How Playing FFXIV and WoW Changes You

How Playing FFXIV and WoW Changes You | Asmongold Reacts

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@LegendaryDrops Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and thanks for supporting small content creators! Long time fan of the stream, hope to return the favor of all the good content and bring you some entertainment for all the hours you've given me.

@TaSwaTomorrow Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah dude you got a neat haircut

@nutzor9594 Жыл бұрын

Yet more evidence the small content creators are grateful for when Asmon reacts to their videos instead of taking views away from them like the haters say. Great video man!

@LegendaryDrops Жыл бұрын

@@nutzor9594 It definately hurts the intial video; however, the exposure and just the chance to have my content watched by my favorite content creator is well worth it. Glad you guys enjoyed it, plan to cook up some more when inspiration hits.

@lizardjoel Жыл бұрын

Liked and subscribed :)

@Dbswrath Жыл бұрын

@@LegendaryDrops I liked and subbed

@TheRealZiktus Жыл бұрын

Social skills/co-operation are one thing, but imagine how immensely helpful playing an MMO or other co-operative multiplayer games can be as a non-native English speaker. Having to work together and communicate properly with people from all over the world has done so much for me. They have allowed me to develop my English language skills to the point that I almost (and in some cases I really do) feel more confident speaking English than I feel speaking Dutch, my first language. I was always ahead of the rest in English class back when I was in high school, and didn't really have to do anything at all to get really high grades on my finals.

@StefawnVan Жыл бұрын

100% for the non-native English speaker! This is such a good point. It helps a ton with that! I've witnessed it first hand and ppl are fucking kind and help their English skills along the way too. Pretty neat stuff.

@DrDipsh1t Жыл бұрын

@@StefawnVan we had a south american guy in my guild back in the day. Got to watch his english get better over the years and it was always hilarious to hear him get pissed and start ranting in spanish over vent lol.

@karasutsuki1733 Жыл бұрын

When I started MMOs in School, my grade improved by 2 grades over 2 months of summer holidays xD

@sandraday6955 Жыл бұрын

you learn so many gamer words it is amazing.

@W00NKII Жыл бұрын

I am literally you but Swedish, English feels way better than my mother language.

@DashBlue Жыл бұрын

Asmon on this video: I never really made any friends on Halo/CoD Asmon on his podcast: Yeah I was the one screaming profanities into the mic

@somebooty7586 Жыл бұрын

Can't make any friends if you screamed at everyone EZ

@darklinkx8 Жыл бұрын

I admit I found Asmon through ff14 but been a fan ever since. I like that he can laugh at himself and not take himself too serious

@Winland88 Жыл бұрын

Kinda sucks that things like that and self irony seems to be rare nowadays, i have noticed this in real life when i joke about myself people give that "how dare you?" face. Its like i am not even allowed to mock myself anymore and if i do so other people get mad, like what the hell is happening?

@xbk923 Жыл бұрын

@@Winland88 True.

@Wholesome_Fries Жыл бұрын

@@Winland88 It's a race thing

@someweirdo9129 Жыл бұрын

pfft, how can you not take yourself too seriously and ACTUALLY think you're never wrong?

@Afflictamine Жыл бұрын

@@Winland88 cancel culture, woke politics, SJWs, weak men, weak women

@bosshancho2495 Жыл бұрын

I installed WoW and a day later I went bald and became addicted to energy drinks

@diggerdog9205 Жыл бұрын

Nah brah Dr Pepper, real and true

@bosshancho2495 Жыл бұрын

@@diggerdog9205 nah its G-Fuel and Monster Energy

@diggerdog9205 Жыл бұрын

Don't die of beeties

@fenixphucks3331 Жыл бұрын

Yes, world of Warcraft is the reason for that bro 😀

@desifooddiaries5890 Жыл бұрын

truther truth is said here

@DrDipsh1t Жыл бұрын

This just reminded me back in TBC when I had to visit guild websites and fill out legitimate applications to hopefully get an interview on ventrilo to get a spot on the raid team. Then interviewing for officer position, having officer meetings to address guild business, etc. At 17... and learning what nepotism is and how a meritocracy works (or doesn't due to nepotism lol).

