“Now what are we going to fret about?”: Asmongold was genuinely surprised by Blizzard’s generosity in the new Warcraft patch

Zack “Asmongold” is one of the most popular MMO streamers on Twitch. He’s a true giant when it comes to World of Warcraft.

With over three million followers, the content creator has maintained a staggering 72,000 average viewership on its main account over the past year.

Asmongold has been a vocal critic of Blizzard’s policies, particularly those that impede gameplay. However, he was surprised at how easy it was to get the new Frostbrood Proto-Wyrm in the new Wrath of the Lich King Classic update.

The new pre-patch for the expansion allows players to access the brand new mount for free regardless of their rank.

Reading the blog post on WOWHead, Asmongold couldn’t believe that Blizzard, known for monetizing every ounce of their game, could offer such a good-looking item for free.

The OTK founder joked about the anomaly and despaired that he had nothing left to complain about:

“So it’s not even an indirect way to promote boosts?

“Somehow it has to be a scam”: Asmongold jokes about Blizzard’s rules of the game

Asmongold is a longtime critic of World of Warcraft developers. He caused quite a stir in the community when he denounced Blizzard for improving flying in the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Dragonflight.

The Austin native was also very critical of Blizzard when they blacklisted Peach Gaming from Dragonflight Alpha.

When the US streamer came across the patch notes for the mount, he was initially skeptical. He said:

“This is an in-game mount. Looks pretty cool. And you can get it. I’m really not kidding. You can get it by just playing the game the entire DK quest line and after completing them you will get this retail mount WOW.”

Since he didn’t read it thoroughly, he assumed it was an advertisement for their boosts:

“What’s the catch? The catch is most people don’t have 60 or 70 WOW in retail so they can’t do DK. So it’s a way for them to accidentally give a promotional opportunity to buy the boost for Wrath of the Lich King Classic. And the boost allows them to get this mount quickly. It’s actually very smart.”

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Up until now, Asmongold thought Blizzard was actually driving monetization by trying to get players to spend money to get level boosts. However, the theory crumbled when his audience pointed out that the first death knight was already spawned at level 55. This means that no boost is required to get the Frostbrood Proto-Wyrm.

The Twitch star said:

“You don’t need it? DK first? Wait what… you don’t need level 55 to do a DK? So, a totally fresh player, someone who has never touched Classic WOW can’t do a Death Knight under any circumstances , and it starts at level 55.”

After Blizzard’s generosity, the streamer began clutching at straws and joking that it was kind of a scam:

“Somehow it has to be a scam, right? I mean damn! They trick us into buying the game by adding a reward that people want to play the game [for].”

audience reactions

After Asmongold’s audience realized that the mount was fairly fair to acquire, Blizzard was quite grateful.

Edited by Rachel Syiemlieh