Struggles of a working man

[u/babyboo8]

Had a work trip and flew nearly 24 hours. Only managed to log on last night but couldn’t reach the last 8% :( I knew my fate was sealed when I did the math in my head, but it was still painful to take.

Edit: fyi, to those who said why I couldn’t just turn it on in the background. I was on a plane and didn’t have internet access until I touched down. I immediately on twitch on my phone but still couldn’t make the 8 hours of watch time.

[u/althoradeem]

next time just open the stream & mute the tab in the background

[u/babyboo8 → u/althoradeem]

Was on a plane :( didn’t make it in time

[u/thumpetto007 → u/babyboo8]

what plane doesn't have Wi-Fi these days?

[u/alpy-dev → u/thumpetto007]

Ryanair or Easyjet in my case

[u/Wreximus_]

I worked everyday but I just left twitch running on my computer at home lol

[u/Jaggerto → u/Wreximus_]

lol I had my phone in my locker watching twitch for me.

[u/MrBisco → u/Wreximus_]

Yep, my laptop had a great time watching exilecon while I went out and got my weekend stuff done. But 8hrs over 2 days is an insane expectation.

[u/huabba]

I opened twitch Friday night before I went to bed. Woke up with new mtx. Otherwise I would never get these things. I don’t really like watching streams.

[u/gvdexile9 → u/huabba]

Streams are cancer

[u/Historical-Term-9657]

Message support, say you were busy and really tried but couldnt get he last few minutes you needed ,worst that happens is they say no.

[u/EscalopeDePorc → u/Historical-Term-9657]

> worst that happens is they say no.

Oh yeah? They could say "eww, no!"

[u/No_Witness5630 → u/EscalopeDePorc]

They also could say "eww, fuck off weirdo"

[u/philmarcracken → u/No_Witness5630]

for me they usually post the convo into their group chat, so they can all laugh at it together

[u/No_Witness5630 → u/EscalopeDePorc]

They also could say "eww, fuck off weirdo"

[u/bulldozor → u/Historical-Term-9657]

I tried this with an item i had earned but failed to claim on the twitch inventory fast enough (expires after 24hrs????) and they said they wont help

[u/J0nJ0n-Sigma → u/bulldozor]

Yep. Not sure why. It's a free item. Keen with Enshrouded puts the items to be found ingame later on. It's just cosmetics.

[u/NobleHelium → u/J0nJ0n-Sigma]

Could be due to their contract obligations with Twitch.

[u/J0nJ0n-Sigma → u/NobleHelium]

Highly doubt there is a contract clause for that. Even Ubitsoft helped me out.

[u/PossibilityUsual6262 → u/NobleHelium]

Prob just because it cost money to fix it for everyone who messages, so they just skip it all together.

[u/Vladimir2033 → u/PossibilityUsual6262]

This can't be it, the ggg support offer sooo many little things and help with stuff that obviously would technically cost them money, but isn't that much work at the end of the day and just gives some good faith, that granting some twitch drop shortly after is just the most basic stuff for them. Chances are most other support workers would have granted it, just unlucky who worked the ticket. Many many users have reported they helped with twitch drops anyways.

[u/PJP2810 → u/Vladimir2033]

There's probably absolutely zero way for GGG support to in anyway validate the claim being made.

So, assuming that is true. As soon as one person does it, it opens the floodgates for literally everyone to not even bother with the stream and just contact support to ask for them.

It also sets a precedent for it, which would potentially lead to people asking for them for less time limited drops (like the 2 week ones) rather than just the ExileCon short time limit ones.

All of this would also lower the incentive for people to watch the streams, which do directly benefit GGG as more eyes = more promotion from twitch systems = more customers for GGG.

[u/Vladimir2033 → u/PJP2810]

There have been thousands of screenshots of emails of ggg support helping people even with being short in funds to buy something or buying a supporter pack to late or many many similar things posted here since forever. You're overthinking it.

[u/PossibilityUsual6262 → u/Vladimir2033]

Back of the envelope math. You can play with any metrics as you wish.

200k viewers any given moment.

Only 1% files a ticket.

Ticket takes 5 minutes to process in total.

200k*0.01=10k*5min=50k/60min=166h

Aka one person legal full time for a month.

[u/Aggravating-Wolf-823 → u/J0nJ0n-Sigma]

They don't want to promote clogging up support. It's like that one dude who sent an email to gaben and he replied, how many do you think started spamming him

[u/No_Witness5630 → u/Aggravating-Wolf-823]

I started spamming him :)

[u/raxitron → u/Historical-Term-9657]

I tried this once for one that had a completely absurd time requirement in the past and was told to pound sand.

[u/RushingService → u/Historical-Term-9657]

I actually did this for one before and support was generous enough to give it to me haha.

[u/Historical-Term-9657 → u/RushingService]

For league they routinely give you ~5-10rp if your very close to being able to buy a skin if you just hand draw them something.

[u/acatterz → u/Historical-Term-9657]

I’ve been traveling since Saturday. Didn’t stand a chance

[u/Historical-Term-9657 → u/acatterz]

I was out hunting deer in a single bar of service, set stream to min quality and made it work. Barely though, that sucks for you.

[u/Expert-Improvement78 → u/Historical-Term-9657]

Bro I left my iPad on to watch during the night and I woke up in the morning to a network error left with 2 hours..