@Theqwert202 Жыл бұрын

Preparation for the Corporate World.

@DmGray 11 ай бұрын

I ran a raiding guild for years and was fairly notorious for being incredibly fair. It was extremely stressful with everyone asking for special consideration, having to balance what was right for the guild against morale (perception of what officers are doing) I would often give up my raid spot on farm or pass on upgrades because others would benefit more (and therefore the raid would benefit more) The entire raid team tended to nag me to take more loot and stop giving up my spot on farm nights (nobody likes to be benched, but if I am unneeded to complete the encounter, I'll use my privilege to pass) And as SOON as I wasn't around to resolve disputes or act as a mediator... the clicks would form and infighting begin. Most people will act in self interest and neglect group cohesion, while instantly recognising when others do the same as a bad thing. Nepotism isn't inherently bad (nor good) It's essentially a way of narrowing options. "I like x person, I am familiar with them, so I'll choose them or somebody they recommend" Makes total sense. But if you don't balance that against an attempt at fairness and transparency it ruins morale. The flipside is that good performance and loyalty has to be rewarded both to encourage that behaviour but ALSO to maintain standards. A lot of people don't see the same picture as leadership (in gaming. Corporate leadership just seems to be made of idiots? The Peter principle) and assume favouritism when there is none. I know I rewarded several people I don't like and penalised some of my closest gaming buddies SIMPLY because that is what the guild charter dictated which I had written and everyone agreed to (I always gave a grace period for feedback and alteration every expac to set expectations and requirements) It's good prep, but I wish the real world worked more like gaming communities :P

@siyrean Жыл бұрын

Vanilla wow came out when i was 20, i had sever social anxiety that resulted in me dropping out of university because I couldn't even handle going to the library. Socializing in wow changed my life, for the very first time I was learning to have conversations with people that weren't childhood friends or family. A huge thing was learning that I had a sense of humor, that actually when I wasn't too scared to speak, I could make people laugh. for the socially awkward, mmo's are a god send.

@Mrxlongshot Жыл бұрын

Irrational behavior - Balding - consumption of mountain dew

@jameskim1505 Жыл бұрын

Dr pepper bro

@cathulionetharn5139 Жыл бұрын

0:58 gets a two-hander hits a tree with it. What do you mean irrationable, this perfectly normal Does it again one-handed. Savages, savages, barely even human

@GlamourDonkey Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with the typing skills. I was in one of the top progression guilds on my server during TBC, but my mic was broken. Learning to heal and rapidly type "gtfo of the fire or gtfo of my raid" between GCDs really helped with my WPM.

@rahn45 Жыл бұрын

You can invest time into something. You can invest emotion into something. Things can get dicey when you invest both into something that doesn't give you anything back.

@TheLoneFranger Жыл бұрын

Damn this hits hard. Well said.

@osrspac420 Жыл бұрын

facts

@arthur3495 Жыл бұрын

If it made you happy or your life easier then you got something back.

@Sorakovu Жыл бұрын

The beginning was waaay too funny omg

@CC-ru8pi Жыл бұрын

I can confirm that I've learned about as much about operations security by playing internet spaceships and dealing with it there as I have through relevant work. I also apparently became a 100 WPM typist somewhere in my MMO days, which is definitely a useful skill when your job involves sitting in front of a computer all day typing something or other. I wish I had a lot of that time back, and I will never play an MMO again, but I can't say I got nothing out of it.

@EQOAnostalgia Жыл бұрын

I got a wife out of it, (18 years this year) a lifetime of memories, an amazing game that was shut down but i fondly remember, and hopefully a private server soon. We're all different i guess.

@mogaming163 Жыл бұрын

@@EQOAnostalgia what game you meet in?

@Dozav7 Жыл бұрын

@@detoxwowinteresting. Was there an offline EverQuest? I always called it EQ.

@EQOAnostalgia Жыл бұрын

@@mogaming163 Check out the channel. 🙂

@PatientBoat Жыл бұрын

I've always said that I've learned more lessons that are applicable in day to day life playing RuneScape and washing dishes at a restaurant making minimum wage than I did in High School & in College.

