Yes, people do know about it. But are they willing to invest time into it? Google the average age of a WoW player and it’ll say 28 years old. Millennials would be the youngest generation playing this game in bulk with maybe a touch of the older Gen Zs. Then you have GenX+, all ageing generations.
I doubt there are high school kids running around talking about World of Warcraft as you had back in 2005.
No, but the sky is falling for realsies this time. For really realls!
Neither will happen unless WoW takes a steep revenue drop which would be a multi-year decline.
Hardly.
There is a whole lot of twists and turns in the beginning, ARR especially starts out with world-building, setting up the rules of the Final Fantasy 14 universe - this lends itself to following expansions that will go really indepth with the various aspects that was built in ARR.
But yes, if you are not at all curious about what is being built up in ARR, then you won’t start to seek answers. The whole Garlemald Empire story will be largely concluded in Stormblood, and then Shadowbringers will go deep, deep with the whole Ascian storyline.
FFXIV is not a JRPG.
Those were the days.
Preach is most likely gone for good. Ammon will be back but he will also stay with FFXIV now because Square Enix is praising him. They apparently invited him to an interview and a server transfer and were very polite and appreciative, etc. Basically they put a lot of butter on his toast. Blizzard on the other hand hates him and insults him. This is gonna be like a streamer soap opera.
Kathleen kennedy is leaving too! It’s really real this time guys honest!
As with all things, some people and companies are literally too big to fail. Doesn’t mean they’ll get better, but they won’t fail.
Asmon is taking a break. He’s been away since before the accusations. He’s gonna come back whenever there’s more content.
I do not know about Preach but I do know that not even the FFXIV people wanted Asmongold …the guy and his community were cancer. The fact that FFXIV is putting streamers over their regular players is going to hurt them down the road.
yikers this is great
Here is the thing about Streamers and games. A lot of those people who play a game because a streamer plays it are not fans of the game but instead fans of the streamer. Believe me once another game comes out that catches the eye of those streamers they are going to head for that game and take their fans with them.
Most successful content creators didn’t become that way overnight, they had to grind the heck out of…creating content to build that following to get where they are.
I’d say your wisdom is ill-applied.
I’m 32, married with kids, so you’ve told me all I need to know about the quality of your intuition lmao.
Didn’t 9.1 get released a month ago? Lol
Yes, that’s exactly what I said. Literally. Verbatim, right there in the direct quote you selected.
These disgusting greed infested buffoons will never let this game be f2p. All they care about it our money.
When did Asmon say he was done? Last I checked he’s just playing FFXIV for a bit and coming back.
He hasn’t said he’s done. In fact he did some WoW story content today that popped up on my youtube. I remember him saying back in June that it’s going to be a busy couple months for him because of all these new games coming out as well as trying FF.
I’m part of the “older crowd” (who, by the way, invented video games) and I see the importance of streamers. Free marketing and promotion from individuals who have a tremendous amount of influence. Just because we may not watch them doesn’t mean we don’t understand their value to games.
I totally care that some youtubers quit playing. They will be back when this all blows over and whatever flavor of the month money click they are pushing stops being profitable.
Not defending WoW, the recent allegations are sickening. I’m just not understanding why so many people let some youtuber influence what game they want to play. If you like it play it. If you don’t, don’t. If the recent allegations make you want to quit, quit. Do what you want, don’t let some guy on the internet tell you what to like.