OK, this is getting silly, or Dude, where's the game?

MissMeYet

M
So I've done about 3 days or so on Twitch with Elite Dangerous. Nothing crazy, I just play the game and have some fun. If people watch, great. If they don't, who cares? I've deliberately kept my channel uncluttered because I think people want to watch the game being played. Then I saw this channel. I'm not slamming the creator of the channel, but dude, where's the game?

http://i.imgur.com/C81DVRF.jpg
 
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Malic

Malic
Oh look its me in the wing, oh wait we are streaming right now, must have audio muted otherwise they would have known why those were up on screen.
 
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SourUK

S
the game is right there on the screen are you Blind!

and when it comes to Twitch its not all about the game.. its about the entertainment and community something DJ has built up very well.
 

MissMeYet

M
Malic said:
Oh look its me in the wing, oh wait we are streaming right now, must have audio muted otherwise they would have known why those were up on screen.
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To be clear, I'm not saying it shouldn't look the way it does. Twitch is highly individual. But...a lot of the information is covered up, and newer players might posibly wonder what's going on.
 

tomparkes1993

tomparkes1993
Found it:
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LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
Hercules said:
So I've done about 3 days or so on Twitch with Elite Dangerous. Nothing crazy, I just play the game and have some fun. If people watch, great. If they don't, who cares? I've deliberately kept my channel uncluttered because I think people want to watch the game being played. Then I saw this channel. I'm not slamming the creator of the channel, but dude, where's the game?

http://i.imgur.com/C81DVRF.jpg
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Have to admit its amusing that a partnered streamer still begs for money to pay his rent.
 

Comrade Napoleon

Comrade Napoleon
I am just old and dement probably. But watching other people play a game you play yourself instead of playing said game youself.. (no commas, Ma !!)
I would rather watch a video of other people watching a video watching me watching a video... (I am getting good, Ma!!)
But I will happily resort to writing silly comments on a silly thread about a silly topic starring silly people watched by even more silly people and commented by the sillyist of all... (Commas are highly overrated imo)
;)

Cheers Cmdr's
 

V'larr

V'larr
Quite a few people don't seem to 'get' it across the last few posts, as regards to game streaming?

It's pretty simple, actually.

Streamers are just another form of modern-day entertainers.

Street performers, musicians, artists, comedians, court jesters, public speakers (I guess "Youtubing" is a thing now since that started a *full dozen* years ago?); all that's really different from history gone by and the modern day is that you can now watch these people via your computers. Socializing, befriending, centered around sharing the same interest in video games, using the medium of a text chat (with branded emoticons) and a live video stream - that's what sites like Twitch are about.

I didn't really get it either myself, once upon a time, but in the end it's like any other community, just with a slightly different theme.
 
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equex

equex
Comrade Napoleon said:
I am just old and dement probably. But watching other people play a game you play yourself instead of playing said game youself..
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cant for the life of me understand that either.
one thing is to watch a quick tutorial or something, but watching people doing mundane stuff.. i dont get it.
 

Jukelo

Jukelo
A common comment regarding streaming video games is "why would I watch somebody play it rather than play it myself?". That's a fair point and that's exactly why people who watch streamers don't come for the game for the most part. They come for the streamer and to hang out with the community that's built around them. They come to discuss and take part, to engage in backseat gaming and to watch the streamer fumble their way through the game, or in some cases they come to learn.
The game is only the backdrop on which all of that happens. A streamer with a solid channel relying on their personality could change their main game (or not have a main game to begin with) and still retain most of their audience. This means all the 'peripheral', channel-related elements on the screenshot the OP posted are not so peripheral after all, they are part of what keeps the channel's community involved.

Now I feel that's still an excessive amount of clutter on the screen that would bother me, but then again I don't know DJ's channel so it might very well be justified for its community.
 
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MissMeYet

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Watching other people play video games is as old as video games themselves. I'm old enough to remember going to the arcade to play "Pac-Man", and "Galaxian". Sometimes you'd have to wait your turn for the machine, and you'd watch the guy ahead of you play the game. If he was really good a crowd would gather to watch. That last part is what I thought Twitch was about, and maybe at the beginning it was, but now like Noctover said it's about advertising and revenue streams, which is understandable because someone needs to pay for the servers and electricity. The highest-rated Twitch channels don't seem to be based on the skill of the player but instead on the amount of shiny bits that can be crammed onto the screen.

I blame cable news for starting the trend. First they put a screen logo somewhere, then the crawl at the bottom of the screen, sports, weather, breaking news at the top, a small window showing the stock exchange floor, blinking graphics in the background, etc.
 
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