Fran, probably the most popular female OW streamer recently talked on stream about how OW just isn’t that enjoyable anymore. She is going to start doing more variety streaming. This is a really bad look, especially after all the misogyny was seen from the Ellie controversy. Blizzard needs to do something about this. You are losing your top female streamer in an already sexist community.
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Really? She seems to get a ton of views whenever she does play.
Just because she personally feels like it is not enjoyable to play doesn’t mean the game is dying either…
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“popular streamer” and “ow” can’t really exist in same sentence
even biggest ow streamers have so little viewers
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xQc
Seagull
Dafran
All pull 10k+ viewers when they stream OW.
Smaller streamers like Kabaji, Emongg, Wraxu also pull respectable numbers.
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Considering she’s a streamer for a team, I’d say that’s a bad look.
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I mean I guess it’s preference… there’s yet ANOTHER battle royale game out that people are streaming. Personally can’t stand that format of game. 
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I mean its not a bad idea for streamers to do variety.
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…Whomst?
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Never heard of her, but yeah we know
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Just another streamer stirring up drama to drive more views on the newest game. Namely Apex Legends. Going where the money is from people foolish enough to give it.
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I looked at the heroes and they looked boring idk battle royales need to die
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She’s an ana/zen main, she was part of the Bastet challenge.
She’s also on the “blizz streamers” team they have at their office in Irving.
She’s affiliated (?) with an OWL team, but I don’t keep up with OWL or know what that means.
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lol who cares it’s just some person.
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Because the less a game is popularized in a community, the faster the player base falls. Many people don’t realize just how much power streamers have at persuading their audience.
If a streamer no longer finds enjoyment in a game and stop centralizing it, the more a community will begin to be persuaded into the same mindset. Once you hear or have something happen consistently, you start gaining a feeling of learned helplessness, which is basically being told over and over again about something until you can’t help but think the same way. Even if you didn’t before and still don’t want to then.
The less the game is being popularized and more it is being ridiculed, the faster a community will fall out and think the same way.
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Eh. The game is only 3 years old. I know some people think that’s long in gaming years, but League has been around going on for almost TEN YEARS. League is one of the most popular esports in the world, but it was nowhere near that big in its own third year. Things can and do grow immensely over time and community members, pros, streamers all come and go over those years.
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Wait whose this Fran again?
I’m actually being seriously. I don’t watch any twitch streamers that play overwatch. I only watch those that play TF2 since their content creators are very creative.
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Honestly good for her. Any one who thinks of making content for youtube or Twitch should never really lock themselves down to one game. Sure it’s good in the short term to latch your name to a popular title. But in the long term nothing last forever.
You don’t want to be known as a Destiny only streamer when the game goes defunct, or a PUBG master once the battle Royal craze dies. I mean OW is 3 years old and honestly never was the best thing to watch imo. Unless the twitch streamer had a ton of personality it could get boring pretty fast.
If nothing else the long que times for higher ranked players was enough to turn me off. Waiting 5-10 minutes to get into a match that last 10-15 is beyond boring. Way to much down time in OW to keep an audience imo without jump cuts.
I like her stream, but I don’t listen or believe everything she says.
I do give her opinion more weight then the majority of the forums.
To a degree yes, but she’s not the only one. Other streamers, Youtube creators etc are all leaving or lowering their OW content. I figure if people who get paid to play OW can’t be bothered to do it something is seriously wrong. It’s like turning down free cake…
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The game was dying before they introduced OWL last time. People just like to flog a dead horse they paid money for.