Square Enix telling us all to spoil DT story for ourselves is totally unacceptable.

[Skivvy]

Some things with Twitch drops:

1) Make sure the streamer you're watching is actually part of the campaign. Some people like to be sneaky and try to get views by claiming they're streaming for the promotion when they're not. You can double-check the "time viewed" to make sure it's ticking up.

2) As others have mentioned, things may be spoiled. Would recommend opening it in a separate window and mute that tab. I've read conflicting reports on whether or not muting directly on Twitch affects drops, so just check your timers to make sure all is good. :P

3) With some drops, you have to claim the reward from each tier as you hit it in order to continue the timer. Others let you watch 6 hours (or whatever their requirement is) straight and then claim all prizes at the end.

4) If you're going to be tabbed out primarily, just check back in every once in awhile to make sure the person is still streaming.

Nope, you actively have to watch to accumulate progress towards each campaign tier. Twitch (Amazon) over the years since the Twitch drops feature has existed have gone out of their way to make sure viewers cannot passively let streams simply run.

- You cannot run the stream in the background anymore.
- you cannot mute the sound anymore. (you can turn the sound down but muting halts progress)
- you cannot let the account watching the stream go idle anymore.

I've participated in a lot of these twitch drop campaigns over the years for different mmorpg's/online games, and it just keeps getting worse, and while i don't think many would really bat an eye over the feature; having a twitch drop campaign at the beginning on an expansion for a game that traditionally tends to keep it's spoilers close to the vest; .....it really is an awful idea.

Just saw this.....

So the last drop I particpated in was probably a year...maybe year and a half ago. Did they really change all that since then? D:

[Neoyoshi]

Some things with Twitch drops:

1) Make sure the streamer you're watching is actually part of the campaign. Some people like to be sneaky and try to get views by claiming they're streaming for the promotion when they're not. You can double-check the "time viewed" to make sure it's ticking up.

2) As others have mentioned, things may be spoiled. Would recommend opening it in a separate window and mute that tab. I've read conflicting reports on whether or not muting directly on Twitch affects drops, so just check your timers to make sure all is good. :P

3) With some drops, you have to claim the reward from each tier as you hit it in order to continue the timer. Others let you watch 6 hours (or whatever their requirement is) straight and then claim all prizes at the end.

4) If you're going to be tabbed out primarily, just check back in every once in awhile to make sure the person is still streaming.






Just saw this.....

So the last drop I particpated in was probably a year...maybe year and a half ago. Did they really change all that since then? D:

Unless they changed/reverted some rules about that around, i was in some Diablo 4 streams earlier this year for drops and people were finding out in real time that muting was halting progress, and that turning the sound down to the lowest point seemed to be safe, but muting wouldn't allow progress.

We'll find out when this campaign starts up if any of that is still in place.