Yeah I've seen a lot of sperging on his end, he's hopelessly addicted to drama. His community is far more tolerable than himself, good thing he's banned on plebbit because now he can't shit on his own reputation even harder on there.
The drama whoring is one thing, but his particular brand of left-wing lunacy is what gives Volound any value as a lolcow. Imagine creating conspiracy theories about chuds on plebbit and Geedubs teaming up with Trump unironically.
Which is unsurprising for two reasons, Volound's head is so far up his own ass it's amazing how he hasn't imploded, like that other comments said when he does in fact have good points he's such a faggot that no one will take it seriously and thus he'll undermine himself. The other reason is that, like you said, he has far less you lose so people get pissy when he talks shit about their beloved (ruined) franchise. Damned if you like him, not so damned if you dislike him. When he is on track it's not bad to hear him and the others talk.
Legend also probably doesn't want to get in another retarded spat with the has-been when it's more convenient to use him as a cudgel against CA. The moment CA is gone or miraculously has a change in management that leads to them making good decisions, Legend and Apollo won't have any reason to continue platforming him.
To be fair, Volound would probably just make more content based on his older content (battles and commentary on said battles) if the games suddenly started getting good again. In fact he's been doing that more lately. He'd still be a smug shitlord but it'll be far less so, though his view count would suffer hard as I'd imagine most people came for either the old Dishonored videos and left years ago or him shitting on CA. One video with two other bigger YouTubers and it did better than any other video in a while. Then you see his battle videos aaaaaand:
Isn't Pixellated Apollo the Swede who at one point years ago made a huge deal about joining the army and putting his channel on hold, only for him to come crawling back because he was kicked out after a couple of weeks?
What the fuck? That's hilarious as it is sad.Isn't Pixellated Apollo the Swede who at one point years ago made a huge deal about joining the army and putting his channel on hold, only for him to come crawling back because he was kicked out after a couple of weeks?
For some reason he never made dishonored 2 videos despite the fact that he would likely enjoy it, as he likes dishonored, and it would be an easy way to get views. Like, there is an entire assortment of okay to decent stealth games out there with there fancy takedown animations but instead he'd much rather just get into his internet fights. I don't know how he manages it, but he does.Channel is alive and well, I see.
Simple, it's easy and guaranteed to get people huffing his farts, at least these days.
I mean based on his treatment of Rome Remastered before its release, his admission that he attacked Attila for years without ever playing it, and his treatment of Manor Lords just based on the dev not giving him a free copy, I have no doubt in my mind that he would be all on board with attacking the series even if CA turned things around. He wasn't this bad years ago but either the Reddit ban or the communism must have fried his brain and made him quadruple down on everything he says even when he is repeatedly btfo.
This is hilarious because he shilled this video of a Russian Attila player where he talks about aspects of the game he likes and why he thinks it's the best modern TW game, I checked out the rest of his videos and yeah, the dude's an Attila pro (and he's really good at the other games too), he does insane challenge runs on Legendary all the time. I have checked his Youtube channel now that I'm writing this post and I have no idea what happened tho, most of his videos are behind the membership paywall now but there's no way to buy one anymore.
That shit was hilarious, Volound's community called him a retard for that so I'd imagine any credibility he does have was being flushed at a faster rate.
Wasn't really wrong to do so, imo, the UI is abominable, the disk space absurd and it doesn't add anything worth justifying its price.
TBF Russian ultranationalists will freely mix communist nostalgia with love for the Tsar.
Apparently there has been drama between PixelatedApollo and LegendofTotalWar where PA put several hitpieces against Legend implying him to be a "Creative Assembly shill" and being a "pro-woke" YouTuber. Unfortunately, PA took down his hitpieces after backlash from his fans as well as Legend sent a reaction video so I wasn't able to archive it.
I havent watched any of these people in years, but for some fucking reason i would've expected for PA to be the soy cuck and Legend to be the chud, i might be completely off but Legend never striked me as someone pozzed, maybe the opposite a tiny bit
I don't watch his content often but he always strikes me as someone who just...likes Total War. That's it. He's not pozzed (to my knowledge), he's based in the sense of not giving a fuck about culture war (for the most part, I think he just says "I love faggots and hate dog whistles" because he probably knows his audience is filled with troons who will crucify him for not stating it), he's actually criticizes the games he likes and CA (which got him booted off the creator partnership thing immediately albeit temporarily IIRC), he interacts with various TW related people no matter who they are (like Volound and even PA himself), and probably more.
I should've known something was like this was boiling from the way they talked in the video with Volund where they were discussing TW's direction. Volund and to a lesser extent PA were fishing for gotchas and quotes from Legend but they managed to end it on a friendly note. I thought Volund would be the first one to spill his spaghetti first but I guess his dormancy has at least made him slower to pull the trigger (too bad he still can't concede once he has).
He talks about being the culture-war type and using slurs during his sales job days on the podcast with Volund and PA. He's mellowed out now and seems to just be happy playing games he loves for a living. He's a bit too forgiving of CA when it comes to bad value-DLCs; he doesn't seem to understand that consumers don't need to give a shit about whether CA needs money or whatever they need it for. If they want to make money they should price stuff rationally.