Albion Online
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Zog
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With no idea how much they were paid, the long term effects of playing a boring game can be negative for some of these guys, can't remember who it was but he said he won't ever do it again because he lost more than he made because his viewers disappeared for a while after.
Plus the gaming community is worse than music geeks when it comes to "selling out."
Must be nice though, sit on your ass day in and day out playing video games making ungodly amounts of money.
GuardianX
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I don't fault the people streaming the game and being paid, they are doing their jobs. They are marketing.
I dunno, I feel like there is a TON of uncertainty in playing and relying on streaming for income. if you get lucky and get someone like Ice Poseidon and stream IRL or whatever you want and people turn out to watch your cringey antics then you are lucky as fuck but think about someone like towelliee who streams WoW and if he streams anything else outside of WoW he drops to like 1/4th of the amount of viewers.
You are, in some cases, strapped to the game that nets you popularity. Unless you break out like some have done. When your game fades, you really wonder what people do. If WoW ever dies I wonder what towelliee will do.
Zog
Blackwing Lair Raider
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It does suck, bacon donut has been playing Minecraft for years, dude has tried his best to play other games but he can't afford the viewer drop. I can't imagine the pain of playing Minecraft 6 days a week for 4+ years.
Then again if I was paying my mortgage in 2 days I think I could manage.
Kiroy
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LennyLeonard
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He does retro streams, including Warcraft 1, Diablo 1, and some other stuff. His bigger issue seems to be his hours and reliability. I use to watch him nightly, as he was a good background noise type of stream. But then he disappeared for a while. He needs to bite the bullet and make a full time commitment to some kind of variety, and find hours that work. Both him and Sevadus seem to be hurting lately for viewers so I hope they figure something out.
Yep, I was trying to catch up to the cool kids and bought $25 of gold from some chinese farmer. Account perma banned within 24 hours. RIP, was an interesting game, but not really worth re-investing in. Good shit.
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yeah that was basically my experience, except I'm a nobody. I mean it seems somewhat short-sighted. Base your entire game and business model around being able to purchase gold and trade it directly for in-game benefits...and then get bent out of shape when people do *exactly* that, but through a 3rd party. So like, if you remove the gold and slap on a 24-hour ban or something, the odds of that person buying gold again, legitimately, would be pretty high. I would have at least considered it. But lifetime ban? For that? I'm sorry, game was fun, but I ain't starting that shit over, sorry.
GuardianX
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The comical part to me is that I can get a year worth of sub time for like 2 million silver.
I Assume that this is player sold gold converted to premium.
This makes me wonder if botting will be cracked down on like mad. Because a good bot will never get reported. Hell a person mindlessly clicking on 2 nodes is more likely to get banned for "botting" than an actual bot...
I Assume that this is player sold gold converted to premium.
This makes me wonder if botting will be cracked down on like mad. Because a good bot will never get reported. Hell a person mindlessly clicking on 2 nodes is more likely to get banned for "botting" than an actual bot...
Borzak
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Kind of interested to see how this plays out over time. CCP just recently made some changes in eve and said it was because of the low pay in certain parts of the world in relation to selling stuff thru non official channels. Then the sub price for Russians was changed to be less than the rest of the world.
Strifen
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Albion online is definitely not a good game for people to be streaming, there's a lot of down time and grinding, I mean who's going to want to watch another person grinding t3 nodes. Anyways I'm happy to support Albion online because the developers are trying to do something other than make a shitty wow clone. You don't hardly ever see MMO these days that have open world full loot PvP. For someone who is an oldschool-UO player, albion is doing a good job of satisfying that itch. I'm playing in a small 10 person guild and we're all having fun /shrug.
uniqueuser
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One of the most basic player interactions never intended, but game's still a sandbox, right?
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Bondurant
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