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A popular streamer turned down a 6-figure deal to play Arc Raiders because ‘the game frustrated me so much’ | ongames

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A popular streamer turned down a 6-figure deal to play Arc Raiders because 'the game frustrated me so much'

Everyone has a price. Maybe it’s $100, maybe it’s $1,000, maybe it’s for someone to see your innate value as a human being, or maybe it’s $1,000,000. Popular streamer TimTheTatman recently revealed what it would take to get him to go back to Arc Raiders, and spoilers, it’s not the third option.

There was apparently an ad deal floating around for the Arc Raiders and Subway collab, which TimTheTatman was approached for, but did not entertain. “I did say no to six-figures with Arc Raiders, I did,” he revealed in a stream earlier this week. “I said ‘No thank you’. And it was the Subway Arc Raiders ad. I said I just can’t do it, I’m sorry.”

Arc Raiders: Two raiders with the backs to the camera, aiming their weapons at various flying Arc coming towards them.

(Image credit: Embark)

This was met with the exact response you’d expect with people being baffled that he’d ever think of turning down such a lucrative offer. “That’s kind of the funny part of being in a streamer position,” TimTheTatman continued. “People say ‘you’re a fucking sellout’ but then in the same breath I said I passed on six-figures from Arc Raiders and people are like ‘you’re fucking stupid’.”

He revealed that he does actually have a price to play Arc Raiders again: they’d just have had to add another zero onto the offer. “If that Arc Raiders deal was seven-figures—hey boys welcome back to Arc Raiders and Subway, right, you see what I’m saying? 100% we’re going back. But it’s just for me, the game frustrated me so much—I got frustrated so much with that game, I just don’t want to play it ever again. Even to a point where six-figures isn’t going to get me back on it.”

I can’t say I’m surprised. Arc Raiders is in a bit of a rough spot right now, especially for streamers, what with all the cheating and stream sniping. Embark Studios’ executive producer Aleksander Grøndal recently admitted the shortcomings of Arc Raiders and promised that its upcoming major update Frozen Trails will reset the game and provide enough incentive to get players to come back, though—even if they don’t get a six-figure deal to do it.

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