Asmongold Reacts to "So I Played the WoW: Battle for Azeroth Free Weekend..." by Nixxiom

people hate nexium now if anybody hates nexium they're a [ __ ] so let's go ahead we'll watch this video now a lot of you guys already know that I cancelled my Wow subscription sometime ago as bf may not really put a bad taste in my mouth as an expansion as I've heard that before spent a while checking out other MMOs like Elder Scrolls online Guild Wars 2 Final Fantasy even playing some old school runescape while I've been waiting for classic Wow's release a lot of fun playing these other MMOs with my online community but then I heard the news guys I heard the Blizzard was making Wow free-to-play over the course of a few days wowing people who stepped away from the WoW like me to re-experience battle for Azeroth and to consider continuing their adventures in Azeroth well I was curious about the state of the game how things had progressed since last I had played it and so you know we didn't I decided to give BFA a shot again now these are all just my opinions these are my thoughts everything you're about to hear are my opinions and do not reflect the views of my friends community or anyone else only myself as they strictly are my opinions please don't rage me too hard in my comment sections but well you totally will I could make a video about me eating unicorn farts while feeding homeless kittens and you guys would still hate on me with the fury of a thousand suns and you know what that means right that's right that means if you connect your twitch account to your Amazon Prime account you can get a free subscription to your favorite streamer on twitch TV slash Osman gold isn't that crazy man what a great deal it's almost as good as pizza from Papa John's man screw those guys that say Papa John's is bad it's not good they're just trying to be different and cool but we all know the love of Papa John's we all know they love the Papa just as much as the rest of us anyway let's get back to the video oh by the way since it was my people box so I can get to an unboxing video thanks I've always wanted to open a box of dildos for you guys it would be my dream come true alright I'll shut up now I'm not speaking for anybody but myself but this is my story of playing battle for Azeroth when I first logged into the game it was very nostalgic for me I was seeing my characters that I hadn't played in quite a while and it felt good I logged into the world and I was greeted by this giant screen telling me about all the new features that the newest patch had introduced it was the adventurers guide you know now specifically the biggest thing that the adventurers guide pointed out to me was the unlockable coal Terrance it was in big bold letters with fancy imagery and I have to admit that the prospect of playing as the coal Terrance did really entice me I'd be a big ol fat be a baby boy sailorman waltzing around the world singing ro the man down big true and it sounded like a big true so I decided that the first thing that I wanted to do is I wanted to focus on getting some crowd more reputation in order to unlock these guys now I was revered with the proud mores I discovered and all I needed was just 21,000 rep points to get exalted that's it dude oh that's it there all you have to do is farm up the reputation all the way up to exalted I don't necessarily hate the idea of reprimands for these different things but why is Nixie and pissed like here's why he's really pissed it's because it's a [ __ ] war like what is a what is a reputation in BFA let's cut the [ __ ] it's a world quest counter that's what it is it's a world quest counter like that that's all it is I mean they're so blurring like what happened to nether Wing what happened to the old ro wha what happened to talons vengeance what happened to the sons of HO dear like all we have here I mean you think remember whatever why'd came out and they had those different reputations it all sucked a big fat donkey dick remember that let me just pull them up right now okay just while we're waiting and oh I don't even have them unlocked on this character thank God like Council of X arcs you just have to kill random mobs it was awful all right absolutely [ __ ] terrible that's why people don't like the reputation requirement it's not necessarily because of the reputation requirement itself some people don't but the main reason is because the raps are boring we can do through this point forgot this feeling so with the need to get reputation I decided to do the world quests because hey there it is easy I ran out into the world of coulter Oz I started knocking down some Eagles from the sky using a rope I jumped a few fences on a horse and well Wow it was world quests nothing really new for me there but I do admit that as I was doing the world quests I started to get this inkling in the back of my mind and I didn't know what it was but well I'll talk about that later let's see throw this camera story after finishing all the world quests in the zone that I was in I decided I wanted to check out the new updates to Warsong Gulch Oh in a rafi basin girls were graphically reworked they all quickly for me there was a new brawl that took place in arathi basin one where you fought against AI NPC's for victory now I queued up with this with a few peopie dai i entered into the battleground and i had a lot of fun a beaver wow of course a beaver is at the lumber mill let's look over here because they only had fun because the AI were just so easy to kill at times as dublin my paladin but with my yellow happily stroked by this brawl like is that really what the brawl is for it's like all of it it's basically the training wheels for the Alliance because a blizzard looks at the win ratio it's like man horde wins a be like 85% of the time like Alliance is not having a good time so what if what if Blizzard actually just made the the brawl only for Alliance so only Alliance could queue into actually no I'd have to do it forward too but like in in general like they made it because Alliance were just losing so many [ __ ] games I wouldn't said the 1 