Blizzard doesnt exist, its just Activision puppeteering a corpse.

I would describe Asmon's attitude on Warcraft as aggressively indifferent. You can tell that this sort of thing does bother him, but he has no energy left to rage against it.

My problem is that their cash shops and item shops run flawlessly while crucial gameplay systems in D4, Wow, etc have remained broken for months, if not years.

"Its Bobby's world, we just live in it" - Some rich neckbeard

Only in the video game industry and politics can you outright lie to people and still succeed hand over fist.

Bobby is a max level Necromancer and blizzard is a giant undead.

As someone who has never touched WoW, listening to Asmon's takes on the game (and Blizzard in general) is like listening to your dad vent in the next room while you play as a kid.

The problem with the whole "think of the poor developers" angle is that you can interact with these people directly through twitter / see them interact with other people and they are some of the most unlikable people I have ever seen.

Everytime he starts with the "it had to load in everything" line I loose it.

Feels pretty good to not give this company money anymore. You should all try it.

Bobby literally killed every video game i enjoyed. The games stopped being FUN the moment they decided that my subscription/retail price of the game is not good enough for Bobby.

The slippery slope is not a fallacy, it's the default strategy for doing something unpopular.

"The frog's been dead for five years, it's not going to mind" had me in stitches.

These people at Blizzard have a bright future in politics. False promises they never delivered on to a large population and no accountability, typical.

Keep proving Bobby right and keep playing for their games! Diablo 10 is gonna be lit and it's gonna be different guys! FOMO is great!

I like the way Deep Rock does its battle pass. You don't pay for it, and anything you didn't unlock gets tossed into the regular loot pool.

Doesn’t Bobby look like a goblin..like for real. His spirit animal is a goblin..

Bellular is going to be a case study on Stockholm Syndrome.

I see the length and title of the video, I know this is gonna be another great Blizzard video indeed

these "you had to load in..." jokes are never going to get old

Breathing a sigh of relief b/c I broke the vicious cycle and walked away from blizzard/Activision. The final straw for me was the glaring D4 issues and instead of addressing them they did an update to the shop lol. For anyone still playing, I hope you are enjoying it, but all I can see are things getting worse.

Gamers want this by significant majority. They've the capacity to bankrupt Activision Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft within a month and they choose not to.

I think after all this time, I am finally done with Blizzard. I was there from the very start(played The Lost Vikings and then of course the first Warcraft games and the first Diablo). Diablo 4 was the latest and it has proved to me once and for all that they are too far removed from the innovative and ground breaking developers they used to be. Their clear and main focus is milking people of as much money as possible. It is not just them though, it's the way of the whole AAA games industry. I think a lot of younger people think we are in a golden age of gaming but I disagree. I think the overall state of things is shockingly bad. Of course there are some great games still coming out, there always will be. But there is just so much hyped up junk coming from such big studios that I'm at a point where I've lost faith with just about all developers.

6:06 this is what irks me the most because people like asmon are constantly telling people how bad micro transactions are getting and to stop they need to just stop playing the game but they don’t want to do that and when the company pulls another BS micro transaction stunt like selling power ups the players want to act all suprised that the company dosnt give a shit about them. The real fucked yo part though is that after all that they will keep playing the game

37:00 the reason for this is simple: They did not fuck up. This was the plan all along. Why charge the player 60 bucks and he's never paying you money again, if you can instead make the player pay 25 bucks every 3 month for 3 years?

Just after the 4 minute mark. The never ending D4 joke gets me every time. 🤣

Asmon used the default defense people bring up regarding microtransactions, “who cares, you don’t have to buy this shit, it’s not related to power”. The bottom line is, this monetization mindset of Activision is what holds back essentially all of their games now. Best example of this is D4. The time played metric and cosmetic/battle pass sales is completely driving the game and it’s development decisions. Every single thing is examined and decided upon based off of metrics and money. So you end up with devs who can’t make decisions on their own. They are asked to reduce respec costs, ok we’ll reduce them by 40%, buttttt not right away, the cost reduction will scale up over time. Why? To nickel and dime the players and still keep the game slowed down because you still won’t have enough to respec so you’ll have to go farm some gold. It’s the most mind numbing thing to deal with. They said “play your way”. I look at respeccing in D4 with total dread due to cost and time I waste reallocating 200+ paragon points. It’s not fun to experiment with new builds at all, it’s a chore. Probably the key reason I quit D4. So my point is, if you’re a person who says they don’t mind the monetization and predatory behavior, then you can’t complain about the quality of the game because they go hand in hand. 💯

