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Forums =/= 99% of the player base. Forums more realistically represent less than 1% of the player base and have pretty well established biases.

Forums are also historically very adverse to change and us trying new promotions like this. The response today was anticipated and factored into our decision making process

That’s a personal goal of mine, should there be future iterations. This is a new program, both for Twitch and us, and there are a lot of unknown unknowns right now. We put into place as many reasonable controls as we could to learn from this first execution.

I’m sorry, you mean over 150, right? Because that’s how many are on the list

to be transparent, there was never a world in which this promotion was only existing core OW streamers. I feel as though we have a good mix of familiar faces and new folks who will bring plenty of new eyes to both the game and community

Content creators are an important part of the community. Both in terms of community building for a certain segment, and in terms of driving both visibility and awareness of what’s happening with the game.

Like it or not, traditional marketing is no more and content creators serve an important function in the existing ecosystem. What we’re focused on doing is providing opportunities for creators to be successful with Overwatch, so that creating content for the community is a more sustainable choice for them. The hypothesis is that this is a far better mechanism than just throwing piles of cash at people t...

For this first event, we intentionally kept it to a limited list. This first SaS is for us to gather data and learn. Should it be successful, we’ll build on that and most likely expand availability.

You are far over estimating what all but the most successful of streamers actually earn

If you don’t wish to donate to one of the bigger names, we’ve listed many smaller long time Overwatch streamers who would be overjoyed to have your support

this is untrue

We’ll be delivering new content through the BP. As previously pointed out, the image we showed during the event was placeholder/mockup, to give you an idea of what the feature looked like.

As to why we didn’t show the content, twirls mustache, we have plans to do so later this year. Jodie, Megan, and myself have all been blown away by the art team’s hard work, and the direction we’re taking for the first several seasons.

Everyone who signs up for beta will receive access, over time. You will have at least a weekend to test and provide feedback from the beta

The Watchpoint Pack assures instant beta access

I did.

Spent all weekend at CommandFest Vegas, spent way too much money on Magic cards, and jammed a lot of games

Yes, there is a cinematic for Sojourn in the works.

It’ll be coming later™

Sojourn has a very cute doggo. No word on snuggleability

National Fudge Day

Send Mackinac Island fudge please

considering that we’ve been growing the team with the express goal of supporting both PVE and PVP, I would be tremendously surprised if it was scrapped

Not a data scientist, but forum polls are rarely useful data. They’re easily socially engineered and influenced by a small number of adamant voices

We have a User Research group whose job it is to perform blind and scalable measuring of sentiment and feedback, and present that information with as much personal bias stripped out as possible.

Forum, reddit, social media feedback is most useful as anecdotal evidence, and in some cases provides context in the form of volume of conversation. That’s not to say it isn’t useful; it’s simply more qualitative...

that’s the plan

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thanks

Jodie has been doing a wonderful job with our editorial strategy. The fact that she was a fan and player of the game before joining the team is really shining through in how we’re structuring our blogs, the language we’re employing, and the information we’re including

Super proud of my team

Then what have I been playtesting?

Probably because there are dozens of people who are working their butts off in preparation for the announcement

Me leaking or giving any sort of indicator on what to expect is incredibly disrespectful of their time, efforts, and energy

Not yet. My understanding is they’re still investigating the issue.