The players of ARC Raiders are bored and therefore looking for a new activity. Now they are hunting streamers to rise up the leaderboards.
What’s behind the hunt? For weeks, the players of ARC Raiders have been complaining on social media about the playable content. Many are slowly running out of content or feel it is becoming increasingly repetitive. Boredom is spreading among the players. Especially PvP fans have little incentive to keep playing, as there are no in-game leaderboards for Raider kills or similar.
However, the players have helped themselves and created a system that provides them with new motivation for PvP action: There is a website where players can put bounties on other Raiders and collect rewards. There is also a leaderboard for players with the most bounty kills. Each kill must be proven with a screenshot.
Streamers become bounties
What does this have to do with streamers? In the description of “Speranza Bounties” on Discord, the community project describes itself as a platform to “report” players who have committed treacherous acts or griefing.
The “Most wanted” bounties on the website are not necessarily mean griefers, but primarily well-known streamers like Nadeshot, Tfue, and TheBurntPeanut – a VTuber who appears as a talking peanut. Special rewards like blueprints are also offered for kills on the “Most wanted” bounties.
On the website, TheBurntPeanut and Nadeshot are marked as “voice chat snakes”. This means they allegedly pretended to be friendly in the game’s voice chat and then deceived the other Raiders.
A fun idea that has a big problem
This is what MeinMMO editor Dariusz says about the system: In theory, the bounty system is a fun idea to find new incentives in PvP. In practice, however, it encourages taking the enjoyment away from other players, even though it presents itself as a platform that is against griefing.
The markings that can be given to the bounties are particularly questionable:
- “Pretends to be friendly but then stabs you in the back.”
- “Steals your loot when you open a locked room.”
- “Kills teammates at the extraction point.”
Some of the reasons for the bounties have nothing to do with griefing but are part of the game. PvP, betrayal, and stealing loot are integral components of extraction shooters like ARC Raiders – even if the affected player surely leaves the round frustrated.
However, the hunt for streamers is particularly critical, as stream sniping is already a problem for the shooter, which has led to players like shroud and Ninja losing interest in the game. Whether you find these streamers entertaining or not doesn’t matter; they help the game by generating attention with their content.
Driving such Twitch personalities away from ARC Raiders is not a win for the shooter, and the bounty system encourages players to stream snipe – especially when special rewards like blueprints are at stake.
Moreover, the majority of the hunted streamers are often in lobbies where primarily PvP is played due to the aggression-based matchmaking of the extraction shooter. The rough functioning of the matchmaking was explained to us by the developers months ago: If you shoot in ARC Raiders without warning, you can be sure that it will happen to you as well
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