On Friday night, there was the Twitch reveal of the new shooter Valorant by Riot Games. The top shooter players showcased Valorant and achieved strong results. However, the streamer Guy “DrDisrespect” Beahm played the Trials of Osiris in Destiny 2. He said he didn’t want to sell his soul.
That was the situation on Friday night: It was already clear that the reveal of Valorant, the new shooter from Riot Games, would be the event on Friday night on Twitch. Some of the biggest shooter streamers on Twitch were streaming the event. You could feel the hype in the air.
Since DrDisrespect is a well-known shooter streamer on Twitch, many of his viewers assumed that the Doctor would also play Valorant on Friday night.
Especially since DrDisrespect had tweeted a picture of himself on April 1, depicting him as a “hero character” in Valorant.
He said that those who subscribe on Twitch would get this hero skin in the new shooter. An April Fools’ joke.
The streamer announced at the beginning of his Friday stream that he would be playing a “new game,” but then said: “a new game for our channel” and logged into Destiny 2.
This was received only moderately well by some of his fans. In the chat, it was seen that Destiny 2
- is 4 years old
- is plagued by cheats
In Destiny 2, he played Rumble and the new Trials, along with the well-known Destiny streamer “The Real Krafty.”
The Doctor was initially visibly inexperienced in Destiny 2 and had to get used to the controls and peculiarities of the game. He was visibly confused by the concept of a “heavy weapon.” Why does he have a weapon when it has no ammunition?
The streamer was using endgame characters but did not reveal the mystery of how he obtained them. It appeared that he had not leveled them up.
Over time, DrDisrespect visibly got better with Destiny 2. The Twitch streamer shaped up. And ultimately, it doesn’t matter to the streamer in which shooter he dominates with “violence, speed, and momentum.”
Valorant is taking off on Twitch – the Doctor doesn’t care
This was the outcome: DrDisrespect streamed about 4 hours of Destiny 2 while many other top shooter streamers on Twitch spent their time on Valorant on Friday night.
In the end, the outcome looked like this:
- TimTheTatman averaged 88,850 viewers in the stream and peaked at 116,189 – about 3 times as much as usual
- Summit1g averaged 115,098 viewers and peaked at 213,811 – about 6 times as much as usual
- DrDisrespect had 20,560 viewers during his stream and peaked at 26,049 – normal numbers
DrDisrespect forgoes viewers and allegedly $150,000
This is what DrDisrespect said about forgoing Valorant: During the stream, it was already mentioned in the chat at the beginning that TimTheTatman had 100,000 viewers on Twitch. He is a laid-back entertainment streamer with whom the ambitious DrDisrespect has a rivalry going on.
The remarks about TimTheTatman’s success the Doc ignored.
Later, DrDisrespect was asked if he was concerned about his viewer numbers. But he laughed and said:
I couldn’t care less [about viewer numbers.] The guy is worried about my viewer numbers. Get lost, you pussy. I don’t care.
If I were to care about viewer numbers, I would have sold my soul and could have played Valorant and Twitch Rivals all weekend and still made $150,000.
But I don’t do that, I’m just having a good time on Friday night.
DrDisrespect
What could this mean? In the clip, it seems as though DrDisrespect declined an offer from Riot Games to participate in the reveal of Valorant and pocket $150,000 – approximately €138,000.
But it should be noted that DrDisrespect is a character and not everything in the stream is meant seriously.
The numbers, however, seem realistic. So Tfue was offered $140,000 to promote a sports game from EA .
It’s also credible that Riot Games would have liked to have the Doctor involved in the presentation of Valorant. After all, he appeals to an audience that Riot Games would like for Valorant: somewhat experienced shooter fans with ambition who value gameplay.
However, other streamers who were part of the Twitch Rivals for Valorant did not label their streams as “sponsored.” The question remains open whether DrDisrespect was really offered money by Riot or if that was just a phrase from him in the stream to emphasize his point that he chose “Destiny and his own thing” over Valorant and against “the money and the viewers.”
Why exactly DrDisrespect chose to forgo Valorant seems to be open. Perhaps he thought the game didn’t fit his “brand,” or something went wrong during the negotiations.
When asked what he thought of Valorant, DrDisrespect pretended to fall into a deep sleep.
Then he seemingly woke up and exclaimed: “Hey, Riot, I’m just joking. Come on. Where do you want him? No, no, don’t close the conference room door. I have a great design here.”
DrDisrespect seems to carefully consider which deals he enters. For example, a campaign with WWE and the Undertaker was likely more to his taste. During that event, the Undertaker even went for DrDisrespect’s throat in a spectacular clip.
