Twitch Streamer Sodapoppin Thinks Blizzard Has a 'Personal Vendetta' Against Him

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Since his early days streaming World of Warcraft, Sodapoppin has become one of Twitch's biggest content creators with nearly 9 million followers on the platform. The streamer ranks among the top 10 most followed creators on Twitch and is often credited as majorly contributing to the explosion in popularity of Among Us in 2020. While he has branched out to a variety of different games over his career, Blizzard titles like WoW and Diablo regularly show up in his streams. Now, Sodapoppin has recently shared his belief that Blizzard may hold some kind of «vendetta» against him.

While Sodapoppin rose to fame through streaming World of Warcraft, the creator feels he may not be on the best terms with Blizzard. Sodapoppin claims that, despite his success through Blizzard's IPs, he has never received access to any of Blizzard's betas for games like Overwatch or World of Warcraft. During a recent stream, Sodapoppin explained his reasoning for the sour relationship, relating a story from the days leading up to Blizzard's 2014 Diablo 3 expansion, Reapers of Souls.

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The story from Sodapoppin explains that Blizzard had approached him with an offer to make a video showing off Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls' new Crusader class. However, once the release date for the video arrived, the management company working with Blizzard informed Sodapoppin that the developer «really doesn't like him» and asked him not to publish the video. Sodapoppin was reportedly given a compromise from the management company, offering to pay him half of the original planned payout in exchange for not uploading the video.

While the situation around Blizzard's apparent rejection is unclear, Sodapoppin believes that the rejected