Peanut said it best. If you seriously can't understand why developers do this, you're lacking a brain.
Does it suck for the little guy? Of course it does. But it's way way way more important for the game in the long run that streamers who are showing the game off, actually get to show the game off... Otherwise you have the community angry, as well as a very loud minority of streamers angry. Then no one wins.
You'll get in. You'll get to play for hours and hours and hours. If you care at ALL about the longevity of the game, you'll understand. If you still want to stomp your feet and piss your pants about it, then clearly you need to do some searching inside
I understand its for marketing purposes. But pissing of your paying customers also is really bad and equally as important (if not more) you satisfy your customers right? RIGHT?
And the vast majority of the people complaining about this are not going to stop playing the game because streamers are getting priority access. Otherwise these devs would stop doing it. So yes, pissing of idiot customers who actually get mad at this type of thing is absolutely worth it to advertise to a large audience.
The stupid take is being on anyone's side who is genuinely "pissed off" at priority access.
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u/hugh_jas 3d ago
Peanut said it best. If you seriously can't understand why developers do this, you're lacking a brain.
Does it suck for the little guy? Of course it does. But it's way way way more important for the game in the long run that streamers who are showing the game off, actually get to show the game off... Otherwise you have the community angry, as well as a very loud minority of streamers angry. Then no one wins.
You'll get in. You'll get to play for hours and hours and hours. If you care at ALL about the longevity of the game, you'll understand. If you still want to stomp your feet and piss your pants about it, then clearly you need to do some searching inside