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[–]Eamil 597 points598 points 2 (166 children)

It was the guy on the whale, that's priceless. I found the thread, even 4chan is shitting on him for that.

Edit: since multiple people have asked

  1. The guy on the whale was trying to block Asmon from clicking on NPCs and objectives, and he was doing it for hours during both streams. He wasn't just a random guy following Asmon around, he was deliberately getting in the way.

  2. If you really want to see the replies, I screencapped them. (Edit 2: Read bottom to top.)

[–]NicaeaBV 296 points297 points  (61 children)

4chan (at least the FFXIV fanbase) was actually excited to see him playing. It's only the few shitters acting this way.

[–]-Col- 42 points43 points  (17 children)

I was reading through some of the threads and I was laughing over their discussion around Asmon's reactions to the Grand Companies and him calling Alphinaud a Redditor.

[–]9inety9ine[🍰] 26 points27 points  (9 children)

I often laugh at how much time people who claim to hate him spend watching him.

[–]Eamil 97 points98 points  (32 children)

Doesn't surprise me, I haven't been to /vg/ in years but I remember it being pretty chill. But people usually expect different from 4chan.

[–]Scribblord 50 points51 points  (20 children)

Ye people only think of the chaotic forums when thinking of 4chan like b or pol or whatever

[–]animebuyer123 22 points23 points  (13 children)

It's pretty okay with the exception that you need to have a thick skin to tolerate the very little moderation that happens there regarding stuff that can be considered hate speech or offending language.

If you're fine with that then yeah, boards are pretty okay/even funny (biz for example).

The lack of moderation however can be useful at times, for example 4chan was how I found out before it was public that Covid19 was a thing, people were posting images of Chinese hospitals getting flooded with people very early December.

[–]Lot_Flow 5 points6 points  (7 children)

I was here on reddit early Jan 2020 seeing the overrun Wuhan hospitals on the original r/chinaflu. By the time March rolled around I was pretty livid at the response, or lack thereof. Was neat going from the crazy guy at work ranting about a super flu, to the one every one asked wtf was going on. Having to explain that masks do work, and they were lying and obfuscating what the definition of a mask was.

But by May I didn't give a fuck about any of it anymore. I live in a small farming town. Wasn't the end of the world. Hardly changed my life in any way. Really wish I shorted the stock market.

[–]NicaeaBV 15 points16 points  (3 children)

People equate /vg/ with the more faster running forums, like /v/. /vg/ threads are more of a community, while /v/ is just to post anything fast and move on, so there's always more trolling.

[–]Betancorea 144 points145 points  (25 children)

That is amazing. I am watching the stream replay and people were telling Asmon to report the whale player and he replied saying he won't bother as the company wouldn't do anything.

Checkmate whale player banned lmao

[–]TheMatt561 94 points95 points  (8 children)

Too used to Blizzard lol

[–]slimecookies 8 points9 points  (7 children)

When the small indie company actually has GMs lol.

[–]Kranzn 6 points7 points  (5 children)

I'm probably misunderstanding something, cuz you can't possibly refer to SE as an indie company, right?

[–]slimecookies 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Yes, you misunderstand me. I was referring to the meme that Blizzard is a small indie company so they can't afford GMs.

[–]Kranzn 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Oh, I must have missed that one. Thanks for clearing it up.

[–]Baffordable 39 points40 points  (10 children)

It's sad how he got used to being treated like crap that he can't put trust in other devs to do things right. Very glad to see them banning annoying people.

[–]BartolomeuOGrosso 8 points9 points  (2 children)

It's not necessarily about him. Lots of games have a bot responsible for player reports and unless it's a mass report nothing will happen

[–]MeatyElfThighs 4 points5 points  (6 children)

he just didn't have time to do the report sheet properly or read the responses.

That's kind of a relevant detail: Asmongold's situation is so fast-paced that he can't afford to not skim everything. Reports in FFXIV require certain types and amounts of information and I was really worried the GMs wouldn't step in unless he did the report right(which he didn't). looks like they managed though.

[–]trickster55 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Beautiful, get fucked whaler

[–]hyesupbro 75 points76 points  (21 children)

Go to the latest vod, skip to 2:33:41 and you'll see the whale fucker disappear for the rest of the stream right after that cutscene.

Edit: Same thing goes for the naked lala with the fire wheels mount, nowhere to be seen, it's 100% targeted towards the overly obnoxious bastards.

