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For me, even as early as kindergarten with NES, I enjoyed watching others play perhaps even more then doing it myself. Friends would fight over controllers , but I always passed my turn.
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Fuck no I got tired of watching my friends suck. I always did enjoy taking turns at hard single player games as a kid though. Growing up in the console age, NES, SNES, Sega, N64. We had some crazy LAN parties in the Air Force for Halo.

It's like most things really, being able to share it with others increases the enjoyment. You want to be able to talk about the things you do, that's why most of us are here. Plus watching streams can be a great way to learn things about games. Even relatively straightforward games like PUBG offer a lot of random information, thoughts, and strategies by watching streams. Places people go, angles, the way they play.
 
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Aside from Let's Plays that show a game I'm considering buying, the only game that I have found myself able to watch "streamed" is Minecraft. Technically I only watch YouTube videos of it and the Let's Plays, I refuse to watch anything that is actually live-streamed (I'd probably break that rule if porn were involved) because they are way too fucking long for me to watch and actually enjoy. I don't have enough time to put into Minecraft myself (although I do still play a bit), let alone watch someone stream for the amount of time I could have been playing myself, so a good 30-60 minute video a day kind of lets me feel like I'm playing too. It has the added benefit that they edit the footage to omit things like the 2 hours of mining they did to get materials, and they have to come up with the ideas for what to build, which are the two reasons I inevitably burn out trying to play it myself. And before someone asks why not both, I am physically unable to play a game and watch anything else at the same time. TV show/movie/YT video, it doesn't matter, I end up focusing on the game and immediately lose whatever is on the video. I wish I could do both, but I just can't.

I see the physical attraction to some hot female Twitch streamers, and I'd consider watching them if nudity were allowed and I didn't have to listen to them talk about whatever stupid shit to get to the nudity, but then I'd complain that they weren't fucking or something, so I'd end up at one of the cam sites, but then I'd complain that I had to sit through an eternity just to see a nipple on some of them, all while hearing them talk about stupid shit, so I'd end up at porn. Knowing this about myself, I just go straight to porn.
 
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So Ninja hit 100k subs today. His channel has grown insanely the past few months.

He's getting a huge influx of those twitch prime subs. Something is fucky, or people are just creating Amazon accounts, and using that free sub for the first trial month of Amazon.
 
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So Ninja hit 100k subs today. His channel has grown insanely the past few months.

He's getting a huge influx of those twitch prime subs. Something is fucky, or people are just creating Amazon accounts, and using that free sub for the first trial month of Amazon.
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I think a large function of that is the fact that Twitch Prime doesn't auto renew, so when someone mentions it on their stream, the person just has to look if its available and go "oh yeah, this is fine" and click Sub with Twitch Prime.

Geek and Sundry ran an ad during Critical Role and got what looked like 100s if not 1000s of subs. Any of the big streamers will do the same thing ("if you havent used your twitch prime this month and youre enjoying yourself, please consider dropping it here" or whatever) will always get a big influx.
 
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when twitch prime came out, most of the big streamers saw their sub numbers grow insanely. still today, Summit, TimTatMan, Lyric, all have crazy subs (~20k+?). Ninja getting 100k now while the rest of the big streamers mostly maintain their numbers is crazy. while the "hey, i have 1 free prime, i'll just give it ot this guy" is a large source of these guys subs, the growth to overall sub numbers has to come from new twitch viewers.
 
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The sub explosion is being driven by Fortnite, free month of prime, and the free prime skin. Lots of sub counts are going to drop when they cancel their prime memberships and don't re up with their own cash.

Its good for the site overall, because some will stay, but many are just single monthers after a free skin in the most popular game right now.
 
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Made customs for Heroscape again this weekend, damn I love doing that. I'm thinking there may be an audience for that kind of stuff. I watch others do similar. ..
 
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elcaro1101 said:
The sub explosion is being driven by Fortnite, free month of prime, and the free prime skin. Lots of sub counts are going to drop when they cancel their prime memberships and don't re up with their own cash.

Its good for the site overall, because some will stay, but many are just single monthers after a free skin in the most popular game right now.
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Still even if it's only one month at 100k subs that is still at least 300k of income for him not counting donations. It's fucking mind blowing at times they sheer volume of dollars they get to pull in. Also given how big Ninja is on fortnite I am sure he gets better than the typical 3/2 split from subs. So that 300k might be closer to 400k.
 
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For sure, crazy income for some if these guys. I just wish Twitch would clean up the streamer base, and get back to just games.

If I want to see titties I can go get it on endless places on the net. It doesn't have to be mixed into a gaming stream site. They are just allowing the camgirls to pick low hanging fruit of lonely white knight autists wallets, while they sit by and make their portion.
 
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The big streamers take home 70% of the sub fee. It is crazy to see someone make in a month then a lot of people will make in years just playing a video game.
 
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The big streamers take home 70% of the sub fee. It is crazy to see someone make in a month then a lot of people will make in years just playing a video game.
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Yeah they call them entertainers. That's what the people on twitch are too.
 
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I like watching some of the old school speed runners. I mostly like smaller streamers who's chat you can actually follow. I also got into the GTA role playing streams for awhile. Some of them were pretty hilarious but since it's all improv it's very inconsistent.
 
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Didn’t know where else to ask this question do I necroed this thread. Two part question.
#1 What do you guys use to record your game play footage on PC? OBS or Nvidia Experience(Shadowplay)? I’ve tried both and they both records good quality. POnly difference I noticed OBS recorded footage was choppy when I played D2:R and Nvidia Exp was flawless.

#2 Streetlabs OBS or OBSlive for streaming?
 
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