Twitch streamer always criticized Pay2Win, spends €320 on Day 1 Diablo Immortal – Now has a problem

On June 5, 2022By Garmin Philip

Twitch streamer Asmongold is known for his criticism of Blizzard, microtransactions and Pay2Win. He wanted to take his criticism to the extreme with a “satirical” stream and buy everything Diablo Immortal offered him in microtransactions. But many of his fans did not understand this criticism – his reaction was to delete angry postings against him.

This was apparently Asmongold’s idea:

Twitch streamer Asmongold is known to be critical of Blizzard and Pay2Win systems. What he really wants are games where you can’t buy anything via microtransactions that has any impact on the game. But it still takes the hype about games like Lost Ark with it.
That’s why he was critical of Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s new mobile game, right from the start and was often cynical about it. For him, cash shops are actually an abomination (via twitter).
In a first stream, he wanted to show how Pay2Win Blizzard’s new game, Diablo Immortal, is: He said he’s “specifically doing a Pay2Win” stream, buying everything the game offers and leaving a dollar counter run along

We show you the 6 classes of Diablo Immortal – in our tier list you can see who is currently ahead:

Diablo Immortal: All 6 classes at a glance with gameplay

Asmongold becomes the largest Twitch streamer on Diablo Immortal with “Pay2Win”.

This is how the first stream went. Asmongold has shown two streams of Diablo Immortal for the last 2 days: it was on the air for a total of 10 hours and had an average of 90,000 viewers. That’s less than his coverage of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, but it still made him the biggest streamer of Diablo Immortal by far. He was well ahead of Quin69 and shroud.

But Asmongold actually went through with his plan and, according to himself, spent about €320 in 5 hours on Diablo Immortal on his 1st day. He said up Twitter even that he regrets that it was so little. He would have gladly paid more.

Diablo Immortal: YouTuber reveals how “crass Pay2Win” Blizzard’s new game is

Viewers are disappointed in Asmongold and accuse him of hypocrisy

This was the reaction: Many of his viewers were angry at Asmongold for doing exactly what he always criticizes: spending money in a cash shop.

For him, €320 might not be anything, but for many others that would be a lot of money that they couldn’t easily throw away.

Some people were disappointed in him: What is he doing there? It was hypocritical to spend money now that he had always spoken out against it.

Asmongold deletes criticism of disappointed fans live on Twitch

Here’s how Asmongold reacted: In a Lost Ark Twitch stream, Asmongold said:

“I will solve the problem the way I always do. I’ll just delete all threads and ban people.”

He was then seen going through posts on reddit criticizing him for his Pay2Win stream, he flagged those posts and later deleted them.

This has people now criticizing Asmongold for silencing criticism of him by deleting it.

People say something like:

That shows how thin-skinned he is. A user calls him “Fragile Andy”.
Even Quin69 handles criticism better than Asmongold – that’s really saying something.
A third says: Asmongold deliberately triggers conflicts. That generates angry reactions. But Asmongold can’t handle the controversy he creates well and then has to take some time off again. It’s like lighting a fire and then getting upset about the heat.

Own mods apologize for their boss

In the wave of criticism, the mods on reddit make it expressly clear that they are not deleting the postings, but “their boss” – they can therefore do nothing (via reddit).