Quote Originally Posted by Aomori View Post
A thing thats been bugging me as of late with how many more people have started playing ff14 that are streaming. It annoys me and probably annoys the streamer that theyre just surrounded by literally everyone just to be on their stream and say "oh hey were friends! oh were in his/hers world!" Like thats really not the case. They literally cant get anything done because theres just people everywhere. I think square needs to look into some kind of system so streamers can stream in some kind of privacy where theyre just not bombarded with everyone. Its just so cringe.
The funny thing is that this use to not be a thing when streaming mmos like about 10 years ago. Back then if you streamed a mmo you basically were just doing it for a small group of friends or maybe showing off something and ff14 was no different. It's only in the last 3 or so years that streaming mmos became a issue for the streamer.

I mean just compare this:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/44912413 (FF14 - 9 years ago)

and this:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/132195945 (WoW - 4 years ago)

To what you see today, it's like night and day. I'm not sure what sparked this explosion in watching mmo streams or why people started to go to them ingame but because this is happening and doesn't seem to be going away. I think the only sure fire way to aid streamers is to just dedicate a server for streaming that way the streamer can still play but access to them can and should be restricted.... Or so that's what I believe to be the best solution imo. Either way yeah, it's sad to see the swarming that occurs when streaming now a days.