Asmongold responds to claims FFXIV devs secretly pay him to stream their game Twitch: Asmongold \/ Square EnixAsmongold has hit back at accusations he is receiving secret payments from FFXIV developers to play their game on Twitch, and that those same \u201cunder the table\u201d payments are why he speaks out against WoW regularly. Twitch\u2019s resident MMO guru, Asmongold, has laughed off claims he is secretly paid to play FFXIV by Square Enix developers in a bid to get more players in their game. The claims go something like this \u2014 Asmongold doesn\u2019t really like Final Fantasy XIV (an accusation he\u2019s faced several times) and is only playing the MMORPG because he is getting paid to, all \u201cunder the table,\u201d in an effort to drive up player numbers for the growing WoW rival. Asmongold has now moved to deny the rumors. \u201cThis is what people really think,\u201d the Twitch star laughed. \u201cEvery time I play a new game, it actually has to be a shady backroom deal, that\u2019s all it could be.\u201d Asmongold denied the rumors on January 9, claiming anyone who thinks he accepts any money to play Final Fantasy XIV over World of Warcraft is \u201cliterally stupid.\u201d \u201cWhat do you think happens, I go to this random place, and there\u2019s a shady backroom deal going down?\u201d he laughed. \u201cLike, at the back office they\u2019re fixing horse races and fixing boxing matches, there\u2019s blinds over the windows, smoke everywhere, and they decide to pay me one-hundred grand to stream Final Fantasy?\u201d \u201cI swear that\u2019s literally what these people think, conspiracy theories. That\u2019s what they think, it\u2019s just Peaky f**king Blinders at Twitch or something. This is the world they live in\u2026 they don\u2019t know real life. \u201cThat never happens. It never happens that way,\u201d he said. \u201cNo company is going to pay you, under the table, to stream a game unless they\u2019re super, super shady.\u201d \u201cGambling companies, NFT, crypto, maybe they do it,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s just such a huge violation. You can go to jail. Or get fined by the government. We put #ad in the title of streams for a reason. Come on, think. \u201cNo one wants to do that [declare ads], but it\u2019s the law. No one is avoiding doing that, or they\u2019d be going away for a long time, and paying a lot, a lot of money.\u201d Asmongold went on to explain that he has, \u201cof course,\u201d accepted money to stream games before \u2014 with his foray into Old School Runescape a prime example \u2014 but every partnership he\u2019s done has been above board and legitimate. \u201cGenerally, I don\u2019t really play a lot of sponsored games though,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd, I\u2019ve never, never had someone approach me to try and pay me under the table to play their game. That isn\u2019t something that happens on Twitch guys, come on. People just believe whatever they want to believe, really.\u201d The Twitch star hasn\u2019t actually streamed FFXIV in 2022 yet, instead favoring the Dark Souls trilogy, New World, and even WoW on his alt-account streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold responds to claims FFXIV devs secretly pay him to stream their game Twitch: Asmongold \/ Square EnixAsmongold has hit back at accusations he is receiving secret payments from FFXIV developers to play their game on Twitch, and that those same \u201cunder the table\u201d payments are why he speaks out against WoW regularly. Twitch\u2019s resident […]<\/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-69540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69540","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=69540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}