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What is a good example of a twitch stream to show how great live streaming can be?

ggregoire 10y ago
Here a list of the current top streams, per number of spectators: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all This weekend you can watch the LCS finals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_Championship_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_Championship...). Winners will represent their region (North America and Europe) for the World in October (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_World_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_World_Champi...).
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kmnc 10y ago
Look for semi popular games with viewers in the 200-1000 viewers and you will find a lot of really good, entertaining people who interact with chat. Big streams are entertaining but fail to capture the magic and often become horrible people. In my opinion the glory days of twitch are already behind them because they have failed to incentivise small time streamers. Most pro esports players don't stream because the income is not worth the bullshit of the community.
- ycombinatorMan 10y ago
  I feel sorry for people who can't handle the twitch community. In fact most of the detractors are generally shitty people.
detaro 10y ago
Great is fairly subjective. Some categories with examples to cover some range, clicking around in each of these should give some impression: Big events/tournaments are basically like TV coverage of sports, with similar production values. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJkl-6w09s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJkl-6w09s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSqxzRtwi80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSqxzRtwi80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIygo3bIVmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIygo3bIVmo ----------------- YouTubers that also do streams, personality is important. I personally find this kind often to slow and with to many interruptions, so I don't really watch them. But they are popular and seem to be a great way to make money (compared with just YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCGn1wo4kQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCGn1wo4kQ (mostly strategy/simulation-type games, relatively small following -> interacts with subscribers a lot, names ingame-things after them ("hi $name! weren't you a dwarf that lost both arms once?"). EDIT: he is also streaming Ludum Dare this weekend, for another type of streaming content: https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegnAQD1hRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegnAQD1hRs (Minecraft player, relatively random pick) ------------------ There is also the category of competitive players streaming just playing (and since competitive play takes their attention, there is not much interaction with the audience. But you get to see how somebody really good at a game plays like and hear them explain their logic). Don't have good examples available though, since I don't play competitive games.
arcticfox 10y ago
My favorite is https://www.twitch.tv/fopt_membrillo https://www.twitch.tv/fopt_membrillo. He streams pro Age of Empires 2 tournaments in the crazy Spanish soccer style, and his community (including me) support him enough that it's his full-time job. Full-time AoE2 streamer in 2016??? I think that's amazing. An example of a crazy moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxXKK8oIyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxXKK8oIyE
- gurkendoktor 10y ago
  Speaking of AoE2, I think Resonance22 has a really good voice and is great at explaining the game while playing/spectating. Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo-qAVGb5vQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo-qAVGb5vQ (He's not doing it full-time.) AoE2 HD really got me back into PC gaming after a decade of only touching Wii/Wii U/mobile games. I'm not yet sure if it can drag me into watching Twitch, though.
  - arcticfox 10y ago
    Resonance22 is indeed fantastic, and very professional. I know he wants to make a career of casting/gaming at some point and I hope he manages to pull it off. T90Official is another great AoE2 caster in a similar style to Resonance22. Same with me about AoE2 HD, I hadn't played a PC game for years until I tried it. Now I'm hooked on both playing and spectating. The $30k Clan Masters tournament going on right now is insane.
b3b0p 10y ago
It's seasonal / semi-annually if I remember, but the Games Done Quick streams are a treat. https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick https://gamesdonequick.com https://gamesdonequick.com
- ufo 10y ago
  They have one event every summer (SGDQ) and one every winter (AGDQ)
ufo 10y ago
It was an one-of-a-kind event but Twitch Plays Pokemon was a pretty memorable experience and something that could only happen on a livestream with 100,000 people in the IRC chat. Basically, someone set up a livestream that played pokemon games in an emulator using commands taken from the stream chat. With the complications of a 30s video delay and thousands of people pressing buttons at once, some really interesting things ended up happening. https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/intro https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziMRN9WoVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziMRN9WoVk Today they are "between games" though so the stream is just playing Pokemon Stadium in a loop https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

Here a list of the current top streams, per number of spectators: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all This weekend you can watch the LCS finals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_Championship_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_Championship...). Winners will represent their region (North America and Europe) for the World in October (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_World_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_World_Champi...).