@Scotia__ Жыл бұрын

I legit used my raid experience as a talking point in my job interview, and it's part of what got me my job at a big company. Ability to work as a team & flex to whatever role is needed? Hell yeah, it looks great in your skillset. - especially if you favour support roles!

@realScottThomas Жыл бұрын

It only worked cause one of the hiring managers used to/still does play lol. Normies wouldn't understand.

@gabrielaleactus9932 10 ай бұрын

@@realScottThomastrue

@yohanntherriengauthier Жыл бұрын

i learnt to use my English on teamspeak being a raidleader at original wow launch because i was doing good leading people but never talked english only learned it at school with other french, i became confident even with the funny accent people liked it,ty wow

@pedromaiz88 Жыл бұрын

Love it when you drop these little kernels of wisdom, "if nothing makes you happy, then keep doing new things until something does. Also, life isn't just about being happy".

@daviouscram2101 Жыл бұрын

Seeing people get black pilled by how shit things are becoming makes me happy. That and fire.

@Reelix Жыл бұрын

If life isn't about being happy, then what is it about?

@unrealmagic6519 Жыл бұрын

@@Reelix drugs

@audiocattt Жыл бұрын

@@Reelixcertainly a lot more than being happy considering you still have a life when you are experiencing any other emotion lmao

@Funnhouse Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite memories of wow was back in mists of pandaria. I just hit max level in wrath of the litch king; Now going into pandaria my level grind continued up to end game with the launch population of the fresh expansion. I started my own guild and managed to get a team together for my first attempt at raiding, being it was a fresh expansion we started at the beginning with the mogushun vaults being the first released raid. We managed to all get our ahead of the curve achievement for the raid when it was current content. We raided the rest of the expansion and fell apart by the end, but it was a fun experience.

@GMRZR-gj4kb Жыл бұрын

I knew a clip of our boy was coming, but I wasn't prepared for it to be at the very beginning. 😂😂😂

@xXGyakusatsuXx Жыл бұрын

14:35 not gonna lie. the sniffing the paint part, killed me haha :D

@paddycaker Жыл бұрын

hey ngl... this is one of the best asmond life lesson vids I've ever watched. IF NOT thee best. Holy hell.

@Ixeas22 Жыл бұрын

Lmao! The vid was coming for Asmon right out the gate!

@eneme0126 Жыл бұрын

24:07 Asmon out here dropping gems

@benjiemaquiling5156 Жыл бұрын

Prophet

@ValenceFlux Жыл бұрын

I played WoW battlegrounds every day for a summer. The goal was Grand Marshal and then I would stop. The up side was I saved money not going out every weekend but the down side well choose one. I only made it to FM but I had a life to get to. Playing video games didn't pay a thing then. I logged back in for a month a while ago and found myself running missions for squirrel avoiding the temptations of bg's lol. 10,000 mounts to choose from but I still can't upgrade the war horse I worked so hard for haha.

@kyrxon277 Жыл бұрын

Clutching a boss in FF is one of the few things that really shows the difference in communities from the other mmos. The moment 2-3 ppl die in a 10man raid in gw2 or half the raid is dead in WoW when the boss is literally like 17% health shows the impatience in those communities and how quick ppl are to give up. I was a BDK about to solo finish the last remaining 15-20% of that ice spider boss in the Vault raid and ppl told me to just wipe..... It could have taken me 5 minutes max to finish the boss instead of WAITING 10+ minutes for everyone to walk back to the boss, wait for the slow classes to get there, and the ppl that are always confused and never know the path to that boss, including the time it takes to kill the boss from 100% hp. Same for gw2, ppl think the fight is over once 3 ppl die and the rest of the group is going just fine and knows the fight by memory. I'll bet anything if i tried to solo that boss i would have gotten kicked. I just don't understand the impatience and how ppl can't do simple math. Whereas in FF they'll cheer you on to finish the boss whether its a dungeon or raid boss. That 'hope' and 'support ' needs to find its way into other mmos so that ppl so r giving up so easily hoping for the easiest carry out their lives.

