With Escape from Tarkov’s next wipe on the horizon, Battlestate Games has revealed plans to host a Twitch Drops campaign. This is somewhat typical for the title, and it’s often the most popular period of the year for the at-times controversial extraction shooter. This will see the game skyrocket into pole position on Twitch as hundreds of thousands of players pour back into the game for the global reset event and look to earn high-tier rewards while doing so.
Make It Work
Last year, the Tarkov Twitch Drops campaign was a little rough. It required viewers to sit there and grind streams for hours on end, and the longer they watched, the better the rewards became. It meant that users needed to have streams running in the background for several hours a day, and more often than not, the rewards weren’t all that good.
It’s a nice enough way to kick off Tarkov’s next wipe, though. It means that the game is guaranteed to find immense popularity (as always) on the leading streaming platform. It has been a rocky year or so for Escape from Tarkov, with the developer, Battlestate Games, having made some sketchy moves that have left the community in dismay at times.
For instance, a few months ago, the team revealed ‘The Unheard Edition’, a new high-tier edition of the game that broke promises and disappointed gamers worldwide, packaging up elements that were previously promised to be included in earlier purchases and stuffing them behind paywalls. Most recently, BSG suffered from a super-sized technical malfunction that wiped the profiles of thousands of players worldwide.
With all that being said, a Tarkov Twitch Drops campaign is a welcome enough thing. It’s free content at the end of the day, and watching Escape from Tarkov streams isn’t a new concept to the community – it’s one of the most consistent games on the platform for a reason.
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