Letting "elite" people a.k.a. "streamers" skip the queue was really bad move

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

Here is the thing.
Great that you think that your drops are exactly the same as streamers but reality is, they aren't.

no they really are m8, i watch streamers all the time, i find just as much shit and hit just as many things as they do.

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

Why? Because it would be a missed opportunity on the marketing side.

no, it wouldnt. the game doesnt seem more interesting or fun if you up someones rng, because how exciting a thing dropping is in an rng system is proportional to how rare it is, so when you make things less rare you dont get more excitement, you get the same excitement because you made the thing thats happening more often less exciting.

it doesnt help marketing, they could literally make exalts as rare as alchs and alchs as rare as exalts. what would be the difference? an alch gives you 4-6 mods on an item, an exalt gives you 1 mod.. it doesnt rly matter. theres nothing about an exalt that makes it exciting except its rarity, its not inherently more interesting than an alch. its simply a case that its very rare, thats what gives it so much value, if you change how often a streamer gets that rare thing and they get it all the time then the excitement of them getting it changes to match the rate at which it drops. make a streamer drop exalts as often as alchs and the result is that people watching will think an exalt dropping is as exciting as an alch dropping.

what you are saying is silly, it makes no logical sense at all. last season i sat and watched ziggy spend about 3k fusing on a chest before it linked, and i sat there and hit about four 6 links in maybe 1k fuse spent. if ziggy always got a 6 link in 250 fusing it wouldnt be exciting, it would just be an expected thing, it would be as boring as a 5 link. theres no marketing advantage to boosting his rng, it doesnt make the game seem more interesting, the entire notion of interest being linked to rarity of a find is questionable in the first place and because of the proportional nature of that theory when you make a thing more common you make it less interesting, which goes against the entire idea.

this should be obvious.

The problem is not if there is a streamer loot or not. Problem is the trust towards GGG if they could make such arrangement for promotion or for marketing.

Lets take other example - Google.

Do you believe the google results are 100% unbias? If you follow all the testimonies in U.S. Congress and take their word for it, yes. If 2 people google one thing, they get the same results .. but it is 100% complete bullshit so Google basically lost the trust and nowadays I don't think I know in person anybody who doesn't laugh at the "Don't be evil" motto of google of the past :D

Right now the situation is that to avoid PR nightmare, they created another PR monster. They are aware of it, but damage done.
It is almost miracle that there was no sponsored race for the event. Can you imagine that streamers who race would get priority queue with 2-3 hours head start against competition?