The Twitch streamer Asmongold is insulted by a Blizzard employee on Twitter. He takes it quite calmly.
On Twitter, conflicts and hasty, thoughtless statements occur quite frequently. Now, even the WoW streamer Asmongold has been insulted by a Blizzard employee – and rather drastically. This is currently making the rounds in the community.
Who is Asmongold? The streamer Asmongold is well-known in the community of World of Warcraft, although also controversial. However, it is clear that he is the largest content creator for World of Warcraft and reaches hundreds of thousands with his videos on Twitch and YouTube. For many years, he has primarily played WoW, and currently, he is also testing a few other games – such as Final Fantasy XIV.
What happened? For a few days, Asmongold has been playing Final Fantasy XIV, and some players of the MMORPG do not like that. They fear that with Asmongold, his somewhat toxic community will also invade the game. They want to protect the game from this. Therefore, “XylariaVG” called on Twitter to “not welcome hate and rudeness in Final Fantasy XIV”.
Unexpected support came from Adam Holisky. He is the Lead Product Manager at Blizzard and responded to Xylaria:
The guy [Asmongold] is an asshole.
Although Holisky’s Twitter account is his private account and contains the note that “the views are his own,” such remarks do not reflect well on Blizzard.
The tweet has since been deleted, but, of course, it can still be found in the vastness of the internet.
How Asmongold reacted: The Twitch streamer takes this insult quite lightly. He explained:
People are sending me pictures of a Blizz employee talking badly about me.
I don’t care, I talk bad about them all the time, lol
I’m a big boy, I can handle it, I don’t need anyone to harass them to defend my honor.
Some community members of Asmongold apparently took it upon themselves to harass Holisky and also to bring attention to it in the WoW subreddit and the official forums.
Why did the Blizzard employee say that? Why Holisky wrote those rather drastic words is not entirely clear. However, there might be some people at Blizzard who view Asmongold critically. After all, the streamer is polarizing and often uses harsh words, questioning the competence of developers or making rather unobjective generalizations. This might be an eyesore for some.
What do you think of the Blizzard employee’s reaction? Absolutely unprofessional, or are such statements as a private person on Twitter okay?
