Hey Everybody,
Just a quick update for the new Twitch drops coming soon. When we bring back twitch drops (currently scheduled for next Thursday), things are going to be a little different.
We will only be doing drops for a period of 2 weeks at a time and drops will only be available from a select set of streamers. Signup to receive drops on our accounts page and then watch a participating streamer to receive drops.
Streamers interested in participating will be selected by us and may change periodically. To be considered for participation you should be a regularly participant of the Don't Starve or Don't Starve Together categories on Twitch, Follow all Twitch guidelines, and terms of service and have an active healthy relationship with the community as well as follow our own posted guidelines for participation.
Those interested can contact us here and let us know you're interested, otherwise we will be reaching out to our long term streamers. We'll probably have a more formal process for this in the future, but for now we want to do this very selectively so we can make adjustments as we move forward.
Twitch Drops were intended to do three things. First, push players toward the Twitch community and maybe find a cool streamer they enjoy. Second, encourage streamers to try to retain these viewers and reward the streamers willing to put in the work to provide good experiences to viewers. Give even the smallest or newest streamers a healthy stream of new viewers to attempt to engage.
While we did accomplish these things, the side effects were numerous and in return encouraged abuse of the system as well as degraded the quality of the category on Twitch. We had enough viewers to make the category interesting for new streamers (good and bad) but not enough to draw notice from Twitch moderation when abuse would occur.
We're going to keep an eye on things for a while and exploring other opportunities as well, but for now this is how we will proceed.
I think that covers everything for now. Oh, one more thing. Here's a link for some more points. (1700 points expires 3/25/2021)
See you next week!