And considering TikTok is 99% being banned in the US - a large amount of those streamers are also about to lose a rather decent chunk of their income from co-streaming on TikTok.
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I think most ppl here get it. yeah streamers are really going to support this bc their livelihood depends on it. how much money would they get if they said the game was bad and went back to playing m+? not much. plus blizzard def wouldnt invite them to a “content creator battle royale.”
streamers are very in touch, they know who pays their bills.
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Most streamers live and die off conflict and controversy to drive engagement and views. They want to rage bait you into watching them and furiously arguing with them in chat (even paying them so it comes up higher on their feed) and ultimately YOU become a part of THEIR content).
I HATE Plunderstorm but would gladly take part of the 50k tournament where I heard supposedly gives at least 5k to all participants. Quickest 5k I’d likely make in my life since I’ve 0 qualms about dropping down and getting myself killed. Don’t even care if it gets clipped and made into an “epic failz guy loses 50k tournament seconds in huehuehuehue” vid.
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Sounds like they should run for congress.
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Or maybe they think the game mode is fun, but go on with your conspiracy theory.
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Any of the streamers on that guest list are completely free to release a video critical of Plunderstorm.
Except that five minutes after doing so they will not be on the guest list.
They aren’t going to risk that and access to Blizz here. Their livelihoods kinda depend on goodwill.
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Streamers almost never speak for people on the ground.
Especially the most popular ones, at that point they’ll say and do whatever keeps them popular, keeps the views coming in.
Just sayin’, it’s always kinda been this way lol.
Sometimes they are right in their assessments of WoW, but not all the time.
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because…
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Why should you be upset about plunderstorm? Just don’t play it if you don’t like it.
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Because they wasted the WoW dev team’s time on something that wasn’t WoW, when WoW has a lot of problems that need fixing.
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I, on the other hand, told a certain person very prominent in Vanilla WoW who is very much no longer with Blizz that I would not compromise my principles and “that account can burn for all I care.” In regards to my backer pledges in his indie project.
It was worth $15,000 and was indeed banned shortly after I said that.
Lets not ignore the fact that half of those people are not even WoW players, the “tournament” is nothing more than a marketing scheme, they probably could not care less what is the current state of WoW.
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I believe Plunderstorm is planned to be a much bigger deal than a side-mode for WoW. The huge prize pool all but confirms it.
so, let’s now do a quick rundown of gains and losses from your decision:
Loss: $15000.
Gain: self-admiration ?
That’s not a huge prize pool, in the grand scheme of things. I’ve seen publishers flush way more money than that down the streamer toilet bowl and have nothing to show for it.
It is a huge amount for a silly side game, is like them trying to make hots into an esports all over again.
i wouldn’t insult streamers … do you want to get cancelled to the cornfield?
I don’t have a twitter account so that gives me immunity.
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I kind of expect this is the first in a series, but we’ll see.
I play it through the WoW launcher
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