I don't know what I was expecting. But 2 1/2 hours of Asmon running around on a mount talking about how disappointed he is with WoW/blizzard sounds about right
It is sad. And I know it well. I seem to talk about WoW a lot, log in occasionally, do absolutely nothing, get bored to tears, and log back out. It’s just not a fun game. 😢
Worst of it being, he clearly hasn't played the game in the last 2 years, but he's still so negative about what he perceives the game to be without knowing what the game is now.
@@ultrastoat3298yeah like watching videos about a streamer complaining about the game thats not worth playing, apparently. Lol this community is so unintentionally hilarious its insane 😂😂
I feel like Asmon has moved on from WoW as a whole, but just isn't able to come to terms with that yet. So he is constantly grasping at straws trying to come up with all these reasons as to why he doesn't enjoy the game anymore. Seems to be a situation of no matter what they do, players like him will never be happy and always find things to take up issue with, because they just don't enjoy the game anymore. It's a very hard thing to accept with a game like this, when it has been such a massive/important part of so many of our lives. It's very difficult to let it go, especially when you have so many memories and so much nostalgia attached to it.
Call me old but i love what he said about just enjoying the game and not worrying about getting every single item and what not. I used to kill my enjoyment for games doing that exact thing. Always min-maxing trying to get the best whatever, not even thinking about just enjoying the game. Every since i started slowing down like that, i have so much more fun no matter what im playing.
people want to play the blame game, but i dont watch content that starts to come off rediculous to please the YT algorithm... and im sure im not the only one who will start to not click these if they continue down this path. im not a child.
I was just going to say something similar to this lol acting like not logging in for a handful of months is him thinking its been 4 years and multiple major expansions lol
@@IceKoldX mhmm, exactly why he's hating on WoW more than playing it, cause it makes him more money if he hates on it. gotta appease the jaded ex players who would rather give him the $15 than to play the game when it's fun. he's farming the "Wails" while Blizzard farms the Whales.
I dont understand when did setting goales and reaching them become unfun? Just because you guys suck and cant get a +2 key doesnt mean others dont have fun with being good at something xD As soon as it gets competitive people scream for fun but bro there is no fun in being competitive, reaching your goals is fun, the way to your goal is and should be HARD, so cry all you want and play minecraft, WoW aint a safezone anymore its for geeks and grinders, money makers and economy simulators. Its not a game to have fun in, you can, but have to understand its so much more that you should just go away if all you want is have fun. You can have fun without a computer you dont need WoW to have fun, you are your own problem! Thank me later :)
Even if she appears she's apparently not worth speaking of. She had a massive role in 2 of the last 4 expansions, the recap extends back to the last parts of Legion, so I think it's still telling that they don't even mention her name in this summary of events.
FOMO is a psychological trigger like any other, it's an impulse to , in this case to not feel left out or missing on something. Beyond simply caring about it which isn't as easy as that, the easiest way to do it is to just be aware of when it happens and stopping yourself from engaging with it. Also tell yourself it's not important and it's an artificial thing created by a company to make you spend more money and time on their product, you gain absolutely zero of anything by engaging with FOMO tactics.
That's the problem for me currently, it's the same shit every xpac. Level up, get gear, do keys and raids, open your weekly vault, kill the bad man, repeat every 2 years.
"logs in" "does nothing but run around in circles talking about how bad the game is now" I really wish you people would move on from this game for real. Notice how everyone else is actively playing the game and engaging with it instead of wallowing in past glory. MOve on
I mean you cant worry about it mate, everything is so standardised now that the only thing you could ever min max for a true bis is trinkets or some special effect weapon. Almost all gear is the same literally 0 diversity in builds. Boring...
Everyone complaining about him just running around is exactly his point. Some people can just chill and explore and cruise around. Not everyone has to grind grind grind grind work work work work parse parse parse. Enjoy the world, I know its so foreign in this game to not sweat all over your keyboard and not scream at people cause they missed a mechanic.
People are complaining because he's just running around old WoW area reminiscing on what it used to be. He's been doing this for 2 years now. Just play the game lmao he doesn't have to sweat, we just wanted him to interact with it.
He's running around reminiscing about what WoW used to be, which is a clear sign that the game doesn't interest him anymore. He's only logging in because of the new expansion, and as a content creator, it's his job to stay relevant. Asmon won't be back on this game for a long time, and the reality is he doesn't play it for a reason-it's the same reason millions of others have stopped playing. If people can't see that as a sign, I'm not sure what will convince them. You may still enjoy it, but it's clear the game isn't resonating with people anymore, even with a new expansion. The game needs a reset.
@@Hologram providing more than half the games pop have grown into adults now yeah it kinda happens you out grow it me on the other hand. I’m still have fun
I’m glad you changed his mindset about WOW and is just going to enjoy the game. You should try an RP realm if you want to enjoy the game. It brought Xaryu back to retail because it’s been that much fun to play on an RP realm.
That's how lost I felt when I played in dragonflight after quitting in early mop. Back when I was the second officer after my gm on the second best pvp guild on defias brotherhood, horde. Those were the times.
I remember when no one knew/cared anything wow's "lore" aside from its actual world building. To me, all these stories about the characters in the wow universe are completely, utterly uninteresting. The entire premise of WoW was that it was about living in a consistent fantasy world. The early cinematics were all about "normal" elves, dwarfs, etc. living and fighting, not these superhero-like characters. With this focus on named characters, it feels more like a random singleplayer game and less like a virtual world.
There is a significant cognitive bias in your thinking because WoW lore was built on the events and characters from WC1, WC2, and WC3. WoW's world-building was based on these elements. After they had 'finished' all possible storylines, like those of Illidan in TBC, Arthas in WOTLK, and Deathwing in Cata, they had to start creating new lore to keep going. Unfortunately, everything related to the new lore was, and still is, based on the MMO world structure of power creeping, rather than on lore-driven events
TBC tells stories, WOTLK tells stories(the greatest story ever in a game), Cata tells stories, MOP is pure lore, WOD there is nothing in this garbage (except for hellfire citadel - great raid), and through the rest of the expansions the lore was more in the game, but its not like the previous ones didnt have. There’s is a timeline, and the expansions are all linked by the stories they tell us. But yeah, nowadays it’s not fun like back in time, and we don’t have to pursue an experience like that anymore because it’s literally impossible to reach it again. And I have the opinion that if wrath of the Lich King happened today, people would hate it, just because they love their past and the joy they had back in time
Sorry but i have to disagree, yes vanilla wow had much more " the world tells you the story " type of world building and guess what the world was already ready before this, we have known areas and factions and characters and what vanilla wow did was just throw us into that big world in 3d person character pov and let us explore the giant world that tells a story on it's own, this does still exist! The focus on character driven arcs and heroes doesn't mean this no longer exists, and besides character driven arcs and narratives were always a thing in warcraft 2 and 3, where you control actual heroes they have dialogue and even cinematic cutscenes, the earliest cutscene i remember is that Khadgar closing the dark portal in wc2.
It's bait content. He can't bring himself to completely quit WoW but he also can't actually play the game. So he just rides around on a mount talking about how much he misses the "good old days"
all of his videos are the same, asmon is always repeating talking points just bending it to the topic he is watching, if you've seen 5 asmon videos you've seen his entire arsenal of content
I don't know who needs to hear this but remember: it's okay to enjoy WoW, even today. TWW hype, from a retail Andy going into his 16th year of consecutive WoW sub 😂 Let's go!
i play classic to raid with my guild and i play retail to do keys with my guild mates. it’s really not as doomer as people who don’t play make it out to be
It's the popular thing right now to hate on wow mostly coming from people who are actually not playing it, they quit during a time when they were frustrated with the game and now they're forever salty.
