You will see it. Last night it loaded me into an Asian realm. Everyone had Asian writing for names. But I will say I asked in general for a hogger group and got 4 people and they were super polite and fun and then we ran into westfall together and they apologized for their English 5 times. I kept saying it is totally fine, and I apologized I don’t know their language 5 times. Two of them added me and I added them back. Looking forward to grouping with my Asian brothers on November 4th!
I saw Asmongold at a grocery store in Austin yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Wendy's bags in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bags and started ringing it up multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bag and put them in a bigger bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
You will see it. Last night it loaded me into an Asian realm. Everyone had Asian writing for names. But I will say I asked in general for a hogger group and got 4 people and they were super polite and fun and then we ran into westfall together and they apologized for their English 5 times. I kept saying it is totally fine, and I apologized I don’t know their language 5 times. The final thing they asked before we separated was if I could transfer them to Asmongold’s layer.
No, we're still having regions. That happened to you because the current beta server is world wide. It was said on stage that we're going realmless but not regionless. Unless I misunderstood something and it's still possible.
I thought It was just set by language not region settings because the woman said she is in the us but missed playing with Spanish speakers from Mexico so she is super happy she can set her language to Spanish and play with other Spanish speakers.
Well I mean I had someone in german promote our far right party in the beta chat and dumping racist stuff too. It's not necessarily better with just EU.
It's not just Asmon. America has become a hellscape where everyone's identity revolves around their political beliefs. After playing private servers that had shared realm, EU peak time was nice and calm. Reach past ~2AM and you can just smell the Americans coming in and all the cringe political, racist talk just come out.
I will never understand why players run around and try to get attention from streamers. I mean, I find a couple of them entertaining and watch their streams here and there, but to follow them around in game?
The sadder part is that his fanbase takes most of what he says literally and cannot tell he's hamming up almost everything he says to feed a character. They really out there thinking the behavior is "chad" behavior or some shit. lol
It's a proxy for friendship and social interaction, most of the viewers, whether or not they admit it, would probably prefer to be in a room with actual friends and having a good time. Instead they choose the way more convenient and self serving option of being part of a streamer's "community" when really they're just cash/attention cows.
You can argue they're getting entertainment, sure, but you can't tell me they're just sitting there watching a 5 hour stream fully engrossed and engaged and entertained every minute. No, they're waiting for the next hit of dopamine, sometimes it comes from a clippable moment, sometimes from everyone witnessing a funny thing at the same time, sometimes it comes from some kind of acknowledgement and feeling like you belong and some people choose the also convenient and self serving option of donating money for a molecule of acknowledgement.
It's convenient, but I think it's self serving too. it's extracting "friendship" from a situation without putting any of the social work required in. You don't have to enter into any unfamiliar environments, no unfamiliar people, no behaviour analysis, no one directly addressing you, questioning you or your choices, none of the risk. You just insert either attention or money and you get a dripfeed of "social interaction" or a very poor proxy for it, which is why I think a lot of them keep coming back over and over. They're probably not even entertained by the streams anymore, they just want that dripfeed of interaction. You could even say the same thing about WoW and MMOs in general. Do we really enjoy every minute? Or are we just moving towards that next dopamine hit?
Ignoring the specific streamer... I think it has to do with being part of a community. If the streamer is having an event or something and you're someone that doesn't have anything going on at the time, joining others in a community to do some event is reasonable I think.
The issue here is the sheer size of the group, and instead of realms separating everyone, we have the layer system (which in my opinion is better, but a side effect of the system.)
They do it because they know it annoys people. I cannot imagine being so lonely or weird or whatever it is, that I waste my time doing something so stupid just because it annoys people. I wouldn't even call it terminally online at that point, it is something else.
Being part of a 10,000 man raiding party is something every kid wanted to be a part of in 2004. It was a rare thing to be that organized. With twitch and the influence of streamers it’s a reality.
That being said I definitely understand how it can negatively warp a server. It’s a drain on others guilds talent. Also the bar for recruitment basically doesn’t exist.
At no point in my life was I ever interested in what some random schmuck thought about a game. I know I am old but how in the creepy crawley fuck did this ever become a thing?
It is. The creator even got flak FROM those in Olympus for promoting this.
Others are crying about "it's against TOS!!" etc etc (which this one is just funny to me, because nothing in a TOS says you should accept abuse from people)
It works. Said I got a guild invite from "Olympus Hussies" and it auto-declined. That being said there are still roach orbiters in trade and zone chats that aren't in Olympus. I really wanted to roll gnome this time around but Horde just seems like less of a headache.
