that's what it reminds me of... an idle mmorpg. I think people still play this garbage just because they're hooked on it, it's far from good. Rather log on ESO every now and then then log on to a game that feels like and idle rpg.

[@EyesOfGehenna]

Same here, I could've written a similar letter when I quit SWTOR earlier this year with regards to BioWare.

[@Pumba22MV]

Hey, what is the name of the violin song in the background at 0:30?

[@ajeti92]

Does someone know the name of the song at the end of the video. Would really appreciate it.

[@MADSLAYER47]

Games for shareholders and turning players into payers.

[@shadowdragon8168]

5:29 what song is playing in the background?

[@MYTUBE427]

*delicate subtle little product placement as he opens and drinks that soda I’m not gonna name*

[@mykulpierce]

Think about this: Activision promoted the guy that shipped BFA to head of Blizzard.

[@davewilkins5297]

Lol

[@Sir_rage_quit]

You think you do but you don't

[@Marsonis2ya]

This is also the same guy that pretty much destroyed star wars galaxies single handedly

[@deathman3357]

He also shipped cata, mop, wod, and legion. Other than WoD, those xpacs were largely liked by many players.

[@ivankrushensky]

@@deathman3357 which is exactly when the game took a nose dive....

[@yaboy1340]

If you wanted WoW to get better than stop paying for its service and expansions. It will either drastically change and start listening to all the concerns or it will shut down. Both options are better than watching it get more and more embarrassingly bad with each new expansion. If you keep throwing money at them it makes no sense for them to put incredible amounts of time and money into each new expansion since they know you will pay the same for mediocrity.

[@nickgejer8825]

Well, Blizzards market value already dropped down ≈44% since october, and no shit was given by them. And losing 44% as a company is A SHIT TON for what they been trying to rise for 14 years.

[@JodyOuO]

@@nickgejer8825 Their response to us unsubbing was adding more microtransactions like the "see you later bundle" ....

[@miszczklasykuw3025]

@@JodyOuO yea, it's ridiculous x) game is dying

[@JesseBakerH]

Pretty much this. Blizzard doesnt give a shit about our feedback or our advice. The people who run the company only care about sales numbers. If they dip, they'll change. Maybe for the better.

[@miszczklasykuw3025]

@@JesseBakerH rather for worse : (

[@emilianpopp2945]

Haven‘t even played this game for an hour, yet this still lands on my front page. But this letter made me more emotional than it should.

[@CofeeAuLait]

"People can tell if something is fun. Computers can't" - Lightcap, the Patient.

[@yagami187]

i have played wow for 14 years... and i cancelled at the beginning of last year... its sad honestly because blizzard at one time actually made one of the best games to the date...(for me until i cancelled wow..) now they are throwing away HOS... blizzard has thrown away its core values and mostly their core fanbase.... vanilla wow is not gonna help... it might do a spike increase .. but thats all its gonna be.. a spike.. unless bliz goes back to its foundations and gets back on track.. i will no longer be supporting it.. rip bliz

[@courbinooriginals978]

But they're also still Jagex, Blizzard is not Blizzard anymore, it's Activision. Jagex kept their old database and if you look at RS3, the base game is still the same, the content is more leaned towards marketing strategies and profit margins. But they're still Jagex, capable of recreating what they once created. Blizzard is not able to do that. The team is a set of completely different people, different ideas. The great game Blizzard created wasn't just because it was a good idea, but many great ideas from a great team. that team doesn't exist anymore, but Jagex still has the same team.

[@zancrus9629]

That post covered how I feel in a way I could never really express. I started playing towards the tail end of Vanilla I think I made level 60 a week before BC launched. And I have noticed that I'm at a point only months into the xpac where I get on to raid and that is all. I log on every day but if I don't find a friend on I'll just log back out most of the time. I don't think I have hit a point so early in a xpac where I play so little. In the past I would get on and play for hours then go "omg have I been on that long?!". Now I play for 30 mins but it feels like I've been on for hours.

[@bestofasmongold5736]

yesss time would just waste away sitting in a big city it was glorious.

[@gamerguy-pb4qw]

I feel exactly the same way.

[@aarondreyer]

I've never reached the ilvl cap for the tier of raiding I usually do (hc) Fine they put Mythic raiding into LFR but I like raiding with my little guild and we mainly do hc. But within a couple months of Uldir being out I was 10 ilvls over the gear dropping from hc Uldir which made raiding basically useless. Stuck in an endless cycle of running mythic +'s and island expeditions. And the little extras they've added for pets, mounts etc just feel way too repetitive and meaningless. Even looking to Legion, at least there were some cool artifact appearances to aim for. I'm by no means a bad player (top 20 resto druids on my server.) And I feel mythic +'s are way overtuned. I don't often go above 12 and i've RARELY gotten a 3 chest. Maybe like if I went back and did a useless low level. But the odds of getting one in the tier you are at are slim to none, even with good pulls and very few deaths (1-3) you are looking at trying to net 1 shitty piece of loot for up to an hour of decent work.

