People watch high end athletes play Baseball, Football etc. The best of the best. Watching Joe Streamer play WoW is akin to watching a bunch of High School kids play sports. And no one does that for hours and hours.
even arena players are avoiding pvp right now because its just a waste of everyones time.
PVP is always the game. If you win that’s your reward, if you lose then you get a teabag.
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WoW is meant to be played… not streamed.
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Because they are still at the gearing up phase of the expansion. Honor isn’t even part of the game yet, so there is no real incentive for it.
Don’t get baited, people.
That’s a great idea.
Side note: <Carebear Mining Co.> recruiting. HMU in game.
Theres no real incentive for it yet but i still do enjoy chasing 60s in blackrock mountain
Honor system has not been active yet. BGs are not yet introduced yet. Besides WPvP, the main PvP feature (battlegrounds) is not out. I’m sure everyone is just entirely focused on enjoying the leveling, gearing, farming, or just pacing through with their journey.
For me, I’m taking my own time. Haven’t even leveled my toon to 30 yet and waiting solely to enjoy BGs once they are out. Also I’m super excited for TBC/Wrath servers so I probably won’t do anything hardcore until those drop.
Once you cast off television and run out of your favorite movies it gains enormous appeal.
We need some WoW rp streams like the GTA5 ones.
Totally! Between YouTube and Twitch I don’t need to watch anything else.
And if I’m really looking for content I have about 350 hours of Critical Role’s first campaign that I haven’t made it through yet.
I love RP but even if I was a streamer I couldn’t do this.
The only characters I can bring myself to make are trolls, and if I tried talking like a troll on stream I’d probably be banned.
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That is a false equivalence. How do you know these people watch countless hours of sport? It’s highly probably that they watch neither twitch nor sports.
If I have the time I’ll watch twitch if it’s something interesting but I’m not going to follow them around like a creepy stalker giving them gold or items.
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I got a couple decades on you, and while I definitely know people my age or older that will watch streams, I do agree it is probably somewhat of a generation thing.
Back before internet games, when you wanted to play with others you would grab your controller and head to someone’s house, which was fun. However, if I went to someone’s house and couldn’t play a game with them, and they sat there still playing it, I’d leave. Watching someone else play a video game is boring to me. Maybe back on the first Nintendo taking turns on Duck Hunt or something would be ok.
I’m not saying that is a direct comparison to watching streams today, but it is pretty much where my instant dismissal of watching someone else play video games comes from.
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Depends on the streamer. The guy i watch is a casual player, but he is also a very entertaining. That’s far more important to me than the gameplay.
You should try Lost Initiative. Smaller audience but a lot of fun.
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I don’t disagree that you shouldn’t rag on people that enjoy watching twitch/world of warcraft streams but I hate this argument.
baseball/football and other sports were designed to be spectator sports. World of Warcraft is not. You can usually watch a spectator sport you have never seen and get the understanding of it within the length of the game. In world of warcraft you can watch someone pick flowers for hours and not understand the ultimate goal
It’s not until the last 5 years or so developers have designed games with spectating in mind. And some games lucked out like sc2 and LoL SF
Simplified title for thread:
Twitch Is Boring
There. Done.
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…hmmmm wonder why there is not a lot of pvp at the moment…