[–]Ghekor 53 points54 points  (9 children)

Asmon streaming is good for the GMs now they can target the previously hidden toxic players since they will mo doubt come out the woodwork xd

[–]roflmao567 19 points20 points  (3 children)

Which is perfectly fine!!! I'm so glad to finally see active GM work in an MMO.

Asmon was going to bring out toxic players 100%, thank the GMs for identifying and suspending these assholes.

[–]YourFriendlyRedditor 57 points58 points  (10 children)

I wonder if that person with the dinosaur mount got suspended.

To get that mount, you need to kill 2000 S rank mobs from the latest expansion. (Pretty much only possible if you’re a part of the hunt train community.)

That mount is actually so much work, what a fucking idiot to actively grief on your account like that.

[–]Lyramion 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You also need to make a big sprint at the beginning of an Expansion where all areas still have 3 instances and thus multiple clones of S-Ranks.

[–]L3fis 6 points7 points  (2 children)

the 2K s ranks mount its a tiger tho.
Unless you mean the Triceratops from the 1K S ranks of SHB plus 2k A ranks SHB

[–]YourFriendlyRedditor 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Ur right! Point still stands tho

[–]RickRate 5 points6 points  (3 children)

i thought the Dinosaur mount is from eureka, you mean the purple-blue ish trex?

[–]YourFriendlyRedditor 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I should have clarified, you’re right the T-Rex comes from eureka, however I’m talking about the Triceratops which is a much harder mount to obtain.

Also worth noting, not that I really care about this argument as much as the people on the other side of it, but having the Triceratops mount kinda undeniably makes you a part of the community, considering the networks required to be a part of to earn it.

[–]Zodiamaster 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh fuck that's some big karma, the guy on the whale was an idiot

[–]bakakaizoku 7 points8 points  (7 children)


[–]Eamil 20 points21 points  (5 children)

[–]ChainTrust 13 points14 points  (1 child)

lmao that third reply

fucking based

[–]Enconhun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Why did you think that was a good idea"?

[–]Kaplan6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also think the newly created characters with his name on it were likely banned the first day. They were gone halfway through the first stream.

[–]Quadriptych 236 points237 points  (200 children)

Zack: “Give them a 3 hours ban, that would be enough” GM’s: “How about NINE DAYS?”

[–]YourFriendlyRedditor 47 points48 points  (148 children)

Zack said it himself, the griefers makes the game and community look really bad. Fuck em

[–]selianna 115 points116 points  (38 children)

I love that its minimum 9 days, and that they will investigate it and it may take even longer. Just fuck those guys. Really well done square

[–][deleted] 86 points87 points  (20 children)

We've been abused by Blizz so long that common sense seems uncommon at this point

[–]HumanBackground 64 points65 points  (17 children)

The difference between Square and Blizz is that Square didn't fire their entire player support team.

Also they love it when their players love playing the game.

[–]Ceredron 11 points12 points  (8 children)

Yeah I don't know how blizz support is (haven't interacted with them since Overwatch lol) but SE, while not always able to resolve issues, is at least responsive (get back to you in a day or two) and work with you on things. They're like a big slow moving but reliable machine with everything from patch releases to support tickets. It's pleasant.

[–]ffvikadine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Listen I bought FFXIV complete edition a day before shadowbringers premiere (because I am an idiot) for xx € (don’t remember exactly) Which means I had all of the expansions aside from shadowbringers And next day the same edition with the same price would have shadowbringers as well

So they gave me shadowbringers for free

I love them. :D

[–]dangerdong 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Blizzard used to be the gold standard, fast responses and generally positive outcomes for the player. They used to distribute free game time to players if unplanned maintenance occured or scheduled went overtime. Even had them RP moments when they would contact you in game via whisper.

Now it's all outsourced to people who have never touched any of their games and copy and paste responses and close out tickets without even reading them. They fired all their CS staff from what I can remember (EU seemed to have retained some? not sure).

The only similarity that Blizzard has with how it operated back before the Activision merger is in name only.

[–]Destructodave82 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Blizzard did used to be the best. I remember one day during Cata I was at work and my account got hacked, and I worked night shift. I called Blizzard, talked to a guy on the phone, he got my account back over the phone and I got to keep all the Saronite Ore the botter had farmed, before I got it back, lol.

Also, back in those days, tickets were answered within the hour if you put one in. Its really sad how far they let one of the best things about Blizzard, fall to the wayside.

[–]Nightsu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

its crazy how these losers have nothing better to spend their weekends on than follow asmon around for over 6 hours for 2 days. like forget being annoying they need to get their heads checked

[–]ArePumpkinsReal 32 points33 points  (3 children)

Apparently this guy has already been banned before, this is basically an escalation. The next ban is permanent.

