It’s hard to believe FF14 has more players when its Twitch community is nearly abysmal in comparison to WoW.
easy to do that when you also have the console side to give you that extra padding
Because WoW is overtly designed to be streamed. That’s something the developers have been cultivating for years now, arguably to the detriment of people that couldn’t care less about “competitive” WoW, but to the benefit of streamers since it is designed to be engaging to watch.
Watching someone play FFXIV is like watching someone read a book. It’s not really a “viewable” experience. But that doesn’t mean the “book” is bad.