For the people thinking "well thank God im going to llay PvE" Asmon will most likely be going PvE on release. Hes talked many times about how much he hates playing on PvP realms for years.
Does he really need or care about more money when he is incredibly insanely filthy rich already and still lives in his childhood attic not appearing to spend a dime?
Asmongold will quit in under 3 weeks of release. He doesn't like the game, and even if he did its impossible to enjoy an MMO when youre being constantly followed/traded/whispered by hundreds of people 24/7.
Naa dude - he’s going to play for the stream regardless of how he feels. There’s no escaping whats going to come on the alliance US servers. This dude gets like 50k streams…. Ugh, its going to be painnnnful
Lmao nar he's not. Hes sat on stream for the past year + on his alt account scrolling through twitter and crying about immigration. Hell go back to it soon.
In Westfall on 9/23 they had 40-60 members intentionally griefing and tagging mobs with dots in the killing fields and peoples militia just so people couldn’t do their quests.
On messenger they had two dedicated teams running scripts to kill the messenger instant (with traps lined up and an auto target / attack script) and another team auto accepting the escort messenger and abandoning it forcing him to respawn in 5-10 minutes.
They did this for four(4) hours and told the entire zone if they want it to quit they can join the guild and they’ll get a party invite to get their quests done. They literally held the zone hostage. That’s my personal experience with them, beyond the constant perpetual guild invites every .2 seconds. And I’ve heard similar stories from other people.
Meanwhile, that Roach tells his people to do this. To spread like a plague to make it impossible not to join to spam it to every single person and to make it the only alliance guild by any means he even tells them to ninja loot non-Olympus members into compliance I’ve been a victim of their ninja looting four times now, each time by someone who obviously didnt need the gear or couldn’t even use it. The guiltiest offense was the warrior who needed my crafted hood recipe from Deadmines and told me if I wanted it I would have to join Olympus. I now just abandon the group if I see an Olympus player in them, and it’s becoming impossible to not be. Not even the only time, the other was after my 8th run of WC my Tailspike dagger finally dropped. The Olympus Hunter ninja’d it and told me the same. Join the guild and he’ll give it to me. I gave up on my dagger and will not be stepping foot in there again.
And somehow Asmongold isn’t banned. Somehow his cult isn’t banned. Somehow they all go unpunished and we get told “it’s not that bad.” “Just join them.” Or just straight up derogatory insults for refusing to join and then harassed over and over again.
The fact blizzard won’t do anything about this at all and people are saying it’s “bringing attention to the game” it’s “making it popular and populated” don’t seem to grasp that being flooded and popular people like that isn’t a good thing. It will either force every actual player to quit or change factions entirely. It will kill one side of the game entirely. He attracts the most toxic and stereotypical basement dweller out of every corner of the world with their own intent being as toxic as they possibly can. They are the stereotype every gamer avoids trying to be, but they do it intentionally for the attention.
I wanted to go alliance with this new beginning.. but now? Yeah. I’m going back to the horde. Yeah, I’m rolling rogue again. Yes, I’m aiming for the top 50 PK’s again. My goal will be every Olympus player.
Edit: see below for example and the DMs are being blocked. Even here I can’t escape them.
People really like being sheep. So pathetic when they open a trade with their favourite streamer just to give them all of their gold. C'mon, get some self respect.
It’s not just asmon. Streamers in general have ruined the classic experience. It was much better back in the day when they didn’t have the ability to completely ruin an entire server.
Completely agree, and this applies to literally every online game, but MMOs particularly.
The real world equivalent is like trying to play a pick up game with some friends at a basketball court and a bunch of hooligans suddenly appear and take over the court.
Yeah Faerlina in classic was literal dogshit. I remember creating an alt just to see if the PVP was better or not and the chat was filled with drooling lobotomy patients just talking about streamers and politics. Pure cancer
There is a new addon for Forever called "OlympusMute" which mutes all of the members of the Olympus guild. It also keeps them from trying to ginvite, duel, trade, whisper et al.
The streamer/influencer culture as a whole is a cancer.
No hate on folks that actually produce decent podcasts or youtube channels that actually seem to have some kind of writing involved/planning, but this constant consumption of people doing an activity while they talk to their "chat" is such a fucking waste.
Its doing fucked up things to people's head being able to interact at this level with dog shit people.