[@vtshadow314]

Blizzard doesn't care, as long as you keep Paying that SUB!!!! Just keep giving them your money. They would rather you don't log on so someone else can and THEY keep paying that sub also.

[@Blackjax137]

The Steve Jobs vid nailed it so hard. Every major publisher in the gaming industry is being ran by marketing morons that don't have a single grasp, let alone a pinky finger, of the concept: "What works, works." They ALL became what they are by making great games. Why in flipping feck would you STOP? Because you have no clue what went into making your companies great. Your only purpose and the reason you were hired, is to get more people playing, more people paying and to increase the profit margins. That means advertising, cutting down and spending less. These are the people sitting on the board of EA, of Activision Blizzard, of Zenimax (Bethesda's holding company), of TakeTwo. These are the people that killed Atari and led to the video game crash of 1983. These are the people that will drive their respective companies off the cliff and into financial ruin. And these people, these marketing morons, don't care. It was never in their job description to give a flying shit about their consumers beyond their wallets, and it won't be in their job description when they're CEO or CFO or CTO. History is doomed to repeat itself, and here's hoping the developers of tomorrow learn from their predecessor's mistakes this time.

[@itsvivy9449]

As one of the biggest broncos fans and a wow player I completely 100% agree with this guy

[@Gid-J]

trape - sing. He isn't an acrobat.

[@andrewowens1043]

Listening to Asmongold try to read made me feel like Billy Madison "TA-TA-TA-TODAY JUNIOR"

[@Drecksdusler]

He seems to have a serious problem with reading names of people. You notice that in the contests when he spells certain character names

[@dangermartin69]

"Asmongold, no gibberish at the table!"

[@SwissArmyCheese]

Yeah, he edits and takes out certain words, which changes the meaning of a lot of the sentences. Sometimes I feel like he plays it up, but I'm starting to just think he's a genuine idiot.

[@ReivecS]

His speed doesn't bother me so much as his constant misreadings. If he had the same cadence and tone the whole time but read the words correctly I am on board, and I am actually NOT an asmongold fan. In fact I generally avoid these videos but just decided to give this one another shot. This is one of his least annoying videos for me and a lot of that had to do with his tone while reading. You can always speed it up through youtube directly but the added effect his reading gave was one of the upsides for me. Would just be nice if he did a little reading ahead internally before saying things that were not written. ;)

[@rpscorp9457]

@@SwissArmyCheese my votes on idiot.

[@worstcat8489]

It isn't every day that you can feel the heart, the soul, the human element, of something over digital media. This was it.

[@DonkeyDong69]

When he said about his score not reflecting in his experience in the game he was talking about his emotional experience. His inner joy.

[@bioujee841]

I dont even play WoW, but i feel like a lot of games are like this, same thing happened to league of legends and runescape, feels bad.

[@Hachiae]

rs3 yes, but they acknowledged that with osrs

[@Dragonvalley58]

@@Hachiae League too

[@rddtdx444444ex]

No league of legends is still Thriving. Runescape took a massive hit since I seriously dislike the new Runescape I mainly preffered the 2008-2010 runescape not the OLD OLD runescape.. Why didn't that one come back it had the perfect mixture of bag and good graphics... Also does old school runescape release new updates?? I always wanted to know that. Also 99 WOOD cutting never got banned from botting during the EPIC Bot banning spree XD I was offline that day and I usually play Every single day THANK god my BOT CRASHED the game LMAO XD

[@vIMMENSEv]

@@rddtdx444444ex Yes OSRS have regular updates, which only get into the game if it passes a player voted poll that requires 75% in favor of. The way the updates for OSRS have gone, it's starting to become more and more like 2010 era RuneScape just without the graphics and with the OldSchool twist. There are now dragon claws, godwars, monkey madness 2, dragon slayer 2, wilderness bosses etc.

[@vIMMENSEv]

Haha yeah man OSRS is good fun when content is fresh, game is really thriving too since mobile release.

[@anraiduine1483]

It's strange watching this because as a teenager I absolutely loved blizzard games : WC3 and its custom/user made maps (TDs, the original DotA...), Diablo 2, and then vanilla WoW. Played the shit outta them. Then stopped for irl reasons for about a decade and just got into Bfa a month ago. Now i look into the gaming community and see how nostalgic so many people are for vanilla / old blizzard. It feels weird because that period was all i personally knew. I feel for y'all who have stuck with it and feel betrayed / abandoned.

