You donate a streamer some money, they can put that money toward upgrading their setup and coming across as more professional. It was just a chance to help people out."I'm very comfortable with where I stand on how much I'm making, so I'm not really too greedy about it. But then I realised, in a way, Rocket League Credits was just throwing all this money away that was generated from nowhere.
And I was like 'why don't we take this, get this money, and then just give it all away?' So that's when we did that, Buy Rocket League Credits and the results were really nice. And we're planning to do it more whenever sponsors pop up.""We." Over and over, Lyne refers to his channel as some nebulous plural. Apart from his candidness, this serves to illustrate the sense of community behind Lyne and Old School Runescape's rise on Twitch.
For starters, mutual nostalgia aside, Runescape players have something else in common: they play an unabashedly grindy game. In-game milestones can take days or weeks to achieve, so players are always looking for something to watch or listen to in order to ease the grind. Old School streams became the perfect fix, something streamer Knightenator , one of the standout women in the Old School streaming scene, is keenly aware of. (Note: Knightenator and several other interviewees asked to be addressed by their player names in this article.)