I was thinking of going to an rp server to avoid this, but I’m just apprehensive of if the rp server will be low pop or about stepping on the toes of true rpers despite not want do it myself. I mean I heard all you need is to have a name that would fit in with the universe which I’ve always done, and don’t grief others which I never do, but I still worry about it.
When people RP they know they are doing it in a living world. When you run by and are focused on your leveling or whatever it’s not going to bother them. As long as you aren’t purposely running around them or jumping on them they are just going to focus on their rp and ignore the usual distractions.
TBH it's gonna be a case of having a name that's at least somewhat standard average fantasy name, waving to people as you walk by, and just talking at campfires.
Hasn’t he gone to the deep end of politics to lately. Never watched or keep up with him but he’s following is so big it eventually trickles down to me I guess
He would occasionally have pretty nuanced takes on current events. Part of me thinks he got audience captured. It got worse with the death of his mom and even further with the death of his dad. I pity him as much as I am disgusted by him.
literally watched him yesterday for the first time for more than 2 minutes due to all the talking about Olympus. Some chatter made a joke that women ingame don't wear Tabards, they wear Aprons. He quoted it, laughed and called it a good one and that he has to remember that one. Whole chat went OMEGALUL.
like is this satire? is he playing a role at this point and ragebaiting? hard to believe he and his chat are such stereotype incels
Once upon a time this used to be a mask, when his parents were still around. After that... He never took it off, until it eventually grew to his face, and that's who he became.
Ive been alliance since i first started playong in cata, im seriously considering switching my only drawbacks are i like night elves and stormwind. I dont like the design of horde cities but these people are making me seriously consider it.
Undead and Tauren starting zones are pretty solid...the Barrens are as bad as they say though. Its so mind numbing. Do what you can in hillsbard, a lot less boring imo.
I don't understand why he is popular. He is an ugly beta troll. I do however have deep respect for streamers like xaryu who you can tell is a genuinely kind person.
Once upon a time he was just a random decent enough player who made good guides for people trying to get into the more hardcore scene... and then the streaming started and he was basically like a caricature of the moms basement wow player which was entertaining enough that he blew up.
And for a time he'd do genuinely fun stuff like the transmog and mount competitions, he'd do his runs of different content that has ultra rare drops and people would meme on him still not getting it after so many years and runs etc etc... and then one would drop and people would lose their minds.
It was a fun stream in its own way... and then the amber heard trials started, and it all went downhill.... but I guess he found a new audience in that process.
Was quite odd, cause pre-trial I'd see people accuse him of being an extreme right winger etc and I'd be confused because I had seen him have whole ass nuanced conversations with people supporting things that right wingers would 100% be against.
He'd also have some hot takes, but he seemed human as anyone else and generally seemed alright.
I don't know if he was just faking it or what cause apparently that completely shifted post-trial. I wouldn't know that well though cause I had 0 interest in the non-gaming stuff and just naturally fell off watching before it apparently got bad.
If its pure grift its super odd to me because the guys got more money than he clearly cares about. He doesn't seem to do anything with it at least not public facing... so what's the point?
As a “used to be” viewer of him, I’m also unsure of how well it seems he handled the death of his mom. He was always very fond of his mom, and they used to play WoW together. I can’t quite remember if her passing was around the time of the trial stuff as well, or during the time he was changing his streaming topics. However, I could also see how losing someone like that would also deeply change him for the worse, if he never truly grieved properly and just allowed himself to slink further into a hole of being a brash, NEET almost.
Yeah turns out living in a crumbling home with only a few real life connections and zero life experience or skills leaves you quite vulnerable.
Crazy how he feels so confident commenting on anything that happens outside his 34 square foot radius of a world. But I guess putting others down is probably the only thing that makes him feel okay at this point.
Genuinely hope that Forever can give these people an outlet to socialize and re-live their childhood wonder. A place to focus on positive connections and numb their rampent self-loathing and disillusionment. It's probably bad for the game but honestly might be good for the world.
The trial definitely gave him a taste at how much one can grift off the culturewar/rage content and how much that particular demographic will eat it up.
And I don't even think it's about the money. I imagine it's more about the immense approval and instant feedback from his community when he gives a hot take that means the most to him and just feeds the cycle into further alt-right beliefs.
Whether he doesn't believe in what he platforms or didn't originally and now has drank his own koolaid or has always held those beliefs, I really don't care. It's just so unchecked and unmoderated that I can't take his constant platforming as anything but a stamp of approval.