[@charleslobster3592]

Anraí Duine that’s a crazy reality to live in my head bro. I played consistently for like the first 5 years give or take and than I also had to quit for irl reasons. I think like 2-3 years later I managed to get my hands on the newest xpack and it just wasn’t the same after that & I’ve always given them another shot when a new xpack drops. I’ve purchased every expansion ( some twice for second accounts ) I’ve prolly paid for like 7 years of play time ( 5 years or so straight with no breaks. than prolly 2 years of play time just fiddling with the new xpacks over the last 7 years. So I would say I’ve paid for like 7 years total over the past 15 or so) but not this time. I did not purchase the newest xpack and I won’t ever because like a month or 2 before the BFA dropped I purchased the monthly sub, didn’t touch my old veteran characters, but instead wanted to level something new and prepare for the new xpack. The world is so bland now. Everything scales to your level so zones just feel like they have new skins. It was so boring I forgot about it. I played for like a week and then my subscription renewed TWICE without me realizing because this wow was just irrelevant in my head. Back in the day I used to walk around at work just thinking about wow. This wow if I don’t open my laptop to see the blizzard launcher I forget it even exists. I could go deeper into the blandness of the game but I’m ranting too much and I’m sorry. I know it’s not that bad for me I only play for a total of half the time they’ve been around but I’ve always wanted them to succeed. It just sucks the way things have gone. Will be giving classic a chance. And there are some private servers I might check out in the mean time

[@lanceseaman88]

The past week makes this eerie, sad, and a major kick in the nuts. Oh well.

[@HyperGaming-qu1tm]

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT SONG PLAYS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO ASAP thanks

[@Neonice82]

Maybe we are a dying breed. The generation 30+ that played all those good games, invested endless time and effort, liked a game not only for it's entertainment but for it's challenge. We are a market group getting smaller by the day. When I see today's gamers complain about stuff being to hard to access, to grindy or to repetitive, I feel totally displaced by this community. As you said, many of us wore items for month or years, even today I know where parts of my classic, TBC or WotLK items dropped and the excitement I felt to loot the last set item I was waiting on for months. But it wasn't a better game play or better graphics, it was the excitement, the community and the feeling to build and develop my character. Back in the day it was fun reading the forums, especially the rogue and warlock nerf threads. At some point all you could find in the forums were community wars. Casual vs hard core, pvp vs raiding and of course the endless "players are so bad" discussions. In 2005 nobody was good, there was a mutual respect among players and the love for the game and the server community kept us excited. Even new and unexperienced players got into raiding and were allowed to fail and learn. When I stopped playing at the beginning of WoD the climate was so toxic, you needed to post achievements to dungeons or raids you wanted to play, so no first chance allowed. Players got kicked because they didn't stand in the right place and I doubt it got any better. The good old game experiences will never come back, nobody wants to invest anything in a game or a character, the mobile generation wants a quick fix. The sad thing is, you see it in almost all game releases today. Dumbed down to simple structure, it's not even worth the word "complexity". And why invest anything in the game at all, because next year there will be the next game, DLC or expansion and it's tabula rasa again. The generation mobile gaming is getting bigger and therefor more profitable. My expectations of a game are no longer compatible with the economic target group, so I play less and less. The poor quality of lately releases did there part too. This might be what '83 felt back in the days.

[@SENPAI.Popaii]

""""When I stopped playing at the beginning of WoD the climate was so toxic, you needed to post achievements to dungeons or raids you wanted to play, so no first chance allowed. Players got kicked because they didn't stand in the right place and I doubt it got any better.""" this is the reason i hate the game....i'm a casual wow player and because of that i get punished.

[@cancerino666]

No, its because data driven user behavior wasn't that advanced at the time. Now companies understand much better how to get people to spend money, so marketing pushes the game to be designed around easy profit. That wasn't even an option 10 years ago, no company could really do it effectively no matter how much they wanted to.

[@Grave264]

talk about how u like a challenge when u dont install a bunch of add ons that basically play the game for you like 99% of the wow players...wow isnt hard

[@lazydaze3134]

@@SENPAI.Popaii Because spending hours in general chat standing in SW or UC to go into random dungeons was so much more fun when you got a shit player who ends up leaving or being kicked. Then you wasted all that time for nothing. As far as raids. Well you shouldn't be gimping a raid group if you're not on par for the raid. Or don't have the skill to play your class right.

[@lazydaze3134]

Been playing since 2004 vanilla. Yeah sorry but vanilla warcraft is pure nostalgia. Once those classic servers open up I give them a month or 2 tops before people realize how shit the actual game was in vanilla lol. That doesn't mean I didn't love vanilla because my best memories of the game are from vanilla to BC. But the actual gameplay and mechanics sucked ass.

[@DumbVentriloquism]

Wonder if Case Keenum knows he got disrespected so hard by Asmon.

