As long as you stay within genre I think there is merit to Twitch comps personally. You just also need to keep in mind similar stages of a life (or season) cycle as well.
I wouldn’t be shocked if s3 engagement metrics are down compared to s2 and hopefully that sends a message. I know I am planning to play s3 less just from what I have seen and what my expectations are.
My guess is an emergency fix will remove the entire loot tied to traps theme. Traps will just hurt u or CC u. The buff you get will just become an actual buff that will last the entire dungeon if you dont die tying them back together in a small way.
They have to do something. This entire season is tanking very hard. Its very evident across all media.
There’s not a lof of incentives to blast early this season. Here’s why: 1. No leaderboards or Gauntlet mode until the second half 2. Then, no aoz lvl content. Don’t need ubers to play. Everything will be too easy. Again.
Personally? If they dont hot fix in some fun I’ll play D4 later. Cram it like a midterm before Gauntlet comes out.
D3 season 30 has soul shards. I’m golden 
Yah leader thing not coming with release was weird. The boards are there to rush and try to get a spot right on launch. Kinda dumb but whatev doesnt bug me
if they released the leaderboards, the season would be over.
keep chasing that carrot, maybe in s5 the game will be fixed? right?
eye roll
So predictable.
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get glasses. honestly, they cant be more visible. actually, way too visible to be considered “traps”
Wait so it started out at 90k viewers? How many of those play D4? Same question for your other points of data. Also how many streamers stopped streaming D4 after the first day of the season? You can’t just site viewer numbers and not give us the specifics, I’m genuinely curious now.
Also of those still streaming D4 what is their average viewer count per time they stream? How much does this fluctuate given what game they are playing? Does it fluctuate at all? Are the twitch views more so related to the streamer or the game based on the average viewer count of said streamer?
When you can answer these questions, it’ll paint a bigger picture as to how non-influential twitch actually is. The game itself isn’t popular because people aren’t watching it on twitch, the game is not popular because of the current seasonal mechanic people are complaining about. I have no doubt people are still playing, how many though? Couldn’t say.
Covered by effects or other mobs man. General ground clutter we have. Im not blind yet fren (but I am getting there). Dont worry when the emergency fix hit thats going to specifically address this I will take a bow and you can apologize.
ive heard there are quite a few accessability option to cover for these reasons. you know, there is a guy who is legally blind and killed uber lilith and id consider these mechanics to be an actual pest.
i dont doubt there will be a patch, because people are crying over traps tho 
Did you miss this? Covered by effects or other mobs man. They have to address it. Its core part of the season that is failing. You cant dodge traps you cant see.
it wouldn’t surprise me tbh
I’m calling it right now. Loot will not be fixed by S4. This team takes forever to do anything.
It’s only a good measure if you control the “survey”. That means you’d have to assume the same people are streaming both games, but they’re not. You’d have to assume that a significant percentage of the audience watches Twitch to begin with, they don’t.
And in 2023 we had a developer post about millions of people returning for seasonal content in D3 but they never had over 5k viewers the whole year. So what metric are you using to say D4 is a failure?
Considering no one has actually stated what they’d want fixed, this seems like a no brainer assumption.
Well, twitch is basically free advertisement.
So if less streamers are advertising a AAA game compared to indie games, there’s an issue.
That one I think will be handled personally by Joe Shely, or at least supervised directly.
I hope you’re right. Really, I do. 
the blind person even had to deal with the second phase of uber lilith, where the platform falls apart. and here we are, talking about traps not being visible enough?
im sorry, but this doesnt make any sense.
You seriously not getting it? I said the traps are hidden by other effects or mobs…come on man!
and i said legally blind people are able to do uber lilith, while you arent able to dodge traps because “they are clustered with mobs”