Asmon is not getting people interested. Maybe a few but that is not why Asmon is so dangerous to the MMORPG landscape.
Fact is that most people on Twitch have no idea who Asmon is nor do they care. These people also could not care less about dead games like WoW or FFXIV. They give their attention to the big players like LoL and the other massive online games.
However when Asmon will start streaming FFXIV tomorrow it will make the game shoot up the charts. People aren’t going to click on the category but they will see the game at the top of the charts which will make them look into it and also make them download it to try it. Asmon is pretty much the best thing that can happen to FFXIV because of how massive his following is, not because they hope that his viewers will play FFXIV but because he will boost the game on Twitch which puts it in front of millions of eyes that have never touched a MMORPG before.
People love to tell themselves that WoW is a “big” game but in the gaming landscape WoW is actually a worthless player. I am in very big Steam groups with large amounts of players and literally nobody plays WoW or even knows about it. People need to remember that the average age on WoW is 30. There are a ton of kids and young adults that never considered playing WoW but they are going to consider playing FFXIV when they see it at the top of Twitch tomorrow when Asmon streams and the fact that they don’t know Asmon is not going to matter. Even if Square would spend millions on world wide TV ads for FFXIV it would not be as valuable as having Asmon stream FFXIV. Tomorrow the landscape of MMORPGs will change in front of our eyes. If they do not have more players than WoW right now, they will, after tomorrow.
160K and hasn’t even made his character.
This is why Blizzard said that 9.1 is not coming in June and then released in June prematurely after Asmongold started talking about FFXIV.
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Last edit: Looks like I was right. Blizzard’s management is pretty pissed off at Asmongold for putting FFXIV at the top of Twitch for the entirety of today giving them essentially free advertising that would usually cost millions. They were pissed off enough to call him an butthole on Twitter. I really wish they would channel this energy towards WoW development. The whole community is crying out for content and people are not fond of the 50 hour mount farms but apparently Blizzard is too busy tweeting abuse like children instead of listening and acting on feedback.
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