[@bigb6660]

lol i sure hope so

[@ECDBRACINGLEAGUE]

newman lol

[@curtist6022]

I work for a tech company and the Steve Jobs clip near the end here is spot on. The product team (developers) is routinely ignored and left to stagnate while the marketing and sales department have doubled or tripled in size and influence over the years. At product design meetings we started having sales managers show up and telling us to obfuscate features or label buttons in a misleading way so they could get more sales. We've almost run out of developers now because they were all tired of feeling ignored. Companies have shareholders who don't care if the product is good (and works), rather how much juice they can squeeze out of a dry lemon.

[@edwinloves8]

Oh man I remember playing wow for the first time the feeling in going into this large online world felt so cool, I met so many people and just the experience was so awesome. That feeling has never been felt after my experience with wow, but I will miss you wow this game made me create many memories. I will always remember the endless nights of playing wow. I do not play wow over a year now.

[@moffin25]

I started playing wow on release day 2004. This october was the first month i stopped paying for sub. I was sad when i canceld it. I felt like if i keep paying maybe the "good" game comes back, but now i gave up...

[@ThatRandomSkater1999]

Warrior since 'nilla to WoD. After WoD I hated warrior and ended up playing different classes instead. Sadly after going from class to class enjoying it for a few months and then stopped playing it, I realized that it wasn't the class, it was the game. The game is stale and we can't do anything to bring it back. Especially with how clunky it feels now. MoP was my favorite expansion over the years because its PvP felt amazingly smooth but those times are long gone now.

[@atomicdeath10]

Same for me. It saddens me what has become of my long time friend. It's like seeing your childhood best friend turn to cocaine and heroin.

[@CharleyBoersen]

It kinda already was cocaine and heroin but had just a way better taste.

[@Mythricia1988]

Same. I still technically have a sub, but I took a "break" from raiding in late September, and ..... I just ... I never logged on again. Literally have not logged on a single time since my last raid. I just ceased caring. I wasn't even mad, or sad, or anything. I just literally cannot care anymore. It's not the game I signed up for anymore. Perhaps contrary to a lot of people I don't mind LFG or any of that crap. I really don't. But endless grinds (in a literal sense) like artifact power, and the pseudo-grind that is caused by randomized loot, is was what killed it for me. WoW raiding used to be something you could finish - genuinely, you could get BiS, and be happy, for a few months, every tier. It was amazing. And I had fun doing the same stupid raid, over and over again, with BiS gear, and just having a laugh with my guildies, or playing alts, or whatever. That was fun. Now everything you do is randomized and impossible to actually *complete*.... You cannot get BiS. You can barely even get a single BiS item, because even if the ITEM itself drops, it's probably not titanforged socketed or whatever, so you aren't excited by it. It's going to be a marginal upgrade over that Warforged item you eventually got from the previous tier. So everything is just an incremental infinite grind towards a peak that doesn't exist. 's fucked up and I hate it. If I wanted to play Diablo I'd go play Diablo. Plus a ton of other similarly themed issues, such as your performance as a player being more heavily dictated by randomness than skill etc. /rant.

[@Karben22]

WoW has become, basically, diablo 3. With the sounds and treasure hunting, etc. Its just another remake of a remake. It's gross. I too, remember my first time crunching through the snow in Dun Morough and being taken aback with awe and wonder at the world. Now, its just a run and gun, fuck the story get to 120. It really does suck.

[@tinytentacle3571]

...almost cries? did i watch the same video

[@Airkae]

Can someone tell me what's the song that plays at 10:32? PLEASE

[@necrisro]

Something from Two Steps From Hell

[@Airkae]

@@necrisro Thank you!!

[@katnapgamingproductions]

Thanks for bringing this post to my attention...great job this guy is right on I switched to ESO months ago...I want to go back but I find it very hard to do.

[@xyphenius9942]

Old School Runescape BOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[@daveshindig149]

I agree - OSRS welcomes all you WoW nerds

[@skulleater4]

Osrs is love

[@timotheesoni]

Osrs is lit

[@Floydarn]

Osrs boiiiiiii!

[@nerfret]

I’ve never played WoW, so I can’t say for sure if you would like OSRS, but let me tell you some things. Osrs devs stream an hour or more long Q/A EVERY Thursday to talk about ideas for the game with players, answers numerous questions in the Twitch chat, showcase new content, introduce new developers, etc. I find this extremely important because I can confidently say there is NO other videogame company that willingly streams every Thursday of the week to connect with fans and expand the game. Another thing is new content is VOTED IN by the community. That means you’re not getting absolute shit updates. New skills have been kept out of the game by the players. New armors and weapons have too. Osrs tries to keep the essence of what it always has been as well as introduce new things, that means they need some guidance from their players that play the game and know it from the inside and out. The game gets an update every Thursday as well. Whether it’s a big update or the smallest update ever, it gets updated every Thursday. I remember playing OSRS in 2013. The player base was something like 40,000 people. Now I’ve seen the number jumped to over 150,000. It has mobile now. You can fucking do raids or Zulrah on your phone now. How awesome is that? You probably don’t know what those are BUT IT’S OK you will in time if you play. These are just some of the things that I say would make a new player feel pretty good about coming to OSRS. I tried to leave out Nostalgia because A LOT of people will talk about the nostalgia of the game which I’m sure you WoW players have already for your game.

