Was the twitch scam intentional or unintentional

It's not a big deal, either way, to me but...

I really feel left out by the fact that I'm only hearing about this free loot afterwards.

I didn't see any advertisements about maybe getting loot from watching the stream 'on Twitch.'

'On Twitch' is the part that really chaps my ass since after a few minutes into the stream, it kept buffering/skipping from all the people tuning in and I went to Youtube where almost nobody was watching and enjoyed the rest of the stream.

Now I know why they weren't on Youtube.

Again, not a big deal and I don't really have any sympathy for the majority of people complaining about this.

This was an inconvenience at its worst for everyone who watched and probably not even that as they were probably going to be watching it to some degree purely for the hyped content and to see what was going to be changing.

It's not the end of the world and people need to grow up and stop immediately defaulting to "COMPANY IS EVIL, REEEEEEE! SCAM SCAM SCAM"

You're playing a free game. You're constantly getting new content for free.

Most of these people probably have thousands of hours logged into PoE that they didn't invest any money into, at all, not even five bucks. It's not FREE to host the game and the servers necessary to house everyone here and the MOMENT anything goes wrong you immediately start shit-talking the developers like they're some power hungry corporation looking to exploit everyone at any given moment when they're one of the few teams that haven't succumbed to treating their playerbase like shit or wallets with legs.

They don't deserve to be hounded by a bunch of entitled brats the way they have been since this debacle began.

Chill the fuck out. If they say it's a bug, give them the benefit of the doubt. You can wait a day or two to see whether or not it holds true before trying to burn everyone on a stake.

Ofc there will be winners and losers in "drops" like this (I won 1x nothing bundle).

But it is strange how some players won manу awards. What is probability to won even >2 prizes? But I saw people, who won 4-5 times.

You can try RNG emulator and run it for ~200 times. Generate numbers from 0 to 100. Count 1 and 2 numbers (for simplicity, it is not accurate, because we assume 2% chance to win per try, not 1.5%). I got 1 for one time after 200 tries. How people won 4-5 times - I dunno.

Got my one.

Somehow managed to avoid the 50 / 50 as well as I already own the majority of the ultimate chaos set.

Feelsgoodman.

Eh, couldn't care less about the loot drops.. woulda been nice, but i watched stream for the actual content, not some mtx.. Maybe the difference is I actually care about the game and not the mtx?

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innervation wrote:

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lalalazila wrote:

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Scam. You were scammed? What are you out?

15 hours of time. You know, that thing worth more than money we all have a limited amount of to spend

You had the stream muted and in the background - you're not 'out' anything.

You're right; they want people logged on and viewing the channel out of the goodness of their hearts, not because they have something to gain by you being there.

There is minimal investment in turning on twitch and sitting it in the background all day, but it's not zero. If someone offers you something for an action, you weigh the value of that something against the cost of that action and decide accordingly if it's worth your time.

If they then just go "hey, jokes! You get nothing!", that's wrong, regardless of the perceived or actual amount of effort on your end.

I don't really give a crap about mtx drops and I certainly wasn't logged in all weekend, but pretending like it's not a problem that a system that should have averaged out at a drop for like 90% of the people who played within its rules and only a fraction of that many actually got anything, that's flatly wrong.

GGG gained something by having people in the channel; that wouldn't have happened to the same degree that it did without them offering drops. That's a fact. Nobody will ever know how many people were just there for the drops, or how many people left when they decided they weren't going to get them, but it was a non-zero number. Pretending like it's not dodgy in any way is laughable.

People cajoling and teasing people about caring about drops are just stupid; to do so you must completely ignore the fact that GGG offered the incentive in the first place, so they must consider it "worth it" in that there are enough people who are interested in it to go to the effort of putting that system in place and advertising it. Without MTX, GGG and PoE would not exist.

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jables wrote:

Eh, couldn't care less about the loot drops.. woulda been nice, but i watched stream for the actual content, not some mtx.. Maybe the difference is I actually care about the game and not the mtx?

Why not just watch cliffs somewhere? 15 min instead of 15 hrs. Most that noisy applause and other useless fill like all these stupid game gatherings have.

Naw many of us wouldnt bother without incentive which is why GGG gave it and something failed. I bet twitch since they are notorious for it so I dont blame GGG. They are not stingy and give like 2-3 freebies every league not to mention playing MTX.

Received 4 items from drop. Three of them comes to me today. No scam. Probably u were afk when watching the stream or you did something wrong.

Welp guys that's it beard got something so there's nothing to worry about, everything wasn't bugged nothing wrong at all.

Seriously people like you just fucking baffle me. Go look at poe's twitter, vast majority still have gotten nothing for 15 hours or more of watching. Which, by the way, is about a 1.8% chance. Even people getting drops are saying how bullshit this whole system was

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lalalazila wrote:

Welp guys that's it beard got something so there's nothing to worry about, everything wasn't bugged nothing wrong at all.

Seriously people like you just fucking baffle me. Go look at poe's twitter, vast majority still have gotten nothing for 15 hours or more of watching. Which, by the way, is about a 1.8% chance. Even people getting drops are saying how bullshit this whole system was

No you think you have entitlement when you haven't even done anything but watch LOL

Sorry but fuck those ppl watching it for "the lootz". I hope they get nothing .. like wtf ?!