As an older guy myself, this was the most relatable Asmongold video I've ever seen, from taking the game less seriously, to burning out, to not relating to the new story and style, to preferring the old flying system and forgetting about changes that happened way back in Cata lol. And before anyone points it out, I know you can switch do the old system for old content. Just saying I like it better.
Doesn’t like Classic Doesn’t like SoD Doesn’t like Hardcore Doesn’t like Private Servers Doesn’t like “Retail” Still wants to somehow play WoW. This man is genuinely insane. He doesn’t know what he wants but he knows what he doesn’t want.
That’s most of the older content creators now I’ve played since the end of TBC and I’m really excited about the direction the game is heading and many others are too. Most of these people are negative because it draws views and a mass of stupid people who don’t even play just listen to these guys.
yup, he'll come on long enough to farm his viewers for content and be gone until the next one, it will repeat until the day that he dies or everyone gets tired of being farmed. which he must be getting close to the latter, considering he's looking for handouts from RUclips now.
Asmongold's constant negativity towards *World of Warcraft* is starting to feel more childish than constructive. Instead of offering real solutions, he tends to blow small issues way out of proportion, turning his complaints into attention-seeking rants. It’s like he’s more interested in feeding his own ego than actually helping the game or the community. At this point, it’s hard to take him seriously when he’s constantly trashing a game he still profits from. His behavior is coming across more like a temper tantrum than the thoughtful critique you'd expect from a community leader.
This is nothing im assuming as much as he was known for this game it probably hasn’t been that long. I just logged into D3 the other day after 10 years of not playing I never even seen the Necromancer class . It was pretty cool to still have my characters.
1:00:00 The fact that there are like 500 different currencies show how bloated and fucked wow really is... building on top of each expansion instead of reworking or reusing previous system.. is one of the biggest mistakes in the IT world.. doesnt matter if we are talking about games, web-apps or other software... it's always the same and always dumb af.
this is a weird nitpick,the currency is fine,you only care about it for one patch,or if you like collecting stuff,its also themed,it would be weird if you used the same currency for sw and for interdimentional space vendors
True, one of the worst things about IT is building on top of shit foundations because of short sighted business decisions, that in the long run hurt everything.
@@StarContract I am so glad that my current company and the customers are willing to invest in continues refactoring... we build individual software and holy cow... that shit would be so fucked and unstable after 1 year that you could barely touch it without breaking stuff.
Hey Asmon, saw Nicks vid about ur health. When ur stressed, try not being in resistance to that mental state. That's almost everyone's flaw, is trying to be relaxed. Gotta start rewiring ur brain to believe stress is good for you, and you'll find it'll take the pressure off certain areas of ur body and increase blood flow. It's ur body just getting you ready to perform and if ur exercising it'll make you even stronger. Keep streaming, thx for the content. Hope ur ok.
I feel like 80% of the people commenting didn't even watch the videos. asmon seems pretty hopeful and decide to just having fun for next expansion insted of chasing goals or collecting all the things in a video game.
Funny thing is, I did that for that Panda expansion. I chose to only find mobs that dropped Toys. Eventually found mobs that dropped rep items too. It started a HUGE drive on the server I was playing. Everyone started to farm the items when they learned the fun to be had. Blue Turtle Shell that knocked people off mounts? Yak that hits you and runs away, one time pulling a world boss and wiping the area. 😂 Fun fun times.
>I feel like 80% of the people commenting didn't even watch the video That's literally every Asmon video for the past 4 years. Like I'm not even joking, I swear people DO NOT watch the video and just go in and comment.
WOW should add price caps like old school RuneScape has in the grand exchange so things can't be price gouged or lowered too low to make a profit. That would give people more incentive to do professions because oversaturation of it won't kill it
I hadn't played Retail properly since Legion until recently, I was too overwhelmed every time I logged in after BFA/SL and DF with so many new things. When Remix came around I decided to jump on that and start a brand new character, it really helped me get back into the swing of things levelling through that and now I'm ready for The War Within on my old main.
maybe You take breaks, I quit AQW, played for 9 years, had my character since I was a kid, game is what, 11 or 12 years old now, something like that. also quit MapleStory, last time I played was when I recorded a video for my channel and quit Perfect World too when they introduced the rank 17 items (p2w stuff), in PW you have so many p2w aspects (it's a chinese game btw) you just can't keep up as a f2p. nowadays I play single player games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest (finished IX just yesterday, 50h gameplay, was really good), Disgaea, name a JRPG and if I haven't played it's on my list. Naruto games, fighting games, you know, mostly casual things now.
"I dont have any interest in streaming wow anymore, Like i dont, ill do season of discovery cus its fun, but if youre hanging around, like hoping that like one day ill go back to streaming wow, you should just unfollow and stop watching - cus its just not going to happen. Its not worth it, its not worth the time Etc. and uh that's just the way it is. im never going to do it again, its never gonna happen. It was a great point in my life and its over. and that's literally it." - the bald man i forsee some riding the hype train for at best 2 weeks of TWW. after that he will have used up all the content to farm. to the unying copium addicts tho im sure this will be nice lol. he aint comin back, and wow aint what rakes in the cheese no more. we will be back to drama and politics farming. At least this way he can say he "played" it so he can shit on the game for updoots throughout the xpac.
@@paradigmshift7541 Salty he got my hopes up maybe. Nobody wants to watch this garbo game lol. wow went down the pooper LOOOOONG before "retail players" was a thing we called ppl.
@@paradigmshift7541 lol sure - salty he got my hopes up maybe. Nobody wants to watch this stinker game no more lol. Went down the pooper well before we started calling people "retail players". But go off.
@@paradigmshift7541 i didn't watch it lol. just left my comment - wut? you tellin me you both shit on retail but consume it vicariously - that's what i'd consider hate watching. I want him to go back to react not make big speeches to the teary eyed wow fans that he wont go back to streamin wow, and then go back on that and stream it anyhow. All i did was leave a quote. Little bro is acting like im some fuming retail andy malding through a 2 hour vod lmao. All i did was see the game, see the title, and leave a quote.
as far as blizzard makes money they simply dont care. and they discovered that they can make a lot of money by releasing parts of expansions instead of releasing the whole game from start to the end. the point where the feeling of the game gets destroyed is the fact that u grind for gear which is useless to the next part of the expansion. after u have encountered that feeling u dont want to play the game from the start anymore. u just enter the game at the end of expansion. and i totally agree with the difficulty of the game. it doesnt exist. in the past u were wearing piece of a gear and u felt good about it because of the difficulty and the effort u made in order to get it . that feeling is long gone from wow
While wow has its issues for sure. The guy hasn’t played it in any scope of seriousness other than being carried in the last 2 years. Nostalgia only goes so far. He didn’t even play classic without being carried. In my opinion, his opinion on the game lost any weight for me and I don’t want to hear it anymore
if they did a full reset on the game more ppl would quit then return to the game. if you say thats not true you clearly dont collect things in the game, items/achievs are memories to look back2
i used to love this game. back when it was new and the entire world was undiscovered by everyone. running into a new thing within the world was so amazing. now when i look back on the time i spend on this game I'm ashamed at the amount of life this game has sucked from my youth.
You know I find myself coming back to wow because I loved the fantasy of some of the classes and playing dungeons or raids as a healer. But the feeling of something “new” will never be the same because you won’t get that again with the same game, most of the time
27:54 his opinion is so weird wth this isn’t the same asmon we had and I feel the real reason he quit wow is when his mom got sick and sadly passed on . Things were different after
Absolutely this. He probably reevaluated his life cause of his mom's death and his dad is really old so mortality became so apparent to him. I don't blame him, WoW is so hard on fomo that you constantly need to chase something to keep up and it never ends. And when life hits you hard you realize how vain that stuff is.
