I had a conversation with a buddy about a similar topic about a day or so ago, heck I think I might have brought it up after replying to this thread. But videos done by influencers can be a bit misleading at times. Not making any accusations about any specific CE content creators, though this has happened in the past, but many times these creators will artificially boost themselves.
They’ll use mods or admin panel primarily to do most of their playing and kind of lose sight of how the effort to get such items or capabilities actually is. Not all of that stuff is available to every player all the time. And sometimes not available in enough quantity to justify its use in every situation.
And one has to understand that they aren’t being dishonest or have other malicious reasons for this. Content creation is their job, its how they make a living. They don’t exactly have enough time to farm and play the game like normal players would. So when new content comes out, and they want to push out their own content about it, they have to ‘cheat’ to show it off. Not spend the next 100 hours they don’t have to farm up and get them.
But unfortunately they kind of lose sight of what it took to actually get those things. For example the content about the new Sacred Hunt. There’s no way any of the content creators didn’t spawn that stuff in for their showcases. When they post a video the same day as the release, there wasn’t enough hours in the timeframe to get all of the fangs needed.
There are some content creators that do play the game normally. But they kind of don’t get the same popularity since it takes them a normal players amount of time to get those things. But the benefit of waiting to see is you get more accurate information.
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