Streaming Platforms are not a must

It's seemingly odd that you can't go to any streaming platform to get educated on what to do with this game as well as Path of Exile 2. And you try to bring up and issue or two on this game, you get the " shut up, you know nothing about this game, so don't fucking play it," attitude from the streamers, whether it's on YouTube, Twitch, Kick, and other platform. Hell, I have streamers accusing me, that I don't even play Path of Exile. When in fact I do play it and I run into confusing positions in the game. To this day I still don't understand how the crafting system works in the hideout. A lot of time I don't understand half of what I am looking at in this game. Then I get accused of being a hater? Screw that.

GGG can't tell me that all the people who streams their games, are loyalist when in fact what much of them do is chase people from wanting to play Path of Exile at all, when accusations gets thrown people like myself for baseless reasons. I don't care who you are, if you're going to make people feel unwelcomed, then stop streaming this game. You don't know a damn thing about people like myself who wanted to learn that is discouraged from having any love at all for Path of Exile. Hey, it's not only happening with this game, even the Diablo 4 streamers are chasing people out of their streams, too. Yet I see the two bashing each other about the games each other plays and other games gets dragged into it. You know who started a lot this as a problem? zackrawrr/asmongold and streamers like him. If GGG is to savage their reputation, they need to take into question about players who streams their games. It's really not helping your cause. It's pretty much making every gaming platform look like shit show. Even when it's discussed on a platform like Discord. What gives?

While there are plenty of points on which I would choose to criticise GGG, I'm not sure I see a need for them to attempt to "salvage their reputation" - nor how or why the behaviour of arbitrary people online with no relationship to the company would be a reflection of them.

I'm not going to comment on conversations I have neither seen nor participated in, but in your forum post there's a combination of you immediately expressing some strongly held critical views of questionable reasonableness with you commenting on accusations of "being a hater". We could all stand to seek to be better versions of ourselves - perhaps it would help if you dialled the temperature down a notch? If you have questions about how the game works, there is a specific forum section in which such questions are welcomed - I myself often try to find time to help with those.

I think you are the problem. Streamers survive off of their audience. So why would multiple streamers treat you in a bad manner? Maybe you're saying stuff in a way that seems negative.
I'm a streamer and there's a guy that genuinely comes to my stream every day just to talk sh*t about the game I'm playing because he met my channel on another game. Aside from him, I treat everyone with a lot of sympathy and try to help as much as I can.

99% of small-medium streamers will treat you good and help you out, in whatever game. Try to ask in a channel that has less than 50 viewers. They could not be more glad you're asking them something.

Nah, I am n ot the problem. The problem lies in the fact, that streamers don't see the games they play on stream as intellectual property to the people who makes them. They makes these games about themselves.

If Papa Twitch as an example, as well as Papa Bezos, too that these games are to be a valued asset to the streams then why are they not insisting that some of their revenue should be going to game companies that are being streamed on their platform. Not even the streamers takes what goes into gaming at face value. DUH. Because if they did, they would insist on that. Game companies like GGG should be asking that same question. Why are they not getting some of that revenue? We should not have to make up for the difference in that.

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Virgozoo#3263 wrote:

Game companies like GGG should be asking that same question. Why are they not getting some of that revenue?

Grinding Gear Games benefits handsomely from the community creating various resources - such as guides, loot filters, various tools and whatever else. While it is true they could seek to extract money from those promoting Path of Exile online, the reality of the situation is those content creators would be much more likely to simply cover alternative games instead.

I have worked in the guess industry in the past. It is not considered unusual to pay a single content creator a five-digit sum to cover your game on the release date of the game itself or a significant update. It is one of the most effective forms of advertising available for games - considerably so.

maybe, but I don't see Papa Twitch and Papa Bezos paying any dues. While they sell their lies to the streamers, as the streamers sells those same lies to the viewing community. Manipulation at it's finest. Monetization at work. So, there's no win-win in any case. I expect social media platforms to make up for the difference, where I shouldn't have to.

How many streams have you asked questions in?

If someone has been divorced 5 times it might be time to look inward.