OSRS worked because the entire game systems changed in rs3.. that hasn’t happened in wow. It’s still very much the same game at its core just with more stuff.. you could have a near classic experience by just picking a simple class like warrior and not worrying about all the extra stuff. Wow Andy’s are the only people I’ve ever seen BEG for a classic+ type thing when the game is LITERALLY already classic+.
Made the same decision about playing wow, as you. Best decision ever. Having so much fun playing wow and still collect my mounts, pets etc., just not as hardcore as before.
the enjoyment is really only for nostalgia of all the time you spent on the game i also do it too i log back on play for days to a week then after a week I'll get bored because it's dead it's not how its used to be I'll find group get frustrated then lose interest again the cycle repeats after months it's sad but i just want to experience the excitement to play the game i used to enjoy again
Same man. Its sad to see how they have really destroyed their own game and their needs to ”add new exciting stuff” which in reality just makes the game more complex and harder for new or returning players. There is just too much in the game, it needs to be simplified.
The difficulty rant is so old and, at this point, stupid. He's always gotten pushback on it, and rightfully so. Yes, you don't need 4 difficulties, but having only 1 is just bad
Pvp heavy competitive games are hard. Where you playing against crazy people that don't sleep at all, in WoW 3/4 of the difficulties you just need to be able to hold your brain in your head. It's not that hard. You just need details for your ego in like 99% of the whole game.
Yeah I could never get behind getting rid of multiple difficulties. Don't get me wrong, each have their advantages, but I think having multiple difficulties is much better. One of the major complaints with SoD (Era to a lesser extent) was the parse culture, specifically because it meant gatekeeping players who weren't parsing well. This culture only exists when you have players with different ideas of how the raid should go, as that naturally causes friction since some players just want to go in blind and do the raid and don't mind wiping, and the others want to one-shot the bosses and do the best DPS possible. When you force everyone into one difficulty, you're inevitably going to have interactions between those two types of players, and it's almost always negative for the reasons I mentioned earlier. This leads to things like people checking parses/logs before you go into the raid, and naturally from that, getting denied from raids, meaning those less skilled players are gatekept and have a negative experience. This culture doesn't seem to be nearly as prevalent in retail, strangely. I've done hundreds of raids (Mostly pugged and on the most toxic difficulties, normal/heroic) and I've had my logs checked one time, and that was by a raid leader that everyone hated and left the group. It's really that simple, people joining a heroic group have similar expectations (more or less) to each other, whereas if you remove the difficulty and place them all in one raid, they don't have those.
Difficulty settings are fundamentally antithetical to good game design. Instead of relying on difficulty settings, developers can implement creative mechanisms-such as item levels or even legendaries-that naturally balance the challenge within the game.
What i wished for a long time : One day they'll make your garrison the login screen and you'll be hovering around your chars on their profession buildings working or practicing their class abilities if they dont have professions. You'll be able to issue orders to them, select one and leave through the gates to join the world. Right now it's like diablo :P
I mean to the people in the comments, WoW is just too much lol. Need a reboot of it. People coming into the game won't stay and people who are staying have been playing a long time and complain about it anyway. You can hate on Asmon all you want, but people complain about the state of the game in every M+ grind group, every raid group, and every pvp instance group. Guild chats too. Just make a new game lol then it can have simplicity and charm again. Mounts with a 1% drop rate that are old content that you storm through each week and a 5-hour grind from 10 to max level and transmogs that take a month to farm rep for are stupid and take away from the charm.
No, bro. My friend started playing during DF, and the first thing he said is that he LOVES that the game has so many "skins" to collect. You don't need to get all the items, and that's the problem.
People complain about the game they play in every good game. That's the stamp of quality, because people care about the game deeply, that's why they're complaining.
You ever heard Madden or CoD fans complain about reskins? They sell millions of copies every year. I refuse to buy a product that has less than 60% new content added. I started WoW last year and I JUST got to Mythic raiding literally last week. If you enjoy the game instead of having this min/max mindset most MMO players have then you'd enjoy your time.
Maybe If there was some incentive for the other crafter’s contributions to a guild raid, guild points or something, (cooking, smithing,etc.) would be more worthwhile.
I'd like to see 2 difficulties. One that drops loot and one thats insanely difficult, tuned for bis gear and near optimal comps but only rewards cosmetics, mounts, etc.
Let me get this straight. Asmongold, who has made his fortune off World of Warcraft, an incredible game, continually attacks the franchise and company behind calling the game essentially trash, while he makes zero effort to actually play it given that at every difficult challenge in the game he has fans that carry him, then he complains that the game is not fun anymore, continues to talk more trash about it and promises it will be the last time he plays? At this point This is incredibly unethical behavior.
maybe because you actually have to spend more than 5 minutes worth of attention to understand it, what a shock that you cant digest 20 years of events in 5 minutes.
Because in the WoW timeline the world and or universe is nearly destroyed every 3-5 years. It's like Marvel... a comic book version of the actually good stories the lore tries to emulate. Think about LotR. Events like this are spread out over centuries/millenia.
I've liked what Season of Discovery has done overall. The runes essentially expanded classic classes to have TBC + Wrath abilities, and they added + adjusted the raid content. Its been a much better experience compared to pure Classic. As for retail? I don't even play it anymore. Little desire to get War Within either.
Welcome to the Warbands system! Probably the best thing they have added in a while. Any class can learn any transmog now even if they cannot equip it - this is one of my favorite changes. It's good to hear that you are going to take a more relaxed approach - it is honestly much more enjoyable that way.
My problem is it seems like every few months upon logging in, "You're talents are reset" WoW just pisses me off with having to learn my toons all over every few months.
@@Sean-rj2ng not true. When you have several toons you enjoy, and every couple of months you have to reset the talents, move stuff around, etc. It grows old real quick. They've over complicated everything in WoW retail.
35:55 Couldn't agree more. Once you have good gear, you know it's going to become trash soon so why bother getting gear, better spending time elsewhere.
Something so calming about seeing Asmon on retail wow. I remember all I did during covid was play Shadowlands and watch his streams on the second monitor. Good times.
It's not just about putting the retails skills in classic and making raids of the old dungeons we wanted the old kharazan , emerald dream and ashbringer questline
@@janalukacova they could'nt kill her bc she is a big strong woman so they just let her on the maw forever but yea she's just deadlike until blizz wants to make more money so they get her out of the maw for a few more bucks if uk uk
After Legion, BFA was dogshit and all I did was sub/unsub to farm some mounts waiting for the game to get better. SL happened and I realized it was never going to be great again and quit a month into it. This looks like more of the same. Can honestly say a lot of the cosmetics look really cool, but that is almost certainly the cheapskate way Blizzard is holding on to what is left of their player base. Making some flashy items is easier than making new and original gameplay. Still looks like life support to me.
@@retrogeko7955 Nope. Nothing looked exciting to me. Bare bones, some QoL, dragon riding is moderately interesting but nothing noteworthy. The scumbag stuff, like on time access, increased base price, etc. is enough to turn me away for sure. If they wanna do that crap, they better have the game to back it up, otherwise, there are better options for my time.
Nailed it at 31 mins for me. As soon as you feel obligated to play a game to stay relevant in-game it evolves from a fun game to a chore or work simulator IMHO. Made the same choice around 2010, backed away from MMORPG's for maybe 2 years, and it fully rekindled my love and enjoyment of gaming, including the genre itself, but I'm 110% casual now days. No-lifing was a teenage phase for myself personally.
Can we briefly criticize the fact that Blizzard offers an expansion for 50 euros without playing time. So I have to spend at least 63 euros to play the expansion. For a 20 year old game. Shit, I'm glad WOW never got me hooked. I already thought with Metin2 I would have left a lot of money there, but playing WOW for several years takes a different amount of money. Why does this stupid subscription crap always come from America? The same in IRacing....absurd how people seriously play a game where you can only play if you buy a subscription. Shit I hope Microsoft will change things at blizzard regarding monitarization.
