HunchBluntley: Never heard of any of the guest streamers this time, except for those who have guest-streamed before, and those who are in chat all the time.

Also: how is it that there will be an Overlord 2 stream on the GOGcom channel on Saturday, but the game's "release stream" is being done by a different person a day later? ;D

Also also: the link on the word "titles" is messed up.

HunchBluntley: Thanks.

But if they want to entertain me, specifically, they might be in for a rough time. :P

AlienMind: I can only speculate why another streamer left pretty early without giving a more specific reason outside "something specific about the rules he doesen't like". I'm guessing it's some kind of agreement where you aren't allowed to say something specific, like anything bad about a game on GOG.
I get that most channels (and overall, a channel of a company) is about positivity and thus only saying positive things, but it gets to be a show where the actor always says "awesome this awesome that" real fast if you have some peer pressure bullshit. And yes, then, acting is the correct term.

groze: Guys, great news, no more Gwent streams after the one that's ongoing now! :D Yay!

I genuinely wonder if these Gwent streams are explicitly asked for by GOG? Because the vast majority of the regular GOG viewers (the ones that speak up in chat, anyway) couldn't care less about Gwent. In fact, if the thoughts on Gwent of both the Forum and the twitch GOG community were something GOG cared about, CDPRED would be very embarrassed by Gwent and it wouldn't even be available here on GOG... if only because it DOES have microtransactions, and the fact it's basically an online multiplayer game only borderline makes it not DRM-free.

These Gwent streamers seem nice enough (I kind of feel sorry for the guy streaming right now, because chat is either silent or it's just their own regular viewers talking), but I honestly think Gwent streams are not something GOG viewers care about. And I keep seeing regulars of these folks' channels congratulating them for "making it to GOG"... first of all, you didn't "make it to GOG", you're a guest Gwent streamer trying to pique the interest for a game every GOG regular already knows -- and doesn't care -- about. And if it's just your own regular viewers watching, anyway, you might as well be streaming on your own channel.

So, I'm basically keeping quiet. Because I'm not a positive person, sorry. If the Stream Team thinks they're the only ones who make up the GOG twitch community, and that makes it "a positive community", completely forgetting about all the regular viewers who are sardonic and caustic and not positive at all, then, yeah, this is a very fractured community, and the "higher ups" are clearly deluded, only seeing the colorful and the positive about things. Because this community is comprised of all of us, not just the ones you like, not just the sycophants, not just the "positive" cute ones. I think Zyttoire put it very simply when he said he used to feel like part of this community, but now he just feels like an uninvited guest at a party. That's all there is to it.

Anyway, the Gwent publicity is done, we don't like it, we don't care, GOG is happy with the advertising (hopefully?), thanks, let's move on to people streaming games we do want to watch.

groze: Guys, great news, no more Gwent streams after the one that's ongoing now! :D Yay!

I genuinely wonder if these Gwent streams are explicitly asked for by GOG? Because the vast majority of the regular GOG viewers (the ones that speak up in chat, anyway) couldn't care less about Gwent.

groze: You're absolutely right, Linko, it's a fun game that people enjoy, and it's popular among many people. But so is Candy Crush. Would GOG sell Candy Crush if they struck a deal with King? Just for the money?

I'm not one of those people spreading fear mongering on these forums, complaining that GOG now sells DRM games with microtransactions, but at the end of the day, that's exactly what Gwent is. It's a F2P card collecting game. A good one, true, maybe even great, but is there a place on GOG for games with DRM? A lot of GOG users got progressively upset as time went on and GOG slowly dropped some "principles" along the way. I stuck with GOG all this time, but as soon as they start making games with DRM available, that's where I draw the line. So far, it's been easy to just ignore Gwent altogether, but I feel advertising it does GOG more harm than good. "Oh, look, our DRM-free store now sells a game with microtransactions!" is not exactly great publicity, I'd think...

Either way, you're right, it's a good game that some people like, and it's probably making CD Projekt a decent amount of money with all the microtransactions and the esports and all that stuff. And I did enjoy this last Gwent streamer. A lot. So there's that, at least.