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Jost Amman said:
That's too bad, honestly. A stream that will probably show content that will be the focus of the Stream Weekend, it's a bad move in my opinion.

It's like stealing the thunder from the streamers, basically.

People are already hyped and are only waiting for confirmation of the release date. A game play stream will just @%$# them off.

And all this, independently of IF the streamer weekend will start on June 9 or June 16.

Just my two cents.

I won't even publish this news on Steam because I'm "afraid" of the backlash, lol
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I don't think it will be a thunder-stealing stream even if the streamer weekend happens this coming weekend. There are two major audiences really: Those who watch and follow the person they enjoy watching and those who watch to get information on the game. The first group will watch their guy or gal no matter what and enjoy it immensely-- probably more than watching TFP staff play. The second group greatly prefers just getting the information and will be interested in the Q&A aspect and that it is TFP staff answering the questions. Many in the second group are often annoyed by the personalities and antics of professional streamers and just want the info and are likely to just skip the streamer weekend but will want to watch QA staff playing and showing stuff off.

At any rate, experimental is at the door and about to come into the house and when it comes, any and all annoyance is forgotten in the excitement of getting it and playing it.

 
Great point.  I doubt I would watch a streamer play the game unless I have nothing better to do.  But I wouldn't mind seeing the devs play and give answers to questions while doing so.

 
Well, I don't know about audiences, but I can tell you how it will work out for me.

Before knowing about the game play dev stream, I was willing to watch some streamer (probably Pocket), and see there how the new A21 plays.

But now that I know there'll be this game play dev stream next Wednesday, I'll probably watch that one and not the streamer.

I mean, it's just me... but I wonder how many more will do the same, honestly. 

 
I am glad it got some more optimization, it was getting bad when a t5 poi would drop my frames to 20, and i recently upgraded my ram and graphics card, so this is a very welcome change, and im excited for release of a21, its gonna be a learning curve thats for sure.

 
Jost Amman said:
Well, I don't know about audiences, but I can tell you how it will work out for me.

Before knowing about the game play dev stream, I was willing to watch some streamer (probably Pocket), and see there how the new A21 plays.

But now that I know there'll be this game play dev stream next Wednesday, I'll probably watch that one and not the streamer.

I mean, it's just me... but I wonder how many more will do the same, honestly. 
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Who knows. But everyone who likes Pokket more than you do will tune in to watch her play A21. They will want to see her reactions and interact with her. You can take her or leave her and obviously care more about the actual information. 

And...if you aren't busy that weekend and it comes to mind you still might tune in to see her play. In fact, it's very likely despite your feeling now that the dev stream this Wednesday will fully satisfy you especially since you'll be on the forums over that weekend. :)

 
so there will be people who don't want to watch any of this because they don't want to spoil it for themselves.

And there will be people who suck up every bit of information, watch all the "let's play"s, "what's new"s, tutorials, from every source they can get their hands on.

And there will be those who want to watch this but not that, for whatever reason that does make sense to only themselves.

So what?

Release the kraken!

 
I don't want to watch any streamer playing the game. I want to play the game by myself.

The only good point for me on streamer weekend is to know when the release date will be.

 
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Thaledwyn said:
I don't want to watch any streamer playing the game. I want to play the game by myself.

The only good point for me on streamer weekend is to know when the release date will be.
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Fair enough.

For me I want to know the mechanics of playing and not so much the adventures of others (I will still watch that too).  

Once I understand the reality of the new rules and the games interface, I can focus on making my own adventures!

 
Jost Amman said:
Well, I don't know about audiences, but I can tell you how it will work out for me.

Before knowing about the game play dev stream, I was willing to watch some streamer (probably Pocket), and see there how the new A21 plays.

But now that I know there'll be this game play dev stream next Wednesday, I'll probably watch that one and not the streamer.

I mean, it's just me... but I wonder how many more will do the same, honestly. 
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Same.

I can't stomach any of the current streamers, anyway.

 
6 hours ago, Jost Amman said:
Damn! You're so convincing! ... Now I feel compelled to watch both the dev stream and Pokket!  :eek2:



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To add to it... dev stream game play will be different. At least from previous ones. They will avoid a lot of stuff but still play but mostly probably build some something and go into a few poi. They will do some stuff but not a lot all while talking to chat. It will only be probably an hour or 2.... just sayin my point is if you want to see things you will see more content on streamer weekend. The dev stream will be for the most part Q&A. Just my opinion based on other times. 

 
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We're more than half-way through the projected release window. Do we have any hope of getting firmer date?

I bought this thing with a built-in warning that essentially everything I'm doing is pointless because pre-A21 games won't load when A21 is dropped. A warning that didn't appear until after I'd already purchased the game, BTW.

I've suspended play until then, but I'd like to know how long that has to last.

 
KaldaraFox said:
We're more than half-way through the projected release window. Do we have any hope of getting firmer date?

I bought this thing with a built-in warning that essentially everything I'm doing is pointless because pre-A21 games won't load when A21 is dropped. A warning that didn't appear until after I'd already purchased the game, BTW.

I've suspended play until then, but I'd like to know how long that has to last.
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I mean you did buy an early access game. You can still play A20 build after A21 releases. You just got to start a new world with A21 features. Every Alpha update has been this way. Not sure but I imagine A22 will be the same. Or maybe I heard it might not I don't remember. But either way you can still play A20 even if A21 releases. 

 
KaldaraFox said:
We're more than half-way through the projected release window. Do we have any hope of getting firmer date?

I bought this thing with a built-in warning that essentially everything I'm doing is pointless because pre-A21 games won't load when A21 is dropped. A warning that didn't appear until after I'd already purchased the game, BTW.

I've suspended play until then, but I'd like to know how long that has to last.
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