You see kido, boomers creamed their pants over this game 20years ago when it was the best and they never grew out of it. They only played one game their entire life and they think paying $200/year to play a 5/10 game with a cash shop is how it should be.
Have to clarify the dude who said you can collect everything that not your class. That’s not entirely correct. You CANNOT collect class specific pieces on any toon. It still doesn’t work. Prot didn’t get nerfed. The rebuffed dmg from threat issues and also survivability for prot is the same.
Checks comments: Unholy trinity of *Running around in circles* *Not playing actually* *Complaining* Seems about right, the copium is still there, you'll think its about "content" but at this point it's just pathetically sad. *I can do waevu uh wannnt boohoo* sure, and we can criticize it since its online for everyone to see as much as we want. Better play Blizzard slop off stream really.
The funny part are the WoW andies being happy that Zack is literally not even playing the game and just complaining to it lmao. They're happy to get spit on, classic WoW player. You should run Zack off the game or minimum be offended, something idk have some self respect.
I said it in previous video where Asmon reacted to the WoW official animation - amount of copium that asmon has for wow, is enough to provide copium for whole america. Zack really can't leave samsara
“Why I logged into WoW” to walk, fly around for 2 hours and complain about the game because I’m a hater and no one can be happy if I am not happy. I have summed the video up.
Jesus Christ, just a few days ago he was saying Blizzard fans eat any shit Blizzard puts out and people should stop supporting them but then goes and buys every game they put out AND advertises it for free. He gives them glowing reviews in the first two weeks of a new expansion with ton of eyeballs on it, then turns on it when it becomes unpopular like a real grifter. Asmon has zero integrity.
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He logged in to walk around and jump in circular patterns in the main cities
I haven't played since 2010 , and if I logged in now, thats what I would do for 5 min , then log back out.
That is the most world of warcraft thing ever
That’s literally why I own the game. Finding groups are horrendous.
With dragonriding you can do it way more efficiently.
Spoilers!!
I don't know what I was expecting. But 2 1/2 hours of Asmon running around on a mount talking about how disappointed he is with WoW/blizzard sounds about right
Imagine being so negative about everything
@@lolilol5346it's honestly sad he even does this to himself, of course you won't like something if you go in hating it lol
It is sad. And I know it well. I seem to talk about WoW a lot, log in occasionally, do absolutely nothing, get bored to tears, and log back out.
It’s just not a fun game. 😢
Worst of it being, he clearly hasn't played the game in the last 2 years, but he's still so negative about what he perceives the game to be without knowing what the game is now.
@keeneahnungoldr-e9t you totally missed the point did you ?
It’s so weird remembering when WoW was the only game he’d play to him not knowing a damn thing.
I guarantee he still knows all the lore from everything up till lich king
Its because the game sucks and there are better things to spend your time on
@@ultrastoat3298yeah like watching videos about a streamer complaining about the game thats not worth playing, apparently.
Lol this community is so unintentionally hilarious its insane 😂😂
@@SERO9898 least unhinged psych ward
@@ultrastoat3298 its at that stage now where hardcore players or long time players are just having troubling sticking around
I feel like Asmon has moved on from WoW as a whole, but just isn't able to come to terms with that yet. So he is constantly grasping at straws trying to come up with all these reasons as to why he doesn't enjoy the game anymore. Seems to be a situation of no matter what they do, players like him will never be happy and always find things to take up issue with, because they just don't enjoy the game anymore. It's a very hard thing to accept with a game like this, when it has been such a massive/important part of so many of our lives. It's very difficult to let it go, especially when you have so many memories and so much nostalgia attached to it.
Imagine being a real living adult following a streamer around hoping to get noticed saying "my king"
@MavisBeacon-t6d nah asmon is nice, but his followers will forever shock me
@MavisBeacon-t6d It is weird for "grown men" following around a streamer in a video game saying stuff like that.
@@ivanthespacebiker5390 bro you have no idea if asmon is nice lmao
Call me old but i love what he said about just enjoying the game and not worrying about getting every single item and what not. I used to kill my enjoyment for games doing that exact thing. Always min-maxing trying to get the best whatever, not even thinking about just enjoying the game. Every since i started slowing down like that, i have so much more fun no matter what im playing.
25 is old? Damn I must be ancient. (35)
Enlightened, not old
Unc
@@pipbernadotte9016think he is referring to his opinion being old not his age
25 x D lmaooo
Just so everyone knows. Yes its censored theough the whole video, yes its FUCKING annoying.
Yes....yes, it is. Cursing is truly a part of his extensive vocabulary.
Remember when you could say whatever THE FUCK you wanted on youtube without the fear of censorship? What a day...
Was about to ask about that... Isn't there an AI for that yet?
Does cursing affect algo ranking now?
@@Fightesstthe advertisers dont like cursing so if you curse they unmonetize the video
Ok seriously, since when do the editors edit "fuck" out his speech? At some parts of this video this become ridiculous.
If it's being done, it's because YT throttles videos with fuck in it.
blame YT, they demonetize videos if there is swearing too soon or too much
@@marcogenovesi8570 blamde advertisers actualy,YT wouldnt care otherwise
people want to play the blame game, but i dont watch content that starts to come off rediculous to please the YT algorithm... and im sure im not the only one who will start to not click these if they continue down this path. im not a child.
dont you get it? he wants RUclips to give him money too, so he can just sit around and do nothing.
>i havent played in SUCH a long time
>still has remix character
So not that long
I last played when dragonflight came out and I quit. Passing on this and staying that way
He specifies later he means a long time since he logged into retail wow 56:56 - 57:39
Fuck and fucking are censored out. LMFAO.
he needs more money, so he doesnt have to do anything. inflation makes it harder to stay off work.
Soon they'll use ai to block out whole sentences youtube decides it doesnt like
@@UltimateGamerCC if he never put out another video after this one, he would STILL have more money than you will ever see.
cutting out the f word makes me think every time it happens makes me think my wifi died
I hate cussing because im only 7 years old so I like it thank you editor 😊
@@collin833 then get off the internet
@@collin833 well considering your RUclips account is 8 years old. imma say you lying
Why is he doing it tho, i thought the channel wasnt monetized anyway.
weird how in the previous video earlier today he said the grape word and it was all good
Asmon explaining "Why I Logged On To WoW" at least once a month now
I was just going to say something similar to this lol acting like not logging in for a handful of months is him thinking its been 4 years and multiple major expansions lol
Asmon explaining "Why I Logged On To WoW walk in city make a video and log out" at least once a month now*
He also has to pay a month sub no ? Just to logg on once ?
**pulls up ms paint and explains whats wrong with WoW for 10th time this year**
He is rich as fuck, so who would care@@ceshmate1953
I kinda like that they started out with a video of "Hey! This is what happened in the last 3 & 1/2 expansions incase you skipped them."
Yeah so many people said fuck this game haha
Bro logged on, talked shit for two hours, and didn’t do a single thing in the game 😂
33:17 Imagine your goal of playing a game is just to have fun, so unproductive.
fun? what's that? he's just here to farm Money.
true dude. Fun is for kids
@@UltimateGamerCC you mean have his fan base give him money, right? lol
@@IceKoldX mhmm, exactly why he's hating on WoW more than playing it, cause it makes him more money if he hates on it. gotta appease the jaded ex players who would rather give him the $15 than to play the game when it's fun. he's farming the "Wails" while Blizzard farms the Whales.