[–]Fycadius 22 points23 points  (5 children)

It's more than that. Re-read the message:
"Additionally, the service account will be investigated and considered for termination. The suspension will remain in place until the completion of the investigation, even if this exceeds the 216-hour period."

Not only will the account be unplayable for at LEAST 9 days, it might be much more than that and, if the investigation finds him guilty, might get his account banned. Forever.

I love Squeenix's Customer Support.

[–]wolfheart_fenja 7 points8 points  (0 children)

basically means, this was not his first offense, cause 9 days is not the usual "starting ban time", more along the lines of 1 or 3 days

[–]IsThisOneIsAvailable 685 points686 points  (134 children)

Asmongold definitely needs to show this on stream during the "Just chatting" intro, before he starts playing the game.

It'll make potential snippers think twice before they log in.

[–]SuchxHero 62 points63 points  (48 children)

Asmon will be level capped and king of Eorzea before these guys get unbanned KEKW

[–]KusanagiKay 29 points30 points  (47 children)

Well, it's a 9 day ban, starting from 0 AM of the next day.

Level cap: Maaaybe, but not that likely

King of Eorzea: Isn't he already?

[–]shadowblazr 69 points70 points  (11 children)

King of Lisa Lomasa at least

[–]WolfGB 33 points34 points  (10 children)

With Milfina has his queen they shall rule both just and true!

[–]Ghekor 8 points9 points  (8 children)

Pretty sure Y'Shala( I legit don't know how he pronounced it) is his wife , and he had the audacity to say he doesn't like cat girls...just what I'd expect from the guy that voted a goat girl as hottest female in WoW xd

[–]gladbmo 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Yshlota, he swapped the t and l

[–]DaiseeAi 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Him mispronouncing names is some of the funniest shit I've seen. Every new name is a gold mine. I legit loled when Khabib rolled around.

[–]Saffrin-chan 17 points18 points  (7 children)

Reading, it seems like they're suspended for at least 9 days while they're investigated, and could have their account terminated after its looked in to. So they might not be coming back at all. (At least on this account lul, which it sounds like they spent money on the whale mount)

[–]Nestama-Eynfoetsyn 4 points5 points  (6 children)

I think it depends on if they have previous strikes on their account or not. If they do, then yeah. From what I can recall, it's two strikes and you're permanently out.

[–]CrimsonPromise 4 points5 points  (3 children)

From what I know, usually it's a 48hr/2 day suspension for your first offense. The guy got 9 days, which means it's at least his 2nd time getting into trouble with the GMs. Even if he doesn't get perma banned this time, he's still one offense away from losing his account permanently. So just have to say the wrong thing to the wrong person in a dungeon and he's out.

[–]hyesupbro 27 points28 points  (3 children)



[–]ipredictedwings 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this im so happy to see that

[–]SkyOminous 17 points18 points  (1 child)

For real, the fear of getting a ban is more effective than the bans themselves. The moment Asmon said he was gonna call a GM, I saw a ton of players getting the fuck away from him.

Especially since those players have accounts with hundreds if not thousands of hours of progress, and FFXIV has a 3-strike system (3 suspensions = permanent ban). Not even those idiots would want to risk that.

[–]imasmart 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Since I've heard of a 24 hour front page rule, I think it would be great if a Mod or friend could DM him the link and just say - For chatting time next stream

[–]Screen_Watcher 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Also because he was clearly frustrated at Square yesterday, saying near the end of the stream that they just didn't care, because they haven't banned the snipers.

Well, looks like they do care, this is great, he show this on stream and say thank you.


He can literally ask or pay his mods to go ingame and report everyone following him around they get reported and he enjoys the game. Even if more people show up, post like this one will discourage a big number of fanboys.

[–]TheLoneWandererRD 110 points111 points  (2 children)

Christmas came early

[–]MaeArscelin 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Or to put it in FFXIV terms: It's like all my namedays have come at once!

[–]dennidits 100 points101 points  (8 children)

yup, i knew they were getting banned when the naked jumping guy, disappeared early on in the 2nd day stream. good riddance

[–]SpecialIndividual271 20 points21 points  (4 children)

People appear and disappear a lot on his stream because of his "Minimum" Setting when it comes to characters displayed. When he's waiting somewhere and people jump up and down, you can see people phasing in and out as they jump, so unless Asmon was completely alone in the scenario you've observes, the nude dude most likely just faded out because of his settings

[–]Kaplan6 17 points18 points  (3 children)

Not really, the settings come with a range. These guys were staying on top of him, not on the edges of the range, and were constantly visible if Asmon would stay still.

