Over the past year, we’ve continued to monitor community feedback and viewership trends surrounding our Twitch Drop programs for The Elder Scrolls: Legends and Quake Champions.
We have amazing streamers who put in time, talent, and dedication day after day to bring their fellow community members entertaining content, and that is why going forward we are going to be turning off Twitch Drops for any streams that rebroadcast content or stream AFK solely to generate Drops for idling viewers (and themselves).
We will be reviewing all channels streaming Quake Champions and The Elder Scrolls: Legends. Channels that are found to be rebroadcasting content without first turning off Drops in their settings will be blacklisted from having Drops work on their channel. This change will go into effect as of August 3rd, 2018. All bans will be permanent and will prevent the streamer from drops for any/all Bethesda games, not just the one that resulted in the ban.
Thanks for your understanding. We hope you’ll agree that this policy change is for the best in being fair towards our community content creators, and to help the Quake Champions and The Elder Scrolls: Legends stream scenes grow. If you haven’t done so already, go link your Bethesda.net account on Twitch, check out some Quake Champions or Legends streams, and start getting Drops!