My favorite lootbox system was Mass Effect Online. You earned credits from playing the game, not from money, then used those to purchase varying sized loot boxes that contained different weapons, armors, bosts, etc. It was a great gameplay loop and tons of fun. I think later they ended up making it where you could buy them with money, and it was a lot less fun then.

you could probably train an AI to create all the armor sets and an AI to review player feedback to adjust sales tactics of how to sell people shit

I can’t believe he hasn’t watched that “it’s rude to be bad at world of Warcraft” video. He’s going to love it

I don't know how anyone looked at the trader's post and didn't assume that it was going to shoehorn another micro transaction system into the game.

28:30 Because they want to squeeze as much money as humanly possible out of their players. Why do you think it takes 8 months of weekly challenges to unlock a legendary skin?

28:58 imagine if you could see what's in the battle pass and you got a lootbox per tier. You would get all the content randomly throughout the battle pass. It would add a surprise effect ❤

Asmon, the bit about Overwatch and all of the things you said.. ARE WHAT WE WERE ALL TRYING TO TELL YOU WEEKS AGO!!!

"Dont drop the soap" "Dont worry, I have a dog fanny pack to protect me."

“Hey guys, remember to do your chores everyday to get these awesome rewards at a snails pace!”

Can't wait for your react to your own react videos! Great stuff!

can confirm. my family has no history of baldness. diablo 4 made me bald

i feel like this bellular video popped up on my recommendeds way more than any of their other videos have for a while

I'm so glad I get the ongoing inside joke about loading assests.

I just realized that Asmongold has never plugged anything to me on his videos. One reason I love him.

i feel so old watching these videos with what the current multiplayer era is doing.....i don't know how old asmongold is but damn, him being so involved to recognize this shit immediately. i still play COD2 MP since 2006 and i never felt the need to go after anything current, levels, skins, battlepasses, microtransactions and all other kinda crap....you will say yeah ok boomer and i will take this as a compliment because i played in the era that you played your game with your hands and not your credit card, what do you mean unlockable textures for your guns and clothes ? who the fuck cares, this isn't a fashion show :| put me in a death match or team death match and leave my alone to play with my skills alone

The skins you purchase now in games just reminds me of the early 2000s, modding Quake Arena into characters from shows, etc.

omg the boars of warlords of draenor, i almost forgot about the 5000 boar mounts they added to the game xD

Ultimate greed is charging full price for every expansion, charging a sub and milking players with Microtransactions. The Trifecta baby.

I broke away from all Blizzard games after the Warcraft 3 Reforged shit, and I don't think I'll regret that decision. That being said, being right doesn't exactly fill me with joy, and I hope to god something changes with Blizzard because this is just depressing.

imagine going to work and you bust your ass and then tell your boss, if you want the same performance, you have to pay for my "work battle pass".

I gotta give it to Zack, that Crash analogy was spot on.

Sad to see how asmon is getting more and more complacent with the shit that is going on in the gaming community. I remember when he tried to make a stand against it, rile the community against it, trying to make a statement.....now he is just "Whatever i dont care"

Finally, I managed to get here before Asmon himself. I can't wait for him to react to this video of Zack

Expect a juicy looking transmog for each quarterly report, and December's annual BIG pack. Players are being fomo farmed.

Starting the clip of with a solid voice crack, nice

The people vs Marketers is the final boss IRL. Marketers run Blizzard now, and like the great Bill Hicks once said, "If you are in marketing do us all a favor a k*** youreself, no seriously, you are satan, this part of the show is not a joke" And that was in the 90's. Now we need songs like Rich men north of Richmond to remind us they keep us divided on purpose.

Every day I am being reminded why I left WoW and why I don't get diablo 4 😂

The secret is most of the Overwatch team already left ages ago.

I just gave up on D4 today, I barely played since before the season came out, so I'm not burnt out from grinding, but I just can't get any enthusiasm to log in. I tried to play a little while this morning, got from 14 to 16 on my season character, and the game crashed in the middle of the story dungeon I was in. I have no desire to try again, as its clear this company does not give a single shit about the game.

10/10 for correctly explaining the appeal to authority fallacy - 90% of youtube politics still haven't figured that one out!

Warren buffet owned 10% of activision- blizzards shares. He sold all of them.

37:52 what is the song playing here? I didn't manage to find it. It isn't arthas my son right?

