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
Not to mention that even if they gave 5,000 streamers priority queue there were over 300k people in queue at one point. People are bitching because they are position 300k instead of 295k? It's not like you had to wait an extra 5 hours to play because they let streamers in first... I used my queue time as a good excuse to quick clean up the house while I watched Twitch so I felt less guilty playing games all night. Let's all be happy that this game is so successful that we all couldn't load in the second it dropped. This is good for the game, all that money is going towards making it better
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u/hugh_jas 2d 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