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

[YouMayNot]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...1a14f1df8597cc

Announcing the Chocorpokkur Twitch Viewer Rewards Campaign!

We are excited to announce a new collaboration with Twitch to celebrate the launch of Dawntrail! Players will be able to get their hands on some neat in-game items as well as the adorable Chocorpokkur mount by watching participating FINAL FANTASY XIV streamers live on Twitch.
Campaign Duration

From Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. (PDT) to Monday, July 29, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. (PDT)
Campaign Rewards

Watch any participating Twitch channel streaming FINAL FANTASY XIV Online with the "Viewer Rewards" tag and receive item codes for the following rewards based on how many accumulative hours watched:

1 Hour Watched: EXP Boost Meal Set (Buttery Mogbiscuit & Fat Choco Choco) x10
3 Hours Watched: Aetheryte Ticket x10
6 Hours Watched: Chocorpokkur Whistle (Mount) x1

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Seriously Square Enix? Have you thought this through? Do you know what all the streamers would be streaming in July? The Main Scenario Quest!

Tell your event managers to delay this event NOW. This is totally the wrong time to do it because if we want to get the Chocorpokkur mount we have to spoil ourselves by watching Twitch. This is totally unacceptable.

By the way, some people say you can just mute it, but you cannot without using some browser extension or something. So what if someone who doesn't know? Then they'll 100% get spoiled. The timing is just so bad.

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.

Chloe

[Cach]

You would be surprised how many people don't actually play the games they're "fans" of.

Its more than likely with promotions like this that a few channels will just leave the game running and do nothing just so people can farm the drops.

I'm not really a Twitch user but I have gotten drops just by opening a window and leaving everything on mute while doing something else, I don't think this will be any different.

[Balmung_Griffin]

Nice, can I just let this running and go to work? LMAO

[YouMayNot]

You would be surprised how many people don't actually play the games they're "fans" of.

Its more than likely with promotions like this that a few channels will just leave the game running and do nothing just so people can farm the drops.

I'm not really a Twitch user but I have gotten drops just by opening a window and leaving everything on mute while doing something else, I don't think this will be any different.

If you don't know the streamers you could very easily go into a stream with spoilers. Imagine getting spoiled what the final boss is just because you searched FF14 in Twitch.

Also, look at what Neoyoshi said

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.

Chloe

[RaideDuku]

Plenty of ways to achieve this without actually watching a stream.

Low effort troll. Be better.

[ryouma17]

if this works like any other twitch event then you can simply tune into a sponsored twitcher mute the volume switch to a different tab and once an hour check back to see if they are still streaming if so click away again and do something else for another hour if not then tune into the next sponsored twitcher and repeat until you've got all 6 hours racked up, this is how i've done all my twitch events i cant stand twitch i dont know how anyone can find joy in watching others play games

[Musashidon]

this wont be a problem if you already got the mount from buying butterfingers.

[Neoyoshi]

Nice, can I just let this running and go to work? LMAO

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.

[YouMayNot]

Plenty of ways to achieve this without actually watching a stream.

Low effort troll. Be better.

Ok? How do you get the mount without watching the stream on Twitch? You got a hack or something huh?

Chloe

[YouMayNot]

if this works like any other twitch event then you can simply tune into a sponsored twitcher mute the volume switch to a different tab and once an hour check back to see if they are still streaming if so click away again and do something else for another hour if not then tune into the next sponsored twitcher and repeat until you've got all 6 hours racked up, this is how i've done all my twitch events i cant stand twitch i dont know how anyone can find joy in watching others play games

You can't anymore, see what Neoyoshi said.

This is just terrible for players who don't want to be spoiled.

Chloe