I was watching a destiny streamer recently and saw that bungie has a built in extension where you can like your in game account to your twitch. After your account is linked you can complete “Viewer Bounties” where you earn rewards by watching the streamer and doing certain tasks. I think if halo did that where you could earn cosmetics for watching streamers it would be awesome. The halo streaming community is relatively small and this would help them as well as pushing halo up the games list giving them good PR. Should they do this, any thoughts?
Yeah that’s a decent idea.
No. Collectors should not have to turn Halo into a full-time job to unlock cosmetics. Many players have better things to do than watch other people play video games, but I would not be upset if they partnered with streamers and gave out XP bonuses to viewers.
Thew last thing I want in my Halo game experience is having to interact with fake personalities for good pr.
Sorry that’s not a good idea tbh. It forces people to watch something that they maybe don’t like and/or don’t have spare time to do that. (Not anybody likes everybody and/or any content, that is a matter of nature)
Additional to that, a lot of player like to unlock ingame stuff and cosmetics and if you have to pay money (yes some cosmetics you can have for free but possibly not so many i think) AND time, makes this items and cosmetics stuff even more unattractive for some people.
And something i mentioned already in other posts: The Dev team has more important stuff to do in the next months/years. It’s important that the game has a succesfull launch overall.
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> No. Collectors should not have to turn Halo into a full-time job to unlock cosmetics. Many players have better things to do than watch other people play video games, but I would not be upset if they partnered with streamers and gave out XP bonuses to viewers.
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> Sorry that’s not a good idea tbh. It forces people to watch something that they maybe don’t like and/or don’t have spare time to do that. (Not anybody likes anybody and/or any content, that is a matter of nature)
Collecting is usually a huge hobby and can be very expensive and time consuming. Of course there are going to be things they may not be able to achieve without putting the time, effort or money in. No one has to watch this.
I absolutely love the idea, it’s important to help grow the community engagement and streams are a great way to do this, especially to improve the eSports scene and bring in more sponsors that way for bigger and better tournaments with better prizes. This is already used by Overwatch and it clearly is something that helps bringing in new viewers.
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> Collecting is usually a huge hobby and can be very expensive and time consuming. Of course there are going to be things they may not be able to achieve without putting the time, effort or money in. No one has to watch this.
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> I absolutely love the idea, it’s important to help grow the community engagement and streams are a great way to do this, especially to improve the eSports scene and bring in more sponsors that way for bigger and better tournaments with better prizes. This is already used by Overwatch and it clearly is something that helps bringing in new viewers.
I see what your saying, I dont mean Twitch exclusive rewards. The way destiny does it is they put already existing items into the “drops pool.” so you don’t have to strictly watch the streamers to get these rewards. Its basically a different way of getting a set few items instead of the usual grind.
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> No. Collectors should not have to turn Halo into a full-time job to unlock cosmetics. Many players have better things to do than watch other people play video games, but I would not be upset if they partnered with streamers and gave out XP bonuses to viewers.
this honestly, xp bonuses sure. but i would hate to have to watch some one play for gear when i would rather just, you know, play myself and earn it.
Terrible idea, as much as i enjoy streaming and watching others. I don’t want to be forced to watch peoplw to unlock rewards.
All rewards should only he obtained in game or from collector’s edition’s of the game.
This is a really good idea. I’ve always really like UberNick’s color theme for his stream. I’d really like a armor coating in that theme.
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> Terrible idea, as much as i enjoy streaming and watching others. I don’t want to be forced to watch peoplw to unlock rewards.
> All rewards should only he obtained in game or from collector’s edition’s of the game.
…you don’t have to unlock them…
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> > No. Collectors should not have to turn Halo into a full-time job to unlock cosmetics. Many players have better things to do than watch other people play video games, but I would not be upset if they partnered with streamers and gave out XP bonuses to viewers.
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> this honestly, xp bonuses sure. but i would hate to have to watch some one play for gear when i would rather just, you know, play myself and earn it.
…you don’t have to unlock them…
I dont understand all the hate this idea is getting. If you don’t want to watch a stream, then don’t unlock the item. Simple.
To the people who are hating on this idea:
Imagine, for some reason, you really hate BTB. You absolutely despise it. There’s this helmet that you can unlock by playing 10 games of BTB. You’d just simply not unlock that helmet and move on with your life. The same logic applies here.
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what a weak argument. halo is one of the few Triple A games that still cares about completionist, between your halo Gamerscore being on your profile to there being in game rewards for completing certain mile stones. none of those require me to NOT play the game. its why the halo completionist community is so big people can still get achievements for multiplayer on OG halo 3, reach, and 4.
not only that but it would be very hurtful to streamers who are trying to start out to have a flood of people come in tell them to do X thing so they can get the reward then dip. Its happened before when twitch started doing drops people would reticule streamers if they werent doing drops as often as possible. this system just encourages a bad community building. most completionist would just leave streams on in the back ground muted till they got what ever drop then dip. thats not very good for the completionist community or the halo streaming community.
to where as stuff like XP boost that dont really matter in the grand scheme of things are a nice reward for those who are already looking to watch streams anyway. and even then you shouldnt need a reward to watch someone. you should just watch them if you like them or their content.
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> I dont understand all the hate this idea is getting. If you don’t want to watch a stream, then don’t unlock the item. Simple.
