Blizzard need to find a better way to reward people for playing their game. The idea of giving rewards to people who watch some one else play a game is idiotic. Why would I spend hours watching some one play a game when I can play it myself. If they feel the need to give out rewards find a better method for giving them away.
I don’t understand why someone who streams themselves playing a game should be rewarded with the ability to give players a reward in a game as opposed to players being given the chance to earn the prized directly themselves by playing.
Maybe I’m old and this idea of rewarding laziness with prizes doesn’t sit right with me.
Anyone else feel this way?
Edit: Changed title from Stop rewarding Twitch Players to Stop rewarding Twitch Viewers, to better highlight my issue.
No. I personally feel you’re being ridiculous. Twitch drops are nothing new. Content creators are good for a game. It’s a means of people understanding the game a bit more or learning from people who play at higher levels. Not to mention free advertising.
I’ve never seen such a hate and distaste for content creation or streaming as I have on these specific forums and I cannot for the life of me figure out where it comes from, but it is silly.
This is why I love my job and that I work from home. I just put on a streamer with drops on. Minimize the window. Claim my reward. So I get it all done while I am working.
not really. i barely watch twitch to know what’s happening and care. moreover , i play the game in a vacuum, in a pve environment, in which the other person’s progression does not really affect me. FOMO is a bad influence
It’s worth noting for people using this method that you have to go and claim the hippogryph pet before it’ll start counting the additional 4 hours for the goat mount.
If you dont want to watch the streamer just have it playing in the background on mute. Thats how i got the feldrake and how im planning on this new one. I never watch streams but a rewards a reward
Those same streamers put out educational videos and guides. People like Preach who streams daily also makes countless guides. Naguura. Hazelnutty. All of these people do both. Their title as a content creator doesn’t just go away and quite frankly, content creation falls under transformative ideas. Someone streaming a game, reacting and engaging with the people who watch them is just as much content creation as someone making a guide.
Do you know how many people watch other folks stream spooky games for no reason other than to see them be spooked? It’s how Pewdiepie started, and I’m not a fan of his, but one cannot deny his success. That’s another form of content creation.
And regardless of any of that? The OP doesn’t have to participate in anything they don’t want to but asking for other people to also be denied something because they can’t be bothered to understand free marketing is silly.
I don’t plan on doing it, nor do I want the rewards. I just think that someone who watches someone else play a game they can themselves play and then rewarding that is silly.
Like I said if you just stream, you are not a content creator. If you actually create videos like mount guides, etc… and stream, you should be considered a content creator, but if you just stream, you are not.