@deaconfrost796 11 ай бұрын

lol hell ya ffxiv is fun with cheering on till last person dies! whats funny is when you get a clutch healer to LB3 on the boss right as you get the third bar maxed out 🤣 So always fun till the last man goes down. "wipe it up" is never a sentance you will hear in our raids on ffxiv. =)

@joshuatucker2521 Жыл бұрын

I think Vanilla WoW was very educational for me. Learning the importance of teamwork and being synchronized with that team. The necessity of leadership, even if it's not perfect. The difficulty of being a leader and keeping a group of people focused and in sync. The importance of preparation and being ready for things to go wrong, having a plan B if you will. How to make due with what you have an overcome when things aren't optimal. Keyboard skills, improving typing skill and accuracy. Multitasking. The value of time spent doing research. How to navigate different social situations where emotions can run high.

@antonskornilovs3360 Жыл бұрын

You made me want to play WoW again... after so many years... I still remember those good times...

@soklot Жыл бұрын

And we shall remember them for the rest of our lives. Lok'tar Ogar!

@Wholesome_Fries Жыл бұрын

Yea WoW was great until Zepla turned traitor

@JSuperfly Жыл бұрын

Games in general, especially MMOs can teach a lot of transferable skills, MMOs in particular give a lot of useful social skills, especially for those who are more introverted. But you have to make sure you do transfer them to your actual life and succeed there as your main priority.

@SCtopogigio Жыл бұрын

17:45 is the best quote you have ever had

@erich1380 Жыл бұрын

The biggest thing is people get to forget about the fact that they are 30 years old and live with their parents lol

@Adroyo Жыл бұрын

I don't know how people manage to do it. Soon as I was 18 and still poor I was out the door.

@sir.tempest5718 Жыл бұрын

@@Adroyo then there’s us gen Z folk who just physically CANT move out without a 20 year credit history and 35+ (less in rural areas obv) a hour jobs just to maybe get into a apartment with 3 other people is making that staying at home prospect pretty appealing.

@unanswered313 Жыл бұрын

@@Adroyo greatest feeling

@erich1380 Жыл бұрын

@@sir.tempest5718 35 plus an hour? Where do you live lmao California?

@sir.tempest5718 Жыл бұрын

@@erich1380 nah worse, Portland.

@Prushka Жыл бұрын

I always go hang out with friends if people invite me, but rarely initiate that myself. definetly skipped out on a ton of studying and homework and its resulted in worse grades, but it hasn't really affected where I'll be going to study. I'm probably going to have problems with studying when I go to a university of applied sciences (thats apparently the english translation for that, idk if its a thing in america) since I haven't really been doing my homework for about 3 years (except presentations because those are graded, and some other things that we needed to return to teachers/were graded)

@TheSubien Жыл бұрын

Been playing with one friend since 2006. Never met irl, but we still game on the weekends.

@CloudStrife893 Жыл бұрын

The taking the straws out of old drinks and putting them in new ones had me cracking up 😂

@justin8079 Жыл бұрын

lol next yearly shirt was a good line

@tathianxgames Жыл бұрын

The below is basically a summery of a portion of my resume that actually got me hired at one of my previous jobs. This is 100% describing leading a faction in Perfect World ( PWI ) territory wars, where we PVPed for land control. :D organized a weekly competitive 160 person activity where critical thinking, communications, and cooperative interactions between 16 groups of 10 people each are absolutely necessary. " Group cooperation would be critical for 2 hours throughout the activity. Had to make sure each group leader had the proper information to make their split second decisions. At the end of the activity we will discuss, analyze and strategize what was good and what could be improved.

@JM-ym8mm Жыл бұрын

Runescape taught me sooo many things that relate to real life. You mix copper and tin to get bronze, add coal (carbon source) to iron to get steel, you catch salmon with a fly, lobsters with a pot but other fish with bait or a harpoon. So many little things. Too bad I never learned how to Tele Home.

@dragongamerx12 Жыл бұрын

magic is a good skill to learn but is expensive

@PORTERHAUS_ Жыл бұрын

I remember making my first set of full bronze and wearing it with pride. So impressed with myself that I mined all the material, smelt the ingots and forged the armor. So blissfully ignorant, it took me probably 3 weeks to realize it was bottom tier armor.