> To the people who are hating on this idea:
> Imagine, for some reason, you really hate BTB. You absolutely despise it. There’s this helmet that you can unlock by playing 10 games of BTB. You’d just simply not unlock that helmet and move on with your life. The same logic applies here.
You’re right. Similarly, there should be Halo Infinite cosmetics exclusively locked behind extended playtime in Forza, Gears, Flight Simulator and Call of Duty Vanguard.
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> > > > No. Collectors should not have to turn Halo into a full-time job to unlock cosmetics. Many players have better things to do than watch other people play video games, but I would not be upset if they partnered with streamers and gave out XP bonuses to viewers.
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> what a weak argument. halo is one of the few Triple A games that still cares about completionist, between your halo Gamerscore being on your profile to there being in game rewards for completing certain mile stones. none of those require me to NOT play the game. its why the halo completionist community is so big people can still get achievements for multiplayer on OG halo 3, reach, and 4.
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> not only that but it would be very hurtful to streamers who are trying to start out to have a flood of people come in tell them to do X thing so they can get the reward then dip. Its happened before when twitch started doing drops people would reticule streamers if they werent doing drops as often as possible. this system just encourages a bad community building. most completionist would just leave streams on in the back ground muted till they got what ever drop then dip. thats not very good for the completionist community or the halo streaming community.
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> to where as stuff like XP boost that dont really matter in the grand scheme of things are a nice reward for those who are already looking to watch streams anyway. and even then you shouldnt need a reward to watch someone. you should just watch them if you like them or their content.
Yes Sir, that are good arguments you bring up, additional to our already profound argumentation. (Sorry for the cockiness :D)
XP-boosts is something else. But i know what you mean.
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> > > > No. Collectors should not have to turn Halo into a full-time job to unlock cosmetics. Many players have better things to do than watch other people play video games, but I would not be upset if they partnered with streamers and gave out XP bonuses to viewers.
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> what a weak argument. halo is one of the few Triple A games that still cares about completionist, between your halo Gamerscore being on your profile to there being in game rewards for completing certain mile stones. none of those require me to NOT play the game. its why the halo completionist community is so big people can still get achievements for multiplayer on OG halo 3, reach, and 4.
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> not only that but it would be very hurtful to streamers who are trying to start out to have a flood of people come in tell them to do X thing so they can get the reward then dip. Its happened before when twitch started doing drops people would reticule streamers if they werent doing drops as often as possible. this system just encourages a bad community building. most completionist would just leave streams on in the back ground muted till they got what ever drop then dip. thats not very good for the completionist community or the halo streaming community.
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> to where as stuff like XP boost that dont really matter in the grand scheme of things are a nice reward for those who are already looking to watch streams anyway. and even then you shouldnt need a reward to watch someone. you should just watch them if you like them or their content.
haha I think your hope of unlocking every cosmetic was lost as soon as microtransactions were implemented. there is going to be an incomprehensible amount of different kind of cosmetics that it would be absurd to try and get them all. is there anyone that has all the fortnite cosmetics? no? and no one should. that shouldn’t be the definition of completion.
edit: besides, you said it yourself. just turn on the stream and mute it. boom your problem is solved.
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> > what a weak argument. halo is one of the few Triple A games that still cares about completionist, between your halo Gamerscore being on your profile to there being in game rewards for completing certain mile stones. none of those require me to NOT play the game. its why the halo completionist community is so big people can still get achievements for multiplayer on OG halo 3, reach, and 4.
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> > not only that but it would be very hurtful to streamers who are trying to start out to have a flood of people come in tell them to do X thing so they can get the reward then dip. Its happened before when twitch started doing drops people would reticule streamers if they werent doing drops as often as possible. this system just encourages a bad community building. most completionist would just leave streams on in the back ground muted till they got what ever drop then dip. thats not very good for the completionist community or the halo streaming community.
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> > to where as stuff like XP boost that dont really matter in the grand scheme of things are a nice reward for those who are already looking to watch streams anyway. and even then you shouldnt need a reward to watch someone. you should just watch them if you like them or their content.
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> haha I think your hope of unlocking every cosmetic was lost as soon as microtransactions were implemented. there is going to be an incomprehensible amount of different kind of cosmetics that it would be absurd to try and get them all. is there anyone that has all the fortnite cosmetics? no? and no one should. that shouldn’t be the definition of completion.
what a solid counter argument of “no fortnite doesnt let you so halo wont either”, you have no idea how halo infinites store will work. also did you actually just say that getting everything shouldnt be counted as completion? merriam-webster defines completion as - the act or process of completing - the quality or state of being completeyou cant say not having everything should be counted as “completion” as thats literally not how the word is supposed to be used.
also like how you didnt even try to rebuttal the negative effects it would have on small halo streamers. you have yet to argue any point beyond “then just dont get it” and “other games do it a completely different way so halo will do it that way” you have failed to back up any point or even make one that has any ground to stand on. it seems at this point you are just arguing to be a contrarian at best, trolling at worse.
Edit: did you just edit your post to agree that people should actively hurt streamers by ignoring them and only using them as a means to an end?
Destiny isn’t the only place I’ve seen games do something like this. I believe apex does something like this time to time as well. It would be really neat if Halo were to follow suit and do something similar.
I wouldn’t not mind small things like XP-Boosters to be given out via Twitch Drops. I “participated” in some of those streams before and it really is no trouble. Even at work, you can just open the stream on your phone, mute it, and leave the stream running without paying attention to it. Free items with minimal effort.