Why So Many People Are Watching Twitch

lcpiper said:
I'll tell you why we do it.

I play World of Tanks competitively and we use Twitch for a few reasons.

1st, we use it to check out the competition and study how they fight, their tactics and level of aggressiveness as a team. It's an intelligence tool.

2nd, we use Twitch so our teammates not involved in a match can watch and see if we are making mistakes and identify how we can tighten up our game. It's a self evaluation tool.

3rd, we use Twitch to see how players across the world are adapting to new game features in patches that haven't come to the North American Servers yet. It's a planning tool.

So that's why many people are more then willing to watch others play a game when they could be playing one themselves.
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Wow...I had no idea people took playing games that seriously. :(
 
i960 said:
I don't understand why people would watch others play online OR watch football or any other sport on TV. It's so damn boring and repetitive. The only sport I ever watch on TV is golf, and I only watch because I like the scenery. All of the golfers could leave the course and it would make it more enjoyable for me.
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Like you, I don't get sports coverage at all.
 
While I can understand the appeal of watching Twitch streams, I find the chat section closer to a cesspool than anything else more often than not.
 
Meeho said:
While I can understand the appeal of watching Twitch streams, I find the chat section closer to a cesspool than anything else more often than not.
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I think it's generally more tame than the typical multiplayer game chat or voice comms.
 
I just tried Twitch the first time. The first feed I saw a was a 'gamer girl' playing BF4 badly on a XBOX 360, lol.
 
I don't "get" why people have a hard time understanding its appeal. Have you never watched a friend play a game before? Is that concept so hard to grasp?

Twitch is all about the streamer and their personality and what they bring to the table. If you want to watch some random person play a game who barely talks then you can do so OR you can watch someone who is really a "personality" play the game , engage the audience and have fun doing so.

Twitch maybe full of pretty average people playing in average ways and not be incredibly sociable but there are also a growing number of people who tend to make their streams pretty entertaining and it becomes kind of a mixture of a live chat room with a video feed.

You either get the concept or you don't but regardless Twitch is growing , extremely fast and its very popular. Popular enough to get snagged up by Amazon (and before hand almost Google) so Twitch must be tapping into some kind of winning formula. At least $970 Million for Twitch makes sense , how the fuck is Snapchat being valued at $10 Billion I ask? Its not even secure and therefore pretty much fails at its proposed task..
 
I watch Twitch only:

1) Competitive CS:GO tournaments, because high-skill / strategic gameplay is much more interesting to watch.

2) Weekly twitch sessions of Kickstarter backed games that shows updates/progress on the game etc. You become like a small "family" of fans always watching every week and I enjoy that surrounding atmosphere it brings.
 
i960 said:
I don't understand why people would watch others play online OR watch football or any other sport on TV. It's so damn boring and repetitive. The only sport I ever watch on TV is golf, and I only watch because I like the scenery. All of the golfers could leave the course and it would make it more enjoyable for me.
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Haha - I thought it was just me. I love watching Golf but haven't ever played. The scenery at most places , that are televised anyways, is awesome.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Wow...I had no idea people took playing games that seriously. :(
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You have no idea.....

We aren't as serious as some. We show up for Clan Wars about 30 minutes before it begins each night, we have our callers prepared and ready with the game strategy, and maps prepared detailing how we plan to fight the battles. We track everyone who is there and ready so they can all get their share of the gold earned even if they are not picked for the battles. But some clans go further and have mandatory practice sessions and frankly spend more time devoted to the game then we are willing to commit to.
 
lcpiper said:
You have no idea.....

We aren't as serious as some. We show up for Clan Wars about 30 minutes before it begins each night, we have our callers prepared and ready with the game strategy, and maps prepared detailing how we plan to fight the battles. We track everyone who is there and ready so they can all get their share of the gold earned even if they are not picked for the battles. But some clans go further and have mandatory practice sessions and frankly spend more time devoted to the game then we are willing to commit to.
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Well at least it sounds like you guys still have fun. You're teetering right on the edge of it becoming a job, so don't let it get to that point ;).
 
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