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Earn free rewards and a mount by watching Twitch during the Dawntrail launch in July!
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I really dislike when games tie rewards to watching game streamers.
I don’t have a twitch account, nor do I want one. I don’t want to watch strangers play video games, I want to play the game myself. But because I really, really don’t want any part of “gamer culture” I get gated out of benefits.
It just seems wrong.
They did a different promotion before for this mount, where you just had to buy some candy bars. I think it's nice that they're giving people a second chance to get it in a different way
For what it's worth, as long as the stream is active you yourself don't have to be actively watching it. You could find a streamer who's streaming overnight (relative to your timezone), put Twitch on, go to bed and wake up with a mount.
And to be fair, any sort of external requirement is going to annoy someone, and FFXIV does have a few of them. Between regionalised promotions, food tie-ins, streaming rewards, timed preorder bonuses, time restricted PvP rewards, expensive statues locking emotes, etc.
There's always going to be some stuff people would like but either can't get or don't want to participate in whatever the promotion is. I don't see that going away any time soon.
I'd take this option over what they did last time for the same mount, where I had to spend way too much money on candy bars I don't even like, send them a photograph of a receipt, and then wait several days for someone to look at it and go "Ok, here's your mount code"