Why would you want less people to play/be interested in the MMO that you play?
I imagine these people don't care much about the game having a healthy player count and thriving so long as they can RP a catgirl in guild chat.
You got the answer "gatekeeping" a few times, but it's deeper than that.
WoW players in FFXIV destroys the illusion that a lot of FFXIV players have built up for no reason over years - that they're somehow different from WoW players. There are a lot of FFXIV players who genuinely believe that it's an
entirely different community and not already made up of a gigantic portion of people who play or played World of Warcraft.
This is despite, of course, the following.
- The FFXIV dev team (lead dev heavily included) are WoW fans. Part of the game's "how do we unfuck FFXIV 1.0" homework was making the dev team play current WoW.
- A lot of game decisions, design, etc, being influenced by WoW.
- All of the "big" (for FFXIV, anyhow) community members are all former or current WoW players (Zepla, Annie, W2G, basically anyone).
Asmongold is just the newest version of it - he's basically the absolute biggest streamer WoW (and most of Twitch) has ever seen. His FFXIV stream was the most popular FFXIV stream
ever - even bigger than the FFXIV offical fan fests AND more popular than every streamer combined on Shadowbringers Launch day.
People like the illusion that FFXIV is it's own community that in no way came from WoW (even though WoW isn't it's own community and was made up of UO and EQ players).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJ_u1DJkbjY
how is it stream snipping when you announce on stream which server you going to? no shit people will follow you around when you asmocuck. he fucking encouraged this kind of behaver but now that people are trying to ruin his experice of the game (which he did for himself) he will cry like a women to the admins of square that the poopoo heads hurt his feelings. worst part if the admins caved and banned people for this. one more reason not to play a game infested with furriers and tranny filthy.
It's not stream sniping, it's just harassment. Just because you know where someone is playing doesn't mean you can follow them around and trying to block them from playing the game with a giant mount, by wiping out lowbie mobs, or by spamming annoying sounds for 4+ hours straight.
You aren't allowed to be a gigantic asshole in FFXIV to anyone - streamers included.