An event in Destiny 2 brings Twitch streamer Sean “Gladd” Gallagher a welcome influx of money. He is the main beneficiary of an action from Bungie: Anyone who links their Destiny account with their Twitch account and donates subscriptions receives an emblem and a shader in the game. Apparently, tens of thousands of players want these cosmetics.
This is the promo: A new promotion for Destiny 2 on Twitch has been running since July 1:
- Players must link their Destiny account on Steam, PlayStation, or Xbox One with the Twitch account – this is done via Bungie.net and the settings there
- Then they must find a Twitch streamer who has activated a special extension for Destiny 2 (Here is a list via Twitch)
- They then need to donate 2 “Tier 1” subscriptions to the streamer, which costs about €10. It is important that they do this under their name and not anonymously
- After that, they can pick up the shader “Watcher’s Shade” and the emblem “Stream of Light” in the game from “Amanda Holiday” in the Tower’s hangar.
Streamer has been live for 30 hours – can’t believe it
These are the effects: The main beneficiary of the action is Destiny 2 streamer Sean “Gladd” Gallagher. He started streaming on Twitch normally and was then overwhelmed by the “Sub-Train” triggered by the promo action.
A Sub-Train is an unofficial thing: It is active as long as a streamer continuously receives new donations. If he doesn’t receive a donation for 5 minutes, the “Sub-Train” stops.
By now, Gladd has been live for over 30 hours and has received 27,868 subscriptions. He has earned over €60,000 in the nearly 30 hours. And that’s a minimum number: Donations, higher-tier subs, and more money come in – depending on the distribution rate Gladd negotiated with Amazon.
The stream had an average of 4,585 viewers.
During the stream, there were already some difficulties and issues. For instance, the stream crashed at 13,000 subs in a row, but he was able to continue later.
“Hey, why not let someone else dip into the money pot”
This is a controversy: Later, he took a break but didn’t want to stop his stream. So he continued to send out “old material”, meaning he was no longer visible live. This is actually against the very idea of a “livestreaming platform. “
For this, he was criticized by fans. They thought Gladd could also turn off the stream and leave the subscriptions to other Destiny streamers if he was too tired to play himself. Some saw this as selfish behavior.
Gladd apologized for this when he returned: He acted in the heat of the moment and hype. Next time he will also try to think about others and consider this more. Everyone can act selfishly at times, even if it is not the true intention.
The conflict resembles the discussions about the controversial Twitch drops for Valorant.
Gladd simply seems to be overwhelmed by the situation at the moment:
Shortly before the article was published, around 11:45 AM German time on Thursday, Gladd then ended the stream.
Promo action strengthens the bond of streamers, but mostly only the big ones benefit
What is behind it: Bungie apparently wants to strengthen its status on Twitch with the action and reward streamers. Already in December 2019, they tried to bring back some of their biggest streamers.
It will certainly be controversially discussed that “the devil shits on the biggest pile here” and that especially the one who is already at the front on Twitch benefits the most and has no money problems.
So Gladd was already the big beneficiary at the riddle stream in January 2020.
In parts of the community, there is a desire to counteract this and ensure that smaller streamers also benefit from the Twitch subscriptions. One user on reddit says: He hates that the 5 to 6 biggest streamers are now the only ones who really benefit from the event (via reddit).
But this has actually always been the case in the past: The big takeaway from Fortnite benefited the biggest streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins the most.
Gladd is regarded as the exemplary PvE player for Destiny 2. In April 2020, Bungie had already tried to make a gift to such streamers and brought especially difficult content into the game. However, that didn’t work back then, as even Gladd was not interested in playing it:
Destiny 2 builds PvE content for Twitch – But the best PvE streamer doesn’t want to play it