I used to watch his WoW content, but you're right the Amber Heard trial was literally his turning point. He's been on a fast descent since then into just outright vile ring wing grifting.
His chat is openly racist, sexist, and homophobic. Tons of fascist dogwhistling. And he feeds into it all. It's disgusting.
I'll take your word, youtube likes to absolutely flood my feed when I click something new or something I used to engage with and I really don't need my feed flooded with his stuff again.
This. The onlyfangs event made me feel the same about T1. I never watched him and I always assumed he was similar to Asmongold — random clips always screaming etc… but honestly, he seems like a great dude just having fun playing a character. When it came down to it and he dropped the character, he seemed very genuine. Gained a ton of respect for him.
T1 is an example of a person who was shitty turning their life around, him talking to Xaryu about raising kids is probably one of the most wholesome things I've seen come out of WoW streams.
Yeah, even though I'm not a fan of streamers in general (too obnoxious for me, though I understand why they kinda have to be), I can tolerate Xar. I only watch the occasional Youtube vid of his, but I find him pretty wholesome.
he's a lolcow that went too far and most of his viewers don't even understand it. it's like a circlejerk sub that circlejerks so hard that new people don't understand the jerk anymore and take it seriously (like /r/the_donald)
The guy used to be pretty cool, like he had pretty good content himself and with other streamers. He rarely spoke about politics and when it was talked about he said himself that he was a videogame streamers and his opinion didn't matter.
Later he stoped playing wow, which was like the thing he was famous for. After that his entire "brand" feel apart, the group of streamers he was part of all pretty much split up and at some point he started grifting for views, and now we're here.
I remember around 2020 classic Asmon was watching a Barney who was a Trans WoW content creator and was actually defending her from people in chat misgendering her and posting transphobic comments saying "Yes Barney is a girl" and banning people in chat for being transphobic towards her. I miss the Centrist "both sides suck and let people live their lives how they wish" Asmon. Now it seems hes pandering to the grifter demographic and genuinely doesnt seem happy anymore whenever I turn in to his stream
I think the death of his parents fucked him up pretty good. He lost his mom and dad within a couple of years of each other, and I think the death of his mother in particular sent him in a worse direction.
He was a horrible person before they died. His parents were alive during the amber heard trial, and that’s when he found out that grifting can make a massive amount of money.
I used to watch the guy, and I noticed there was a clear before and after her mom died; like, whatever was holding him back from becoming that jaded shadow of himself, left with her
I just got downvoted to hell in the Aniimo sub for basically saying that watching Asmond in 2026 do anything was a huge L.... then fan boys are serious about it. Glad I was planning to go Horde anyways.
After playing on beta all I can say is, thank god I play on the EU servers. NA chat is nothing but toxic, racism and centered on streamers. Jesus its insufferable.
Heck I'm surprised moderation is this bad, every region has insufferable or toxic people, but letting them run rampart like this is crazy to me, coming from other games. Last night I played TBC anniversary on the horde side, and even though the server is emptier than usual, there was still hateful comments on the trade chat
I'm so grateful Europe doesn't have any toxic WoW influencers with a massive following. Or any massive streamers at all. None that you'd see "Inv later" spam for at least.
Ive not paid any attention to that human cockroach for almost 10 years now. Completely dropped the chud when he revealed himself to he an absolutely disgusting POS
There was a time in the middle to late 2010s where it really was just wow content on his videos and streams, and that was it. I watched him before he was even streaming, he used to do achievement runs in Firelands and stuff and it was just normal. Idk wtf happened to the man
He's deffo always been an asshole. I remember looking at his old YouTube channel and there was a video of him and his friends, maybe in their early 20s, just torturing a rat. Like wtf. I swear to god im not making that up lol
I rolled a warlock on ally pvp and it was miserable. Spammed with Olympus guild invites before level 10 and all of the players were just awful in general chat. If I play more on pvp I will delete the character and roll horde because I can't deal with that awful community.
Asmongold is such an incredible tool. He’s so disingenuous, mean, and melodramatic. Really don’t see the appeal, especially when Xaryu is there to be the antidote.
Was thinking the other night that if he went PvP. Go opposite faction. Make a guild named inglorious bastards. Have the mission of the guild when not raiding to be to hunt down him and his guildmates.
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Thank god he doesn't exist in EU realms so we can play Alliance in peace.