[@marcjansson1039]

In my opinion, what would heal WoW greatly to make it a platform for further improvements with actual gameplay changes, would be to remove LFR/LFG and sharding. That would bring a sense of server pride we used to have, it forced bonds between players, it forces players to interact and to team up. It will greatly benefit the community in my mind and make it grow as it used to. THEN, they can start making gameplay improvements. Then the game could evolve better than this narrow and streamlined.. thing.. the game has become today.

[@Sniperkitten971]

It would be a great improvement but the problem is deeper than that. The game is basically a slot machine now, it's designed to give you a shot of dopamine every now and then (loot) to keep your attention while doing very repetitive tasks, take as much money as possible from you, until you get bored. But in the end, it's just as boring as pulling the handle of a slot machine in a casino. If they got rid of that, but still kept LFR/LFG and sharding, the game would be interesting again. But they won't, because marketing people are running the thing now (Activision, Ubisoft, EA, etc.). That's why CoD sucks too, FIFA, Madden, Overwatch, Hearthstone, mobile games, Fortnite, LoL, you name it. It's the very core of gaming's problem nowadays.

[@chaseodom9049]

Can anyone tell me the name of the first song in the background? Starts at 0:15

[@GingrTimmyGaming]

"I don't want to personally comment on that. I feel like that would just be reading what he is saying." This is why I love you Asmongold.

[@vigokaae8793]

18:25 "so lets get, to the point." LMAO

[@boatknight2246]

The Disturbed song kicking in was Perfect!

[@bestofasmongold5736]

Yeah lololol

[@Feralbam1]

@@bestofasmongold5736 Hey Asmongold keep up the awesome vids. I am a fan from belgium and i would like to know what was the song after the disturbed called.

[@Gafdan2]

@@Feralbam1 I think it's 'Requiem For a Dream'.

[@TheCreedEvolution]

@@Gafdan2 No, it was The Sound of Silence

[@Gafdan2]

@@TheCreedEvolution He asked for the one after Disturbed's 'Sound of Silence'.

[@00monkeydude001]

people are dying for some water in his chat.

[@isaac3252]

Anyone have a link to the video he opened at 14:10 ??

[@Rikalonius]

This ended up on my youtube feed and I clicked it out of curiosity. I sat stunned by the end of the letter. I too have been playing WoW since 2004, and Starcraft since 1998, and Diablo and Diablo II and Starcraft 2, and this writer, who happens to be, like myself, a Denver Bronco fan, is completely right in his assessment. I logged in about 4 months before BfA, and I played out Legion, which I had never played before. And when BfA launched, I ended up getting about 5 levels and a i quit, and I haven't been back.

[@matiaspiris4336]

In the words of drake's epic gamer friend "It's just a game bro" - ninja 2006

[@richardbatky1306]

Haven't had some actual fun in Wow since I've first played it back in the day in like 2006, good days.

[@weeeman819]

What a moving story. I can't wait to hear the same thing when the next expansion comes out

[@Spills51]

I never played WOW...Maybe an hour years ago. I was a Lotro player for many years. But 1 word rang a bell...Activision. I could be wrong but would be willing to bet Activision wasnt there in the beggining. They are one company I avoid. NEVER a sale on steam if it is an activision game. 3 year old games still marked at full price etc. They are all about $$. I missed the WOW boat and never bothered to see what the hype was about. But anyone who knew games knew its reputation. Always very positive. What happened?? Activision I bet.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

my MELLON. lotr online forever

[@stankweezul5715]

Not being rude here but if you missed the WoW boat, why are you on a viewer's channel that is ALL about WoW?

[@pandamanpro]

@@stankweezul5715 I've never played WoW in my life, but I love watching Asmongold. I just find him a very down to earth and relatable guy, and even though I don't understand half of the stuff he does or talks about when he plays WoW, I'm still entertained. :D

[@stankweezul5715]

@@pandamanpro gotcha, was curious

[@Ishlacorrin]

Activision was good back in the MW2 days, after that they really dropped the ball. Of course that was almost 24 years ago now.

[@anthonykf99]

It's too far gone guys, they can't redeem WoW. Give it up, they've changed too much, they would have to start from scratch again.

