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Twitch Streaming and IRL Streaming

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2 comments, last by Codeloader_Dev 6 years, 6 months ago

Just wondering if anyone watches streamers play games. I personally don't most of the time but I watched a few and wondered why anyone would want to watch someone else play a game that looks like fun. Why would you not play the game itself? I have watched a couple of development streams where games are being created and I was hooked. Those are educational and useful and I took some of that knowledge to use on my own game.

The other new category coming out is IRL - in real life. Streamers in this category will stream their daily lives as they go to bars and stuff. I watched one and was bored to the bone. Why would anyone watch someone drinking a beer or walking down the street talking to people. And these people get massive donations. Some of these streamers do dumb things like annoy people or pull stupid pranks. It sounds almost like Tom Green left a legacy and people are trying to capitalize off of it. Does anyone else watch these types of streams?

What do you think of Twitch?

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Seems to be a lot of Twitch junkies here.

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On 12/18/2017 at 1:30 PM, francoisdiy said:

Seems to be a lot of Twitch junkies here.

Seriously, this is what a lot of people do. Go to work - get on Twitch - eat and get on Twitch - go to the john - get on twitch - go out, take phone, and get on twitch. Sorry shaming this makes people angry but I'm trying to bring up a point about how watching others play games can be rather pointless - why not just experience the game itself. They said TV rots your mind but Twitch does the same. Instead of watching someone go to a bar why not just go out. Just saying.

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