I’ll be doing it for one reason. One of those streamers is a friend and a member of my guild. She’s also one of the really small streamers. It’s not like it’s her job to stream WoW or other games.
There’s only one thing I’ll try to get . The mount. Not interested in any of the other drops. Even then I’ll do the minimize and mute tab thing.
If I forget I forget. There that’s my streamer support enthusiasm.
Yes sub revenue is still 50%, it’s why a lot of streamers would gladly turn off ads if they could (basically right now you have the choice, either you run 3 minutes of ads an hour manually or Twitch shows every new viewer an ad upon entering the stream, the latter of which absolutely kills discoverability as very few new viewers actually stay for the ad).
And you are absolutely correct that a lot of streamers already do play WoW and that WoW usually ranks pretty well but there are a few things here that benefit Blizzard, without meaningfully helping the streamer beyond the short term. It’s also why the timing is not coincidental. Blizzard wants the Dragonflight launch to be a success, streaming numbers are currently one way game launch success is measured. If WoW can make a sudden, if only temporary, jump to be among the top 5 games on the platform, Blizzard can say look how good our game is doing. And for both new and returning players it creates the image that the new expansion must be really good if so many people are streaming it and so many people are watching those streams.
What those new and returning players don’t know is the mechanics at play.
The viewer wants their mount, toy and pets, that’s a very simple and immediate reason for them to watch.
The streamer wants to grow their viewership and obtain more revenue from subscribers. If said streamer isn’t streaming they have 0 discoverability and won’t be able to run drops or get the gift subs for codes boost. So instead of streaming let’s say 3 days a week for 4 hour sessions, they instead stream 5 days a week for 8 hour sessions. Because the longer they stream, the more chance someone watches them and subscribes. If that streamer previously produced 10 viewers for 12 hours a week, they now can produce 10 viewers for 40 hours. This boosts WoW in the rankings.
I know for myself, I am a MMO/Variety streamer, I did always play WoW, but I also played FF XIV, single player games, etc. So my schedule would maybe have WoW for one day a week. Now I stream it almost every single day and those other games are on the backburner. Realistically I probably would have done so anyway because a new product launch is always a great time to focus on something streaming-wise, but I would lie if I said the drops and the Support a Streamer promotion aren’t incentivizing me.
I hope I’ve been able to explain clearly what happens behind the scenes on a platform like Twitch and why this is a very cheap way for Blizzard to generate a lot of buzz.
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Make sure the Twitch player itself is unmuted, otherwise it won’t give you credit. Muting the tab itself in Chrome or Firefox will definitely work however. 
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Can only try it and check the rewards page on Twitch. If it counts then you will see progress. We probably won’t know otherwise until the first person tries.
He would just destroy it like he’s destroying Twitter… which I’m really enjoying. 
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That’s true, I’m happy to help everyone I can with this event but feel like crap because blizz decided to lock out the region I currently live in even though I have been basically streaming all of shadowlands almost every week
They likely didn’t have much choice in the matter. If a company excludes a region it’s usually because some kind of law bars them from including them.
You don’t have to do anything.
How about you stop advertising a service that pays you to direct traffic to them?
As long as by destroying twitter it makes musk a pauper, he is an egocentric jerk, he lucked in to his seed money the same way he lucked into Tesla (which is deadend technology, battery power is a a waste of rare earth materials and polutes as much as oil) , Spacex is is good but i doubt its down to him , more likely people he surrounds himself with are responsible for Spacex success.
Why people form cults behind Musk, Jobs et al is beyond me they both had enormous egos that seem to work well when they both gave china technology to take over the world in exchange for dollars. Why Apple and Tesla have factories in Mainland china is beyond me they must know all corporate plans for technologies are being copied and used by the Chinese Govt, but of course as long as they make money doesnt matter how that affects the world.
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It’s not because of law, I think the main reason is because in south America subs cost half the price and instead of making it so in south America you need 4 subs they prefer to just get rid of the entire region
Especially since In all likelihood twitch (i.e. Amazon is paying Blizzard to direct traffic there
I am not and never will be interested in watching twitch , to have adverts force fed to me for products I’m not interested in)
Anyway given I’m in the EU Blizzard region playiing my Blizzard account I created while i lived in the US i doubt i’d be able to take part in these ‘promotions’ even if i wanted to.
I mean, not everyone on that list is a famous/rich streamer. I feel confident in saying that most of the streamers chosen are small-time, barely making anything IF they’re making anything at all.
Sorry i bet most stream to stoke their own egos than anything else , i wouldn’t spend any money subscribiing to a twitch feed period, especially as it means giving yet more money to Amazon.
Anyone who streams for the money has there priorities wrong, there are far too many people for all to earn a living off what is a limited audience, much like every media company that launches TV streams for a subscription , there are only so many subscriptions will by to the likes of Disney+ or Paramount+ at some point the cost of subscribing will increase or companies will drop their streams and go back to cable or satellite transmission of the content they own.
I personally only use 2-3 TV streaming services , it just gets to expensive when 80% of the content being streamed is not to my tastte
Yeah i agree i don’t even like the way it looks anyways but if it was free i would get it just for the it might be a good battle pet in the future use ext.
Pushed by the trend for ‘esports’ brigade , which is also something i wouldn’t ever watch, make me wonder who is supporting the Blizzard esports teams because its pointless , the game (WoW) is being adjusted purely for esports and more often than not to the detriment of normal players. Why people think esports are a sport is beyond me , its not sport , just US culture that ends up with people trying to make money out of everything, the earnings to be made from any sport let alone esports are out of al proportion to the averages person in the streets earning potential and most professionals like the are superior to the people paying their wages in one way or another,
Esports needs to cease as a ‘sport’ and shift to a subscription pro gamers service that does not require or need any input from game developers, nor should they be able to influence any developer changes to the games they produce. Games producers need to stop letting professional game players have any influence on the games they play its not fair on normal players playing the game for fun.
I’d like to know how much Blizzard spends catering to Esports , i;d its more than anyone would like.
I don’t understand why this keeps getting said, because it’s not true. I have gotten the great majority of my drops while never having unmuted the Twitch player at all. These are drops from WoW, Overwatch 2, Destiny 2, Warframe, Lost Ark, and New World over the last seven months, which is about 60 drops according to my drop inventory. The only streams I actually watch unmuted are the Warframe dev streams, because it’s nice to have a development team that actually seems to enjoy communicating with their players.
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It keeps getting said because a lot of people don’t get credit. During the Dragon Kite Pet drop I had five people mention that they never got credit despite having had my full 8 hour stream on.