Asmongold actually had the best interview out of anyone I have seen so far. He actually didn’t seem like he was just teeing up pre-thought out questions for them to have a generic answer.
Did they talk about casuals at all? Did they talk about how the feeling is the devs focus too much on a certain class of player?
Yeah, was thinking the same. I personally can't stand watching him. I don't think he's necessarily good for whichever server he lands on. Prolly fine most times, but other times his followers just lag the place out. But if I stand back and look at it while trying to remove my bias, he's probably good for the health of the game, keeping more folks subbed.
"Take the time to sit down and talk with your adversaries. You will learn something, and they will learn something from you. When two enemies are talking, they are not fighting. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence. So keep the conversation going."
~ Daryl Davis
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Their internal metrics must be in the toilet, for them to lean on someone like Asmondgold. His community is everything they don't want in WoW, especially the 4chan 'big dick" mentality - but as they've driven anyone with credibility away, like Preach...well, things must be really bad if they're going here.
I'll admit, I was wrong, I always believed they'd never officially acknowledge him, but...honestly, this whole game and it's surrounding constant drama? Nothing surprises me anymore.
I like how it's "Asmongold" on one side, and "WoW Director" on the other side.
The narcissism and egos of these YouTube "content creators" knows no bounds. They already have their idiot faces plastered over everything they touch. Heaven forfend someone but them gets recognition for something.
He was literally threatening to ban people from his stream, who were making fun of Danuser's eyebrows (Asmongold was reacting to one of the other interviews). He does not like his followers acting like completely degenerates. You can go and watch some streamer like Dr. K who is genuinely an extremely intelligent, kind and caring person and his comment section is still going to be full of degenerates. It's not the streamer that's problematic. It's humankind that is.
I used to be extremely against Asmongold (especially when he invaded my realm and made the game unplayable for days due to lag.....). But then I watched a collaboration stream between him and Dr. K (I follow the latter obviously) and I was amazed at how different he is from the image he had created for himself. And just recently I watched one of his tree house videos and woah, I was amazed by the difference in character. It was all the game design talk (that I strongly agree with) without the goofy roleplaying. Short, clear, straightforward, honest, very constructive and optimistic.
Yeah bud I’m a pretty level headed person so I can fairly easily pick apart the difference between sometbing I just personally want, and something the community as a whole is asking for. Borrowed power systems were complained about the MOMENT BfA hit the beta, but they decided to run with it for two more expansions. The last two expansions I would love to hear just one thing you believe they truly listened to and added that was a net positive since the day it was implemented.
Ion was smart to interview literally one of, if not the biggest, WoW content creator there is. It truly doesn't matter whether you like him or not, he has a massive following and it would be dumb to not do an interview with him. Considering how well it went that speaks for itself.
I thought Asmon was an idiot but decided to give some of his streams a chance. After discovering his second channel you realize that Asmon is literally a character played for people, yet he makes some great arguments at times. Kudos to Blizzard.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
People just hate streamers because they just wish they were them. I barely watch asmongold and I always hear he is this subhuman type of person, but everytime I see a clip or a video like this of him he seems like he is a pretty knowledgeable person when it comes to this game.