@NuntiusGris Жыл бұрын

I was literally “painting warhammer figurines” at 14:35… and I totally fucked up a face chuckling at 14:38 xD

@whiteassassin13 Жыл бұрын

I buy warhammer 40k minis just to paint and put together, helps me with my adhd (I don't take med for it) so sometimes its hard to focus in games and keep that attention in them but for some odd reason putting together some plastic and then painting them while having a book playing just lets me go for hours without needing something new to do or finding myself in a hole of problems I caused by trying to so many thing at once. but games do help me escape the grind of life and wow/rs have help me thru that

@andrewwigham3026 Жыл бұрын

MMO’s definitely can educate you - playing WoW since I was 9, it was my English teacher more than my school teachers, thanks to playing on Argent Dawn EU, I had to learn to spell or be ignored (due to it being an RP realm) grammar and typing fast were extremely important. I just got a promotion to supervisor at work due to my computer literacy and typing speed, I have to write full / coherent reports and doing it fast is just a bonus, my manager noticed my skills and hand picked me over everyone else - all thanks to MMO’s :)

@brandonboss6868 Жыл бұрын

It's true. I've become very toxic, to my family, friends. I was becoming an elitist prick. I hated who I was becoming, I just wanted to collect everything at any cost. So I decided to quit.

@crissdace8358 Жыл бұрын

L BOZO Skill issue 😂😂😂😂

@EvanCops Жыл бұрын

✌

@mitchelwilson4757 Жыл бұрын

yeah thats my friend. he plays wow every day and raids for 4 hours twice a week. He constantly tries to one up me in every video game when gets the loot first or grief me so he can get ahead. Its honestly sad. Makes me sad for him.

@DTreatz Жыл бұрын

just have self control lmao

@brandonboss6868 Жыл бұрын

@@DTreatz I lack that. Besides, I have my future to look out for. It's been long overdue for me as a player since TBC. Haha

@collinames1803 Жыл бұрын

15:25 Lockpicking in games exemplify this. Even if there's a skill check it was made with the intent of being broken into. In the real world locks don't want to be picked. Lockpicking sets aren't made by the people selling locks.

@phillipfiorentino Жыл бұрын

15:41 And that's why Souls series games all the way up to Elden Ring are so awesome. They are programmed for you to fail, with the possibility existing for you to succeed based on your efforts and failures combined. It punishes us like life does, and rewards us the same, and sometimes RNG drops us something nice and we discover more things we didn't know before. Sometimes people figure out the meta, but others stick to what they like and make it work better. It keeps life interesting. These games help us escape in so many ways.

@TheCypher19 Жыл бұрын

I feel personally attacked by this video... As I'm sitting here painting my Warhammer figurines

@cynreiusacari3163 Жыл бұрын

I’m working my way through the books while waiting for the tv series.

@Ore839 Жыл бұрын

so no one going to talk about 9:47 where they recreated george floyd's death but with half naked cat girl cops

@KaitN9 Жыл бұрын

I do not think that some interpersonal skills you can learn in a MMO like leadership necessarily apply IRL though. I mean, in the game you are that charismatic, self-confident bodybuilded warrior tank, a character which is meant to be trusted but IRL, most of the time, you are just you, a non healthy, unconfident negative nobody that no one will listen to. This is a very relative topic imo.

@KaitN9 Жыл бұрын

@@leinonibishop9480 Fair enough. I really hope this is the case for most people like that. Being someone else can sometimes transcend you when you are that special someone but does not keep on with what you are when you are back to the you IRL.

@RecklessCV Жыл бұрын

It's all mindset, if someone feels that they are actually charismatic behind a screen but as soon as they're face to face that all goes away, then it probably has to do with how they view themselves. Body image plays a big part in that. Working out and getting physically in shape will work wonders for your confidence in every aspect of your life. That doesn't mean you dont need to become a gym bro, just taking care of yourself will boost your own confidence

@KaitN9 Жыл бұрын

@@RecklessCV This!

