People were bitching too much about too many gimmicky streams. Now we're getting boring stream after boring stream (as in, I'm not even interested in watching) with an occasional Hall of Greats in between. Where my Design Challenges at? Fancy Fifteens? Just something that isn't being streamed by everyone and their mothers at that moment. This and the lack of big betting outcomes (Nutrition Raps, Songs for Brad, Dinorama Extravaganza, The Trial of Kyle Bosman etc.) make the group streams really uninteresting for me.
Yeah, I hope they go back to some of the weirder stuff. I imagine the studio move combined with coming off of the big holiday game season has pushed their priorities elsewhere, so hopefully they can settle in soon and maybe get more creative. I think I'd also like it if they didn't do monthly tournaments. They've become SUPER uninteresting to me, because it seems the same four Allies always win (Brad, Ben, Huber or Damiani). Make those quarterly and make everyone aware of the game to be played so they can prep and actually hype it up like an event. I almost dread the tournaments now because they always end the same.
That said, I don't really mind them picking it themselves. I usually put it on in the background if I don't find it interesting and play a game myself.
I just switch back if there are presents or if something interesting seems to happen.
I honestly don't mind that at all. I always loved the groupstreams more for the banter than for the actual games.
I get not minding the group streams as they are, as they're often background noise for me too, but I wish they weren't. And they almost always get bigger numbers on the more "novel" streams, so I feel like it would behoove them to make the effort to think outside the bun a little.
I definitely like the gimmick streams. Didn't know people had been complaining about them.
I loved them, but I also wanted them to have a mix of things instead of just doing gimmick streams. You could tell they weren't always on-board with what they were doing, and that's not very fun to watch sometimes.