A few years ago (I wanna say somewhere around when Legion was current WoW content) Pyro and (I think) his family lost their home or their apartment or something like that, and his viewers and a whole bunch of the WoW community donated to help get him new place.
Didn't he recently mention quit his Best Buy job? I have a vague memory of this.
I can't say I agree that's the same room for a few reasons. One, the carpet is more grey (bottom) than brown (top). Second is the wall and baseboard in the top one is greyish (wall) and white (baseboard), while the bottom one has a white wall and a greyish colored baseboard which also looks like one of those carpet expansion ones. Third, the gap between the ceiling and the top of the window is inconsistent, even when taking note of the different angles and distance. There's also that the bottom window has a horizontal column in it, where the window in the top doesn't. They're similar, but they don't match up for me.
Yes. Fairly sure he made a big deal a few months back about the income from FFXIV streaming being enough that he could become a full-time streamer. Though as noted by a few other users this usually means playing a few different games and not just FFXIV.
As others have noted here, people tried to talk him out of making sudden rash decisions. He was a manager of some kind at Best Buy, and apparently had a decent amount of student loan debt. He basically saw the peak numbers for viewers and subs, and made a bunch of decisions based entirely off of that. He did indeed quit his job, and moved into that new house. All the while, people were trying to warn him to practice smart financial sense and maybe wait until he's been doing it reliably for a year or so before making any major financial decisions.
My theory's always been that a lot of these people started playing as kids, likely their first MMO, and a lot of it's just this inherited(?) insanity from the older and overly dedicated EQ players that hopped over.
WoW takes a large portion of their free time and is one of their main sources of social interaction. As Fat Albert said, they also started when they were teens. That's the case for most of the prominent WoW content creators.
Spot on. There's probably some kind of lesson that so many big streamers end up lolcows that you shouldn't intertwine your hobbies and career too closely (also put your entire life on display), or at least choose which hobbies you want to take up more or less of your life. Plus WoW is a single long-running game, so it isn't a matter of going back and playing a game you liked when you were a teen, it's this continuous thing that you just keep playing so it inhabits way too much of your brain, especially if you stream it. Not surprising when you show up in another community that you aren't able to mentally adjust.
Its gonna be interesting if FFXIV does something to merit a WoW style exodus (highly unlikely at current time imo) and FFXIV refugees start invading other MMOs
What world were you playing on? Some datacenters (particularly Aether or any of the EU and JP ones) are silent. If you want people socializing and dicking around in the world, play on the Crystal data center.
I've been slowly working towards it but it's hard to nolife PVP in between IRL shit and a weekend raiding schedule. FWIW you'll be able to just outright buy the set next season with trophy crystals. And I'm pretty sure the next season drops with the next major patch so you have most of the summer to work on it.
If you get a decent win streak and you have like two or three hours to spare you can deadass get like 10 tiers in that time, it only took me like two or three days to get to 3 or so tiers before it