@adamroberts1722 Жыл бұрын

In regard to this video, I agree very much about the social interaction. Even though there is good and bad, it is experience that can be built upon. Best part is, when people play a game and are interested, they are willing to learn. More to my point while this I do not find it is utilized well... I think the platform is ideal for education, learning new skills and knowledge. I come from an engineering background and would love to develop WoW+ with this in mind. Quests where you learn about different aspects of engineering (fluid dynamics, mechanical, instrumentation etc.). This goes for all aspects. Fishing, Gathering, Contruction, Programming etc.).

@ReddRewka Жыл бұрын

Meowington Junior supreme with sour cream

@aiden5star5 Жыл бұрын

friend of mine i met on cod4 on xbox, and i got him into WoW, and still today we speak. over 16years still friends.

@FXGTrophyHunting Жыл бұрын

1st clip, a young Asmon KEKW

@eikeksi11 Жыл бұрын

You meet people, learn/experience new things, its different experience for different people and affects you in different ways, you can learn to sell stuff in mmorpg, organize events

@ProdigalBeard Жыл бұрын

world 2 bank spamming and then grand exchange in RS taught me more about supply and demand than any gradeschool lesson did lol

@Zood94 Жыл бұрын

24:40 Well damn, that answer caught me off guard.

@TurtleGalore Жыл бұрын

Main problem is that these skills are not generalized to IRL by most players.

@damo-irimiachristian-nikol4602 Жыл бұрын

unless you are sniffing the paint.... lol that cracked me up i never laughed so hard on a video before

@kamayell9078 Жыл бұрын

So many refreshing new points actually Good video :P

@CrowYaeger Жыл бұрын

Played WoW from 2005-2014 and then FFXIV from 2014-2021. Quit after listening to my 33yr old static leader scream his lungs out at his 16yr old brother over messing up a provoke and wiping the party. At a certain point you have to take a step back and really ask yourself "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" It's 2023 and the world is much brighter now. Still play video games but it's less a need and more a casual hobby. Even got into reading for the first time since I graduated high school in 2008. I really recommend it guys. Turns out real life isn't SO BAD after all.

@alacritysp Жыл бұрын

@deaconfrost796 11 ай бұрын

@@alacritysp wow im sorry... ive never been in a static raid group on ffxiv where anyone has yelled at each other. one reason why im still playing and why i dropped wow. but hey glad your enjoyin life to its fullest! take care!

@Roguecjb Жыл бұрын

That next yearly shirt burn was good lol

@Theparadoxd7 Жыл бұрын

43:45 Yeah that cat is just showing him where it would strike if it wanted to kill him. It's like "see right here if you're late on my meowmix 1 more time. Right there buddy. Right there."

@Orlyy Жыл бұрын

I wish David Attenborough had voiced that. Oh my god, that would have been amazing.

@OccamAsylum Жыл бұрын

First mmo was Everquest when I was like 7 or 8 years old lol. Dark Age of Camelot after that. Then WoW in high school.

@cortexauth4094 Жыл бұрын

31:40 I think that's more common than one will think, I had similar experience recently in my first party I ever participated in FFXI. I mis-target some mobs and got almost everyone to die. They said game's not for me. Anyways, the third party I was in, I got myself better with game and people enjoyed me Magic Bursting with their skillchains : ) Personally, I am very sensitive to these since I have OCPD-like behavior, which makes any criticism of my work or skill quite severe to me, but then I just take it as a challenge, I am completely new to this 20 year old game and they be playing since day 1 lmfafo 35:30 this is somehow very common in anime MMOs. I have seen people go as far as to create fake scenarios about their life too

@jtowey14 Жыл бұрын

I remember being 10 years old and learning how to play the auction house it wotlk and understanding the basic principles of a free market economy way before school introduced these concepts if at all ever. I was making enough gold to be considered a full time employee at a grocery store and I was just a kid. I've learned alot through wow and I wouldn't be nearly as smart or hold a degree in mechanical engineering without it. Its an open-source platform that requires you to grow and develop if you want to play the game high end and those skills such as time management, delegation of money and investing, team collaboration and coordination, motivation to work harder to be noticed and gain more responsibility and resources, are all applicative skills to be successful in the real world regardless of all the hate the games recieved by mass media over the years. If you play enough wow you'll learn how to read and do quick maths, a much higher skill set than most highscooler are graduating with now a days. Also I think there's a reason most ppl with a high attention span and a hard work ethic plays wow. You need to have drive to play an mmo this long and having a continued and balanced passion for somthing is a skill I think all successful ppl carry.