So yea, happy to see them get suspended. I heard others were reporting the people harrassing since Asmon gave up and I'm happy it worked.

[–]SpecialIndividual271 3 points4 points  (1 child)

If you check his farewell-speech at the end of stream 1, you see that even though everyone is standing on the same spot with him, people that move on the spot blink in and out.

[–]Kaplan6 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But then there were a lot more people than the ones that were following around. Those were ~15, in the ending more than 30 showed up for sure. It's a number of people thing yes, but it does come with a range too!

But regardless, the important thing is that people are getting punished for harrassing!

[–]Classic-Tiny 92 points93 points  (1 child)

Amazing, they get what they deserve filthy animals.

A lot of people shit on Asmon, last day or so of him streaming, has been a blast to tune into. It has made Working the holiday much more bearable.

[–]Tom-Pendragon 86 points87 points  (5 children)

216 hours...Hope it was fucking worth being annoying piece shit that follows a streamer for no reason lol. 2 more strikes and you perm banned.

[–]9inety9ine[🍰] 17 points18 points  (1 child)

From other comments it seems like it was the person hovering over him on the whale while he was questing yesterday, but who really knows. He does a really good job of ignoring them, tbh.

[–]MadWideLad 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He knows showing annoyance is exactly what they want. Bunch of fucking mouth breathers in a Discord chat hyuck hyucking.

[–]CrimsonPromise 14 points15 points  (1 child)

First strike is usually only 2-3 days. A 9 day ban probably means it's at least strike 2 for this guy. So if he doesn't get banned now, all he needs to do is to piss off the wrong person in a dungeon and he's gone.

[–]ramos619 233 points234 points  (13 children)

"Good. Fuck 'em." - Asmongold, most likely.

[–]SmartAssX 26 points27 points  (11 children)

It's no big deal, just ban them and move on. Yeah it's easy.

[–]bk_eg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The best thing about it is that he has the stream sniper's names on the vod, so it's easy for the GMs to just ban these shitters.

[–]AaronDeath 5 points6 points  (8 children)

i mean it's a huge deal tbh. set's a big precedent and message that I don't think any other game has said before.

[–]atomic_winter 169 points170 points  (69 children)

I hope Asmon sees this and does mention it in stream.

As a long time hardcore FFXIV player, I have been watching his streams with my raid group, and despite the opinions he voiced before playing the game, we were all hopeful and looking forward to seeing his first impressions.

Seeing the pure amount of bullshittery he's had to endure so far, from the obstruction to the snipe killing, is disheartening to say the least. This is not a patch day, or expac release, it is not indicative of the general community and I hope that Asmon, and all of you look at the hardcore community separately and with welcoming arms.

We're experiencing that new game wonder along with him and for some of us, it's bringing back amazing memories of those early game moments we wish we could relive for the first time. I hope SE and the GMs continue to ban anyone who stands in the way of his experience, and he gets to see all the game, the world and the general community has to offer. And when he's ready for end game raiding... We'll see you in party finder!

May the twelve bless your parses

[–]Writer_Man 53 points54 points  (56 children)

Honestly, the best examples of the real community are in the dungeons runs and trials that he pugs.

[–]Angerina_ 81 points82 points  (48 children)

The delight on his face when he said "People in group chat are really nice to me!" made me so happy.

[–]Writer_Man 13 points14 points  (42 children)

I missed that one. Which dungeon was that?

[–]ParkSojin[S] 34 points35 points  (29 children)

[–]MrDeeZeee 12 points13 points  (28 children)

Also, veteran players and guide players are never mad if you sit at a cutscene for dungeons, everyone is usually very patient to wait and always greet players in dungeons too.

[–]chobi83 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're used to it from Castrum and Prae lol

[–]nyrro 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it was his first run of Sastasha

[–]Duke_Tokem 11 points12 points  (10 children)

He said that in his first one, I think. I'm a new player myself so I can't remember the name of it.. Satosushi or something like that lol

[–]Writer_Man 7 points8 points  (9 children)


[–]Duke_Tokem 17 points18 points  (8 children)

That's the one. Wow, I think the naming convention of Asmon is contagious lol

[–]YourFriendlyRedditor 15 points16 points  (7 children)

I genuinely can’t tell if he’s doing it on purpose anymore

[–]Duke_Tokem 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Haha, same. I also think a lot of the names in the game is very hard to read and pronounce, so I get the initial mistakes. But the chat loves it, so maybe it started out as genuine mistakes and now it's just canon because of the entertainment value

[–]GandalftheGreeeen 2 points3 points  (1 child)

well he would do it to people’s names in transmog contests a lot, especially the EU ones lol. idk where it started, but that’s where i see him do it the most. i love it.