I dont understand when did setting goales and reaching them become unfun? Just because you guys suck and cant get a +2 key doesnt mean others dont have fun with being good at something xD As soon as it gets competitive people scream for fun but bro there is no fun in being competitive, reaching your goals is fun, the way to your goal is and should be HARD, so cry all you want and play minecraft, WoW aint a safezone anymore its for geeks and grinders, money makers and economy simulators. Its not a game to have fun in, you can, but have to understand its so much more that you should just go away if all you want is have fun. You can have fun without a computer you dont need WoW to have fun, you are your own problem! Thank me later :)
There's an undeniable beauty and charm to Warcraft. It's best enjoyed at a person's own pace.
Do you know what I just realised about the recap cinematic? Not one fucking mention of Sylvannas, that's absolutely hilarious.
She appears, she's just not part of the current narrative. It would be like bringing up Illidan.
Even if she appears she's apparently not worth speaking of. She had a massive role in 2 of the last 4 expansions, the recap extends back to the last parts of Legion, so I think it's still telling that they don't even mention her name in this summary of events.
cause nobody wants to hear about her, we had 6+ years of her in the spotlight.
Not enough room for 2 angry female elves.
Green elf ranger is Sylvannas reskinned to appease the woke crowd
FOMO is a psychological trigger like any other, it's an impulse to , in this case to not feel left out or missing on something.
Beyond simply caring about it which isn't as easy as that, the easiest way to do it is to just be aware of when it happens and stopping yourself from engaging with it. Also tell yourself it's not important and it's an artificial thing created by a company to make you spend more money and time on their product, you gain absolutely zero of anything by engaging with FOMO tactics.
Every expansion “you must do this … OR AZEROTH IS DOOMED”
Every game* ..... ever*
@@lichmourne00every badly written game*
fixed that for you. Put some respect on good writers.
@@thesunryze4658every modern MMO has that scope now. Classic wow was just standing on its race wars
@@blank2541 they are badly written
That's the problem for me currently, it's the same shit every xpac. Level up, get gear, do keys and raids, open your weekly vault, kill the bad man, repeat every 2 years.
"logs in"
"does nothing but run around in circles talking about how bad the game is now"
I really wish you people would move on from this game for real. Notice how everyone else is actively playing the game and engaging with it instead of wallowing in past glory. MOve on
I've played casually since the end of Wrath. I never worry about BIS or spec my character to match the Meta.
I mean you cant worry about it mate, everything is so standardised now that the only thing you could ever min max for a true bis is trinkets or some special effect weapon.
Almost all gear is the same literally 0 diversity in builds. Boring...
Why do you say that like you've been playing for a long time? End of wrath? So cats? Big deal
@@Sari36YTBro that’s actually a long time, don’t be cocky
No way you started censoring the swear words
The clowns at YT demonetize the video otherwise
@@Shuubox it was probably ai
@@ShuuboxLol, millionaire needs ad revenue.
@@CharleyTheHobo the channel aint run by him, he doesnt make money from it.
@@garegos7184 Please provide evidence.
Everyone complaining about him just running around is exactly his point. Some people can just chill and explore and cruise around. Not everyone has to grind grind grind grind work work work work parse parse parse. Enjoy the world, I know its so foreign in this game to not sweat all over your keyboard and not scream at people cause they missed a mechanic.
People are complaining because he's just running around old WoW area reminiscing on what it used to be. He's been doing this for 2 years now. Just play the game lmao he doesn't have to sweat, we just wanted him to interact with it.
He's running around reminiscing about what WoW used to be, which is a clear sign that the game doesn't interest him anymore. He's only logging in because of the new expansion, and as a content creator, it's his job to stay relevant. Asmon won't be back on this game for a long time, and the reality is he doesn't play it for a reason-it's the same reason millions of others have stopped playing. If people can't see that as a sign, I'm not sure what will convince them. You may still enjoy it, but it's clear the game isn't resonating with people anymore, even with a new expansion. The game needs a reset.
@@Hologram providing more than half the games pop have grown into adults now yeah it kinda happens you out grow it me on the other hand. I’m still have fun
I’m glad you changed his mindset about WOW and is just going to enjoy the game. You should try an RP realm if you want to enjoy the game. It brought Xaryu back to retail because it’s been that much fun to play on an RP realm.
That's how lost I felt when I played in dragonflight after quitting in early mop. Back when I was the second officer after my gm on the second best pvp guild on defias brotherhood, horde. Those were the times.
I remember when no one knew/cared anything wow's "lore" aside from its actual world building. To me, all these stories about the characters in the wow universe are completely, utterly uninteresting. The entire premise of WoW was that it was about living in a consistent fantasy world. The early cinematics were all about "normal" elves, dwarfs, etc. living and fighting, not these superhero-like characters. With this focus on named characters, it feels more like a random singleplayer game and less like a virtual world.
There is a significant cognitive bias in your thinking because WoW lore was built on the events and characters from WC1, WC2, and WC3. WoW's world-building was based on these elements. After they had 'finished' all possible storylines, like those of Illidan in TBC, Arthas in WOTLK, and Deathwing in Cata, they had to start creating new lore to keep going. Unfortunately, everything related to the new lore was, and still is, based on the MMO world structure of power creeping, rather than on lore-driven events
except when those characters have fought off Death, the Devil and everything in-between, those survivors BECOME Superheroes.
TBC tells stories, WOTLK tells stories(the greatest story ever in a game), Cata tells stories, MOP is pure lore, WOD there is nothing in this garbage (except for hellfire citadel - great raid), and through the rest of the expansions the lore was more in the game, but its not like the previous ones didnt have. There’s is a timeline, and the expansions are all linked by the stories they tell us. But yeah, nowadays it’s not fun like back in time, and we don’t have to pursue an experience like that anymore because it’s literally impossible to reach it again. And I have the opinion that if wrath of the Lich King happened today, people would hate it, just because they love their past and the joy they had back in time
Yes dude! Those were the days, just kids running around having fun.
Sorry but i have to disagree, yes vanilla wow had much more " the world tells you the story " type of world building and guess what the world was already ready before this, we have known areas and factions and characters and what vanilla wow did was just throw us into that big world in 3d person character pov and let us explore the giant world that tells a story on it's own, this does still exist! The focus on character driven arcs and heroes doesn't mean this no longer exists, and besides character driven arcs and narratives were always a thing in warcraft 2 and 3, where you control actual heroes they have dialogue and even cinematic cutscenes, the earliest cutscene i remember is that Khadgar closing the dark portal in wc2.
That was some absolute F- tier content, he made this exact video 4-5 months ago, and another one about a year ago.
It's bait content. He can't bring himself to completely quit WoW but he also can't actually play the game. So he just rides around on a mount talking about how much he misses the "good old days"
@@ExileOT yeah i did?
all of his videos are the same, asmon is always repeating talking points just bending it to the topic he is watching, if you've seen 5 asmon videos you've seen his entire arsenal of content
Yeah, he's incredible boring and childish now
I don't know who needs to hear this but remember: it's okay to enjoy WoW, even today.
TWW hype, from a retail Andy going into his 16th year of consecutive WoW sub 😂
Let's go!
It’s just Asmon/his viewers negative and none of thn even play. Haven’t talked to any1 who played df who didn’t think it was great expac
i play classic to raid with my guild and i play retail to do keys with my guild mates. it’s really not as doomer as people who don’t play make it out to be
@@Sean-rj2ng 100% :)
@okiv99 I think he was pretty positive this time around other than DF bad because baby story. I personally enjoyed DF and am excited for War Within
It's the popular thing right now to hate on wow mostly coming from people who are actually not playing it, they quit during a time when they were frustrated with the game and now they're forever salty.
As an older guy myself, this was the most relatable Asmongold video I've ever seen, from taking the game less seriously, to burning out, to not relating to the new story and style, to preferring the old flying system and forgetting about changes that happened way back in Cata lol.
And before anyone points it out, I know you can switch do the old system for old content. Just saying I like it better.
