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I uninstalled HS, which was the last blizzard game i had. The real pain point for me is that i stopped supporting blizzard content creators. Omnislash, Kripp,
by kryogen1c 7y ago
I uninstalled HS, which was the last blizzard game i had.
The real pain point for me is that i stopped supporting blizzard content creators. Omnislash, Kripp, winter, serral, and others. Streaming is their livelihood and/or competing. Such is the colatteral damage.
- valgor 7y agoYou make is sound like they are struggling. Some of those dudes are rich. I wouldn't worry about them. And they have enough fans they could stream other games and still be okay.
- cwkoss 7y ago"Streaming is their livelihood" is such a weird argument for supporting something. Maybe I'm an old man, but I really feel like the best thing for the streamers would be for them to get a real job. Streaming is a fragile source of income, and many streamers 'work' 16+ hours a day trying to make enough money to support themselves - with majority of them falling short.
- dylz 7y agoCan I ask what you consider a "real job"? Trust me, it becomes progressively less fun to "play" a game because you have to, not because you want to, to keep up your income.
- cwkoss 7y agoIt just makes me sad to see thousands of young people putting in 12+ hour days making less than minimum wage on the hopes they'll someday 'make it big' and will be able to support themselves playing video games. Very few streamers make a good living from just playing games - many of the profitable channels grew through deceptive marketing dark patterns, allowing their audience to gamble, or being porn-lite. Streaming does have some value, but it seems like there is disproportionately large amount of wasted productivity being put towards it in the last decade.
- freehunter 7y agoThat’s an argument as old as time. Playing in a band, sports, acting, etc. Thousands of years of “get a real job”.
- kbar13 7y agoyou're right. we should get rid of artists and actors and musicians and everyone should just learn python.
- imihai1988 7y agoLearn to code, Artsy edition.
- jnwatson 7y agoFor everyone one of those, there are a hundred folks scraping by off Blizzard IP. There’s no good solution.
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