You're not wrong. But in one very recent case for "watching" a streamer for 4 hours I got early access to a fairly fun and polished game (Overwatch 2). I didn'

You're not wrong. But in one very recent case for "watching" a streamer for 4 hours I got early access to a fairly fun and polished game (Overwatch 2). I didn't have to pay USD for it, and now I have what is essentially a whole online pvp game to play with new stuff. Since I'm not one of the privileged few streamers that were just given access, that was the price to get into a game that one of the only friends whose gaming tastes overlap with mine. I just wish there was more trustbusting going on. Letting large companies gobble up all the smaller ones is only good for the shareholders. Not the customers, not the employees, and definitely not taxpayers.