[–]TheAtami 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I switched from wow maybe a week and a half ago and it honestly is such a breath of fresh air how chill and nice everyone in this game is comparatively.

[–]atomic_winter 15 points16 points  (6 children)

Yeah absolutely. The people you find in duty finder give some of the most amazing interactions!

We once had a 24 man raid run where we all discussed cake! We had an Alexander Prime (8 man raid) yesterday with me and my bf (mentors) on tank and the other 6 were all new sprouts. We wiped a lot, and I spent a good 10 minutes talking people through mechanics, what stack markers look like, but only after they saw the mechanic so that they at least had a chance to see it theirselves rather than being spoonfed. They all ended up clearing the raid and they all ended up super happy with the experience!

These are the experiences we live for. These moments are what we love about the community. This is what I wish people would allow Asmongold to experience.

[–]HBKII 9 points10 points  (3 children)

I failed a duty on Ramuh Ex (I think, the harder version of the normal one) but goddammit if it wasn't fun figuring out all the mechanics on the fly with 8 sprouts on the team, saving people that made a little mistake in positioning a couple of pulls in by being aware of the indicators in their models, having to become raid leader for a while with quick chats to explain why we wiped the previous pull and what we're going to do from now on to prevent that. We failed to kill the boss but I definitely won something that night. Duty finder had me meet at most 3 people that were kind of an ass, and I've abused the free trial for all I can and it's been pretty enjoyable.

[–]atomic_winter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the experience I wish all new players to the game have. Half the fun is in wiping, figuring out what you did wrong and discussing how you can go about doing it differently.

The experience you get from duty finder is largely dependent on you, as a new player. If you go in and there are mentors, a simple 'hey, first time' helps us to know you may need a few attempts, or might need an explanation.

Some of the fights later in the game can be brutal for punishing mistakes, and people barking orders and insults actually only hinders the progress of the party, and there's a distinct difference in attitudes between duty finder and party finder for sure!

[–]traelin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did the Diabolos fight last night for the first time with the doors and we wiped 5 times. The last time we got it was so satisfying.

[–]InwardXenon 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Started playing FFXIV again recently after years away. It's so damn good. Finally got a friend to play it and hearing them enjoy the content so far is great. Sometimes you've gotta rekindle that feeling vicariously. There's a game called Outer Wilds that I finished some time ago, and I'll be sad I can never play it again for the first time. Sometimes I just watch streamers going in blind to recapture those moments haha

[–]Genocode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same dood, I'm watching FFXIV with people from my FC in discord c:

[–]JohnTheCodMan 75 points76 points  (16 children)

If I was the FF team I'd have a GM follow him round all day while watching his stream and temp ban anyone who follows or bothers him at all. Asmon streaming this game is the equivalent of a compulsive gambler billionaire trying out a new casino after the usual one told him no more free pepsi's and had to pay double on slots.

Asmon playing this game is a landmark making it acceptable for neckbeards to play FF14 now. FF be wise and give him all the free pepsi's he wants and if he wants a DrPepper while playing you fly over a helicopter with a keg of the stuff. if someone bothers his stream, you drag that person out back and have the cat girls secretly murder them.

[–]Cecil900 15 points16 points  (3 children)


Let’s be real neckbeards were already playing it lol.

[–]caelinday 32 points33 points  (1 child)

asmongold playing is big for ffxiv, just havingn a gm follow on the low would help immensely

[–]B1ack0mega 32 points33 points  (3 children)

They are almost definitely watching silently and timing people out in that GM jail place. So many of the annoying people vanished pretty rapidly. They can't publicly make a show of it or its favouritism.

[–]TinyMito 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I noticed after a couple of hours, there are way fewer people around him.

[–]hyesupbro 107 points108 points  (1 child)

Mods please pin this post to serve as a warning for future snipers and maybe it'll tune down to spergery

[–]Romanche92 65 points66 points  (14 children)

Important message here Asmongold wouldn’t believe us which I don’t blame him for because WoW GMs don’t care about their fans anymore but here is proof that FFXIV do care

[–]Reshir 39 points40 points  (3 children)

It was really sad to hear him immediately write off the GMs of this game. This isn't Blizzard, they do actually care.