ratio is 50% yesin said it is no like let me see if that I mean III just let me see a BG win ratio Wow because I know there's a website that showed this isn't it battleground winning percentage let me see if I can find it there was a there was a website that I can't believe it's 50% okay my own personal anecdotal evidence supersedes someone who's a former employee at Blizzard that actually has access to the internal legitimate data so there's no way that's true it's probably something like 8020 or something like that well let's be honest okay let's go over here I enjoyed it greater he'll don't think so interrupted get out of here you [ __ ] peanut butter looking [ __ ] now after that it was back to the world classless this time however I was determined to not only continuing to get reputation for the proud mores okay they also wanted reputation for the seventh Legion smart rep grind tubers bothered finishing and getting to exalted before I quit the game man also grind to unlock the Dark Irons Wharf playable race as well online so why not I flew over to Vietnam all Full Metal Jacket style and I started doing some world quests in the enemies as with the quantity once again and it was well as I mentioned before they were world quests nothing special but remember that inkling feeling that I mentioned before well it came back you see as I was doing the world quests as I was going through full dune I was thinking to myself what are you doing I was knocking down Eagles with a rope doing this dumb stupid horse jumping event killing randomly named what are you doing and leading turtles to the water and for what to unlock a new playable race and then what happens what happens after you unlock that new playable race I want to pause because I'm gonna artificially extend the length of this content just give me actually one second I'm gonna put on I'm gonna put on my hoodie here so anyway what I was trying to say is that like this might seem like really stupid but the way I play games and like why I really enjoy games if I ever feel like I'm wasting my time in a game I quit the game immediately like this is a the same way I feel it I asked myself it's like what is my grand plan here what am I really getting out of this and Wow never really asked me or had me ask that question and it's kind of crazy that Nick sium is asking himself the same question what how's my hair looking oh my god okay let's go ahead and we'll take a look at this video all right okay actually it doesn't work I can't even do the hood man yeah I heard it's just it's a little bit too much for me all right just a second okay yeah we're good now all right so anyway like yeah the idea of like that what is this the the pointlessness something like why oh why are we doing this there's no reason to that's like whenever I feel like I'm ever like I asked myself but why like why am I doing this that's the problem and we got there unlocked all you'd be doing is doing exactly what you're doing elegible ask eagle lassoing horse jumping killing NPCs I don't care about leading more turtles to the water all of which are just mundane boring tasks that even the most dysfunctioning human being could do but that's actually not true so I'm rereading a forum post and this was I don't know as a while ago and there was a forum post that was showing that people didn't like the turtle in the water quest because it was really difficult for the players who clicked and there was someone that was there who was saying I cannot beat this world quest because I click all my buttons and I cannot move my thing up there and then go down and click the red circle and this person obviously had no perspective on trajectory or even probably knew what that was but that Nix iam is wrong there not everybody can do World quests but here I was I was expected to do this for who knows how many times to get a reputation to max so that I could do it all over again exciting when I thought about that it just has didn't want to do it anymore because you know the thing is that guys before you crucify me in the comment section I wouldn't mind this system and in fact I do support the idea of you know a new Allied playable race being behind a rep grind I'm fine with that yeah but here's the problem there's no social element to the world quests or to the rep grind maybe if it was me and my friends and we were grouping together to get this reputa poetic that he shows the isle of quad on us whenever he's talking about this who here remembers the moments and days over ten years ago whenever you would get in vent with your [ __ ] boys and you would be like yo who wants to do some dailies and you'd fly out to the Isle of kveld honest from Ironforge because it would immediately teleport you there your boys and you would get together and in a five-man group do all of the quests together and then maybe finish it off with an Magisters Terrace heroic run for the trinkets from the third boss that's what made the content drought at the end of Burning Crusade bearable the other people I remember that so [ __ ] well I even remember the names of the people that I played with back then like dude it was so [ __ ] good like they need to make world quests that you have to play with other people for like gain to make like legendary world quests that'd be badass maybe if it was me and my friends and we were grouping together to get this reputation doing dungeons doing whatever like that would be great but no I mean you could do that you could group up with a big group of people and go running around cult arras and getting proud more reputation but it's not necessary it's not necessary at all because every world quest is pathetically easy to do what oh-oh-oh how could you do a her a legend dari world quest here let me think let me think of an example right now the Thunder Kings treasure trove randomly once a month a world quest pops up in the Isle of Thunder that calls you back from coal tar soars and oh are all the way back to the Isle of Thunder and you have to go through that scenario and in order to get like you know the main reward you have to complete that scenario