>“There’s nothing worse than getting stream sniped,” streamers said a mere week ago. Oh, how naive they were. >The latest major update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds added car horns. Now instead of stalking their favorite streamers and killing them, people have taken to following them around in cars and honking at them incessantly. It’s called stream honking, and it’s infuriating and/or hilarious, depending on your perspective. >Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene stated that multiple repeat offenders have been banned and rule changes are expected that would officially make stream honking a bannable offense.
What the fuck? I paid cash money dollars for a game, so why can't I play the game as intended because some streamer gets booty blasted?
Mason Hughes
I'm glad I refunded this.
Owen Richardson
Streamers are such fucking babies. All they need to do is add a delay. They never do, cause they're fucking retards.
Parker Stewart
They made streamers a protected class in that game because they owe all their popularity to streamers. If there's a big streamer in your game you should probably just let him kill you or you might incur a ban for harming his business.
Dylan Lewis
>streamers get exposure for the game so more people buy it >you're just a random faggot and they have your money anyway >act like a faggot >hurr durr y u ban me?
Fuck off
Brayden Diaz
(you)
Nathan Williams
Basically.
Logan Bailey
>streamers are now a protected class who can get people banned whenever they want because they're the only reason the developers make money Awesome, don't you just love modern gaming?
Juan Hill
>t. streamer
Jaxson Campbell
>play the game >kill the guy >get banned
>play the game >honk >get banned
Lincoln Cook
>Adds car horn >But you get banned for using it
These developers, holy shit.
Matthew Reed
It's almost as if people gain perks when they are known.
Jonathan Nelson
honking should always be allowed
Jaxon Howard
> one person spends money to make a handful of people experience a bad time > other people build a community of dozens/hindreds of like minded fans while promoting the PLAYERUNKNOWN brand over affordable market exposure
I bet you run up on the stage durring concerts.
Ayden Butler
Banning players for playing the game instead of fixing the problem is common now. Overwatch does shit like that too.
Charles Barnes
I really love the game (it's great, fun, pure gameplay, fast) but I really hate and loathe streamers, fucking entitled crybullies.
Christopher Brooks
Stop being a retard for a second. The people doing stream sniping and stream honking purposely stalk streamers, line up in their queue to get into a game with them for the sole purpose of harassing them. It's like driving 30 miles to someone's job and hiding under their car waiting for them. There's literally no reason why they shouldn't be banned for their shit.
Adam Myers
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Ian Rodriguez
>people defending streamers
Man reddit really has taken over.
Jason Hall
ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING KOTAKU ADVERTISEMENTS
STOP REPLING TO THIS SHIT YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Caleb Sanchez
The problem is they are banning people without proof.
>kill streamer >get banned because streamer and his fans report me for sniping >I wasn't
Nicholas Nguyen
>job
Joseph Richardson
>Stream Delay >problem disappears Woooow, that was hard.
Bentley King
>people following you in a car honking their asses off giving away their position to everybody how about you just fucking shoot them and kill them you fucking whining faggots, you have guns.
Jason Price
Anyone have a link to that quote where playerunknown lead dev banned an irl bully of his from his game?
Evan Harris
stream delay, kill the offender. Wow so hard
Chase Kelly
>playing shit in the first place
Gavin Jones
I'm surprised more people aren't adopting trip codes since they all seem to think that they're just waiting to become e-famous.
Matthew Long
People tend to call things you get paid to do a job, yes.
Adrian Jenkins
Even easier, just slap a face cam over the minimap
Mason Adams
There are like 15 big streamers MAX playing the game at the same time. The peak amount of players is currently at 400k, 250k being the normal average. You would have to be very fucking unlucky to randomly killing a streamer without knowing he is one AND getting banned at the same time...Unless you're obvioulsy stream sniping like the people who join and leave games until they get into one with a streamer and then proceed to kill them first, in wich case you deserve whatever ban comes you
>b-b-b-b-b-b-B-B-B-B-B-B-BUT I PAID FOR THE GAME IM ALLOWED TO DO WHAT I WAAAAAAAAHHHHNT
They already have your money, they don't care about you. inb4 shill. Yeah I'm actually shilling for the third most played game on steam and the top 3 most watched game on twitch, they really need all the publicity they can get.
Nathaniel Stewart
wew
Cameron Watson
>buy game >fuck with streamer >get banned >refund >repeat
Justin Scott
>without proof
There's plenty of video evidence when someone dicks around with a streamer. Plus I'm pretty sure the dev can see if a player is honking hundreds of times in a short period.