[–]Romanche92 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Asmongold has breathed in so much COPIUM from WoW that he is in deny that GM's from other games will do anything when he faces a problem poor lad.

[–]Deziac 30 points31 points  (4 children)

I sent in a report for him, and they did give me a copy message back but it said for him to send a report due to privacy concerns. I even updated them when he did actually report. I told a mod that he needed to report and got a "we have everything under control for now". Then later he told everyone anxious about gms response if they talked about they would get timed out. I dislike backseat gaming and everything else, but when you have a few thousand people telling you the GMs will do something, maybe listen.

He said hes played a lot of games before so he knows how things are, but I hope this makes him realize that just because you know how mmos work doesn't mean you understand how a certain game community functions. GMs here listen, I don't think anybody would argue that.

[–]Romanche92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doing gods work bro you're a keeper!

[–]iamjanedoetho 58 points59 points  (11 children)

If this is the idiot on the Lunar whale (black and red).. they dropped $42 on a store mount, they have a fully loaded account with Endwalker preordered, and they were willing to risk a suspension/ban just to harass Asmon? I'd expect that kind of smooth brain from someone on a trial account but not someone who's dropped a lot of time and money on the game.

[–]Diavolo222 12 points13 points  (8 children)

These kinds of people are nerds with some IT job that have money to spend cause they literally dont do ANYTHING outside their job and video games. They are smart enough to be good at their IT job but just dumb enough socially and scarred by their loveless past to do dumb attention-seeking shit like this. These people need professional help. But a ban will suffice for the time being.

[–]BahamutxD 48 points49 points  (11 children)

Not gonna lie. Fuck them, I wish more get banned.

[–]LightRampant 9 points10 points  (10 children)

Yeah that's why people were asking him to put in names because the GM's need a full report that makes it ovbious WHO is breaching TOS with date/time/place/Server so they can check the server Log if there's anything in chat or the character's coordinates/positions/etc.

The whale guy was the most obvious one with the most evidence so i guess they looked at the evidence they had and doctored around just who it was so they had enough to ban him because i think Asmon filled out the form right after that.

He got an automated Response like that because he only filled out one line of the form

[–]Keldrath 11 points12 points  (8 children)

They don't need a full report and that's an unreasonable request anyways with the volume of people involved. A GM can easily just teleport their own avatar there observe, and remove people.

[–]Valcroy 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Wouldn’t be surprised if a GM was there with all the commotion alone. If I recall correctly, GMs in FFXIV do have the ability to essentially go invisible to watch silently.

[–][deleted] 69 points70 points  (28 children)

Temporary suspension, 216 hours. BUT SE has a very strict 3 strike you're perma banned forever rule (even if your last strike was 8 years ago!). So, it is pretty serious.

[–]RogueA 10 points11 points  (8 children)

Just removing the people sitting on giant mounts basically reduces his experience down to everyone else's "Running MSQ on Patch Day" experience, tbh. While I've never had a crowd like his following me around, I absolutely have had it at every single major quest NPC for the entire day where you just beg for a solo duty to show up.

[–]PaulR504 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ff14 vets were warned. They should know better.

[–]dope_danny 37 points38 points  (2 children)

It was funny to see asmon be like "its too many names it wont do anything" but XIV players were like "fuck it i got an afternoon".

[–]9inety9ine[🍰] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don't think he understood that he only had to report one of them for an actual GM to contact him and possibly even show up on scene. Blizzard hasn't had support like that in years. But I expect if enough vets report them on Asmon's behalf someone will look into it, if only to find out what's going on with all the reports.

[–]Hrafhildr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

lol a lot of us are vets that have no real content to do until Endwalker so yeah, bad time to be an obnoxious idiot for these guys I think.

[–]Yetti2Quick 32 points33 points  (0 children)

keep this upvoted boys so Asmon sees for his intro stream

[–]Varileztra 46 points47 points  (1 child)

This does bring Joy

[–]Shiamiru 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Did the naked guy in Limsa Lominsa that keep jumping on Asmon's character banned too ? I think that guy doesn't even play ff14 and was just there to distracted and ruined Asmon experience .

[–]OverLordPenguin 3 points4 points  (3 children)

The lalafel? Is that the same dude who follows rich? Watching richs stream i assumed it was someone they knew or maybe rich just had another mindset. I don't know.