@simplyminimalist6302 Жыл бұрын

the intro was hilarious

@Gozud Жыл бұрын

20:55 for me I don't really care about spending time with my family, except for my grandparents. I've noticed during the holidays or birthdays, my family just talk about work and spend the rest of the day looking at their phones, that's why I stopped going to holidays dinners and stopped celebrating my birthday, I'd rather stay home

@XenoVT Жыл бұрын

Here I thought when he was gonna bring up his toxic experience it was gonna be some bombshell like someone telling him to kill himself or something, instead it was just a wierd guy and someone who's passive agressive 😂

@QuirklessNurse Жыл бұрын

First mmo I enjoyed was Ultima online and telnet muds. God I feel old.

@jessiehall Жыл бұрын

Grinding in MMOs taught me how to grind in real life, how to value incremental daily progress toward a larger goal.

@sandesande6705 Жыл бұрын

Guys, enable clips

@Magnetar99 Жыл бұрын

hey - i dont play games a lot anymore, used to, i tried to change, i was in the army, i did cosmetology, i did all kinds of things, worked at many different jobs and it turns out i'm most happy by myself at home playing videogames. i'm disabled now because of the wear and tear i put on my body and all the grief i've gone thru in my adult relationships, i dont want love anymore - i think MMOs are great for me in that I can still interact with ppl and exercise my mind even on the days i struggle to get out of bed physically, i feel like ppl just don't know how important that is sometimes and i'm afraid to tell someone hey --- its either mmos or audiobooks or hospice, mmos have kept me here in this life, that isn't addiction -- i still get up from them as much as possible and do other things, however limited those abilities are. I do wish I could do more - that just isn't an option anymore. G-d bless u all and don't hate urself for enjoying mmos if that is truly helping u or better than the alternatives

@kimdotnet8151 Жыл бұрын

I watched a video many years ago on how to rank up in league and reasons why you're stuck. Everything I learned in that video was nearly word for word what I listened to at a management class/training for a company I used to work for.

@lastsum Жыл бұрын

you got me at: "ask a wow player about a 5% bonus and he will know, how important that is" :D i felt that personally :D

@gravadoshvalkyrie3586 Жыл бұрын

1:07 i have the same chaire

@DJJohnnyFi Жыл бұрын

My WoW sub has lapsed for a good 3 years now, but I'm currently painting my 150th warhammer figurine while listening to this :)

@Kyouma. Жыл бұрын

13:04 - 13:13 Yeah, that's way more efficient than dealing with and doing something about them

@alechill2175 Жыл бұрын

that employer asking "what are you busy with" is some audacity lol

@PetarBladeStrok Жыл бұрын

Asmon out here spitting lessons FFXIV Endwalker teaches us without even playing it. lol

@StoovTV Жыл бұрын

Great seeing Asmon branch out and watch new content creators. I've played MMOs for a long time. I would say they have taught me a lot of life lessons in a safe environment. Like Asmon said dealing with people you don't like. Find common ground with people you wouldn't normally associate with. Solving difficult encounters you wouldn't be able to solve yourself. Teamwork. And finally I would say some vague economic concepts. Sure, it can be addictive. I've found myself living off student loans, not working, barely doing college and yet somehow i still showed up for raid. I had to adapt to make gaming work for me not the other way around. Frankly, I feel more people should learn from gaming especially considering you do have to adapt and grow in said environment. There are plenty of toxic people in real life too and I know plenty of people who just cant deal with toxic situations.

@toastedtimexxx4859 Жыл бұрын

Back in the day it was a great place to meet like minded people and socialize via content. Ik that people get addicted just like anything els but for people with a lot of social anxiety or that felt a alone mmos were a great place to work on those things while getting the feeling of getting to explore and play how you wanted.

@BigZ971 Жыл бұрын

"To aquire their next yearly shirt...."