Doesn’t like Classic
Doesn’t like SoD
Doesn’t like Hardcore
Doesn’t like Private Servers
Doesn’t like “Retail”
Still wants to somehow play WoW.
This man is genuinely insane. He doesn’t know what he wants but he knows what he doesn’t want.
That's literally just a wow fan.
@@Elaborance A terminally online one yeah
That’s most of the older content creators now I’ve played since the end of TBC and I’m really excited about the direction the game is heading and many others are too. Most of these people are negative because it draws views and a mass of stupid people who don’t even play just listen to these guys.
@@NoobGamer-di1dw “Blizz Bad” makes you a lot of money these days. That’s why.
"Get profit for just running around and post the video "
And they say Kingdom Hearts has a convoluted story...
And just like when they say that about KH they are wrong.
@@mrbubbles6468 dont you need to play like 10 games to understand the story of KH? it does seem convoluted
@@GrassSaint33 just 1.5 and 2.5 and u know everything. they also have a movie as a game as bonus for the story but ok
wow's story is basic AF wtf are you talking about
@@GrassSaint33you weren’t a chosen key blade wielder
I’ll give asmon 2 weeks most and he will quit playing wow afterwards
yup, he'll come on long enough to farm his viewers for content and be gone until the next one, it will repeat until the day that he dies or everyone gets tired of being farmed. which he must be getting close to the latter, considering he's looking for handouts from RUclips now.
Asmongold's constant negativity towards *World of Warcraft* is starting to feel more childish than constructive. Instead of offering real solutions, he tends to blow small issues way out of proportion, turning his complaints into attention-seeking rants. It’s like he’s more interested in feeding his own ego than actually helping the game or the community. At this point, it’s hard to take him seriously when he’s constantly trashing a game he still profits from. His behavior is coming across more like a temper tantrum than the thoughtful critique you'd expect from a community leader.
I do miss the old days. Mount farming, sword runs, weekly chest opens. I know those days are over but I do hope he comes back in earnest in TWW.
It never left. You just have nostalgia.
@@retrogeko7955 bro what? He literally hardly plays wow at all anymore. I was talking about him not me.
WoW would have to be fun again like 2004-2010, but doesn’t seem like that’ll happen anytime soon
This is nothing im assuming as much as he was known for this game it probably hasn’t been that long. I just logged into D3 the other day after 10 years of not playing I never even seen the Necromancer class . It was pretty cool to still have my characters.
I wonder how many tens of thousands of times Asmon has heard the Stormwind music from being in the city.
Very refreshing to see we all finally have realized things are never going to be the way it was, and that’s ok.
Mob remix came out every person played it because it was soo much fun being overpowered as hell
1:00:00 The fact that there are like 500 different currencies show how bloated and fucked wow really is... building on top of each expansion instead of reworking or reusing previous system.. is one of the biggest mistakes in the IT world.. doesnt matter if we are talking about games, web-apps or other software... it's always the same and always dumb af.
this is a weird nitpick,the currency is fine,you only care about it for one patch,or if you like collecting stuff,its also themed,it would be weird if you used the same currency for sw and for interdimentional space vendors
True, one of the worst things about IT is building on top of shit foundations because of short sighted business decisions, that in the long run hurt everything.
@@StarContract I am so glad that my current company and the customers are willing to invest in continues refactoring... we build individual software and holy cow... that shit would be so fucked and unstable after 1 year that you could barely touch it without breaking stuff.
Hey Asmon, saw Nicks vid about ur health. When ur stressed, try not being in resistance to that mental state. That's almost everyone's flaw, is trying to be relaxed. Gotta start rewiring ur brain to believe stress is good for you, and you'll find it'll take the pressure off certain areas of ur body and increase blood flow. It's ur body just getting you ready to perform and if ur exercising it'll make you even stronger. Keep streaming, thx for the content. Hope ur ok.
He did more than me the last time i relogged into wow
Abusive boyfriend visits abusive girlfriend to tell her how disappointed he is in her for 2½ hours
I feel like 80% of the people commenting didn't even watch the videos. asmon seems pretty hopeful and decide to just having fun for next expansion insted of chasing goals or collecting all the things in a video game.
He cultivated the worst group of anti-WoW zealots of the last 5 years.
@@Nightstalker314 Blizzard themselves cultivated them, they only gathered around Asmon
@@Nightstalker314 Agreed. It's unfortunate because DF, while imperfect, was a decent expansion. But, no, no.
"retail bad classic good zug zug".
Funny thing is, I did that for that Panda expansion. I chose to only find mobs that dropped Toys. Eventually found mobs that dropped rep items too. It started a HUGE drive on the server I was playing. Everyone started to farm the items when they learned the fun to be had. Blue Turtle Shell that knocked people off mounts? Yak that hits you and runs away, one time pulling a world boss and wiping the area. 😂 Fun fun times.
>I feel like 80% of the people commenting didn't even watch the video
That's literally every Asmon video for the past 4 years.
Like I'm not even joking, I swear people DO NOT watch the video and just go in and comment.
WOW should add price caps like old school RuneScape has in the grand exchange so things can't be price gouged or lowered too low to make a profit. That would give people more incentive to do professions because oversaturation of it won't kill it
I hadn't played Retail properly since Legion until recently, I was too overwhelmed every time I logged in after BFA/SL and DF with so many new things. When Remix came around I decided to jump on that and start a brand new character, it really helped me get back into the swing of things levelling through that and now I'm ready for The War Within on my old main.
You never quit an MMO, you just take breaks
nah i quit wow. havent been playing since bfa and dont intend to come back
@@naxergss2625 okay, see you soon online once your break ends
@@joshmulligan950 doubt it. last time i logged on was december 2018
maybe You take breaks, I quit AQW, played for 9 years, had my character since I was a kid, game is what, 11 or 12 years old now, something like that.
also quit MapleStory, last time I played was when I recorded a video for my channel and quit Perfect World too when they introduced the rank 17 items (p2w stuff), in PW you have so many p2w aspects (it's a chinese game btw) you just can't keep up as a f2p.
nowadays I play single player games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest (finished IX just yesterday, 50h gameplay, was really good), Disgaea, name a JRPG and if I haven't played it's on my list. Naruto games, fighting games, you know, mostly casual things now.
@@naxergss2625 Haha. I returned to WoW in December. Last time I played before that was Cataclysm. It's over when it's over.
"I dont have any interest in streaming wow anymore, Like i dont, ill do season of discovery cus its fun, but if youre hanging around, like hoping that like one day ill go back to streaming wow, you should just unfollow and stop watching - cus its just not going to happen. Its not worth it, its not worth the time Etc. and uh that's just the way it is. im never going to do it again, its never gonna happen. It was a great point in my life and its over. and that's literally it."
- the bald man
i forsee some riding the hype train for at best 2 weeks of TWW. after that he will have used up all the content to farm. to the unying copium addicts tho im sure this will be nice lol. he aint comin back, and wow aint what rakes in the cheese no more. we will be back to drama and politics farming. At least this way he can say he "played" it so he can shit on the game for updoots throughout the xpac.
lmao Retail players so salty about Asmon, love it.
@@paradigmshift7541 Salty he got my hopes up maybe. Nobody wants to watch this garbo game lol. wow went down the pooper LOOOOONG before "retail players" was a thing we called ppl.
@@paradigmshift7541 lol sure - salty he got my hopes up maybe. Nobody wants to watch this stinker game no more lol. Went down the pooper well before we started calling people "retail players". But go off.
@@TheShalestorm lmao why tf you watching his shit then? make it make sense. will never understand people that hate watch
@@paradigmshift7541 i didn't watch it lol. just left my comment - wut? you tellin me you both shit on retail but consume it vicariously - that's what i'd consider hate watching. I want him to go back to react not make big speeches to the teary eyed wow fans that he wont go back to streamin wow, and then go back on that and stream it anyhow. All i did was leave a quote.
