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IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011

Endorph posted:

tf2 worked because there was one healer and one tank and 12 people per team. odds are someone would pick one of each even if most people wanted to play sniper or whatever. ow has half the slots and 5x the tanks/healers and you were expected to have 2 tanks and one healer. its like 10% of the team being expected to pay a fun tax versus 50% of the team.

TF2 worked because it didn't try to shoehorn tank-healer-DPS MMO raid roles into a shooter. The support classes weren't limited to just healers and provided a lot of non-direct combat utility that was also really fun

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IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011
The acquisition is a mixed bag because Microsoft gobbling up another company is never good, but let's be honest: this is realistically the only way Kotick gets kicked out once it became clear the current Board won't do it. There's so much rot within ActiBlizz there was no way they could (or would) fix it themselves so Microsoft moving in and doing it is probably the only path for rebuilding the company. Not holding my breath for it to actually be a 'good' place to work, but it should at least stop being a breeding ground for serial harassers and breast milk thieves.

I also imagine the Microsoft execs are so baffled by ABK's incompetence at managing their non-COD IPs they bought the company so they could to do it themselves.

IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011

Herstory Begins Now posted:

Tough is an understatement. In a lot of cases I believe it's been as much as 90-95% viewership losses from changing platforms. Youtube seems somewhat more forgiving to move to because at least its userbase is large, but even then people still usually lose almost their entire community

Most successful streamers will have a presence on both Twitch and Youtube: Twitch for longer form live content and YT for archived stream VODs/edited highlights or pre-recorded content. Youtube videos is generally the better way for content creators to attract new people since the videos are always accessible and are edited to have the most interesting bits of a stream.

Ardryn posted:

At least at the partner level Twitch absolutely has exclusivity built into the contracts they make you agree to. I distinctly remember several years ago when Vinesauce mentioned he had someone at Twitch remind him of this clause.
Yep you're remembering it correctly, here's the highlight of him talking about it. His partnership contract was updated in 2014 (without his knowledge) with a clause preventing him from livestreaming on other platforms. Twitch warned him in 2017 they were going to start enforcing it, likely due to Mixer which had just launched at the time.

IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011
Monthly reminder to not give blizzard your money

IncendiaC fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Oct 11, 2022

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