Maybe catering to big streamers wasn't such a good idea

[YukikoKurosawa]

Game was fine without them

Then Yoshi decided he wanted "influencers" to build hype for the game., even going so far as to deny information to the players about major job changes in the new expansion unless they watched videos made by said influencers whom they gave exclusive access to this information. Influencers whom they paid.

They hyped the game as the next coming of jesus christ, and Endwalker as going to be even better than Jesus. A tidal wave of streamers and their countless followers flooded into the game. They had to delay it by 2 weeks because it was so bad because of said streamers.

Now look where we are. The game was never made to handle this kind of interest and you knew it. We didn't need these grifters to generate hype, and the type of people they attract into games is not the type of people you want in this community. They're people who will overwhelm a game just to play with their favorite streamer, making the game unplayable for everyone else, then as soon as the streamer has milked it dry and leaves will all quit to follow streamer-man to the next game. They just pump and dump games over and over.

Perhaps that money spent on paying off streamers could have been spent on making the actual game they're shilling playable. Make a good product and you don't need to pay people off to get them to build interest in said product.