[–]Shiamiru 5 points6 points  (2 children)

not the lalafel , i think the lalafel name is Ordor something like that . That guy actually seems pretty chill at least in Rich's stream . The only reason he is in the Asmon stream yesterday was because Rich said he kinda disappointed that Asmon doesn't meet Ordor or Ordor doesn't appeared in Asmon stream .

There is other guy , male human naked character that keep following him in the city and jumping on screen since day 1 .

[–]techichan 16 points17 points  (4 children)

I remember on the stream there was going to be a mass report on that caster sitting on a whale mount, as people were furious they literally were coving up asmon's mobs and NPCs. Hopefully this example sets off a message because apparently some people need to brush up on the ToS.

[–]Hrafhildr 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Yeah the Whale guy was clearly trying to mess with his experience by hovering over npcs and trying to block them, he wasn't just the usual crowd that follows him but tends to stay out of the way for the most part.

[–]Warbec 15 points16 points  (1 child)

You gotta be a total fucking loser to use 6 hours of your free time, to follow a streamer who doesn't even see your character or even sees your character's name. Asmon lowered the amount of players he can see on his screen, so anyone that shows up, is only one of the few from the ones following him.

[–]SealClubSixSixSix 17 points18 points  (5 children)

Cactaur resident here: I wrote up more reports in just 2 days of Asmon streaming than I have in my whole career in FFXIV playing since 2.0.

Again, we apologize for the few misbehaving asshats. I hope Asmon is free to enjoy the experience a bit more now, and show people how great this game can be.

To anyone lighting up the game for the first time, welcome!

[–]jenufi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You…I like you

[–]TheXIIILightning 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Keep fighting the good fight!

[–]fdiaz90 15 points16 points  (0 children)

this is so good hahahaha

[–]AnkingSlayer69 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Blizzard dev calls asmon an asshole and they pretend like he doesn’t exist. Square Enix welcomes him and bans stream snipers. It’s getting hard to play wow

[–]Nightsong 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What’s even more interesting is that the CEO of Square Enix is actively engaged with and involved with FFXIV. He shows up to Fan Fest and during one of them, he trolled Yoshi-P by cosplaying as a Blue Mage to announce the new job. It’s such a different culture and mentality at Square Enix and how much they care about the FFXIV players.

[–]peachiekeenie 14 points15 points  (3 children)

Please note ffxiv is on a 3 strike system. Strikes do not expire. First time offenders may get a warning or a short ban of 24 hours, so 9 days isnt a good sign lol.

[–]Twodeegee 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It's actually more than 3 strikes. They actually talked about this a couple years ago. The current escalation system is this

With severe offenses skipping steps.

[–]peachiekeenie 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah just caught that, ty for the info. 9 day ban is def up there tho. Once a friend had like a hour in gm jail cause he said "shit" in general chat and someone reported it, had another yoinked and warned for calling some a cunt in a random dungeon. I remember a housing scammer that got blasted on ffxiv sub got a 5 day ban.

So if this was a first time offense, they went hard. If it isnt thier first, ruh oh lol.

[–]DenzelVilliers 12 points13 points  (4 children)

I told that FFXIV actually do something and Asmon should believe them unlike other games. If he did replied the ticket last time instead ignored he would start a PM with a GM, a GM would probably go personally to his position ( with a Knight icon on it's name, just like a Sprout, but GMs does have a Knight Helm instead ) and start to remove people one by one.

[–]Llyud1996 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best decision tbh

[–]SailorUsagi420 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Good. The whales are hella disruptive.


This is the whale idiot.. justice

[–]SailorUsagi420 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Good. The whales are hella disruptive.

[–]plastikspoon1 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Funny as fuck cuz FFXIV will ban your ass for harassing a normal player, this has nothing to do with streamer clout.

Dude owns every xpac and preordered Endwalker so he's not new and should've known FFXIV ToS doesn't fuck around

[–]Vu8KZ 14 points15 points  (2 children)

nice. i was thinking about posting a discussion if we should create a counter group to report asmons snipers for him, following around with a great distance so he can quest but you can report these guys one by one. but man, they seem to go at them right now then. good job support team. keep is coming, clean up the dirt!

[–]SpecialIndividual271 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had a similar idea but the whole "greater distance" thing threw me off. Even if, you're still somehow contributing to the situation by crowding areas, so I chose not to do it.

Also losing your account because you got caught in GM crossfire would be a pretty awkward thing to happen.

[–]Wyrmlimion 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Good on you SE, harassment has no place in FFXIV.

[–]Clbull 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To the anon stream sniper who went out of their way to openly grief Asmongold during his stream.


[–]TinyTusk 6 points7 points  (4 children)

this actually makes me happy to see as a ff14 player.

