Then let people choose freely which Overwatch Streamer they want to Support instead of giving us a list with mostly huge streamers who don’t need the Support and don’t even stream the game on a regular base.
If it’s not everyone it’s a bad idea. Do it like drops.
I don’t want to give money to any of the streamers you guys picked. I want to support the ones I feel deserve it.
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So let me see if I have this right. Your plan as a company moving forward is to further scorn your consumer base, who are only critical of you because they want you to be better yet you repeatedly find ways to disappoint, for the sake of streamer analytics and the hope for more people watching the game instead of playing it? As marketing tactics go, this is pretty bad. This is to say nothing about the fact that most would be content with paying straight up for something like this no strings attached. You wouldn’t have to bribe people so bad if you actually took care of your game, just saying.
Also, Elden ring would like a word with yall. Elden ring would like SEVERAL words.
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“Thanks for the 3 gifted subs”. Forgotten 3 seconds later or just ignored
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They have already specified they kept the list limited to test this promotion and ensure the promotion will work before expanding it in future promotions.
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That’s a personal goal of mine, should there be future iterations. This is a new program, both for Twitch and us, and there are a lot of unknown unknowns right now. We put into place as many reasonable controls as we could to learn from this first execution.
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Not an acceptable excuse
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even if it’s 1000 it’s still annoying 99.99% of the playerbase to benefit 0.01% (assuming 40 million sold)
was the chioce of a brig skin deliberate?
it seems cruel, given they mostly blame her for the collapse of their viewership
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How many of them are small streamers who actually need the money and attention?
I’ll wait…
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Could you elaborate on this point? What is the difference between ActiBlizz paying the content creators and the player base paying them? Most will simply pay and forget. What long term benefits are we looking for here? And why towards big, established streamers? As it stands, the majority of gifted subs will simply go to the larger streamers as is, and as money and time is very much a finite resource —especially in this economy— any smaller streamers not featured will lose out on that potential sub and view.
If the point were really to “support” streamers, why not base it off donations instead of gifted subs? Why not anyone actively streaming Overwatch?
In the end, this marketing stunt will just hurt smaller streamers by diverting views and potential subs to established and variety streamers. Many of whom have been rather…vocal with their dislike for overwatch in the past.
Rather in poor taste and tone deaf, this whole event.
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I don’t think it’s that hard to do some due diligence and find three OG overwatch streamers, if this is really important to you.
Dude the people in the forums are a small minority whether people admit it or not, most people won’t even care about this, but it will expose it the new beta to alot more people, which is what this is for. The skin is the incentive, not the goal
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If anything most people who watch Overwatch exclusive streamers don’t even necessarily need as much marketing as variety streamers. Pretty much 99.9% of the audience of dedicated OW streamers knows what up with the beta and pvp launch.
Where as variety streamers can bring in people who never even played Overwatch before, or haven’t played the game since 2017.
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Donations for most streamers are handled through third-party platforms like Streamlabs or StreamElements and are not directly tied to Twitch so there is no effective way to track donations on a broad scale.
Also gifting subs have more long-term benefits to promote streamers for long-term success as many viewers who were gifted a sub become regular supporters to their favorite creators.
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In another thread Andy B. From blizzard called it the “first event” so yah, this is probably going to become a thing. I don’t use twitch >.<)
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Forums =/= 99% of the player base. Forums more realistically represent less than 1% of the player base and have pretty well established biases.
Forums are also historically very adverse to change and us trying new promotions like this. The response today was anticipated and factored into our decision making process
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“Content creators” is such a fancy name… For some weirdos who just play video games and are obnoxious while kids watch and melt their brains watching it.
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Point missed.
You mean the content creators that tick the box to be part of your shortlist of supported streamers? Not all the other overwatch streamers that are trying their best to publicate themselves and make a name for themselves.
People that are going to get absolutely zero viewership when OW2 beta starts because their streams aren’t eligible for the skin.
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if it’s on the launcher everyone booting up the game is going to see it