I get the marketing perspective myself, but I really seriously dislike Twitch drops as a system. I’m aware it’s clearly just me being out of touch or old since most ppl seem to love them, but the idea just makes no sense to me. (this isn’t directed at Fatshark btw, but the Twitch drop thing in general)
The drops are never earnable in-game. So completely counter-intuitively, to get stuff you want for a game you play, you have to NOT play it. Instead you’re expected to go through the hassle of an effort of finding out who / where / when offers these drops and waste 30-60 minutes of your life watching them play it. Time you could’ve spent doing literally anything far more interesting, including playing the game yourself.
Not to mention the privacy issues (and extra tedium of effort) involved with linking a bunch of personal accounts that should have no business being linked. Sure yeah you can just mute the stream and do whatever while it runs, but that just highlights how ridiculous the whole thing is.
I would literally pay with real money rather than bother with Twitch drops I’d like to have. Except it’s never an option either!
It’s been almost two years since the last Twitch drops.
I wondered if they had given up on marketing during those dark times, but this seems to be a glimmer of hope.
not a fan of such drops myself, but to each their own.
i like watching the odd stream or video for the sake of better my gameplay and learn a few tricks.
watching them to get skins specifically is like buying a happy meal, toss the food and make the kids happy with its toy.
sure it´s fun for them for a while, but i rather buy the food i like in the first place.
so
aquilla store
earnable cosmetics
twitch drops (with all the account stuff in tow)
very much this. i’d earn those skins by playing myself or even buying them for aquilas rather than going to some website that pesters me with signing up and throwing publicity in my face the moment i open it.
These skins are the same ones that were given away when the game was released, and after all this time, there are no new skins? Or at least different weapons with the same skin, not just the original.
I guess they were just testing the system out because the twitch drops (currently) are for new players. Its the exact same from 2 years ago. But it’s good publicity for both game and streamer. Players get something cool for their time. Win win win.
I think they wanted to give a second chance to get these weapons skins, especially for players that may have only joined last year or this year
When I was watching Telopots Twitch stream for the drops, he was getting so many new follows and subs that he was “wowwed” it made me smile to hear the surprise in his voice