Aaron Ross
>defending people getting banned for doing the games objective
Angel Brooks
Streamers provide hours of cost-free content while raising awareness to a product and brand.
Random honk-sniper harasses celebrities because they are frustrated that people don't pay attention to them.
James Perez
>ultrafaggot gets red carpet and privileges because he's playing streaming a game >other players who paid for their game can't play like they want to because ultrafaggot streamers get annoyed
Cooper Morgan
>It's called stream honking At this point I thought I was watching South Park
Jonathan Gonzalez
>autismos stalk streamers for e-fame >Sup Forums actually defends this
Sebastian Collins
>cost-free content >product >brand >celebrities
This is fantastic shill vocabulary bait.
Sebastian Davis
>There's proof! Except there isn't. Fuck your honking memes, I am talking about players being banned because they killed a fucking streamer. You cannot prove they were stream sniping.
Just refund people who don't like your garbage protected class streamers,
Adam Roberts
guess panhandling is a job then
Charles Thomas
inb4 "but muh chat interaction"
Josiah Johnson
You're unwanted. IMO people banned multiple times should start getting charged exponentially higher amounts of actual cash.
Jonathan Peterson
>Tripwire writes in EULA typical shit that they can ban you from the game for being racist >they don't do it >get shit anyways
>Blizzard and Bluehole ban people for stupid, pointless shit on daily basis >somehow they get away with it
Dylan Turner
>Banning people for using a feature you added to the game. Fuck streamers. Exactly how do they even prove you were in their stream for this shit, anyhow? It's not like they'd just carry bans out without needing some sort of proof, because then what is stopping random people who are playing the game getting banned because unbeknownst to them, some guy they happened to kill was a streamer?
Kayden Kelly
2 cancer tumors fighting each other. Most exquisite.
Josiah Miller
Streamers,the faggot in charge of moderation, and Player Unknown know they're a protected upper class because they shill this game by existing
Connor Thompson
>devs ban players for playing game >people defend this Can't wait until nintendo bans me for play BOTW wrong
Alexander Brooks
>stream sniping
Sorry for my ignorance, I don't follow this game or any of this shit. Have the devs actually tried to police stream sniping like they're trying to with this car honking mess? Because that sounds completely fucking retarded.
Juan Young
Everyone who wants to play the game can buy it and play it. No streamer raises awareness for the game because everyone watching their stream already knows the game exists. What they provide is nothing more than people too lazy to play the game anyway.
Cooper Jackson
They get banned for stream sniping when they fucking exit and reenter the queue for 30 minutes until they land up with the streamer then immediately and magically know where the streamer is and merc him. They deserve the fucking ban; don't fucking try to defend this shit.
Leo Rogers
By definition, law, and it would include census if you make over a specific amount of money.
Mason Garcia
Does that make chefs...professional pand-handlers?
Jacob Brooks
Shut up faggot. If you actually enjoy the game and don't stream snipe you will never be banned for this.
Christopher Green
good luck finding an EULA for a multiplayer game where the company can't discontinue service for any or no reason.
Michael Perez
Exactly, but somehow in TWI case it's a problem.
Luke Ross
>Denying reality over and over People have been banned for killing a streamer and nothing more. This should be illegal. Fuck your shill ass defending protected classes in games. I will never buy this shit because I should not be forced to let a streamer kill me out of fear he will get me banned for not lying down and dying.
Angel Jones
If you pull down enough in cash it could be considered a self-employed job.
Chase Bell
R.I.P Sup Forums This is where it died With redditors defending streamers
It was shit to be here
Brody Young
Why do people watch streamers play this game? I get really stressed out just spectating my teammate after I die. Having no control of what happens next feels horrible
Sebastian Barnes
>job
Gavin Lewis
then why is panhandling banned in cities you fucking inbred moron?
James Phillips
souce?
Zachary Cooper
>McDonald's never do ads anymore because everyone knows the brand already
Thomas Lewis
Has this been happening? That guy the other week who was complaining about it turned out to have been joining the same lobby as the streamer over and over again, who else has been banned for killing some rando and they turned out to be a streamer?
Dominic Torres
>y am i getting b& for griefing >its my game i do what i wnat >mooooooooooom
Landon Howard
The streamers should be behind a paywall then.
Liam Miller
should definately start at 800$
Angel Collins
I've seen a bunch of different streamers getting killed and not making a big deal out of it, because its REALLY fucking obvious when someone is sniping them.
