EVE Online is for sure the hardest game to stream. Nearly nothing makes sense if you've never played it before, even though I played for a year it's still difficult to watch and understand what people are doing on a stream.
@@targetbuddy5absolutely right, but for me there is some weird appeal to watching baseball that no other sport fulfills, maybe I should get into eve lmao
Devs keep trying to court them to play a new melee like game designed just for them and they keep saying "naaah, but melee tho 👀" Wild levels of obsession with one game
Ofc they’re crazy, they’re propping up a scene rampant with child predators that even the game creators want dead because wavedashing was cool two decades ago. It’s wild.
1:15 speaking of funny sponsored streams Jericho once had a burger king sponsor and kept saying McDonald's terms on accident, he said "Big Mac" like 3 times😂
i think the biggest problem with sponserships in esports is that a large proportion of viewers are either young or broke, hence, there’s just not enough people there to buy the products. Also, it doesn’t help that the ad cost in relation to viewership is too high and relative to actual sports and the conversion rate just doesn’t translate over. idek what i’m talking ab but here’s my 2 cents 🤷♂️
Esports monetization is a tough nutt to crack. Orgs don't produce much content and their streamers/players do but build their own brands way more than their orgs brand. Players can't really exist without orgs in the current big esports though, so it's a really tough situation. The orgs have lost the money to sign and keep great players, who can earn more money streaming than playing, and new players in the space are making less money than their less skilled peers so they have no loyalty to their orgs and chase whatever paycheck they can get. Meanwhile, as you said about the Nvidia and GenG meeting, getting paying sponsors as a team isn't easy. Since people don't have regional loyalty and are much more interested in their favorite players than their favorite teams, it's difficult to find sponsorship value as a team, almost regardless of how good you are. T1 might be the only org capable of getting big sponsorship deals in League and that's because Faker is there and he has a name that is recognizable outside of esports. If every team needs a Faker to become close to profitable then it's simply impossible.
sorry to say im glad mango didnt get paid, ive been a hardcore runescape fan and the game is managed so poorly, its a rabbit hole in and of itself to look into the pit of money the owners have shoveled funds into instead of improving infrastructure or supporting the community (the lifeblood of this game and the only real reason it still lives)
As an OSRS player I feel bad for you guys it’s so sad seeing the state of RS3 with MTX and stuff. I’m worried about the future of both games rn since the whole jagex sale thing
LEC (LoL Europe league) has some heavy dedicated regional fanbases now with Karmine Corp and KOI, plus I'd say that Fnatic and G2 have some dedicated fans who don't swap allegiances with players. I think NA in particular has a massive problem with fans following players and not teams, which comes down to NA fans wanting to watch a streamer who's also a pro instead of watching pros and following their streams.
I think C9 and 100 Thieves have some really dedicated fanbases across multiple esports. Cloud 9 I definitely think is comparable no matter what esport they have a lot of fans
an ad on a esports tournament that’s gets 60k viewers isn’t gonna be worth a significant more then a 60k viewers xqc stream maybe worth even less because of the parasocial aspect of a streamer. but the cost of tournament is so much higher then a desktop stream that it seems to me the only way esports can make financial sense is if the game studio is funding and it’s purpose is to drive game sales. edit: i finishes the video he says the same thing
I'd say gta online is one of the most difficult games to stream since there's a pretty good chance a modder will join and crash your game or just ruin your experience, even in private sessions
One of the few esports I wanted to follow was OW league. It was all the same characters on every team and it’s weird to see a team called the Huston Outlaws and have them all be from Korea and China. The OWL was a joke. Hope the new one works out. World Cup was amazing.
would've loved to see the slide he showed going back a full year, layoffs are especially bad this time but from what I've heard the amount of layoffs in the sector is usually the worst in january
Big A where would you consider competitive tabletop games on the esports real sports spectrum? The Olympics considers chess to be a sport but unfortunately competitive chess gets like no respect
Tbh I did not care whatsoever to watch the superbowl live, my friend group didn't make an event for it or anything, but we hung out and watched worlds for like top 8. We might be the exception but I think the shift is slowly coming
I think Big A should still play disco elysium, even if its a difficult stream game. It's truly one of a kind and I think this community would have a lot of fun with it
The NBA in my opinion has the same problem, it has a lot of player first fans and the league audience is perpetually young. Because young fans get attached to players and then don't watch the sport anymore after they retire. Its different from team first fans. The league peaked in popularity with Jordan but after he retired people stopped watching and never came back. The Lebron and Curry Fans of today are much less likely to stick around in a decade compared to lets say a Chiefs fan.
Luds stream with Raid Shadow Legends is smart as shit. You could literally say "I got you thousands of downloads but you couldn´t keep the players. You can´t hate us for selling your game well, you just have a shit game.
IMO theres so much scamming(FTX, established titles, enchroma, etc.)///pseudo-scamming(Raid, gacha, sports bets etc.) in the "gaming-influencer" space that audiences are inherently negative towards any sponsor