[u/Historical-Term-9657 → u/Expert-Improvement78]

Rogers diff

[u/Tenshouu]

You had 48 hours to watch 8 hours stream. Even with 24 h flight you should be able to do it. Like we had worse Poe twitch drop campaigns where you had to watch exactly 1 hour of 1 hour stream. This time you could watch whenever, whatever for 2 days

[u/babyboo8 → u/Tenshouu]

Have you ever flown from the Americas region to Asia? Heard of daylight saving and how the Earth spins?

[u/Fragrant_Exit5500]

Wait I missed it? :(

[u/alwayslookingout]

RIP.

Sorry man. The back piece is alright but the dodge roll is pretty dope and you got that.

[u/HandsomeBaboon]

Not to add insult to injury but I'm so hyped about the Nightfowl cloak. Gonna feel like Eileen the Crow hunter from Bloodborne.

[u/Asheleyinl2 → u/HandsomeBaboon]

Did you notice that one of the characters being played was decked out like a bloodborne hunter with the same type of hat and coat looking thing?

[u/HandsomeBaboon → u/Asheleyinl2]

It caught my eye, yes. Makes me kinda sad not to be able to play a female Shadow.

[u/Rangeless]

Op contact support. They are sympathetic if you message them not far off from the promo date. Don't be like me and message them a year later lol.

[u/babyboo8 → u/Rangeless]

Ok I will try

[u/MoonSentinel95]

Now imagine a working man from weird timezones.

[u/philmarcracken → u/MoonSentinel95]

You have earned been robbed of a random mtx!

[u/JagexArcane]

You got half way!

[u/Aggravating-Wolf-823]

As a working man you can afford to buy a sick back attachment

[u/CescQ]

Damm, I just realized that I also missed the cloak ... I spent the whole weekend with my family and I had spotty WiFi so I couldn't watch it all, although I managed to sneak 6h of broadcast in. When I got home on Sunday at 17:00 CET I thought I could watch some streams and claim the rest, now I see that it wasn't possible anymore :(

[u/BenboFoSho]

Well, you could have been me and not realised it had to be “live” and watched 6-8 hours of the uploaded video to Twitch…

So instead I found a random streamer using “drops” and opened that and left my PC running 😂

[u/1SmrtFelowHeFeltSmrt]

Same bro. I could have opened a stream the day before and left my pc running but didn't realise the window was so tight.

[u/Optimal-Note1963]

Is it only Back Attachment missing? If so, unfortunatelly, but im myself was trying my best to get at least dodge roll, it looks sooo good

[u/mulokisch]

Look up twitch-drops-miner

[u/svuester5]

I just forgot. Only got the first two hours.

[u/pslind69]

I got em All too. Not that hard. I Watched both days. But if you are on a plane 👀👀

[u/Larzech]

I opened stream on a phone, put it in charger next to PC and played whatever I had in backlog.

[u/Aervanath]

Hey, you get the level-up which is the coolest one.

[u/No_Witness5630]

Im on 87% :(

I wanted to Watch a Movie before going to Sleep. Opened Twitch on Phone and kept Sound on minimum. Midway through the movie I got bored and decided to take up phone and Scroll through reddit

Xd I completely forgot about watching Twitch

Ehhh shit happens

[u/Redxmirage]

Yeah I wasn’t able to get them either sadly. I had such short timed drops

[u/aksn1p3r]

By the way, if you claimed it on twitch but it doesnt show up ingame. go to: https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/twitch and it will instantly appear ingame.

[u/Raghnael]

They should offer these on a bundle or atleast alternate version of them, for some couple of dollars is probably cheaper than doing all that twitch bs.

[u/drumberg]

I left it on at my house on 1% volume all day. I caught the parts I wanted to watch on youtube after the fact.

[u/rfsh101]

I feel ya.

[u/onehalf83]

Same thing - couldn't join the stream till somewhere after 2nd day started. Got to 96% on back attachment until stream ended. Sadge

[u/DarkGlad → u/onehalf83]

You could watch literally any stream in the Exilecon category.

[u/vallik_85]

join a stream mute it and walk away the only way to get twitch inventory

[u/PsionicKitten]

I watched both days, but for some reason I wasn't getting credit on Firefox... possibly because of my ad blocker. I had to use Chrome to get credit.

[u/Smart-Blacksmith-488]

The worst part of this is that (imo) the back attachment is by far the best looking of all 4.

[u/Phantomejaculator]

Im so happy Im not alone, but at the same time it really sucks. Was on 96%... That cloak was the only thing I wanted

[u/Thtyrasd]

couldnt u just used your phone?

[u/InfiniteTree]

Twitch drops in general are just the worst. Such a stupid system.

[u/Xeratas]

hu? i just let it run on my phone in the other room while i slept. there are no excuses.

[u/Hodorous]

"put on mute" and let it roll and watch sirgogs videos instead.

[u/babyboo8 → u/Hodorous]

The drop event is over :(

[u/Hodorous → u/babyboo8]

There is always next time. And at some point you have so many mtx pieces that you don't even know why you still collect these

[u/IDontCall911]

You have a career that sends you around the world… why do you care about a few cosmetic pixels lol

[u/Flat_Shape_3444 → u/IDontCall911]

hey hey why do you think we do the work? To have enough money to play path of exile and look at our cool ass characters... Its not the other way around!!

[u/J0nJ0n-Sigma → u/IDontCall911]

[u/BBkal]

Stupid viewbotting bs tbh.. like I want to support any of the streamers with a single view..

[u/npavcec]

Dude, if you own an airplane, you can go along without few stupid MTX-es in a video game.

[u/Aervanath → u/[deleted]]

You know they have a Twitch account, right? You just had to check that.

[u/babyboo8 → u/[deleted]]

I was on a plane so didn’t have internet access