Little bro is acting like im some fuming retail andy malding through a 2 hour vod lmao. All i did was see the game, see the title, and leave a quote.
Recall that Asmongold declared a few weeks prior that he would never again stream Wow? He had had enough of the game.
as far as blizzard makes money they simply dont care. and they discovered that they can make a lot of money by releasing parts of expansions instead of releasing the whole game from start to the end. the point where the feeling of the game gets destroyed is the fact that u grind for gear which is useless to the next part of the expansion. after u have encountered that feeling u dont want to play the game from the start anymore. u just enter the game at the end of expansion. and i totally agree with the difficulty of the game. it doesnt exist. in the past u were wearing piece of a gear and u felt good about it because of the difficulty and the effort u made in order to get it . that feeling is long gone from wow
Once a WoW addict, always a WoW addict
I just want a vanilla reset up to wotlk and then again ,and again ... till I die.
play on warmane oyxia server then bro 👍🏻
While wow has its issues for sure. The guy hasn’t played it in any scope of seriousness other than being carried in the last 2 years.
Nostalgia only goes so far. He didn’t even play classic without being carried. In my opinion, his opinion on the game lost any weight for me and I don’t want to hear it anymore
if they did a full reset on the game more ppl would quit then return to the game. if you say thats not true you clearly dont collect things in the game, items/achievs are memories to look back2
Notice how they say and show NOTHING of The Jailer in the recap in the beginning when you first log in.
i used to love this game. back when it was new and the entire world was undiscovered by everyone. running into a new thing within the world was so amazing. now when i look back on the time i spend on this game I'm ashamed at the amount of life this game has sucked from my youth.
You know I find myself coming back to wow because I loved the fantasy of some of the classes and playing dungeons or raids as a healer. But the feeling of something “new” will never be the same because you won’t get that again with the same game, most of the time
*“Why I haven’t logged onto FFXIV”* 😂
@@Cawhi believe it or not FFXIV is in an ever worse state than wow atm
@@lolilol5346 story wise its worse than it was in previous expacs but the raids trials and dungeons are better than ever
Just story wise
@@rajder656 lol 🤣
@@Teo_stra gameplay wise too
We should've seen Anduin's warcrimes animated
27:54 his opinion is so weird wth this isn’t the same asmon we had and I feel the real reason he quit wow is when his mom got sick and sadly passed on . Things were different after
Absolutely this. He probably reevaluated his life cause of his mom's death and his dad is really old so mortality became so apparent to him. I don't blame him, WoW is so hard on fomo that you constantly need to chase something to keep up and it never ends. And when life hits you hard you realize how vain that stuff is.
OSRS worked because the entire game systems changed in rs3.. that hasn’t happened in wow. It’s still very much the same game at its core just with more stuff.. you could have a near classic experience by just picking a simple class like warrior and not worrying about all the extra stuff.
Wow Andy’s are the only people I’ve ever seen BEG for a classic+ type thing when the game is LITERALLY already classic+.
Made the same decision about playing wow, as you. Best decision ever. Having so much fun playing wow and still collect my mounts, pets etc., just not as hardcore as before.
the enjoyment is really only for nostalgia of all the time you spent on the game i also do it too i log back on play for days to a week then after a week I'll get bored because it's dead it's not how its used to be I'll find group get frustrated then lose interest again the cycle repeats after months it's sad but i just want to experience the excitement to play the game i used to enjoy again
Same man. Its sad to see how they have really destroyed their own game and their needs to ”add new exciting stuff” which in reality just makes the game more complex and harder for new or returning players. There is just too much in the game, it needs to be simplified.
This game is his prison at this point.
Sylvanas - "This world.....is a PRISON"
nah, it's his cow, and he's milking it as always, easy money.
The difficulty rant is so old and, at this point, stupid. He's always gotten pushback on it, and rightfully so. Yes, you don't need 4 difficulties, but having only 1 is just bad
Yeah raiding was nevr for casual players. Good thing about wow now is loads of things for casuals to do outside of raiding.
@okiv99 the good thing about wow now is that t you can raid as a casual. The 4 difficult methods are great to separate bad casuals from good players
Pvp heavy competitive games are hard. Where you playing against crazy people that don't sleep at all, in WoW 3/4 of the difficulties you just need to be able to hold your brain in your head. It's not that hard. You just need details for your ego in like 99% of the whole game.
Yeah I could never get behind getting rid of multiple difficulties. Don't get me wrong, each have their advantages, but I think having multiple difficulties is much better.
One of the major complaints with SoD (Era to a lesser extent) was the parse culture, specifically because it meant gatekeeping players who weren't parsing well. This culture only exists when you have players with different ideas of how the raid should go, as that naturally causes friction since some players just want to go in blind and do the raid and don't mind wiping, and the others want to one-shot the bosses and do the best DPS possible.
When you force everyone into one difficulty, you're inevitably going to have interactions between those two types of players, and it's almost always negative for the reasons I mentioned earlier. This leads to things like people checking parses/logs before you go into the raid, and naturally from that, getting denied from raids, meaning those less skilled players are gatekept and have a negative experience.
This culture doesn't seem to be nearly as prevalent in retail, strangely. I've done hundreds of raids (Mostly pugged and on the most toxic difficulties, normal/heroic) and I've had my logs checked one time, and that was by a raid leader that everyone hated and left the group.
It's really that simple, people joining a heroic group have similar expectations (more or less) to each other, whereas if you remove the difficulty and place them all in one raid, they don't have those.
Difficulty settings are fundamentally antithetical to good game design. Instead of relying on difficulty settings, developers can implement creative mechanisms-such as item levels or even legendaries-that naturally balance the challenge within the game.
Him logging on and seeing all the new stuff just reminds me why I stopped playing. Too much crap to collect.
What i wished for a long time : One day they'll make your garrison the login screen and you'll be hovering around your chars on their profession buildings working or practicing their class abilities if they dont have professions. You'll be able to issue orders to them, select one and leave through the gates to join the world.
Right now it's like diablo :P
I mean to the people in the comments, WoW is just too much lol. Need a reboot of it. People coming into the game won't stay and people who are staying have been playing a long time and complain about it anyway. You can hate on Asmon all you want, but people complain about the state of the game in every M+ grind group, every raid group, and every pvp instance group. Guild chats too. Just make a new game lol then it can have simplicity and charm again. Mounts with a 1% drop rate that are old content that you storm through each week and a 5-hour grind from 10 to max level and transmogs that take a month to farm rep for are stupid and take away from the charm.
No, bro. My friend started playing during DF, and the first thing he said is that he LOVES that the game has so many "skins" to collect. You don't need to get all the items, and that's the problem.
People complain about the game they play in every good game. That's the stamp of quality, because people care about the game deeply, that's why they're complaining.
You ever heard Madden or CoD fans complain about reskins? They sell millions of copies every year. I refuse to buy a product that has less than 60% new content added. I started WoW last year and I JUST got to Mythic raiding literally last week. If you enjoy the game instead of having this min/max mindset most MMO players have then you'd enjoy your time.
Asmon with L takes on wow like usual the washed up scrub
He loged in To yap For 2 Hours doing nothing
Is the game f2p ?
@@Solobuddyopposite, you have to buy the expansions and then pay a monthly sub
@@Solobuddy And you have the option to buy gold with actual money lol
@@Rudolf215 screw that I'll stick to f2p games
@@Solobuddy I love f2p games, they don’t make you feel like you have to be on 24/7
Maybe If there was some incentive for the other crafter’s contributions to a guild raid, guild points or something, (cooking, smithing,etc.) would be more worthwhile.
I'd like to see 2 difficulties. One that drops loot and one thats insanely difficult, tuned for bis gear and near optimal comps but only rewards cosmetics, mounts, etc.
