Since a lot of you guys came from Asmongold's twitch stream, as shown in this poll right here,
https://strawpoll.com/qjojxcyub, most of you will prob be concerned about streamer privilege.
Ill try to explain why this most likely wont exist in AoC, unlike in WoW, in this post.
The first thing you have to understand is, there are just as many people that wanna run over streamers as there are people that wanna help them.
In WoW, the people that want to help Asmon, A+, are not countered by the people that want to run over him, A-, as the A- group is severely limited in what they can do to balance out the actions of the A+ group. But in a game like AoC that is not the case.
Sure, in a scientific node, Asmongold will probably be elected as the mayor, however, there will be a lot of potential for drama post and pre-election which can result in him being voted out. Also, unlike in wow, the A- group of people will have multiple opportunities in AoC to run him over through constant castle and node sieges, open world guild fights, ganking, contesting dungeons that Asmon wants to complete etc. etc. So if anything, the server which streamers are going to be on, is going to be highly active and dynamic because of the polarization of the population of that server into the A+ and the A- group.
As for the military node, I don't think streamers would allow match fixing to take place and I don't think Steven would allow it either. Moreover, like i said above, the A- group will target Asmongold first to get him out of the br mayor run and there is no real way for the A+ group to stop this unless they kill every single one of the A- group members. So even if he does get people to help him, its NOT going to be easy.
As for the economic nodes, this is probably the one that favors streamers the most as they can get a lot of stuff for free. However, like I said above, these nodes can be brought down by the A- group through sieges and stuff.
As for the divine nodes, Steven never said anything about quest items being tradeable. Also, yet again, along with the A+ group that might come to help Asmon complete divine quests to become mayor, the A- group will also be trying to beat him to quest completion so that they can reach the top first. So, yet again, it balances itself out.
So like I mentioned above, unlike in WoW, since both A+ and A- group of people have ample opportunities to counter each other in AoC, it will balance itself out in my opinion. Some people will want to go to the A- group after supporting him for so long and some people will want to go to the A+ group after opposing him for so long. Thus, it will create a nice balance in the world.
The real issue, however, will be the server lag because of the large amount of viewers that will follow him when he comes to a server. However, I doubt this issue will be significant due to the extremely large amount of time it takes to progress on a single character in AoC. Also, because the world is so dynamic, he won't run out of content quickly on his main character's server. So, more than likely, Asmongold will spend most of his time on his main fighter class, with only a small amount of time on alternate accounts.
In fact, I think streamers are going to face much more trouble than normal players, especially when they start out. This is because of the flaws of the corruption system as it stands currently. Streamers will most likely have to hide their server at the start or maybe level a bit before streaming their character as otherwise they might get farmed at the starting area.
Since the amount of these trolls will be massive, due to the large amount of viewers that are going to follow the streamer to the new server, and because low levels don't care about dropping gear since most of it is useless, it will require the streamer to die MULTIPLE MULTIPLE times before all of the trolls are teleported to elsewhere on the map or heavily corrupted and rendered combat ineffective.
Steven will fix this in the Alpha and Beta phases though, as i'm sure he's seen the HUGE increase in the popularity of the game after the recent interviews.
So overall, i think streamers will most likely end up playing the game just like every other normal player would.