[–]Machines_glass 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not really sure who you are but you're getting a lot of hype for a game I've been playing for like 5 years.

Hope you enjoy your time in ffxiv. Make sure you play the Hildebrand quest and sorry about the assholes, everyone I've ever encountered has been lovely, but I'm not famous so...

[–]TheXIIILightning 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I hope Asmon see's this, and that it encourages him to fully submit a GM ticket UNTIL a GM approaches him to talk.

[–]megamanTV 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well at least now he cannot say "they won't do anything, I know how this works" They are clearly trying to help clean up the mess, but it is difficult because there are so many people.

[–]ProVVindowLicker 7 points8 points  (2 children)

So let's be real... amsongold coming to ff14 is a big revenue boost for square. Imagine how many new trials and signups there were on that day. I'm not surprised they're helping I actually thought it may have happened on that day tbh.

[–]Cherub-Lilith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so happy to see that Square cares and that they did this. Asmon stated multiple times how it's stressing him out to a point where it was really saddening to watch. It's just malicious to ignore that and continue to chase him down. If someone asks you to stop, you stop. Wether it is a streamer or anybody else. Thanks for taking action Square. ♡ Because he is a player too and has just the same right to play unmolested as everybody else has.

[–]NotSaiku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good. That kinda shit they were doing is just so annoying. Anyone who actually cares about the game they play would be happy for new players to try out their game, and it seems most sensible players of FF14 are indeed happy to have Asmon come try it.

[–]TheAverageBox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a 14 player mainly, fucking good.

[–]Kicore0257 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This type of shit right here is what will help Asmon to grow his hair back. Good job SE. I’ll be continuing to fill out reports on the trolls trying to ruin the game for Asmon because it’s too much for him to do that and try to enjoy the game at the same time. Join me other passionate FF players, even if from other servers you can still submit tickets with links to his twitch stream and the information will get out there.

[–]TheNinjaTurkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Following him around is annoying enough but sitting on a giant mount to deliberately block him from clicking on things? Jesus christ dude get a life.

[–]skattered0782 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I bet next time he’s online people will think twice before grieving him again. Well done SE

[–]primotivegeth 7 points8 points  (1 child)

damn so this is what it looks like when GM's actually do their jobs.

blizz could learn a thing or two.

[–]NobleN6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

lol get shit on kid. I'm impressed. Even their GMs are better than Blizzard GMs.

[–]ShadowCrimson 5 points6 points  (2 children)

On a side note it's pretty insane that Asmon maintained 140k+ on the second stream, especially because this game really doesn't get many viewers normally

[–]Johnz9 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I normally don't celebrate other people's misfortune... but damn do these people had it coming.


[–]Rommas WHAT A DAY... 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There it is, DOOOOOOD

[–]yprtm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well Deserved

[–]A56964I 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This stuff might work in a Blizzard game where no one gives a damn what you do, and everything is handled by heavily abused automated systems.

Welcome to FF14. If I had to chose one favorite thing about the Japanese people, it would be their mindset of choosing quality over quantity and rewarding the behavior to reinforce it. This extends into customer service and making sure the experience is as good as it can be.

[–]tallyhoe1027 6 points7 points  (1 child)

hopefully they got that naked lalafell on the wheels mount sitting infront of the screen constantly

[–]bearLover23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

GOOD. I can say I've been nothing short of embarrassed as an FFXIV content creator at what I've seen happen on his streams. It's been utterly infuriating.

[–]Dynako 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some people need to just get a life, glad Enix takes it seriously unlike blizzard.

[–]Confident-Fun-413 4 points5 points  (1 child)

today we learned that ff mods don't just ban based on number of reports but actually investigate the claims

[–]KingRaphion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love how people think they can get away with this when FF14 has the strictest GMs I have ever seen in a MMO and it’s great. Fuck those guys. I hope when they’re unbanned they lose all their shit. Fucking losers griefing a guy who wants to just play the game.

[–]NeptuneVasiliasSSSN 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good. fk those no life cringe s1mps

[–]RRRanTV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seems like FF team & Square Enix do care. Huge props for them to create a healthy environment for players and also streamers. Asmon has to see this, bet will make him very happy. And also a more enjoyable leveling experience for not only him but also the 150-200k viewers. Really nice & smart move. Thanks Square Enix!

[–]p4ttl1992 3 points4 points  (2 children)

There should be people following at a distance reporting everyone that's swamping him.

[–]Cimmerie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hope Asmon sees this lol.