in time and you have one chance a month there's an example right there here's another example they've already implemented scaling mechanisms for every [ __ ] dungeon make a legendary world quest for doing a level one twenty mythic level of of scarlet monastery just put it out there just just put it out there in and give you it you know what you do if you complete it you get a bonus roll coin boom it's just that [ __ ] easy like why would they not do that oh there's a nut mage tower yeah here's another one mage tower is struck with the [ __ ] the the the PERT light will be sargeras's you know but like the the [ __ ] long purple dick of the void Lords and it's void and powered every single different one of the legendary things or that the the maid shower mobs and you have to queue up in there you have to go back and you have to farm those nether shards and you know why because that's what you use to do the world quest and that gets you to do more different types of content than the same [ __ ] things every goddamn day and like why are we not doing like why is Blizzard they think in like here's the they think like this and they need to be thinking like this they just they they they're so they're so narrow-minded with their their direction of the game it's so disappointing because it can be so much more it can be so much better and there are so many ideas that I have that Nix iam has that we all have that you haven't chat that preach had that he wasn't able to share that all of these people had and they would love to share these ideas and make the game better give me an argument for why those decisions those changes those legendary world quests couldn't make the game better because I can't think of one make people play the game make it matter it costs money we know what else cost money losing subs they have fixed costs they're not shutting down servers those servers that have 25 people playing on them still cost 20 grand a month to run that's a fixed cost they're variable cost yes obviously they actually lose money indirectly by spreading out their fixed costs among too few people and then they lose money that it's even waste your time getting a group together when you can just do this stuff in just as quick of a time without a group and so I came to this really mind-blowing conclusion world quests and rep grinds are boring they're boring in BFA okay boring in BFA and they could be fun if I was doing them with my friends or if they offered some kind of challenge to me as a player but no friends are necessary no player communication is needed and no challenge is present it's just boring lazy game design and I don't like that and so guys I got bored and I decided you know what I'm done with the world quiet it's not lazy they're not lazy like blizzard's not lazy that's such a cop-out stop writing everything that they do that's a bad decision office than being lazy they're afraid they're afraid to do something new and different they did the legendary system in Legion they did the artifact weapons in Legion they weren't afraid in Legion because [ __ ] WOD happened and they said listen we got a everybody gather around the table put your dick on the table and if they like it good and if they don't that's too [ __ ] bad I'm serious that's like I don't care and I decided I wanted to check out the updated Warsong Gulch battleground instead there was a part of me that was tempted to do a war front or maybe an island expedition but part of that had already been mindlessly killing NPCs during the world quests so the last thing I wanted to do was kill more NPCs mindlessly than offered no challenge to me at least with PvP there was some element of concentration required so I hopped into Warsong Gulch with the twitch community I admired the changes to the battleground and hey man looks frickin awesome it sure does like with the Rafi bass ain't true I had fun nothing will save you you disgusting hunter look at this he doesn't even know what to do he's so scared look at this is this against a 10 piece okay we lost the battleground I mean we lost it bad but I don't care about I saw people raging in the battleground chat talking about hey guys go here do this I got my ass handed to me I killed some people myself which made me feel good I did my best to protect my flag carrier while going after the EFC there it is great after Warsong Gulch guys I also attempted the trial of style competition this was really fun for the very first time I won our third-place finishers what's-her-face oh listen he actually winners he is he trolling yes Wow okay but after that though guys it was time to indulge Nick's community Nick's game is such a great [ __ ] community whenever I did this remember whenever I did this last year so I made a premade group for everybody to vote for me and there was a panda monk named Pedro that started saying vote for Pedro whenever we started queueing up and doing the different dungeons and Pedro [ __ ] stole my win remember this he stole my win right out from under me and this is a premade group of my own [ __ ] viewers and they voted against me meanwhile next to him it's is no problem this is terrible the PvE side of BFA again now I discovered through the little like adventure guide thing that since last playing Blizzard had really buffed heroic and mythic dungeon item level rewards so all the gear that I was wearing when I logged into the game well now it was worse than the gear that you could get from a standard heroic so I queued up for a heroic I got into the dungeon and you know it's funny Here I am writing this script and I don't even remember what dungeon it was that I did I don't have to go re-watch my twitch BOTS to go figure it out wow we're doing great friends let's keep it wait why is he talking in the dungeon there we go this case is shut the [ __ ] up look at that where is it yeah shut the [ __ ] up dude this is that that's a current while player right there what what's the guy's I don't even know the guys if it gives a [ __ ] the guy's name is right but like still that's so [ __ ] funny shut the [ __ ] up but anyway I did the dungeon I tried to be nice to the group I tried to talk to some people but the Shadow Priests told me to shut the [ __ ] up and after that it was just dpsing and silence there was no communication required no thought no strategy I just was bored again I want to say one thing that actually goes into favor of the Shadow Priests I remember at the end of siege of Orgrimmar and also Dragon Soul and like a little bit more in hellfire citadel I would never get an invoice Chen there would be people that iterated with me for six months they'd never heard my voice I would join the raid we would go into the rape we would do the bosses correctly and then we would leave and we would wait until the next Tuesday and it was beautiful there was no talking there is no joking about how fluffy got on the keyboard again there was no weak anime jokes or discussions about Naruto there's nothing it's just quiet doing the boss STFU beautiful I got some upgrades to my gear though and that was kind of cool but I left the dungeon and as I mentioned I pretty much forgot about the experience almost instantly and then after that I just decided that you know hey it's an MMORPG what makes this game fun is the people so let me just try to go talk to some people why flew over to Stormwind and I try gauge with a few players what do you do on up to people said hello role players non role players alike playing Arjun Donnie you it's roleplay realm you know whatever what a bunch of [ __ ] heart were doing I introduced myself I even offered to give some people a non-combat pet as a gift and not a single person would talk to me no one would talk to me now I understand like yeah you know the twitch stream Marines got like a couple people following him around but even before that no one would talk to me no one would long dong silver I was long D silver but we all yell long dong silver don't love that name man oh I should make that is like my name for Michael Tyrion I've actually I haven't unlocked cult Aaron I was gonna do that on stream and whenever I do that's what I'm gonna name my character while I'm Gong silver say a word I had to go to gold Shire it's a gold Shire on argent Donny you to find a person who was willing to talk to me okay the only person that was was it God forsaken a [ __ ] down in the basement I got ignored Wyland by so many people except for this chick who took my big I wonder if you subscribed to her patreon and that was it really can't say I'm all that interested in the raid nor my father to throw together a group I don't know the tactics or anything so I was done I did a number of world quests and barely made any progress on that reputation bar I did some PvP I did a dungeon tried to engage with the community a little bit big an estate what they thought of the game yadda yadda yadda no one would talk to me acid Mustaine and all of this I did over the course of about 4 hours and after 4 hours of playing wow I just didn't want to play anymore there just wasn't any soul to the game there was nothing that was keeping me invest and so I logged off and I went back to playing Age of Empires 2 which is a good man I learned more about each of em Oh more about history four major empires - and I did from school I knew all about Attila the Hun Joan of Arc Alcide everything like I like my mom like she bought me that game dude we played that we played through the whole like campaign I've actually been talking to her about playing through it again like you know sometime soon like I loved Age of Empires it was it was like genuinely probably like I I just loved thinking I really do love the game I think about it and like it was so long ago I was so mad that Vikings were bad we're bad like the Viking longships were bad like I remember seeing like because like all the different races had like specific units and I was like all Vikings are awesome and like the Vikings sucked dude they were so bad and I don't know why it was just like if you haven't played Age of Empires you're really missing out like it's an incredible game it's like five dollars on Steam if you care about like you know like the whole the RTS games and like history or anything like that I like my friend my friends and I like we would actually like my friend Cody and I we would come home from school and we would just watch History Channel documentary someone like the Minotaur I'm like how trebuchet Tsar made and stuff like that we would watch these like every [ __ ] day I'm a total nerd but Age of Empires is like one of my favorite games I loved it what's he saying yeah yeah I actually thought about getting a like a cable subscription I'm not going to but I've thought about it just so I could get the History Channel again and I could watch things but I turned on the History Channel over at my dad's house and it was actually just a fat guy trying to bid on a storage shed so you know not necessarily the Minotaur more like the Kraken a really boss game by the way you should definitely play Age of Empires - it's fantastic hashtag not sponsored there it is there great you know I'm gonna play the new one when it comes out of us if you're enjoying BFA with your friends with your guild with your family whatever dude that's awesome like I'm glad you're having a great time I'm glad that you are still engaged in this world but I truly feel like a BFA has a lot of lazy game design in it and after stepping away from the game that's why we're doing Cataclysm dungeons to finish the video that I have a lot of closing thoughts and then I also want to get back into the achieve long - hopefully you guys are almost everybody's gotten the achievement I would hope so by now so everyone will be caught up and coming back to it that's just all the more apparent to me the game just revolves around dangling a meaningless metaphorical carrot in front of the players face aka the new allied races and then making them do boring repetitive solo rep grindy quests to get them yeah if you're not doing that you can do PvP and hame in PvP was fun you could do some PvE dungeons whatever hey it was not too much to it but not bad right - and hey man you got a guild go do your rating but for someone like me who was just coming back to the game casually - he's talking to a bird of course he's not gonna respond to you Nixie it was just nothing there man but sasiegel is enticing about it I remember back during the beta for BFA I was having so much fun levelling up exploring the new zones doing the new dungeons and so on go back in time in my youtube channel go watch those videos during the beta man I was pumped but after the expansion came out and endgame why me as stale as it was literally the first day of BFA like after they showed like dress for and everything I was like yeah this is cool but like who gives a [ __ ] I mean I I don't know like ever since the first time I played BFA I didn't think it was that good like I straight up like as soon as I saw I'm like I'm gonna go play Legion like this is better and I don't know like like I mean you guys never like I did that the best content that this stream has ever seen was probably like at the end of lesion right and like I'm actually I don't know like I think we were like III hopefully hopefully it's gonna be in the middle of BFA now because obviously that's what we're at but I think that some of the best stuffs that I did was it the under legion right I had like all these different like weird things I would do with players I would open up the boxes I would do the wizard training you know there are just tons of these different like little weird things that you could do in Legion I think it really made it a lot more enjoyable and BFA I don't really think has as many opportunities and avenues for that I just grew to not care very much for the expansion now these are all just my opinions as mentioned at the beginning of the video and I am eager to see what Blizzard brings to the table with future patches but for now I think I'm just going to continue my adventures elsewhere I hope you liked the video though guys I apologize if it's a bit negative but I'm just sharing my honest thoughts man just what I do so guys like video if you want dislike it if you want you know whatever leave a comment I'll see you with my next project thanks for watching and I'll see you soon so here's basically where I'm at with this this whole thing we're all done why I hope so I realized what Nick see'em was saying here in this video and I think this is like one of the main features and like things that I've always really tried to push myself on with my stream is creating content and doing things in the the the mode I guess or like the the idea of creating your own content and actually just playing through and enjoying the game and creating a community and if you probably realize like all the time that I've come back I've been very very focused on the idea of creating that community and building that up because I think it's just so important and it matters so much and I I really really hope that we can do that and that's been my main focus and I want to keep doing that read comments logging into WoW is like dating an old ex after a few minutes and hours you suddenly remember why you left the first time be FA inspired me to go outside and start fishing hiking and snowboarding I was gardening for me I felt like this back in Cataclysm so I stopped playing the massive part of MMORPG is gone that pretty much sums up my feelings about Wow now the spell was broken and I'm left wondering why it had me entertained for as long as it did idea for machinima have make visit the different memos with the noob and teach them the ways that's actually a really good idea sadly the game was where i spent slash played 800 plus days met my wife and had countless social memories it's a dying world I want to start making a list of things and suggestions for the game because I don't necessarily think like I'm gonna start doing that tonight yeah I'm gonna start doing that tonight I'm gonna write out all the ideas like the legendary world quest that is I'm gonna start writing them out tonight and I'm gonna put I'll put them out maybe tomorrow or so and are actually not promo beyond tomorrow but like here we're going no no here now here we go again come on I want to I want to help the game I want to make it better I'd love to do that and I'm trying not to be like overly negative I Nix iam is the kind of player that you hate to lose Nix iam is genuinely passionate about the game he loves the game he loves the aesthetic of the game and I really think wow needs to do a better job at keeping people like him in the game it's really really really important way for classical I retailed I like it deserves it's not that simple right I mean classic isn't just gonna be like in five years I'm not gonna want to keep still play classic I mean I will probably log on and like hang out with people or whatever but it's not gonna be the same thing that I want to spend eight hours of my day on I'm not gonna play the same thing for eight hours a day for five years I want to see the game have all been change yeah TVC will come out but I've already done all that I want something new like that's what people want want something new like I want Warcraft to evolve like I wanted to evolve and it doesn't mean I don't want BC like trust me dude like I like I have this [ __ ] that shirt on my wall right there is the shirt that my mother bought me on the night of the Burning Crusade release and I have that just to keep my [ __ ] my memory as clear as day it was one of the best days of my life and I I don't care if people think that's stupid or not it's true and yeah you're goddamn right I'm gonna play BC I want to play something else after that too like I'm gonna I'm gonna start coming up with some ideas and I'll see what I can do okay that's the truth

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Keywords: asmongold, BFA, WoW, asmongold reacts, reaction, asmongold highlights, best of asmongold, twitch chat, asmongold watches, nixxiom, world of warcraft, battle for azeroth, world quests, pvp, dungeons

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Length: 34min 32sec (2072 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2019