I started streaming just so I would have VOD proof of what happened in game during the early days of P99 Green because people would always lie about crap. People would be stealing my mobs from our camp and taunting us about it, and then when we started stealing them back, the other group calls the GM and we're the ones getting blamed for toxic behavior etc. Granted the GM was cool about it and I don't even think I got a warning or anything, but you could tell he really thought we were the instigators. Same player later got banned for something completely unrelated, but man, it sure would have been nice to have had that recorded, right?
I even caught some "popular" people blatantly boxing but it was my word against theirs since I had no proof.
The final straw for me was when a friend of mine got banned because he was camping the priest in UR. Some high elf enchanter shows up after he's been there for hours, priest spawns, and the high elf enchanter starts typing "please stop!!! this is camped" while he is killing the priest. High elf enchanter then shares a video of that happening, and my friend is banned for killing the priest. Fortunately my friend was recording the same instance, and got unbanned when he sent GMs the full video.
But after that I decided to always stream just so I have evidence. Because honestly I'm not a toxic player, and I don't intentionally break the rules or treat other people poorly. I try to be as nice and friendly as I can to other people, and sometimes I do make mistakes and accidentally train other people, but it's never on purpose, so I don't have much to hide.
But playing without video evidence seems really high risk because the most toxic players really do be out here lying and trying to get innocent people in trouble. Actually sickening.
And also I'm not a jerk. If my group is slacking and we're not even clearing content, I don't really care if other groups snag a mob or two here or there, but usually it's the other way around, lol. Like IDK, dude.
IDK how people play pullers in this game without snapping. I remember playing an SK and I'm always OOM because between pulling and DPS'ing, I don't have time to meditate, so I might as well have been a warrior. Half the time I get back to my group 50% of the people are AFK so it feels like I'm literally just solo'ing the game, and then other groups start stealing my mobs, making me even more frustrated that my group just kind of sits there lazily rather than getting up and helping me secure our camp.
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