Influencers & Streamers in Ashes of Creation [Server Type Discussion]

If there are streamer servers - streamers should get direct passes through the queue.

I definitely don't want servers that can't be streamed, but I also got no clue how would you even enforce that only on particular servers. Do you ban anyone who streams that server? Cause imo that's very silly.

As for how I feel about streamer communities as a whole. I see them as just big guilds, except waaaay less coordinated and way lower in skill. The main problem with those communities is obviously their mass exodus once the streamers leave, but there's gonna be an exodus either way so streamer communities ultimately don't matter, as long as Intrepid know how to address exodus in a proper manner.

What would we do in the case of someone who doesn't stream before Ashes, or who streams but only really 'takes off' in terms of their Ashes content?

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This sounds like the slipperiest of slopes out there. I want to limit the sniffing of my PC by Intrepid as much as possible. Pretty much to only bot-related programs, though even that should ideally be somehow done through in-game action tracking rather than looking at what apps I have on my PC.

Also, you'd have to constantly check if those streaming programs are running. Also, what about double PC setups, where your gaming PC doesn't have anything stream-related on it. And pretty much every big streamer runs a 2-PC setup, so you wouldn't even prevent the thing you want to prevent (that is huge streamers being limited to only particular servers).

All in all, this is a very silly and unnecessary idea.

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I guess I'm not getting my point across well enough. You can't have this unless Intrepid literally ban streamers from being on those servers or they constantly check your PC for streaming apps (but as I pointed out, that wouldn't even work in the cases that you care about).

And that is why I find this part of your questions silly. Having several "streamer servers" and giving streamers free pass through the queue would accomplish way more than banning people from streaming other servers. Redirect instead of turn away. A small 1-2k streamer would have way less impact on the server than any semi-coordinated guild. And with Ashes being all "hardcore" and pvp-centric (I fucking hope it stays that way) there's gonna be a ton of sweaty guilds that will impact the game's economy waaaaaay more than some random big streamer with a few fanbois running around him.

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Yep. L2's 3 top lvl locations of FoG, LoA and IT were the source of most top lvl pvp, with overspill into weaker locations. Ashes will have twice the amount of people and we don't know how many top lvl locations it'll have. I'd assume it's gonna be at least 5, which would distribute the farming population quite nicely and would probably be on the L2's lvls of packed. Maybe even more than that if the pve ends up being on the easier side.

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I consider those the weaker spots, cause in my experience and in the majority of pvp vids I've seen from the official servers of that time, only the 3 spots I mentioned were the hottest ones.