I did put myself in his shoes. Look at his page. donation buttons, follower me here and there, rules like "no viewer stealing!". It's all with a mindset to become a bigger streamer, not sit casual and play with a few friends or steady viewers.
Although I think your perspective is spot on. Perhaps OP will read your thoughts and think "yeah, maybe that's more for me". As I said also, there is nothing wrong being a casual streamer with a low steady viewer count - but then you can't expect it to grow big either, which is the impression i get is his long term goal was from the outset. There was some other nice suggestions earlier in the thread about promoting positive attitude on the stream, instead of punishing negatives. That kind of thing promotes a casual atmosphere as well.
Negativity.. the truth... facing reality. Different perspectives.
I was perhaps mistaken when I told you to stop streaming per say. But don't expect to be a big twitch streamer with your attitude.
There are plenty of casual gamers on twitch, it's not only for pro's or hardcore gamers. But viewer numbers will reflect that so getting viewers up should not be a goal in itself for you. Your priorities, capabilities and dedication for this is just non-existent imo.
No one cares if 4 hours a week is A LOT for YOU. No one cares if you have a kid, a wife, 3 fulltime jobs on the side and streaming basically takes up 100% of your free time... so you are really dedicated, right? I call BS! (btw 4 hours must be a joke, did you write that wrong? You want to be a twitch streamer and compete with channels that stream 80+ hours a week, by streaming 4? lol).
Everyone and their mother thinks if they start a twitch channel or YouTube that views will just come rolling in and a month later, the $$. You are a dime a dozen and majority of streams sucks or are inconsistent.
Reminds me a bit about this dude called Sic Avenger, he spammed forum here, clickbaiting for his youtube channel/twitch channel. and this was the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_WkB2TB8so
Worst piece of s.. I have seen in a long time. I watched it though and spend a lot of time trying to help him out on how to improve, but totally wasted my time apparently. His videos are still the worst quality ever, and he's still pulling like 200 views on a video.
It's really not that hard. Watch some popular streams see what they do, Watch some good youtube channels like rhykker, quinn69 etc.
They have ACTUAL CONTENT, imagine that. Popular streamers are the ones that interact with viewers, doing something out of the ordinary, and actually stream a lot. It's not that hard to see what it takes to become a successfull stream.
High quality content, high quality stream, and a TON of streaming hours. If you can't provide those things, why should anyone watch you, when there are 20 other streams that are doing those things right? Of course there is the ace up the sleeve, BOOBS!! that helps
My best tip. Don't quit your dayjob, drop this idea about twitch streaming cause you are NOT cut out for it. You don't have the equipment, the time or the vision about what it takes to be a stream-entertainer. Save yourself some headache and focus on your family instead. Gaming is a hobby for you, treat it as such.
I did put myself in his shoes. Look at his page. donation buttons, follower me here and there, rules like "no viewer stealing!". It's all with a mindset to become a bigger streamer, not sit casual and play with a few friends or steady viewers.
Although I think your perspective is spot on. Perhaps OP will read your thoughts and think "yeah, maybe that's more for me". As I said also, there is nothing wrong being a casual streamer with a low steady viewer count - but then you can't expect it to grow big either, which is the impression i get is his long term goal was from the outset. There was some other nice suggestions earlier in the thread about promoting positive attitude on the stream, instead of punishing negatives. That kind of thing promotes a casual atmosphere as well.
Negativity.. the truth... facing reality. Different perspectives.
I was perhaps mistaken when I told you to stop streaming per say. But don't expect to be a big twitch streamer with your attitude.
There are plenty of casual gamers on twitch, it's not only for pro's or hardcore gamers. But viewer numbers will reflect that so getting viewers up should not be a goal in itself for you. Your priorities, capabilities and dedication for this is just non-existent imo.
No one cares if 4 hours a week is A LOT for YOU. No one cares if you have a kid, a wife, 3 fulltime jobs on the side and streaming basically takes up 100% of your free time... so you are really dedicated, right? I call BS! (btw 4 hours must be a joke, did you write that wrong? You want to be a twitch streamer and compete with channels that stream 80+ hours a week, by streaming 4? lol).
Everyone and their mother thinks if they start a twitch channel or YouTube that views will just come rolling in and a month later, the $$. You are a dime a dozen and majority of streams sucks or are inconsistent.
Reminds me a bit about this dude called Sic Avenger, he spammed forum here, clickbaiting for his youtube channel/twitch channel. and this was the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_WkB2TB8so
Worst piece of s.. I have seen in a long time. I watched it though and spend a lot of time trying to help him out on how to improve, but totally wasted my time apparently. His videos are still the worst quality ever, and he's still pulling like 200 views on a video.
It's really not that hard. Watch some popular streams see what they do, Watch some good youtube channels like rhykker, quinn69 etc.
They have ACTUAL CONTENT, imagine that. Popular streamers are the ones that interact with viewers, doing something out of the ordinary, and actually stream a lot. It's not that hard to see what it takes to become a successfull stream.
High quality content, high quality stream, and a TON of streaming hours. If you can't provide those things, why should anyone watch you, when there are 20 other streams that are doing those things right? Of course there is the ace up the sleeve, BOOBS!! that helps
My best tip. Don't quit your dayjob, drop this idea about twitch streaming cause you are NOT cut out for it. You don't have the equipment, the time or the vision about what it takes to be a stream-entertainer. Save yourself some headache and focus on your family instead. Gaming is a hobby for you, treat it as such.