@joec_lrp1070 Жыл бұрын

Man that tank needs to stand in better spots lol

@replicantmonk4310 Жыл бұрын

EverQuest in 1999 was my first MMO!

@williamchicas1208 Жыл бұрын

8:58 average weekend at crystal data center.

@P-Dub206 Жыл бұрын

Made lifetime friends playing Socom back in the day on PS2. Had to go buy the network adapter to play it… lol talk to them all the time still.

@kriena4190 Жыл бұрын

4:47 anyone know where this is from?

@drewandcharlie7583 Жыл бұрын

Its novel problem solving. No real world problems are programmed for you to succeed but if you have seen enough scenarios, you will have an array of ways to approach problems. Sit back and watch to see an opening, strike first, exploit a weakness, look for similarities or patterns, prioritizing strongest to weakest or vice versa, looking for a way around rather than through, understanding your own limits, knowing when to persevere and when to look for help. Understanding efficiently through repetition and building effective and efficient systems. thats just a few.

@stopkillnkenny Жыл бұрын

great video, appreciate the content

@katherinelyric 11 ай бұрын

This video is one of the example as to why I like asmon so much. His content is so important. He gets where other content creators doesn't and say true things and make people think.

@TYancy001 Жыл бұрын

Intro is too funny

@bobbyzig3879 Жыл бұрын

MMOs are literally the only genre of game I have ever really had interest in since playing RuneScape in like 04.

@tttt-dx2nu Жыл бұрын

not me watching this at 3am after playing diablo for the past 9 hours

@nTrylo Жыл бұрын

During Shadowlands I did the math on how much time I'd played WoW in my life. I was a hardcore player from Vanilla > Burning Crusade > Wrath, then went somewhat casual. When I realized I could, at this point in my life, have learned 5 languages, or even at $15/hr the kind of money I would be sitting on if I hustled my job that I love, I cancelled my sub and got on with my life. I'm 37 now and feel great just watching some Asmon videos while I make real money or spend my time with my family. Don't get lost in Azzeroth friends. One day you'll be too old to run, play, travel, start a family, and I don't want you to regret it.

@chiekokurokumo Жыл бұрын

IIRC, Eve Online is the kind of MMO that used to encourage entrepreneurship and all sorts of political skullduggery. I played EE (its baby sibling on mobile) for the past few years and I have to say that even on that one, there is a lot of meta work that goes into running a corp... not to mention the spreadsheets and financials you have to track. Our corp had mining credits and I was mining officer for a while, and I actually had to log participation and mining loads and all of that. Since Asmon intro'd FF14, I've gotten more into that... and it opened up a whole other world of creativity for me, and I actually ended up trying savage tier raiding as well. In FF14, I've gotten more socially bold and I'm not afraid to ask questions, just like in EE. FF14 players tend to be so helpful, even in the upper tiers... so beyond networking and research, I feel like the whole challenge of decorating my house has required management skills and organization I hadn't thought possible. (Especially if you are trying to level multiple DoH/DoL with only 3 retainers.)

@StevieJayGamez Жыл бұрын

I AM PROUD to say that the first mmo I played was RuneScape back in 03. I’ll be 32 in June and for the past 20 years this game was a massive part of my life.

@CapnPicard Жыл бұрын

MMOs cured my MMO addiction.

@magicc1204 Жыл бұрын

u should link the videos

@Andre-gj6ny Жыл бұрын

I to have made some long time friends from MMOs. Made a friend on ffxi when I was 13 I'm 33 now and we're still friends talk almost every other day.

@mousemessiah Жыл бұрын

9:07 this is a Fate/Grand Order reference. They're cosplaying as the 3 Valkyrie Sisters

@CynicalReprobate Жыл бұрын

Wonder what will Asmon think seeing the gameplay of DFO, it's like tiktok level of adhd compare to wow and ffxiv

@Umgijus Жыл бұрын

My supervisor when I first started caught me off guard by saying that he had been playing WoW from launch, mostly solo. He's in his 60s and he doesnt play any other games. He chose WoW over live TV because "it's cheap entertainment and I always have a good time, live TV never gave me that".