The more any particular game tries to pressure me into dae le Twitch for dae le epic free drops from dae le influencers, the less likely I am to keep playing that game.
The more any particular game tries to pressure me into dae le Twitch for dae le epic free drops from dae le influencers, the less likely I am to keep playing that game.
The entire gimmick grosses me it, it truly does.
If Twitch is so fucking great, if the rich narcissist assholes making this face 
on it are that amazing, why are there so many obnoxious in-game ads in games like Warframe and the like that don't even bother featuring such dubious content but just say "get a free in game item if you open wide and take in this incoming slop spray!"
yeah twitch drops have always felt sus and weird to me as a marketing mechanism, if a livestream has interesting info then presumably you don't need cosmetic incentives to attract an audience, and yet every large game dev company does it because 'common marketing wisdom' and 'everyone else is doing it'
it's weird how nowadays game dev companies treat twitch viewership numbers as a measure of a game's buzz and how they sign deals with streamers to promote the game to their viewers, it looks underhanded and it's out in the open but they don't care I guess
question is... are you rushing to the corner store right now to buy some Doribos and energy drinks to get a wolf mount in ESO ???
question is... are you rushing to the corner store right now to buy some Doribos and energy drinks to get a wolf mount in ESO ???
I play ESO sometimes and I hate the obnoxious
promotions.
Twitch sucks to actually watch stuff on to. There's ads even with ublock, and the live chat is distracting at best.
The rewards have gotten worse and worse since they started doing it too. Can't even give away copies of a skin with no real world value - gotta keep squeezing blood from that stone. Most of the drops require you to pay amazon for a sub now as well. Not happening bucko.
Some in game organizations (guilds, whatever) even tried to pressure me to dae le epic tune in to dae le epic Twitch and to present the dae le epic loot drop to show that I was "engaged" and "committed" to their silly in-game organization.
I walked instead. Fuck that.
same brother same
because i'm usually playing games offline/cracked/modded, i take great joy in adding in that sort of promotional content to my save even if i have zero interest in the content to begin with. just out of spite
the whole concept just confuses the hell out of me. you've launched up your game. you're about to play your game yourself. why would the game want to direct you away from the game to watch someone else play the game?
why would the game want to direct you away from the game to watch someone else play the game?
Social imprinting, mostly. Watching some rich narcissist make
faces tends to lead to more conditioning to buy le epic loot boxes to follow the leader, and such.
"Hey! Can anybody help me figure out how to get the TF2 hat?"