If you want to access the Valorant beta, you have to watch it on Twitch. The result of this measure does not please anyone.
Valorant is possibly one of the most anticipated games of this year, or at least one of the ones that most people want to play. The multiplayer shooter from the makers of League of Legends They have a beta, but their access is by invitation. And to have an invitation, you have to see it on Twitch.
The shooter's stream ecosystem on Twitch is the worst
If a streamer has access to Valorant, they can broadcast the game, and an option is automatically activated so that viewers of the stream can access the beta of the game. In theory this is a move that would benefit streamers and get many more people to watch the game. But that only works on paper.
The reality is that streamers are broadcasting XNUMX hours a day without interruption thanks to the option to broadcast a past broadcast live. This totally ruins the idea that live streams have the streamer interaction factor. But it also serves so that viewers can access the beta.
On the other hand, Valorant stream chats are flooded with people who are watching just in case they drop the invitation to access the beta. Nothing else. With this, the bidirectionality factor of a live stream that we discussed in the previous paragraph is ruined. Someone who uses Twitch because he likes to communicate with an audience and emits Valorant because he knows that people are going to see him, his chat is going to be flooded with people asking to drop the invitation.
There is no doubt that a harmful ecosystem has been generated for what is the Twitch community between streamers who take advantage of the situation to generate visits, and the public who ignore the work of streamers. But Riot Games must be delighted because the game is one of the most watched, even above the Chatting category, which is the one with the most viewers at all times on a normal day.
Source: Kotaku
Very sane
Strongly agree.