It is what it is (or was). In his heyday back when he ruled on cable, Howard Stern probably was big enough where he could affect public opinion and cultural ‘norms’ in the U.S. Same for Asmongold in his WoW niche.
None.
“Popular” and “influenced the game”, are two different things.
I don’t think anyone/influence or whatever, has actually influenced the game. Blizzard still does their own thing, not based on what some “influencer” says.
Actually, yes. As you say, he actually has “influenced” the game. Also, he has probably done it the most.
If you(the OP) had left it at influenced players, it could have been one of those people. But you said influenced the game.
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I don’t know if I can name any specific person, but high-end raiding guilds have significant influence over how encounters are tuned since Blizzard relies on them to do their playtesting, and they’ve had this influence ever since high-end raiding guilds were a thing.
I don’t know and I don’t follow them, but my favorite are Taliesin and Evitel. They are toooo funny.
This is going to be harder to gauge than you think. Early WoW didn’t have all the social media outlets/platforms that we have today and the technology was not as good. Also, which platform are you going to base this on?
Asmongold consistently has the most Twitch views but there are content creators on Youtube who have more subscribers as others have mentioned. Nobbel actually has more than Bellular with both being over 500k. Then you have the World 1st race which pulls in high numbers but is just for a limited time, with Method and Limit being the main draws lately. Then you can throw in things like patreon support. I have no idea who gets the most support this way from players.
And this is an entirely different topic. Most popular or biggest audience does not mean influenced the game most.
Ion and Elitist Jerks would definitely be in the running here. Preach and other high end players in both raiding and pvp are people devs like getting feedback from. They also listen to people who do guides and specialize in things like pet battles. We don’t know what suggestions people have given over the years that may have led to changes in the game. I don’t know if any of them would have had a major influence on how Blizz designed the game since they have a vision of what they want to do in general.
He’s a good entertainer, he can make the most boring menial tasks in WoW or watching someone else’s content seem interesting
I think you mean he reaches to WoW players on the spectrum.
It probably shows how long ive played the game but I say totalbiscuit. The man stood up for consumers rights to the day he died. Quit in cata, came back for legion and died in May of 2018. I’m sure he wouldve had some choice words for the recent blizz controversies.
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My Boy Asmongold.
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While I can say I truly do not like him he still is that person that is relatable in some circumstances as a gamer and just is utterly passionate what he does,
Going as far as ridiculing himself for the laughter and being given that iconic fame for his gaming work habit sorts that keeps us intertwined
Ya boi Asmongold is the most famous WoW creator in… well, ever. Don’t have to like him, but he is.
He’s also actually entertaining in small doses. It’s his fanbase that drives me up the wall personally. Such vicious and aggressive people. If I want to be in a pit of vipers, why, I’ll just stay on GD!
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Elves are the most popular WoW influencer.
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Asmongold by far.
My AU self is here in this thread 9hrs ago o:
Asmongold doesn’t do anything on youtube. He literally just let fans make one that started being used like a month ago. And if twitch is so much smaller then youtube the fact he has 1.4mil followers on twitch almost triples bellulars subs shows how insanely more popular he is then anyone else doing wow content.
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Currently Asmongold. He fuels WoW’s Twitch platform.
I like Asmongold. But I hate these guys who just share clips online and then just fill the rest of it with random gameplay to hit ad revenue.
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The number on twitch is only concurrent viewers. Not total. A big streamer gets
hundreds of thousands if not more unique viewers per day on their stream.
I don’t know how swifty never got a mention
But modern day it’s asmongold who seems to be the bane of this forum and it’s completely torn to shreds by people who hate him for being rude and insensitive then body shame him in the same sentence
Asmongold has just a single stream / video on twitch with over 200k views over the past month.
Bellular has 12-13 videos in the past 30 days on Youtube which have broken 200k views, many of those are actually well over 300k.
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