Do you think famous players receiving large in-game donations from their community should be punished? Thorny question, yet it's a solution that could be considered in the more or less near future by game publishers. Some players accuse streamers, especially the most famous, of blithely exploiting the flaws of Lost Ark.
What are streamer privileges?
It was in a post on the English forums of Lost Ark that Bobi, a player, complained about what he calls "streamer privileges ", meaning that famous streamers got many items from their community, unbalancing the game.
In his complaint, Bobi explains that exploiting this "privilege" should be considered the same as trading for real money (RMT, Real Money Trading), and be punished.
He ends his message by questioning the difference between buying items with gold illegally purchased from online vendors, and obtaining large quantities of items possibly illegally purchased by community members of these streamers.
Some will undoubtedly see in the question and the claim of this player of pure jealousy, however real questions deserve to be raised on this subject. Streamers are a fairly new phenomenon in the video game industry and although some often laugh at it, it is undeniable that the most famous of them enjoy serious advantages whenever they set foot on any given game. Is this normal? Should publishers regulate this? If yes, how ? So many questions that are rarely raised and which nevertheless pose real problems of fairness and justice in a game as "farm"-oriented as Lost Ark, although these are very much in the minority.
Amazon Games position on streamers
While some of the responses were focused on ardently defending influencers with more or less admissible arguments (the fact that it is not direct RMT desired by streamers for example, and that at this title they cannot be punished for the illegal actions of other players), another part of the players understood the message conveyed.
Amazon Games Community Manager, Roxx answered to this thread that she explained that this is a “complex subject ”. For her, the main problem with RMT is the fact that they can lead to fraudulent transactions against the buyer. The main risk of these transactions is indeed that you pay but that you never receive what you paid for.
For now, just consider it one of the small privileges that some rare "big streamers" enjoy, nothing more. Nothing to be alarmed about as it is (in our opinion), especially since the streamers in question rarely stay more than a few weeks on each game!
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