Streamer Asmongold was banned from the Dragon Age subreddit for declaring that he’s “really excited for Dragon Age Veilguard.”
Asmongold via AsmongoldTV on YouTube
During his most recent stream, Asmongold posted to the Dragon Age subreddit a post titled, “Im really excited for Dragon Age Veilguard!!!”
Based on a screenshot from his stream posted to X by imbinarymind, Asmongold wrote in the body of the post, “It’s my first Dragon Age game and I’m curious to see what all the hype is about :)”
iambinarymind on X
The post has been removed from the Dragon Age subreddit and Asmongold was banned from the subreddit.
A screenshot of Asmongold’s post in the Dragon Age subreddit being removed.
X user Kaiser11131 shared a screenshot of the message sent to Asmongold informing he was banned from the Dragon Age subreddit, “Unfortunately due to too many repeated infractions of our civility and [MORE] rules from users of this community (Asmongold), we have decided to automatically revoke access to our subreddit as a preventative measure so that our community at large can focus on actual criticisms of the game without getting involved in the war against ‘woke culture’. There are other subreddit for Dragon Age that allow this type of discussion, which we recommend visiting instead.”
The moderators added, “If you feel you have been banned in error, please reply to this message and we will manually review your account.”
Kaiser11131 on X
Asmongold previously trashed Dragon Age: The Veilguard claiming it “looks like a mobile game” and that it “is actually worse than Concord.”
He said, “I feel like Raid: Shadow Legends has like better like graphical style than this game. … I do. I really think so.”
Moments later he added, “I mean this really just looks like a mobile game.”
Later in the video he compared it to Concord, ““I’m going to say something right now and it’s going to be super controversial. This looks worse than Concord. And I don’t even think that it’s close. This is actually worse than Concord.”
“I don’t see how anybody can look at this combat and look at this gameplay and think that it’s anything more than garbage,” Asmongold declared. “This is some of the worst gameplay that I’ve ever seen. And I don’t even understand how this happened.”
“I want to say again, I don’t care about the story. I don’t care about these interactions between the characters. This isn’t what’s important to me. What’s important to me is the vibe of the game and the way that it plays. And I think this game has absolutely failed the vibe check. It’s not even remotely close. It’s like they have the same shield bar that probably makes it to where they can’t be staggered like the Hades NPCs. This looks like a mobile game. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills looking at this,” he added.
Asmongold then elaborated on his mobile criticism, “It’s not a problem because it looks like a mobile game. It’s a problem because mobile game UIs are obnoxious.”
A screenshot from Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024), BioWare
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