Let me get this straight. Asmongold, who has made his fortune off World of Warcraft, an incredible game, continually attacks the franchise and company behind calling the game essentially trash, while he makes zero effort to actually play it given that at every difficult challenge in the game he has fans that carry him, then he complains that the game is not fun anymore, continues to talk more trash about it and promises it will be the last time he plays? At this point This is incredibly unethical behavior.
48:21 bro they did shamans dirty WTF is that shit 😂😂
The plot is more scattered than a 5 minutes long recap of all of One Piece.
maybe because you actually have to spend more than 5 minutes worth of attention to understand it, what a shock that you cant digest 20 years of events in 5 minutes.
Because in the WoW timeline the world and or universe is nearly destroyed every 3-5 years. It's like Marvel... a comic book version of the actually good stories the lore tries to emulate.
Think about LotR. Events like this are spread out over centuries/millenia.
I've liked what Season of Discovery has done overall. The runes essentially expanded classic classes to have TBC + Wrath abilities, and they added + adjusted the raid content. Its been a much better experience compared to pure Classic. As for retail? I don't even play it anymore. Little desire to get War Within either.
Welcome to the Warbands system! Probably the best thing they have added in a while. Any class can learn any transmog now even if they cannot equip it - this is one of my favorite changes. It's good to hear that you are going to take a more relaxed approach - it is honestly much more enjoyable that way.
My problem is it seems like every few months upon logging in, "You're talents are reset"
WoW just pisses me off with having to learn my toons all over every few months.
lmao it’s a result of nodes in the tree being moved around for more intuitive trees. either nothing or the most minute changes are a result of that
@@Sean-rj2ng not true. When you have several toons you enjoy, and every couple of months you have to reset the talents, move stuff around, etc. It grows old real quick.
They've over complicated everything in WoW retail.
@@Jadiaz-ev9hm if a 2 talent node becoming a 1 talent node is that absolutely mentally crippling for you i don’t know what to tell you dude
lmao WHAT???? you haven't played in months and are complaining that the game is regularly updated? Actually ridiculous bud
@@sparv1067 I switch between Classic and Retail. I shouldn't have to come back after a month or 2 and completely reset a toon upon log in.
WoW King to Drama Queen.
World of Warcraft is in a great place and I'm so excited for The War Within!
True all the haters haven't logged on and checked the new warbands feature so sad
has lvl70 MOP Remix toon (mop remix just ended after it ran for 3 months) "man, I haven't logged in in SO LONG"
28:00 we just need WOW2 at this point
35:55 Couldn't agree more. Once you have good gear, you know it's going to become trash soon so why bother getting gear, better spending time elsewhere.
+1 for streamlining the game, its overwhelming.
Through the entire video, he just walks around, talks with chatter, and gives his opinions on this game while he doesn't even play it.
soda alrrady explained asmon is a transmog collector not a wow player. thats why he logged in
he's not even THAT anymore.
Something so calming about seeing Asmon on retail wow. I remember all I did during covid was play Shadowlands and watch his streams on the second monitor. Good times.
It's not just about putting the retails skills in classic and making raids of the old dungeons we wanted the old kharazan , emerald dream and ashbringer questline
He wasted his and our time. 0/10
This comment section is full of people who hate ther life and now want to spread it everywhere 😢😂
So is Sylvanas still doing dailies in the Maw?
I understood it as her being sentenced there forever, since there are way too many souls, maybe even infinitely many souls.
@@janalukacova they could'nt kill her bc she is a big strong woman so they just let her on the maw forever but yea she's just deadlike until blizz wants to make more money so they get her out of the maw for a few more bucks if uk uk
@@mariovidal9040 na they are keeping her to do something in midnight proly,the windrunner sisters are proly gonna do an ENDGAME style girlboss moment
After Legion, BFA was dogshit and all I did was sub/unsub to farm some mounts waiting for the game to get better. SL happened and I realized it was never going to be great again and quit a month into it. This looks like more of the same. Can honestly say a lot of the cosmetics look really cool, but that is almost certainly the cheapskate way Blizzard is holding on to what is left of their player base. Making some flashy items is easier than making new and original gameplay. Still looks like life support to me.
DF was great. Did you not play it?
@@retrogeko7955 Nope. Nothing looked exciting to me. Bare bones, some QoL, dragon riding is moderately interesting but nothing noteworthy. The scumbag stuff, like on time access, increased base price, etc. is enough to turn me away for sure. If they wanna do that crap, they better have the game to back it up, otherwise, there are better options for my time.
Nailed it at 31 mins for me. As soon as you feel obligated to play a game to stay relevant in-game it evolves from a fun game to a chore or work simulator IMHO. Made the same choice around 2010, backed away from MMORPG's for maybe 2 years, and it fully rekindled my love and enjoyment of gaming, including the genre itself, but I'm 110% casual now days. No-lifing was a teenage phase for myself personally.
Can we briefly criticize the fact that Blizzard offers an expansion for 50 euros without playing time. So I have to spend at least 63 euros to play the expansion. For a 20 year old game. Shit, I'm glad WOW never got me hooked. I already thought with Metin2 I would have left a lot of money there, but playing WOW for several years takes a different amount of money. Why does this stupid subscription crap always come from America? The same in IRacing....absurd how people seriously play a game where you can only play if you buy a subscription. Shit I hope Microsoft will change things at blizzard regarding monitarization.
You see kido, boomers creamed their pants over this game 20years ago when it was the best and they never grew out of it. They only played one game their entire life and they think paying $200/year to play a 5/10 game with a cash shop is how it should be.
if you dont log in for a year, then you are not "usurped".
Man the WoW story seems so ass now, a never ending cycle of "the random new evil was defeated, BUT THEN! a random new evil never before mentioned"
its every anime, mmo, comic and ongoing story ever, powercreep till the next "big threat"
@@Kaij-except the writing here is dog
I prefer a "BEEP" than the pause when censoring the f word, everytime I thought my youtube lagged
Have to clarify the dude who said you can collect everything that not your class. That’s not entirely correct. You CANNOT collect class specific pieces on any toon. It still doesn’t work.
Prot didn’t get nerfed. The rebuffed dmg from threat issues and also survivability for prot is the same.
Checks comments:
Unholy trinity of
*Running around in circles*
*Not playing actually*
*Complaining*
Seems about right, the copium is still there, you'll think its about "content" but at this point it's just pathetically sad.
*I can do waevu uh wannnt boohoo* sure, and we can criticize it since its online for everyone to see as much as we want.
Better play Blizzard slop off stream really.
The funny part are the WoW andies being happy that Zack is literally not even playing the game and just complaining to it lmao.
They're happy to get spit on, classic WoW player.
You should run Zack off the game or minimum be offended, something idk have some self respect.
I said it in previous video where Asmon reacted to the WoW official animation - amount of copium that asmon has for wow, is enough to provide copium for whole america.
Zack really can't leave samsara
he needs to retire from streaming.
looks like you ladies should probably stop watching a streamer you don't enjoy...
“Why I logged into WoW” to walk, fly around for 2 hours and complain about the game because I’m a hater and no one can be happy if I am not happy. I have summed the video up.
Jesus Christ, just a few days ago he was saying Blizzard fans eat any shit Blizzard puts out and people should stop supporting them but then goes and buys every game they put out AND advertises it for free. He gives them glowing reviews in the first two weeks of a new expansion with ton of eyeballs on it, then turns on it when it becomes unpopular like a real grifter. Asmon has zero integrity.
He’s a gaming content streamer it’s literally his job, you know the same thing every other gaming streamer does?part of the JOB
You should make a Hardcore WoW series without using the Auction House. I would watch EVERY moment of that.
Asmon looks like he's going through it. I think his health scare got to him more than he lets on. Hence why he didn't want to talk about it.
what health scare