[@DragonMasters525]

in the art world in order to get better sometimes you have to restart from the begining and re learn everything youve done to push the ceiling for better content . its not to late. but if they dont have the drive to fresh start they wont get better and theyll just suck after a piont

[@klaykid117]

Activision has their grips too deep into them they will only descend like other companies owned by big publishers

[@alialun1605]

@@klaykid117 Activision for sure played their part in this Blizzard's downhill race but It's not the main reason why this is happening. Blizzard is broken for exactly that reason that is written in the Reddit post, that's why it's so appreciated. It's appreciated because of the same exact thing, it is not just telling mainstream popular opinions to gain popularity, it's telling the truth everyone feels even though it's usually hated by the mainstream.

[@eqeqeqe9547]

​@Scott Browning I would love WoW 2, I never got to experience WoW. But Blizzard knows how to make an MMORPG, so they should make their next big hit. Otherwise they will end up like Bethesda is becoming (if they are aren't already on the same path, which I doubt).

[@charleslindeman2169]

The fact that they've changed it so much is the reason I haven't played since Jan 2011 despite wanting to. I know I won't get the experience that hooked me back then.

[@opreacodrut8011]

this hits home i m not much of a wow player but this applies to a ton of companies that don t value players anymore

[@marcblaight8022]

and on the background disturbed - sound of silence

[@tink5488]

Retired after Cataclysm - shame to see what WoW has become. Old wow buddies got me a free 3 month thing back before legion was about to come out, so I played - and it was a completely different game, but for the worse. Blizzard fell years ago, when activision was added blizzard lost their touch not only as developers but their connections with their playerbase and community. The fact that they release diablo immortal shows how out of touch they are with their fans.

[@markblaze4909]

you missed out on some good expansions.

[@tink5488]

@@markblaze4909 Perhaps storywise, but I hated the new mechanics it felt like a completely different game.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

They don't care about their fans my friend, they care about the Chinese mobile market as it is far bigger and cheaper to operate in Whilst having a far higher profit margin. As a business it makes perfect sense, for us it's a kick in the balls.

[@pliskenmovie]

I played soooo much between release and right upto the first big patch in WotLK. The game had lost all semblance of community. Dungeons had become "hurry up so I can get teh loots so I can queue for the next run" nonsense. There was no sense of danger in the game, nothing required you to slow down and conserve. You started seeing this at the end of BC when all tanking became "round 'em up and AOE" spam-fests. It just got worse in Wrath. I quit until Cata came out, and played for a few months...until the gated "burning lands" (or whatever they called it). Quit again. Got a free offer to come back for Pandaria...tried it...and absolutely HATED it. The community (what little there was) had become toxic, the game-play stale. There was no challenge. Everything had become a chore. It's amazingly sad what WoW has become. I made some good friends back then.

[@-John-Doe-]

Activision also gutted Bungie and fired everyone from the writers to Marty scoring the music from halo. Destiny turned into the most atrocious pay to play scheme I think anyone has ever seen.

[@Varnarok]

I also loved being a trapeze artist in Dun Morogh.

[@dblock5one4]

Cause reading is hard 🤣

[@dichebach]

LOL, Steve Jobs lecturing us about "making great products" HAH!

[@cyex4311]

I'm not sure why this was a recommended video as I dont play WoW. But Lightcap's letter was very well written and extremely heartfelt.

[@jerlaine1638]

Overwatch was a good game. But they refuse to listen to the players and keep fucking it up even more, they've turned the name into sjwwatch and jeff kaplan speaks against people who do exactly what he fucking did with everquest. Blizzard is a sinking ship and I don't think it's salvageable at this point

[@copiumhsrgi]

Dare even to say, it was a great game. I haven't had so much fan, since I played TF2 at it's launch. But the fact, it took so quickly for it to become bad... One of my friends who played WoW said to me that "just wait and you will see it become not great" and he was right. And that's just sad.

[@CknSalad]

Brandon Candelario Overwatch was an above average, polished game at best. The maps were always a chokey mess in team fights. A lot of the ultimates do not have a high skill ceiling and are merely based on timings. A lot of the heroes were dumbed down TF2 classes. Overwatch needs to borrow from Quake Champions where ultimates may give a leg up for the player and team, but not pretty much win the engagements. The big issue with Blizzard lies with their awful balancing. They either over nerf or over buff characters. They just do an overall terrible job of letting the game evolve organically.

[@jerlaine1638]

@@CknSalad i play on console and the skill required i think is a bit more them on pc but yeah ults are still about timing and not ability. I haven't played WoW since my old laptop broke, was waiting till i was financially stable to buy another, but honestly only reason i would've bought one would be WoW and from what I've seen it's not worth it anymore

[@GrimJackal]

sjwwatch? Because of two characters? Are you some kind of crazy bigot?

[@devilsshield]

@@sawyerstein1000 Why? Seriously, why should you be banned just for saying A word. I mean if you are harassing someone directly, sure. But for saying A word randomly at the ether?

[@TheJohnGway]

Play overwatch for an hour and tell me you don't want to eat a gun...

[@Jose-en9wu]

TheJohnGway Can confirm I can’t tell you that

[@E9Project]

I have yet to watch the full video and I've already favorited this!