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kmnc 10y ago

Look for semi popular games with viewers in the 200-1000 viewers and you will find a lot of really good, entertaining people who interact with chat. Big streams are entertaining but fail to capture the magic and often become horrible people. In my opinion the glory days of twitch are already behind them because they have failed to incentivise small time streamers. Most pro esports players don't stream because the income is not worth the bullshit of the community.

ycombinatorMan 10y ago
I feel sorry for people who can't handle the twitch community. In fact most of the detractors are generally shitty people.

detaro 10y ago

Great is fairly subjective. Some categories with examples to cover some range, clicking around in each of these should give some impression: Big events/tournaments are basically like TV coverage of sports, with similar production values. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJkl-6w09s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJkl-6w09s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSqxzRtwi80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSqxzRtwi80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIygo3bIVmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIygo3bIVmo ----------------- YouTubers that also do streams, personality is important. I personally find this kind often to slow and with to many interruptions, so I don't really watch them. But they are popular and seem to be a great way to make money (compared with just YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCGn1wo4kQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCGn1wo4kQ (mostly strategy/simulation-type games, relatively small following -> interacts with subscribers a lot, names ingame-things after them ("hi $name! weren't you a dwarf that lost both arms once?"). EDIT: he is also streaming Ludum Dare this weekend, for another type of streaming content: https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegnAQD1hRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegnAQD1hRs (Minecraft player, relatively random pick) ------------------ There is also the category of competitive players streaming just playing (and since competitive play takes their attention, there is not much interaction with the audience. But you get to see how somebody really good at a game plays like and hear them explain their logic). Don't have good examples available though, since I don't play competitive games.

arcticfox 10y ago

My favorite is https://www.twitch.tv/fopt_membrillo https://www.twitch.tv/fopt_membrillo. He streams pro Age of Empires 2 tournaments in the crazy Spanish soccer style, and his community (including me) support him enough that it's his full-time job. Full-time AoE2 streamer in 2016??? I think that's amazing. An example of a crazy moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxXKK8oIyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxXKK8oIyE

gurkendoktor 10y ago
Speaking of AoE2, I think Resonance22 has a really good voice and is great at explaining the game while playing/spectating. Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo-qAVGb5vQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo-qAVGb5vQ (He's not doing it full-time.) AoE2 HD really got me back into PC gaming after a decade of only touching Wii/Wii U/mobile games. I'm not yet sure if it can drag me into watching Twitch, though.
- arcticfox 10y ago
  Resonance22 is indeed fantastic, and very professional. I know he wants to make a career of casting/gaming at some point and I hope he manages to pull it off. T90Official is another great AoE2 caster in a similar style to Resonance22. Same with me about AoE2 HD, I hadn't played a PC game for years until I tried it. Now I'm hooked on both playing and spectating. The $30k Clan Masters tournament going on right now is insane.

b3b0p 10y ago

It's seasonal / semi-annually if I remember, but the Games Done Quick streams are a treat. https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick https://gamesdonequick.com https://gamesdonequick.com

ufo 10y ago
They have one event every summer (SGDQ) and one every winter (AGDQ)

ufo 10y ago

It was an one-of-a-kind event but Twitch Plays Pokemon was a pretty memorable experience and something that could only happen on a livestream with 100,000 people in the IRC chat. Basically, someone set up a livestream that played pokemon games in an emulator using commands taken from the stream chat. With the complications of a 30s video delay and thousands of people pressing buttons at once, some really interesting things ended up happening. https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/intro https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziMRN9WoVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziMRN9WoVk Today they are "between games" though so the stream is just playing Pokemon Stadium in a loop https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon