Asmongold hits out at viewers who use him as the \u201cgold standard\u201d for gaming opinions AsmongoldTwitch star Asmongold called out viewers who use him as the \u201cgold standard\u201d for all video game opinions after being accused of supporting pay-to-win features in games. Asmongold has become one of the most popular streamers on Twitch after branching out from purely being a World of Warcraft streamer. Since then, he\u2019s broadcasted more modern MMO titles like Final Fantasy XVI, Lost Ark, and New World. According to stat tracking site Twitch Tracker, Asmon averages over 78,000 concurrent viewers for every stream so far in 2022, one of the highest on the entire platform. The 30-year-old streamer explained that branching out into new gaming communities has also brought tons of criticism his way. Asmongold \u201cexhausted\u201d for being used as a \u201cgold standard\u201d across the internet The OTK streamer was live on March 26 when he hit out at a viewer claiming he was supporting \u201cpay-to-win\u201d features in Lost Ark by promoting the game. \u201cIt\u2019s exhausting for people to use me as a messenger, or some sort of standard-bearer for what their ideologies are. I think this has happened a lot. Especially more as I\u2019ve covered different games, where people are craving me to approach a game in a certain why, or to say certain things about a certain game because I represent some sort of greater idea that they\u2019ve invented in their head.\u201d He continued, \u201cThey want me to live up to the expectation they\u2019ve created head-canon for, I do not want to do this. I want to do whatever I feel like doing, and that\u2019s about it. I don\u2019t care about the message it sends, and I don\u2019t care about the ideologies are, and monetary practices. I think everybody knows they are bad.\u201d Topic starts at 12:27 for mobile viewers Asmongold has long stood against pay-to-win features in games and has gone as far to say that he wants loot boxes banned entirely. He concluded, \u201cI\u2019m sick of people using me as some sort of gold standard that they base the way they look at video games off of. It\u2019s exhausting to be treated that way by people all over the internet.\u201d Despite his years of disapproving of microtransactions, nothing has changed in the space, and he still receives hate for his vocal opposition to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold hits out at viewers who use him as the \u201cgold standard\u201d for gaming opinions AsmongoldTwitch star Asmongold called out viewers who use him as the \u201cgold standard\u201d for all video game opinions after being accused of supporting pay-to-win features in games. Asmongold has become one of the most popular streamers on Twitch after branching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}