[@zayikgaming604]

I remember Asmongold always making videos to put blizzard in the direction since WoD. Like really long informal videos talked through talking about everything. Ever since then I've been hoping for them to "fix the game" but god damn it's already been 3 expansions. I cannot believe this. We're still in the same boat. I remember the release of Burning Crusade, Wotlk, Catacylsm and being so excited. And now ever since before they released WoD I always wondered if "this" would be the expansion to fix it all. I barely got back into BFA and I still have those feelings. I havent been excited for expansion releases since Cataclysm. Instead I worry, hope and wonder.

[@Corrupted]

"At this point, the only thing that can kill wow is wow itself"

[@shizzm3103]

Looks good so far

[@PeteyVon]

This comment aged like fine wine 👌

[@synthetic240]

I, too, have been a Blizz fan since before I knew they were Blizzard. I loved Rock & Roll Racing and Blackthorne (I never did find a copy of The Lost Vikings). Then as I got into PC gaming, I was a fan of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft... their lore and art more than my ability to play competitively. I bought the novelizations, the comics, and the DVDs. When they merged with Activision I knew the old Blizzard had been replaced with a look-alike and the real soul of Blizzard had cashed out in exchange for obscene profits over substance. I'm sick of fucking loot boxes. I'm sick of microtransactions in full price AAA games. I'm sick of rushed online-only games that don't just shit the bed on opening night (as you'd expect), but on opening month.

[@lukaszajic119]

anyone knows name of the song starting 03:00?

[@JerkyMurky]

Hes a broncos fan and a warcraft fan... i like this man.

[@GaussTheory]

3:48 "I pay to watch *cough BOYSCON cough*"

[@Darklifewarden]

I love blizzard, i'v played all their games, and i still play them from time to time, heck even warcraft 3 is a game i play still today. i'm 26 now... and i'v been playing blizzard games for as long as i can remember, whenever me and a few friends bring our pc's together and bring out the beers, one of the first games we boot up is warcraft 3, and we play it for hours on end, just custom map after custom map.... but sadly... it seems like we wont be getting great games like that from Blizzard anymore.... Blizzard is dead... and all there is left now is a dead corpse on strings, with activision as the doll master, and the audiance being the investors... i hoped blizzard would never end.... but it seems even titans of good can be corrupted by evil...

[@radbug]

evil? no. money. yes. money corrupts, and tremendous money corrupts tremendously. The original blizzard guys all have millions of dollars, and families, AND THEY HAVE MOVED THE FUCK ON. thats completely natural. and has nothing to do with the quality of the products released by blizzard. Only one thing keeps the blizzard products line so shitty: CUSTOMER LOYALTY. Blizzard is not held accountable to the quality of their products anymore because there are more than enough LOYAL fans that they know will buy their shitty products no matter how shitty they are. and it costs less MONEY to make a shitty product. MONEY corrupts... LOYALTY corrupts. but these people will never fucking learn that anyway so youll always be stuck with shit products

[@dantealighieri1265]

do you guys not have phones?

[@89emeza]

My BEST gaming memories were made in WOW.. PERIOD. I miss it.

[@kswiss89]

Sometimes I wonder if i'm wrong in thinking that the experience of classic wow was so much better than the current iteration, but then I read something like this that perfectly puts into words why I think this way.

[@ilovewobbuffet]

Btw Asmon is statistically incorrect. People play MMOs. They are called FF14 and GW2, as well as still playing WoW.

[@Zereleth]

Not even including BDO which until it went pay 2 win was hugely popular

[@phantaminum630]

bdo is a good game if you dont have a life and want to play 8 hours a day grinding during a hole year to get soft cap. Also the company doesn't care about the player comunity, the cash shop is full of p2w.

[@JessePatrick-zc8ng]

those games are garbage in comparison. BDO was kinda fun but fuck that game too. I mean fuck WoW also now, but really. no one actually "plays" those others. they start then say fuck it.

[@Zereleth]

@@phantaminum630 the "if you dont have a life" argument is so weak, and if it takes you 8 hours a day of grinding for a whole year to get to softcap then you're really, really poorly optimising

[@variousrex746]

@@JessePatrick-zc8ng FFXIV is packed and still seems to be getting new subs. Game is very healthy and doesn't seem to be slowing down.

[@LiveDefiant]

We wow players have got to stop "Hoping". We keep hoping Blizzard will somehow reverse course. They won't. I finally realized this and my sub is running out in 4 days. I'm done. I'm turning out the light and closing the door.

[@younghegelian4815]

I'm just going to renew my sub when classic comes out.

[@Kishi_Dez]

@Robert Kraft I played it abit, and got told that it's very very grindy endgame :/

[@rowlandbuck2703]

This is also why “get woke, go broke” is a thing. Not even the people they are pandering to care about the product that much.

