Even when in contact with CCs and Pro players they aren’t listening either. Its as if they are doing whatever they want and plugging their ears to drown out their noise.
Pretty much this. He’s like the only streamer they seem to listen to.
With how big of a task it is, it’s nearly impossible to do. As even some streamers, instead of being Blizzard’s tool of spreading “good news”, turn against them.
It was supposed to be flawless system, with streamers controlling public opinion and their obedient fans suppressing any discontent.
It’s their livelihood and want to protect so they will only say bad things when they absolutely have too or can’t ignore it anymore. There was a stream where popular twitch streamers were playing the latest BF2042 patch and the game kept breaking on them so when it was stable they all chatted just fine BUT when sh%t was glitching and people were falling through the floor all talk stopped and nothing negative was said. They just stood silent and pretend it was fine and only went back to saying good things once the mess was over.
Streamers that only play X game will do everything to not sh&t on their only form of income.
That Star Wars dialogue comes to mind:
“You turned them against me!”
“You already did that yourself.”
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You have to give them credit, though - their system of controlling public opinion on Overwatch was designed fairly well.
Only problem is that discontent was a bit…too much to suppress, and enough players just didn’t listen to streamers, making it ineffective. And streamers, in fear of losing their viewers, started to join that riot - system effectively started working in reverse mode.
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This. Any attempt to have an actual, reasoned discussion based on the data they have available to them is met with a streamer or YouTuber sending their echo-chamber of viewers after them in an angry mob because they have a few anecdotes.
the only thing i know about is that blog a bit ago detailing the midseason patch. genji getting some nerfs reverted. hogs one shot getting reworked and sombra getting reworked and why they buffed ana and orisa because of hogs power level. oh i forgot about the junker queen getting some supposed buffs
also it is the holidays so 
*43% to 56%
Which to them basically means everyone is 50% I guess.
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Streamers are responsible for handling discontent now, otherwise they can say “farewell” to all deals they made with Blizzard.
Under no circumstances they should allow their loyal fanbases to be “infected” with idea, that Overwatch isn’t great.
‘Blizzard, my allegiance is to my twitch chat, to democracy!
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They need to be able to change games and bounce to the next best one instead of feeding false lies to keep their career going and being knows as the X game streamer.
I mean I get it, they know OW inside and out but it’s not the same game anymore and the devs are screwing everything up but instead of calling them out they are trying to boost their own views which will result in the devs thinking what they are doing is fine and everyone suffers.
Because agreements they signed were only for rights for “item drops” on their streams. Which was supposed to replace actual payment for promoting game.
Jumping ship will leave them both without potential income from that deal, and with possible penalties for breaking it. And who will sign such deal with streamer, who broke it in the past?
Streamers jumping ship was one of big concerns for Blizzard in times of OW1, so no doubt they thought this through this time. This ship will sink with it’s entire crew, and all cowards will be tightly chained to it to sink with it.
I think they are but are slow to take action or any drastic action.
And once they sign it AND say something negative they are black listed from all major AAA companies from future deals. It’s food on the table or integrity of the game.
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Their allegiance is to their wallet. Because if they continue praising Blizzard, chances are they will be discarded as no longer useful AND lose their viewers for it.
Blizzard has no use for streamer, that loses viewers at alarming rate - they specifically made deals with successful and big streamers. If they break their deal with Blizzard, they won’t be able to get such deal with any other company, but, at least, they will mostly preserve their viewers, so not all money is lost.
Dilemma - jump from ship, that seems to be sinking, with no right to ever get back on board, or stay and possibly sink with it?
Quite the opposite actually. Streamers represent a vocal minority and give them a larger voice and platform than they otherwise would have. Certain content creators and streamers (coughFlatscough) are also openly hostile to new casual-focused content creators that have picked up the game and are creating content that appeals to the new F2P audience.
The fact that this game was designed by people that don’t play games should be enough proof to tell you that the “devs” (no real dev worked on this game), don’t give af.
Drops can be enabled for anyone streaming Overwatch 2. There’s no exclusivity agreement with Blizzard.
Per the FAQ here: Rise up and earn exclusive Twitch drops for Season 2 - News - Overwatch
Obviously they would be hostile - they don’t need competition in that field.
If drops can be enabled for anyone, then why they are usually enabled only for certain big streamers?
…I mean, the forums tend to ask for some…interesting…things at times…? 