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Despite everything anyone here will say about MMO's, how good or bad the market is, how much better we are with linear themeparks, or how much sandbox's arent relevant.
It is extremely sad that the two top MMO's being watched right now, are Obviously WoW with 26k viewers, and in 2nd place with a whopping 4k viewers, RUNESCAPE!!
A game that pre-dates WoW, has minimal 3-d graphics and is mainly played using point and click features.
THAT IS SAD GUYS!
Think about that, 400 times the people are interested in Runescape than ESO.
There's only 4 people watching someone play Wildstar right now, last night there was none at 9PM EST, peak streaming hours.
Think ABOUTTHAT!>
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I'd imagine people are generally more interested in watching a particular streamer then a particular game, if all they cared about was the game being streamed they would probably just go elsewhere, Twitch is more about the community then anything. I bet if any of those popular WoW streamers stopped playing WoW started streaming ESO you'd probably see roughly the same numbers.
Example, Pewdiepie plays some extremely awful games and yet still gets millions of views. Do you think people are interested in watching his videos for the games or for him?
WoW is clearly not that boring, as it has more than 5 times as much viewers on twitch than runescape. I wasn't trying to be ignorant, it's just my opinion and obviously a fact that there's more people playing the mmo than watching it being played. Ignorance is lack of knowledge, and i stated the truth.
You are EXACTLY the type of person South Park was making fun of a couple episodes back. LOL.
Personally, I follow the personalities I like the most. Not necessarily what game they play.
First off OP you need to understand why a large portion of people even stream their games on twitch. They're doing it to make money or they're doing it to try to get enough steady viewers to become partners with Twitch to make money.
What this entails is playing games that are popular so people will actually want to watch you play the game. This is why usually the games that have the most viewers are the insanely popular mobas LoL and Dota 2, and also PoE/D3 up there as well as SC2 and Hearthstone.
When you actually look at all the facts in WHY people stream in the first place, then you begin to get an idea of why certain mmos aren't up there. Just to give you a simple example. WoW has roughly 70 rows of streamers streaming the game live right now. League of Legends has...i stopped counting at 110~ rows. It just kept going.
As a general basic rule, the more streamers a game has, the more views it will also have. Yes the majority of the streamers are going to have 10 or less viewers, but the more streamers, the more likely one of those streamers has a decent sized viewer base that follows them from youtube or other sites. So it really should come at no surprise that WoW/Runescape are the 2 highest mmorpgs and that they aren't overtaking other game genres like Mobas and single player/party games.
Another general rule as far as streaming goes, the two top main reasons people watch streams are for the streamers personalities, and for clear cut objective based/match-style gameplay. What i mean by the 2nd one is, usually in an mmo you don't really have a clear cut objective to complete. You're just playing the game doing whatever. But in a Dota2 or League game. It's a match that people can watch and see who wins and the streamers will play a number of them.
But in WoW or any other mmorpg, unless they're doing arena matches(which most aren't), all there is to watch is random gameplay or raids. The raids are interesting(at mythic difficulty) but just look at what most people that stream WoW actually are doing. The ones with the most viewers are streaming Highmaul Heroic/Mythic raids and doing high level arena matches, but the majority are doing random shit that isn't fun to watch like heroics and etc.