I imagine you are rocking a huge tin foil hat at the moment.

Those secret hints on Niobe Labs were quite the success huh? 😂😂

I don't think the streamers needed hints or a special reward. The even was made specifically for streamers to get views and Bungie even gave shout outs to streamers and encouraged people to watch the streams. That alone is incentive enough for streamers to get involved.

That is a very dumb move by Bungie if that is how it happened. Streamers are more competitive and also need fresh topics\content to stream. So by default they are more likely to abuse things, find faults when they lose and find topics of interest to keep views up. That means they do influence those that watch. They will find more issues than they solve and they will look for easier ways to complete content or win. That's not knocking them. It's their job so I get it. But if Bungie just makes a good game streamers will come anyway to get viewers. This sounds like the huge nerf parades of D1. Once you start down the road of doing things to please others you end up making no one happy.

Put down the crack pipe please.

The problem isnt with the streamers, its with the community and their over reliance on streamers. You dont need someone telling you which roll on a Dust Rock Blues is the best. You don't need someone reviwing the Ace of Spades. Now, streamers do have a place in the community. Passing down their knowledge of Raids is pretty acceptable. If someone wants to log in and watch streamers wreck some poor saps in Crucible, thats also accepted. Not something I consider entertainment, but to each their own.

Streamers aren’t going to be your “scapegoats” forever whenever you’ve got a complaint. You didn’t need to be a streamer to see that Y1 D2 catered to casuals way too hard and killed incentive to play. You don’t have to stream D2 to enjoy it’s content now, it makes literally no difference. The content for D2 Y2 is in response to the large part of the community that asked for more to do. What I don’t like is black armory making us play old content to access new content, that’s not something a streamer would say “Yes please!” To. Streamers aren’t only giving feedback for themselves. The only one I really watch, Datto, makes content for casuals to get into bigger stuff in the game with guides. Most streamers have some way of explaining or simplifying pieces of content so casuals can understand and experience them. You can’t just go around victimizing yourself saying that because you have to grind more to get something now it’s a streamers fault. [spoiler]This isn’t me saying D2 is flawless, I’m just saying streamers aren’t the ones to point fingers at. A streamer coulda told you the exotic duplicates wasn’t right at launch. A streamer can tell you enhancement cores in infusion are annoying af (especially with how rare they were back then). [/spoiler]

Unheard of team. lol

Unheard of team? Your lil conspiracy theory is stupid, and the team who did it was already well-known in the community. Streamers are annoying as hell, but this theory doesn’t hold.

Well they don’t get early access to anything but do know what some future content is, then again so do dataminers and they don’t get paid for shit.

This is idiotic. You know why destiny2 was dead? Ill give you a hint it wasnt streamers. They causalized the F out of it at launch ppl put it down QUICK.

Didn't Redeem get worlds first on Riven? Pretty sure they are not "unheard" of The summit did good things for destiny people just like to point out flaws in the game and be like "LUL it's the streamers fault those evil people ruined ma game" It is true that if your game is popular, people will stream it and conversely if your game isn't popular not many will stream it or play it. Kind of common sense. Not necessarily a direct correlation, but having influencers on the internet is never a bad thing. At the end of the day bungie wants to make sales and produce a successful product. If you see lots of people online playing it you may want to check it out. Making a good game to stream is great for marketing. The niobe labs thing had 2 main issues -It was way to freaking hard to crack -The only way to even attempt it was to have a strong fireteam and legions of people behind you doing research If the activity didn't essentially require a fireteam a large part of the community could have at least played around in the space. It could have had a puzzle, sure, but there should have been some sort of community goal like we have to complete 100,000 forge runs collectively or something like that (not sure if that number would be realistic but you get the idea).