45:25 that's why I love Magic so much, at my local game shop I could drop 200 dollars on fuckin packs and it becomes an infinite money glitch, that 200 gets you thousands of dollars in value if you learn what cards are worth $20+ and you aren't gonna use (even if you WILL use the card, keep your 4 copies you need for a deck trade the rest). Back then there was one Mythic rare in particular I knew I would never put in a deck, the card was worth 25 bucks and I was pulling one every couple packs. That card single-handedly bought me almost a hundred packs cause of how often I pulled it, and that's on top of the other cards I was trading in on top of that (store only ever did store credit tho so it all went back into cards lmao). All these cards, completely fucking free to me (besides my 200 dollar "entry fee") AND making the store money cause the guy would go sell them online. Never spent another dime on cards in that shop again, if I needed a pack I just opened one of my spares.

ok ngl i love that asmon watches ads from the vids he reacts to. good on you for letting the word out man.

imagine how good wow would be now if the true blizzard was still alive

I'm waiting for the paid stash tabs in D4. Gotta get those in my $70 game.

40:08 I think HP printers already do that LMAO

The load in everything jokes never get old 💀 lol

They stopped long ago...

I like the in game cosmetics in D4 too! All 4 of them.

I have never come away from a Burger King meal not feeling sick.

Not surprised they've been scummy for a long time now

While most big studios making garbage products is a big problem as Asmongold stated it's the dung eaters applauding devs giving them more dung everytime. I've felt like this for many years now. People don't like being called that though so meaningful discussions about it never happened.

What is the music that asmongold uses in his videos, i want it for a dnd game soundtrack

i love how asmon assumes that the class sets will return to the trading post

Asmond talks about people eating sh*t therefore making companies feed them sh*t And literally 2 min later he looks at the sh*t blizzard is feeding him and he’s like “I mean I don’t really mind this” It gives off “I’m not like other girls” energy so hard lmao

Mobile game players have ruined gaming. If it wasn't for them willing to give out money anytime they get impatient we wouldn't even have these issues. Thanks Farmville and thank you people who paid Farmville.

I used to play a ton of RS3 back in the day (pre and post EOC as well as maxing on OSRS. I swear that introducing loads of cosmetics and currencies to buy them dilutes the game so much and adds so much unneeded confusion for returning/new players. It's literally like flipping an off switch for potential players when they see it.

Working for Amazon and doing the bottle trick rn 😂

Yeah the carrot on moon statement is just as easily applied to the Uber uniques in D4.

What game is that at the end of the vid?

I clearly missed some thing cause this is the 3rd time I heard the "load everything" joke and I haven't seen where it's from yet

this dude kills me on many lvls! xDDDDD

Activison really skilled all their points into Necromancy.

I remember when mounts had sentimental value, I revisited during shadowlands and the mounts that dropped were so uninteresting I didn't feel as excited when they dropped.

As soon as he said "Burger king is good" I hit like, because I'm sitting here in a burger king parking lot smashing a bacon king.

company: "I value this skin at 300$" player: "shut up and take my money"

36:45 can't fire management... The suits

I have watched this entire video in Milliseconds and gawdamn its amazing

Editor(s) please make more playlists for gameplay videos

My main question is: why does the trading post ad have a catwalk and the trial of style uses a make-shift "stage"

Hearstones pretty great for one specific mode: Battlegrounds. I quit HS years ago when all my payed for expansions suddenly became "Wild"

I've had an active WoW sub since january 2005. I just finally canceled it for the first time ever last month. I feel like my account cancelling should have sounded immediate alarms everywhere in the building lol.

Put the link for the video in te description

Sometimes you have to walk away.

Battle Pass for GPUs/Hardware is actually happening, in a way. You can buy hardware that has certain features locked down or out right disabled and pay to have them unlocked/boosted after the original purchase.

I like the idea of the Trading Post. I haven't played the game since Legion after I quit in WoD in the first tier. And as Asmon say, I have always been anti store, we knew this was going to happen. However, you have 1k tender a month, there is no reason for a normal person to collect them all. You won't use it all. And if you must have it all, then you are the cause for this to happen in the first place

Video caption ON POINT

He really did come with an AK haha 😆

Another wod bs rep was for the frost wolf mog that was leather only when the orcs only had one class that could use it.

When you go to comment to asmon and remember it’s only the editors on here.

I knew you would do a reaction to this ❤.

I hope shitting on the d4 stash loading issue becomes a persistent meme to the point where I have to break out the lore scroll to explain it to my grandkids