The streamer Kripparrian is often a victim of “stream sniping” in Hearthstone . Now he has defended himself – with a simple trick.
When streamers build a large circle of fans, there are also some unwanted viewers among them. Particularly popular in many competitive games is “stream sniping”.
You wait for the streamer to start a game of his and then try to log in at the same time to face him as an opponent. While this leads to matches against the streamer in more or less fair matchups in shooters, it’s a different story in card games.
This is what happens to the streamer Octavian Morosan, better known as Kripparrian in the Hearthstone scene.
There’s nothing paranoid about it – Kripp is onto something
In his streams, he regularly complains that stream snipers are looking at his cards. Many viewers have told him that he is just being paranoid – until now.
Time and again, he encountered players named “Sniper” followed by a number during his arena runs. Kripp claims that he played a quarter of all arena games against the same opponent in just one month – which cannot be explained by coincidence.
But that was just an initial suspicion that turned out to be false: Behind stream sniping is a whole group, a tight-knit guild.
Numerous decks for every occasion
The strategy behind this “guild” is simple and effective. They gather as many accounts as possible and create the best arena decks they can. They plan out the strengths and weaknesses of the deck in detail. Then they save the deck until Kripparrian plays a deck that is particularly vulnerable to that of the stream snipers.
Because the snipers caught Kripparrian despite him implementing a delay in his stream, it was highly suspected that someone from Kripparrian’s friends list leaked when he was searching for an arena match.
Kripp then cleaned up his friends list and, at the next opportunity, added one of the players with the suspicious name “Sniper” as a friend. Contrary to all expectations, he even accepted! Through “friends of friends,” Kripparrian then gained insight into all the names associated with this stream sniper syndicate. A small sample of that can be seen here:
In the meantime, Kripp has infiltrated this strange guild of viewers and rendered it inactive for the time being.
Kripp says: “I know that sometimes I come across like a paranoid jerk whining because I’m losing to snipers… and that’s true. I’m really paranoid, but this shit is really happening.”
But the whole story amusingly and slightly creepily illustrates how far people will go to annoy a well-known streamer. You are only considered paranoid until you are actually being followed.
