I was thinking about using my stimulus check to buy a GPU and start streaming WoW. Do you have any tips on what makes a good streamer?
You have to find an unused/discreet market that would have a high chance of being successful.
If you do all the things current popular streamers do, nobody will flood toward you because thatâs already being fulfilled.
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Iâm actually genuinely unsure if this is bait or not. 
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Be a girl.
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âŚthis is also true
Donât expect anything out of this, if you go through with it. Iâve heard itâs insanely hard to break into the streaming market considering virtually everyone is trying to do it now.
Getting some boobs would be a good guarantee though.
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The popular streamers are so boring. They all got computer chairs with airplane wings and dre beat microphones. Iâm not feeling it
Engaging with your community
Thatâs about it , you master that then it doesnât matter which game you play or your hardware
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Stream if you think itâll be enjoyable even if youâre often on your own / very few viewers.
Donât stream if youâre expecting to make a living out of it.
PS streaming is CPU not GPU intensive.
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Still, you have to lean toward whatâs in demand or be such a powerful personality that you bring in a new demand.
First and foremost in any job dealing with the public, is you have to be relatable. No one wants to just watch you play, you have to understand and engage your audience so they keep coming back. Beyond that the sky is the limit pretty much provided there is a market for it.
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Are you entertaining no matter the topic? Because you need to be able to hold a viewers attention with different situations.
This to an extent, but some times especially with low view channels people just want to chill.
Nothing is more annoying than saying hello to someone in the viewer list just because you see you got a viewer.
Follower alerts are annoying too.
But WoW is a very saturated area.
I couldnât think of a harder market to start in tbh.
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If you wanna stream then do it, there are no requirements. If youâre expecting to make a living off it then thats an entirely different story. Being a popular streamer usually comes from being in the right place at the right time or having been involved in e-sports in some way, at least in relation to gaming.
Be yourself, have your own style, be interesting. Respond to people that choose to spend their time engaging eith your content (to a limit - sometimes it may not be possible to respond to even most when youâre big).
Thatâs pretty much it and enjoy what youâre doing.
Three options:
A. Be female
B. Play titles that arenât âtrendingâ at the moment and slowly build a following that shares an interest in them (I streamed in 2014-2015 playing Diablo 3 religiously and had a steady 120 viewers who were very active in chat, etc.)
C. Set your category to âJust Chattingâ and start spouting fringe political talking points so that your chat fills with trolls who spend $5 at a time just to tell you off in text to speech donations. Success.
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Making a living off it is a pretty unrealistic outcome by most peopleâs expectations, but you never know unless you try. I wouldnât recommend quitting your job for it though. Give it some time and see if you like it.
My goal is solely to keep the spirit of WoW alive
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Also start small when it comes to tech. You donât need the high grade stuff right away.
Heck you could use a console headset and be fine audio wise. Start small and work your way up as you improve as a entertainer.
Twitch chat itself isnt anything anyone can teach or tell anyone else about because its so different for each channel. I sometimes watch a guy who plays league, and someone in his chat will set him off and heâll be mr grumpy pants the rest of the stream in between talking about his investments and the new car he bought (from twitch money). But these people show up to get their daily ban and watch this dude act like this and enough people throw him $5/month so that he can.
The world is weird,