Ninja angry at Epic Games for not \u201cprotecting\u201d him from stream snipers Twitch superstar Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2018 Blevins is no stranger to being stream sniped but he feels that video game developers put too much of the burden in preventing it on the streamers. Stream sniping is often just what comes with streaming to thousands of people a day. There are things streamers can do to help prevent this like checking if their game has a \u201cStreamer Mode\u201d or even putting a delay on the stream. Putting a delay on a stream will stop the real-time chat interaction which is something not all streamers want to deal with, which means the onus is on video game developers to do something. Ninja argues it should be easier to stop streaming sniping and thinks the developers could certainly do more. Are developers doing enough? Ninja feels that stream sniping is prevalent enough in all games that something should be done, especially in Fortnite Battle Royale. After seeing a familiar name pop up again, he shared his thoughts on the matter. \u201cThese guys won\u2019t ever get banned either unless we go out of our way to tell Epic,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not how it should be.\u201d Stream sniping in battle royale games has been a problem since their inception, but the problem has worsened since viewers on Twitch started to flock to them. \u201cDo you guys feel like it should be up to us to get stream snipers banned,\u201d Ninja asked Dr Lupo and TimTheTatman, to which they both answered with a no. Ninja takes it even further, suggesting that Epic Games owes the content creators better protection from stream snipers. \u201cI\u2019m just going to come out and say it,\u201d Ninja said. \u201cI feel like Fortnite owes it to their content creators, their streamers, to try to protect them as we continue to broadcast the game to millions of people.\u201d Ninja compares streaming to a stand-up comedy show, something he has done before, where a heckler would be kicked out immediately but a stream sniper isn\u2019t. \u201cWe have to go out of our way to get people removed,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to provide evidence, we have to go in and show clips, we have to get their username, we have to all of this stuff where if it\u2019s a heckler the guy just literally goes \u201cget this guy out of here\u201d and he\u2019s out of here.\u2019 Dr Lupo mentions a comedian has a much smaller audience and it\u2019s really easy to pinpoint a heckler where a stream sniper isn\u2019t as cut and dry. It\u2019s hard to know if somebody is 100% stream sniping, something we\u2019ve seen Ninja deal with in the past, which is likely why Epic Games and other developers require so much evidence to get somebody banned. Ninja is far from the only one who complains about stream snipers as Tfue runs into them just as often, if not more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja angry at Epic Games for not \u201cprotecting\u201d him from stream snipers Twitch superstar Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2018 Blevins is no stranger to being stream sniped but he feels that video game developers put too much of the burden in preventing it on the streamers. Stream sniping is often just what comes with streaming to thousands of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}