The New Zealand streamer Quin69 is a figure for hack ‘n slays on Twitch. He is especially known for Path of Exile, but in the last few days he has been enamored with Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem. However, after a bug in the endgame, it was clearly enough for him. He uninstalled Wolcen from Steam without looking back.
Who is the streamer? Quin69 has about 500,000 followers on Twitch and is mainly known for Path of Exile. In the last year, he spent almost 1500 hours playing the game, with an average of 5500 viewers watching him.
That may not sound like a lot, but it makes him somewhat of the leading Path of Exile streamer on Twitch. Because games like Path of Exile or now Wolcen are not major crowd pullers on streaming platforms.
Quin69 also has good connections to Blizzard and the teams around Diablo 3 and Diablo 4. He specializes in this kind of game.
In the last days, Quin69 was active in Wolcen, playing it for 66 hours and streaming it on Twitch. He had an average of 10,500 viewers. Wolcen has very few big streamers on Twitch, and Quin69 was in first place for hours played.
Boss fight without loot frustrates the streamer
This is shown in the clip: The streamer was at the end of a more than 12-hour long Twitch stream. He killed a high-level boss in Wolcen with his hero. During the boss fight, there were severe lags. However, Quin69 was not impressed and kept dodging around.
Ultimately, the boss died somehow. But it dropped not a single item, there was no loot anywhere. Quin69 also came away empty in the quest reward.
Quin69 fell into an icy silence. Meanwhile, the chat laughed, what a bizarre situation and how buggy Wolcen is.
Apparently the lags caused the boss’s kill not to be properly completed. Thus, the phase in which the loot drops occurs was seemingly skipped.
The stream ended with showing Quin69 closing Wolcen, uninstalling it, quitting Steam, and murmuring a “Thank you for watching”. A playtime of 58 hours was displayed.
How viewers react: The clip is being discussed on reddit. There, one person says: “Wolcen looks fantastic. I can’t wait to play it – in a year, when it’s finished.”
Generally, there is currently the view about Wolcen that it is a great game with a lot of potential, but the release came too early. However: Such a rush, as Wolcen is experiencing now would probably pose great problems for any game.
Wolcen is currently suffering from some bugs and exploits. The game is incredibly successful on Steam but was offline for large parts of the weekend.
The next hotfix for Wolcen has already been announced.
