Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
by huckyaus on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:45PM
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I don't think he's conflating the two at all. He's just pointing out that the vast majority of streamers start out by building a following around a single game, and very few succeed enough to make decent money and jump from game to game like your favourite streamer does.
Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
by Vadoff on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:49PM
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Yes, it's more akin to being a top youtuber. Being entertaining is the number one factor, being good at the game is a second.
Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
by bfuller on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:30PM
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and cleavage is extremely effective
Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
by nightcracker on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:05AM
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You are wrong about "switching games as a streamer isn't a big deal". Someone who does that is called a variety streamer, and there are very few streamers that have success with it. Most streamers I talk to lose the majority of their audience when they switch games.
Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
by Ntrails on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:31AM
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There are, it seems to me, to be two essentially disparate audiences.
1] Likes watching game A.
2] Likes watching streamer K
The first group choose the game, and then the streamer who is online and most enjoyable to watch playing it. The second choose the streamer and will watch whatever they're doing.
Arguably the advantage that the variety streamers have is that pro games don't eat into their viewers. I'll watch arteezy play dota whilst cookin or something, but only if there's no proper matches on with teams I like. I suspect that SingSing will always have a few thousand viewers because his followers are passionate about watching him.
It seems you are conflating Twitch streaming with e-sports, they are two very different things. Becoming a successful Twitch streamer doesn't necessarily require extraordinary skills in terms of playing a given game; switching to a new game wouldn't be that big of a deal and some streamers switch regularly on a weekly or daily basis (e.g. my favourite streamer, who is a full-time Twitch streamer and has 175k followers, plays more or less regularly at least 5-6 different games).
I agree with you on the "big brother" part, but then again this is a characteristic of any career path that can potentially lead to notoriety (acting, pro sports, etc).