The Twitch streamer Ashley Roboto (25) made an announcement to her channel’s viewers, telling them not to come off as stupid just because she plays games like Kingdom Hearts 3 on the “Easy” difficulty level. This sparks a big discussion. Is there a right way to play and a wrong way?
This is the streamer’s announcement: The 25-year-old Canadian makes a clear statement to viewers on Twitter. She won’t let anyone get on her nerves because she wants to play “Kingdom Hearts 3” peacefully and without stress, choosing the easiest difficulty level to enjoy the story and the game.
Anyone who comes at her with nonsense will be thrown out of her chat with a suplex. She says:
“Let people play games however they want. Are you really attacking me because I want to play a game that’s notorious for its convoluted story calmly to see the cutscenes, listen to the dialogues, figure out what the lore is about, and just enjoy the game?
Not everyone wants to play games to get angry and suffer. […] Stop telling people how they should play games. It’s so boring!”
Ashley Roboto
“If you want to play like that, just watch a movie”
This is how the clip is received: The video now has almost a million views on Twitter. Apparently, Ashley Roboto hit a sore spot here.
It’s clear that the discussion is quite controversial. Some people simply cannot understand how someone can play a game on “Easy”:
- For some gamers, playing on “Easy” is unacceptable – “Normal” is the lowest point of negotiation. They emphasize that they usually play on “Very Hard”
- One wonders what fun a game can even have if you play it on “Easy” since there is no challenge at all.
- Those who play on “Easy” to enjoy the story of a game aren’t looking to play a game at all, they would rather watch a movie, says another user.
- A Twitter user says: “Those who play on Easy will fail later in life” – that’s close to the famous Karl Lagerfeld quote, “Those who play on Easy have lost control of their life.”
- A standard recommendation is “Git gud” – just get better.
“Twitch viewers want to dictate to streamers how to play correctly”
However, there are also people who share the streamer’s view. They say:
- It’s totally strange that some gamers believe games are only made for people who “work hard and invest a lot of time” – gaming is a hobby. Some just want to relax and chill – and that’s perfectly fine.
- Another user says he plays games on “Very Easy” because it saves him time. While others spend 100 hours on a game, he’s already progressed further and completed two new games.
The site Polygon also supports the streamer. Polygon quotes Twitch streamer Nikatine, who makes it a “male-female” thing.
She says it’s primarily a problem for female streamers that their fans demand they play games “in a certain way.” The fans would explain to them what’s wrong. Nikatine says she plays dumb on purpose just to mock the fans.
She says she would, in Elite Dangerous, say: “Oh dear, it’s so dark in space – when does the sun come out?”
Streamer blizzb3ar says viewers even dictate to him what the “right way” is to play the sandbox game Stardew Valley. Women often have the problem of not being perceived as “real gamers.”
The streamer Ashley Roboto seems to have used the viral clip for good. In her first stream after the viral Twitter clip, she had five times as many viewers as before.
However, not every Twitch streamer shares Ashley Roboto’s view that games should be taken lightly. The streamer with the most followers on Twitch has a completely different approach:
Ninja wants you to take gaming seriously and get more excited.
She says she would, in Elite Dangerous, say: “Oh dear, it’s so dark in space – when does the sun come out?”
Streamer blizzb3ar says viewers even dictate to him what the “right way” is to play the sandbox game Stardew Valley. Women often have the problem of not being perceived as “real gamers.”
The streamer Ashley Roboto seems to have used the viral clip for good. In her first stream after the viral Twitter clip, she had five times as many viewers as before.
However, not every Twitch streamer shares Ashley Roboto’s view that games should be taken lightly. The streamer with the most followers on Twitch has a completely different approach:
Ninja wants you to take gaming seriously and get more excited.