>land alone on a certain part of the map >start looting a certain room >guy comes from a fucking mile away in a bike >hops off >runs straight to the streamer throwing 10 granades into the room he's in
But you're gonna say "well he saw him going into the building".Stop defending shitters, because unless he actually knows exactly where he is the game doesn't reward you enough to going so far as to traveling many miles into the blue zones to kill just 1 person..
Ian Wood
>upsetting streamers
Is this a crime or something? If Player Unknown is driving this then that game can fuck off.
Ethan Hernandez
>hurr durr why is prostitution and selling drugs banned when you can make a lot of money doing them?
Kill yourself
Eli Perez
Because people don't like panhandling. Much like prostitution.
Luke Gutierrez
Literally banned for honking at streamers. These devs are such faggots I'm glad I didn't fall for this early access pile
Henry Gonzalez
no it's not. It's literally banned because it causes too many safety concerns to traffic and the direct safety of the panhandler himself.
Good to see kids on Sup Forums without a fucking license like to shitpost their invalid opinions
Jordan Green
>Streaming was a mistake
Cooper Russell
serves you right for playing this half baked garbage in the first place
Nathan Murphy
Because the people with money and power don't like to be reminded that poor people exist. They make the place look untidy so they pass laws to make their existence in certain areas untenable.
Alexander Lewis
This is the exact same thing as getting banned by an admin cause you killed his girlfriend
Asher White
Isnt this game listed as early access? Why do so many fucking retards buy these stupid games?
Colton Nelson
Why does that guy look like a reject from an 80s action movie parody?
Benjamin Lee
>more games journalists pros shill articles its gotten pretty blatant now desu, lay off the shill threads, we get like 1 every 15 minutes
Charles Barnes
IT'S CALLED
THE
FREE
MARKET
GET USED TO IT COMMIE
PRIVATE COMPANY CAN RUN IT'S BUSINESS HOWEVER THEY LIKE
Christopher Torres
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Grayson Cox
He's literally a dude in his 40's that acts like an edgy teenage faggot. That's his entire shtick
Christian Stewart
I fail to see how this is any different than them banning people for something like spamming local voip, and I think the vocal minority of stream snipers are trying to shift the focus away from their deliberately annoying behavior and trying to cast streamers in a bad light.
Connor Perez
>People have been banned for killing a streamer and nothing more
I'm gonna need you to provide some source for those claims. because it has never happened just like that. Are you gonna post that screenshot of the guy who got banned from a discord server now? The one you probably saved but doens't mention the ban was only from the discord server because its a shitty crop.
Jaxon Walker
Reminder that Kotaku is actively advertising on Sup Forums everyday which is against the rules.
Jaxon Sullivan
Not everyone enjoys playing video games. Are you able to hit the field any play football or do you enjoy watching other people.
No picture, some jack ass running onto the field and sucker punching a quarterback. It would be cool the first time, but not EVERY football game.
At some point, a barrier of entry needs to be made. If PUBG devs were less nice, they would have a mandetory "lurk" only period, where shitters can watch and see how the playerbase conducts ourselves before joining in matcjes. Spectator mode for vetting.
Michael Kelly
>be a pleb >report someone >nothing happens >be streamer >report someone >they get banned right away
Bentley Martinez
So when someone has already bought the game and all of a sudden stumble across a stream they'd be like "Golly gee I nearly forgot I've paid for this game two days ago, better get back to it!" Also >food anology
Michael Harris
the fuck is stream sniping? Like purposely finding them using their video feed and sniping them from afar, a sort of modern screenlooking?
If so, then I 100% support this move.
Asher Murphy
It's not free market you dolt. It's private enterprise.
Dylan Perry
>1969 >fighting communists around the world and land a man on the moon and >2017 >watch other people play video games and honk at them in game
What went so wrong?
Wyatt Gonzalez
If people are reported enough for it they look into it. If they see that the person is disconnecting from games to get into the same queue as a streamer and then immediately attacking them they can ban them for stream sniping. It's literally playing with a faggot screen cheater, but Sup Forums acts like it's not cheating because "m-muh ecelebs."
Alexander Lee
Chefs provide a service for the exchange of compensation. Panhandlers appeal to your emotions for compensation. Both are jobs if you make money consistently with either activity. If you make enough pan handing, you will not be considered unemployed. What that amount is depends on your state/government.
Bentley Fisher
The honking is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.
Austin James
Fucking with ecelebs and trolling is a Sup Forums staple retard neck yourself
Michael Cook
>Early Access When will you FUCKING cunts learn, I fucking hate this place.