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.
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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.