Beware Of The Apex Legends Twitch Drops During The ALGS

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EA wants you to watch the ALGS Playoffs on Twitch. It recently introduced the Multiview feature on the platform, meaning you can pick and choose which teams you watch and comms you listen to. That’s not available on YouTube. B streams, which show the matches not being played out on the mainstream, are only streamed on Twitch. And then there’s Twitch Drops, too, which grant you in-game cosmetic items if you tune in.

While some matches, video compilations, and the like are available on the Apex Legends Global Series YouTube channel as well, Twitch gets a lot of the love. You can even watch on Steam apparently, which I just found out this minute as I was doing my research.

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I expect the ALGS Playoffs this weekend to be one of the most watched ALGS events yet, being the first LAN that the competition has ever hosted. Fans will tune in to see off-meta team choices, some unexpected surprises, and of course many will just be there for TSM. The format is a little confusing if you’re new to esports, but we’ve got you covered there, too. However, there’s something you need to know about Twitch Drops.

Some ALGS viewers are reporting that redeeming Twitch Drops for Apex Legends is wiping old Twitch Drops rewards from their accounts. This was first noticed by prominent Apex dataminer ‘Garret’, who realised that his old drops had been removed from his account when he claimed new ones.

This appears to be a bug, and apparently some players are unaffected, but if you have a particular penchant for any of your old Twitch Drop cosmetics, it might not be worth the risk of claiming new ones and risk them getting deleted.

Twitch Drops has given us some really cool cosmetics