2014-07-07, 01:49 AM
Half the problem is that, at least on Twitch, they give almost no way for a new streamer to be seen. The front page is all super popular games played by super popular people. The search goes by popularity. Everything is by popularity. You don't really get a chance if you're a new streamer. Even Youtube and sites like that give the random video(s) that isn't all that related to what you're watching then, but Twitch doesn't.
The second half of the problem is that a lot of people only want to see one of two things (or both):
1) Someone who overreacts to everything. A lot of popular streamers are people who go batpomegranate crazy over little things.
2) Someone who's REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY good. Like speed runners.
If you don't fit either of those two categories you're even worse off than Twitch makes you.
I even made a topic, years ago, on Twitch's forums about the first issue. I said they should take one of the game bars from the frontpage, or make a new one, and make it a "Channel Roulette." Just pick 5-10 random streams, COMPLETELY and UTTERLY random, and put them on the front page. It doesn't even need to be any amount of time, just every time the front page is loaded it does this, and it would help immensely. Like I said back when I streamed a lot; I don't care to be insanely popular, but even having 5 people watching would be nice. I was, naturally, completely ignored. I even got quite a few responses that agreed with the suggestion. Twitch doesn't really give you a chance because it's all about the super popular games or go to the small, dank, dusty corner.
I myself don't stream anymore, but that's mostly because I'm sleeping, working, or driving to work, most of the day now and I don't really have the time for it anymore. It's fun when you can get a decent conversation going on in a stream, but it's extremely difficult to do with a new stream.
Edit: Just looked at the frontpage now...it's worse than it used to be. It used to have, back when I made my suggestion, like 5 bars of streams for whatever games were popular right then. Now it's just a small bar of popular streamers with the bottom section of the "in" games without previews to said game streams.
The second half of the problem is that a lot of people only want to see one of two things (or both):
1) Someone who overreacts to everything. A lot of popular streamers are people who go batpomegranate crazy over little things.
2) Someone who's REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY good. Like speed runners.
If you don't fit either of those two categories you're even worse off than Twitch makes you.
I even made a topic, years ago, on Twitch's forums about the first issue. I said they should take one of the game bars from the frontpage, or make a new one, and make it a "Channel Roulette." Just pick 5-10 random streams, COMPLETELY and UTTERLY random, and put them on the front page. It doesn't even need to be any amount of time, just every time the front page is loaded it does this, and it would help immensely. Like I said back when I streamed a lot; I don't care to be insanely popular, but even having 5 people watching would be nice. I was, naturally, completely ignored. I even got quite a few responses that agreed with the suggestion. Twitch doesn't really give you a chance because it's all about the super popular games or go to the small, dank, dusty corner.
I myself don't stream anymore, but that's mostly because I'm sleeping, working, or driving to work, most of the day now and I don't really have the time for it anymore. It's fun when you can get a decent conversation going on in a stream, but it's extremely difficult to do with a new stream.
Edit: Just looked at the frontpage now...it's worse than it used to be. It used to have, back when I made my suggestion, like 5 bars of streams for whatever games were popular right then. Now it's just a small bar of popular streamers with the bottom section of the "in" games without previews to said game streams.