D3 has only 59 viewers on twitch. How can we fix this?

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how is it any different then you spending time here posting? i’m curious how your mind works.

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Posting = doing some active.
Watching someone playing a game => doing something passively that was meant to be done actively.
If someone was streaming themselves posting here… that would also be silly.

Not that I think all game videos are silly. If you are watching someone perform at an impressive skill level (esport, speed run events and such), or even the opposite, someone struggling and experiencing a game you know, for the first time (offering a relatable β€œgrowth” story) there can be something interesting in those.
But someone streaming a new game, which you could instead go play right now? Makes very little sense imo.

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reading and posting is β€œactive”
watching and chatting is β€œpassive”??

haha that is the most ridiculous logic. I’ll never understand you guys that don’t watch people streaming games. You’ll watch people play pretend stories in movies and TV, but watching someone play a game is just so CRAZY.

let me give you a little tip you’ve been missing out on. people who watch streams generally aren’t NOT playing the game. They are actually getting 2 games at the same time. They actually learn things about the game twice as fast, and people who watch streams are ALWAYS better players than those who don’t watch streamers. That’s a fact. They simply get educated on the game far quicker then those who do not.

I can only assume those who can’t watch a stream and play at the same time generally just have trouble focusing on more then one thing at a time and get frustrated and turn off the stream so they can take things slower. i mean, you tell me.

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By definition yes.

Which is passive, Content that was meant to be consumed passively. Unlike a game.

If there is one thing videos are not good at, it is delivering information fast. Especially not youtube and twitch videos, spending 30 minutes on what could have been explained in 30 seconds without the video.

Well, in another current thread someone else was talking about how people logged out of the game (FF14), so they could watch a streamer playing… so yeah, those are not doing both at the same time.

I personally often watch tv series/movies or listen to podcasts while playing. But again, those are specifically meant to be passive. Watching a game, especially the same game, while playing? Seems pretty silly to me.
But you are free to do whatever of course.

Nobody watching a game on Twitch however? Not something that needs to be fixed. Contrary, it might be a good thing that people apparently would rather play than watch and be spoiled.

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lol you’re really bad at trying to argue, you just pull words out of context and pick and choose and dodge the argument.

then you literally say you do exactly what they do, except because it’s the movie/tv series you enjoy it’s different.

haha whatever, guy.

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We take a time machine and let β€œPvP guy” make his case. D3 is released, some madlads power to max level 50 and make D3 arena a staple of Blizzard’s growing e-sports scene overnight, with people wondering if it’ll last. Blizzard responds by hosting an official tournament to seal the deal for the forseeable future. D3 is a hit. Blizzard is vindicated like never before and the athiest-nihilist legions double-down on their disgraceful antagonistic behavior. Millions now play D3 religiously as a reprieve from their barren pointless existence. Azeroth is finally abandoned to the wolves. The wolves are abandoned to the sharks and Deathwing. And D3 easily has twice the Twitch viewership. King in the North gets mixed reception for not innovating enough.

Sadly if this were accomplished our own D3 in this timeline would still have 59 viewers.

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Why would I watch someone play D3 on Twitch? I have a meadow in front of the house, where I can watch the grass grow. That’s much more interesting than watching a player defeat a random number generator for the hundredth time (because that’s the real enemy in D3 now, not the monsters anymore).

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i mean, you literally read this thread and posted this reply instead of sitting in your meadow, so your meadow must not be all that fun.

very suss

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Wow, so judgemental today! Not sure why we still have to say this, but different people enjoy this computer game in different ways. Not sure what we gain by trying to argue that people enjoying it differently are WRONG!! :angry:

That said, if you haven’t seen wudijos near-miss on solo GR150 with impale, then you’re missing out! :smiley:

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Sure, but D3 has nothing to offer anymore that would be interesting for a huge number of people. β€œA few” will keep playing it, and β€œa few” will keep watching streams. And that’s totally fine if they do.

But it’s nothing for the masses anymore.

So, did he miss it because of some extra dangerous enemies, or just because of some bad RNG?

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Just FYI, I think wudi and raxx are the two biggest D3 streamers, both full time streamers afaik, and they usually have around 500 viewers each, in the thousands first few weeks after season start. (someone correct me if I’m wrong on these numbers) It’s not like The International or whatever, but pretty decent viewer numbers for a 10 year old arpg imo. Wudi is done for the season (PoE now I think?), and raxx is playing lost ark, so with both of them not streaming D3, the viewer numbers are very low atm, hence the OP.

Go watch it if you’re curious, it’s a nail-biter! If you do, and don’t enjoy it, then watching D3 probably isn’t for you, and that’s ok. But if you really have never watched any D3 stream or video, then I suggest you try it, and that’s a good place to start!

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I have to agree with you on this. Some people find their enjoyment watching people doing this. That is why watching Tiktok and Youtube Short are so popular among my friends and colleagues.

My friend has 2 monitors. He has the habit to open his favorite streamer channel and treat them as a radio while he was playing games or browsing forums.

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I would be more concerned if there are more people watching D3 than playing it. That is why I think we shouldn’t be worried about twitch numbers. More watching than playing might mean it is more fun to watch than to play.

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twitch views dont matter.

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When you claimed I couldn’t Witch Doctor, I made one and posted screenshots of a solo GR135. You said you could do better than that, on hardcore, in two days. Weeks later, we’re still waiting for the screenshots. It’s amusing to see you accuse other people of avoiding stuff when you’re clearly guilty of the same thing.

Maybe you should stream your level 1 to GR137 hardcore journey in under 48 hours challenge and see how many viewers you get?

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You know the difference.

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Do anyone care at all about number of viewers beside the poor bastard streaming?

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Maybe those that make a living of streaming. But just him for the purpose of this discussion.

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haha didnt read …