If they do not have more players than WoW right now, they will, after tomorrow. Tomorrow the landscape of MMORPGs will change in front of our eyes. Even if Square would spend millions on world wide TV ads for FFXIV it would not be as valuable as having Asmon stream FFXIV. 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. People need to remember that the average age on WoW is 30. I am in very big Steam groups with large amounts of players and literally nobody plays WoW or even knows about it. People love to tell themselves that WoW is a “big” game but in the gaming landscape WoW is actually a worthless player. 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 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. However when Asmon will start streaming FFXIV tomorrow it will make the game shoot up the charts. They give their attention to the big players like LoL and the other massive online games. These people also could not care less about dead games like WoW or FFXIV. Maybe a few but that is not why Asmon is so dangerous to the MMORPG landscape.įact is that most people on Twitch have no idea who Asmon is nor do they care. Final Fantasy XIV's latest upcoming expansion, Endwalker, is slated to release this November.Asmon is not getting people interested. WoW: Shadowland's latest update, which added a new zone, raid, and mega-dungeon, released June 29. "It's just really nice to see those alternatives popping up because I think competition breeds excellence and hopefully every other game, WoW included, will rise to the occasion."īlizzard has recently taken a more hands-on approach to changes in regards to the recently released Burning Crusade Classic, such as testing same-faction Battlegrounds. "Now, so many games are coming out, we have actual competitors to WoW like Final Fantasy, even Elder Scrolls Online is doing quite well from what I know," Asmongold says. I've taken breaks before, played Dark Souls, played Path of Exile, but I always come back to WoW."Īsmongold says he is looking forward to more competition in the MMO genre, and also wants to play Amazon's upcoming MMO New World as well as Kickstarted MMO Ashes of Creation in addition to Final Fantasy XIV. "I still play it pretty much every day, and by pretty much every day I mean literally every single day. "There's been a lot of dumb things that have happened, but at the same time it's still an enjoyable game for me," Asmongold says about the latest version of WoW in a recently uploaded video. "The truth is that WoW's best release in the past 5 years has been a release that came out 15 years ago," referring to Blizzard releasing WoW Classic, a recreation of the game as it was when it originally released in 2004.ĭespite that, WoW will likely continue to be Asmongold's primary game, even as he looks to branch out and play other MMOs in the near future. "Many people have moved over to Final Fantasy from WoW, and I understand why," Asmongold said on a recent stream. The move comes at a time when jumping ship from WoW to Final Fantasy XIV has become a bit of an ongoing joke in the WoW community, as players unhappy with recent expansions or Blizzard's decisions threaten to move over to Square-Enix's increasingly popular MMO instead.
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