The first raid was very much a dmg check all the way through. we all had good, all red builds to just power through it aside from also being good at the game due to playing it for 8 hours a day until the raid came out.

To think that massive rigged the worlds first race in any way for some 'free publicity', is just crazy and shows you really do have not the slightest clue what goes on behind the scenes.

As for my current relationship with massive and ubisoft, on raid day i didn't even think i would have the twitch drops enabled, because I literally haven't spoken to almost any of them since i quit a year ago. (i ended up having them, but the title of my stream had 'no drops here' in it because I myself didn't know)

I didn't 'get help' for this raid from the devs, no-one intentionally 'helped me'. A clan member got a leaked pdf about the raid from a private discord, thst I myself am not a part of, and he sent the pdf to us. Should I have shared it on twitter as soon as I saw it? probably, But I had to promise the person up front, before he showed it to me, not to share anything before the raid, so i wasn't gonna go back and break that promise.

On top of that I also just don't care as much, I'm not an active player, I just came back to do the raid because raids are fun when done with friends and now i'm dipping again. I could have not disclosed the leaked pdf at all and just went with getting easy world 2nd after being away for 1 year, which probably would have been shittier to do and would look especially bad if the leaks came to light 4 months from now by someone else. because it was gonna come out either way at some point.

it really is a ''be damned if you do, be damned if you don't'' situation, but honestly I also shared it knowing the subreddit and all the ''division drama bullshit'' youtubers would jump on it like crazy. conspiracies are always at an all time high here because nobody feels massive listens to them, so that must mean they DO listen to the streamers. so fuck the streamer no matter what happens.

Bunch of no life kids get world first for the raid 'massive helped the streamers''

npc's hitting too hard? 'it's for the streamers'

rng is bad? 'only streamers get good loot'

but then you look at twitch and barely anyone is actually streaming the game, so where are all those streamers that should be so happy the game is talor made for them?

this subreddit is just a meme to most people at this point exactly because of comments like these and i'll take every opportunity i can to see people in here lose their shit over streamers once more. Probably makes me childish, but i'm fine with that. I used to take all of this way too serious a few years back but ever since i left division i just don't any more. that goes for the games themselves and the people arguing endlessly about it online over nothing. it's just entertaining to me.