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Twitch Loot Drops?

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Adherent
Mar 18, 2009
2737
For a game that is 10 years old, there are quite a few Wizard101 Twitch streams and pretty decent viewer numbers compared to much newer games. Has KI ever considered loot drops for Wizard101 to reward players that watch other streamers?

Loot drops seem to be the "thing" right now (and just generally cross platform/media linking), just wondering if KI is exploring something like this.

Explorer
May 13, 2018
60
Oh yeah! I saw that you could get Loot Drops from Twitch streamers playing certain games! Hopefully KI considers this!

Defender
Jul 21, 2013
125
Oran of Urz on Sep 23, 2018 wrote:
For a game that is 10 years old, there are quite a few Wizard101 Twitch streams and pretty decent viewer numbers compared to much newer games. Has KI ever considered loot drops for Wizard101 to reward players that watch other streamers?

Loot drops seem to be the "thing" right now (and just generally cross platform/media linking), just wondering if KI is exploring something like this.
Woah there! Slow down. Wizard101 never even surpasses 100 viewers on Twitch. That isn't even 0.1% of what Fortnite averages. Overwatch happens to do Twitch Drops, and it averages 20k-300k depending on if there is any special OWL Matches or World Cup matches. So KI wont devote their time to a drop that only 30~100 are going to get. Sorry.

Adherent
Mar 18, 2009
2737
The Weather Man on Sep 28, 2018 wrote:
Woah there! Slow down. Wizard101 never even surpasses 100 viewers on Twitch. That isn't even 0.1% of what Fortnite averages. Overwatch happens to do Twitch Drops, and it averages 20k-300k depending on if there is any special OWL Matches or World Cup matches. So KI wont devote their time to a drop that only 30~100 are going to get. Sorry.
LOL, Twitch Drops is a mechanism to bring in more viewers, hence my whole suggestion. It isn't something exclusive for only the top games being viewed on Twitch.

For example, Gwent is a game that enables Twitch Loot Drops, yet Wizard101 beat it in max viewer hours, max viewers and was on par with average viewers and max channels on Twitch over the past seven days.

Your comment about "KI won't devote their time" was mentioned multiple several times a few years ago during the "should Wizard101 be brought to Steam" argument....but KI still ported the game over. Clearly, this year's banner/theme of "old things new again" is a campaign to revitalize Wizard101 and set conditions for another ten years. Adding Twitch Drops is what other games are starting to do and something that might assist Wizard101 in doing that as well.

If enough players want it and if the deal with Twitch is still advantageous to KI, they'll do it.

Oh and if you look up Wizard101's stats on Twitch, it averages 300 viewers on weekdays and 500 viewers on weekends.