Originally Posted by
Krombopuluos
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Sure not always.. but they usually do go hand in hand.
For one, youtubers and streamers are literally being paid to play this game. Of course someone who plays a game 40+ hours a week will usually be better than someone who plays it a few hours at night after they get home from their job. For the vast majority of people doing an activity all day, every day will mean you get better at said activity. And on top of that, with games like The Division being able to put in more hours means you will have a much more optimized build than otherwise.
Secondly, if someone is successful enough at youtube/twitch to be making a living from it, they have lots of viewers. Outside of the rare exception where the person themselves are entertaining, no one is subbing and watching a player who is trash at the game.
And thirdly streamers/youtubers network among themselves and other pro players so it's much more likely they will be playing with other equally skilled and geared teammates, making the gap between them and PUG groups even larger.
My point being that these pro players, streamers, youtubers, content creators, whatever you wanna call them, where always going to be the first groups to clear the raid. Thinking that massive is designing the game itself to make sure they do is just ridiculous.