[@Orthane]

Ouch, that Steve Jobs part was a perfect explanation of Blizzard.

[@bluelagoon5235]

Not everyone plays WoW. Guild Wars 2 has a smaller, but thriving community, and Arenanet is getting lots of things right with the game.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

they will sell out sooner or later and I cannot wait to get your tears for my car coolant

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

@Eric Cartman what far left stuff was pushed in Guild Wars 2, I know that crazy bitch Jessica Price used to work there and she is a sjw nutjob

[@halokalur1924]

GW2 is casual trash, regret spending my time playing it and hoping for something better

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

I don't mind paying more for a good product, but WOW is no longer good.

[@Gungarr]

what happen for you to same the game is not good anymore?

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

@@Gungarr I like PVP but the game has been going down hill slowly since CATA. No vendors, no gems, no enchantments, melee class have become harder to play against, talent trees I dislike, no uniqueness with them. Cutting down on PVP timers in BGs is a big no as well. PVE to many to mention.

[@TheLesord]

13:00 music?

[@natasharossouw1075]

Omg that was so true what he was saying about sales pushing out product people. That’s what’s happened with Blizzard and Activision.

[@efknight]

FFXIV is another MMO that a lot of people play. For all the standard MMO concepts it employs, it has its fair share of fresh ideas. It has an incredible story with fully voice acted cut scenes. It has boss battles that feature some of the best presentation in both themes, art, and music. And probably the best part of all, is the lead director/producer's realistic acknowledgement of how MMOs can or can't survive in today's market. He said that FFXIV is not a game designed to keep you subbed for as long as possible. He fully expects that once people finish playing through the new content that they will not renew until the next big content drop. There isn't any kind of artificial grind that keeps you from experiencing anything new and exciting. Reputation grinds, side quests, side stories, crafting, housing, etc... it's all on the side and completely optional. It isn't a perfect game of course. But as a diehard Vanilla WoW player who will never forget how amazing and fun the first 2-3 years of WoW were, I have to admit that FFXIV has kept my interest for longer. And the trend is completely different. FFXIV is a game that is constantly improving in concepts in style and even now I am more excited to play Shadowbringers than even The Burning Crusade or Wrath... that is saying a lot since I grew up on Warcraft. Played all the games and read all the books...

[@Eorzat]

efknight FF14 is about the only MMO that I’ve seen where the developers legitimately prioritize the well-being of the game before the players. In other words, they don’t take care of their players and gradually make the content easier to digest, and they don’t try to take advantage of their players with a predatory cash shop and the like. They simply listen to the players on what they want and they use their judgement as developers to sort through all the ideas on what to implement and how to implement it. I’m not currently subbed, but FF14 is about the only MMO that I can see myself playing until either the servers shut down or until the next Final Fantasy MMO comes out.

[@Rundra]

a good story... ? give me a break... its as lame as nearly any randomly picked subpar anime

[@HerrDoktorWeberMD]

Hell, even "reputation" is more or less just "these people don't trust us." and then a few quests later, "they trust us just enough to get where we need to go next." And then the story kinda continues on from there. I think the only real insane grind is for relics and hunt gear, and while relic weapons become best in slot by the final patch of an expansion, there's really no need for them unless you're in a world prog static racing for the endgame and need every minute edge you can secure for the start of the next expac.

[@cylontoaster7660]

Ya, I moved over to FFXIV from WoW after playing WoW since F&F Beta. Crafting and house decorating alone keep me more engaged than WoW ever did.

[@TheWeapon33]

I would highly disagree. FFXIV's expansions have been copy and paste jobs. The game's content structure has been the exact same for the ~6 years it has been running and the game is deathly afraid of change. Many diehard fans I have played with since the start are long gone as the game doesn't have ambition.

[@crazymauler]

I started playing Warcraft back in the human vs orc rts game and all the others up to WoW first launch. I quit everquest to play WoW with my friends. The game was hard and the ones that knew how to play their class, were really great players. When the game turned into a numbers game and to me the insane stats on gear would give, that's when the game went out the window to me. Everquest wasn't perfect but to me they had their classes right and never wavered to please people who complained about them unlike WoW.

[@bestofasmongold5736]

Yeah I moved from Runescape to play WoW and wow slowly got to repetitive for me

[@zuukal3348]

@@bestofasmongold5736 You found WoW more repetitive than RS? X)

[@bestofasmongold5736]

@@zuukal3348 No definitely not. But probably as I got older I found the grind less enjoyable.

[@zoidsfan12]

Fuck me, this hits me right in the heart. I don't watch much of your stuff, but this really resonates. Ever since Activision swooped in it's been a downward spiral. Corporations are the issue, we have monopolies across the board, everything we consume. It makes me sick.

[@MrFunkhauser]

I think a lot of the remaining player base are straight up addicted to it.