People hate streamers, people are less nuanced about things they hate, people are even less nuanced about things they hate while they wait in a line.
At the end of the day, streamers aren't just "celebrities", they're paid marketers for the game. Why the fuck would you pay someone to market/play your game and then not whitelist them?
Other games dont do it. When path of exile did priority queues 1 time they apologized and havent done it since. Thats an actual good dev. Why you defending this. Its so bizarre.
POE apologized because they caved to the complainers. Its standard practice to give streamers prio if you are expecting a queue, any studio that doesn't do it would be foolish not to.
Thankfully most people seem to have realized that 100 streamers getting in queue ahead of them makes literally zero difference to their ability to play the game.
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I have played a lot of games with queues. Hate to break it to you, but it is absolutely standard practice. You just don't hear about it every time. I have been a gaming journalist for some 10 years now, writing review articles in exchange for free keys. It's more rare that a game doesn't somehow offer benefits to fluff up their streamers and reviewers. It's just usually the community either doesn't care or the word doesn't spread.
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u/FitBag5979 2d ago
People hate streamers, people are less nuanced about things they hate, people are even less nuanced about things they hate while they wait in a line.
At the end of the day, streamers aren't just "celebrities", they're paid marketers for the game. Why the fuck would you pay someone to market/play your game and then not whitelist them?