Does anyone remember when GGG implemented priority queues for streamers?

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Imaginaerum#5568 wrote:

also i don't see the problem, it's not like you or i are competing with them in any meaningful way to start with

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AgnosiousD#2205 wrote:

Does anyone remember when GGG implemented priority queues for streamers?

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ExsiliumUltra#5541 wrote:

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Imaginaerum#5568 wrote:

also i don't see the problem, it's not like you or i are competing with them in any meaningful way to start with

Not the point. It erodes trust, and makes the possibility they are placing their fingers on the scale in other places a higher than 0% chance.

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Imaginaerum#5568 wrote:

it seemed more spur-of-the-moment to me. also i don't see the problem, it's not like you or i are competing with them in any meaningful way to start with

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The backstory is that we have recently been doing some proper paid influencer marketing, and that involves arranging for big streamers to showcase Path of Exile to their audiences, for money (they have #ad in their titles). We had arranged to pay for two hours of streaming, and we ran right into a login queue that would take two hours to clear. This was about as close as you could get to literally setting a big pile of money on fire. So we made the hasty decision to allow those streamers to bypass the queue.