ESO streamer with the highest number of viewers

Last'One

Who is the ESO streamer with the highest number of viewers?

I’m genuinely curious about this, because it feels like PoE2 has more viewers on Twitch than ESO has players on the servers 😂
Is that actually true? Do we have any ESO streamers with 10k+ followers?

Orbital78

The ones that do use cheesy methods to get fake views from website imbeds and stuff. Even those types don't even stream ESO anymore I don't think. There were a few ~2-5 months ago that averaged 100-300 viewers fairly common and were most likely real viewers or lurks.

I'm sure every game has people that cheese views with bots or imbeds, I don't count those but I guess others might.

Last'One

Oh, I see what you mean. I’ve never done that, so I don’t really understand how it works. But if others are using bots to cheese views, could some ESO streamers be using bots in a shady way? Because… 100followers (ESO) vs 8k is like… Or maybe they just have nothing to stream!?

tsaescishoeshiner

Popularity of the game certainly matters, but I think also the kind of gameplay makes some games better or worse to stream. I don't think MMOs make for good streaming generally, and not ESO's combat. A lot of stream viewers are multitasking or AFK, or the streams are chat streams.

You can follow the action watching someone play a first-person shooter, top-down action game, or 2D combat game without even knowing anything about the game—you get that visual impact even if you don't know the nuances.

With ESO, even knowing about it myself and having played a lot of PvP, it's not as rewarding to watch a high-skilled PvP player. There are a lot of actions and effects, many of which don't convey over the screen, happening every second. You can certainly follow along, of course.

I think having some streamers is healthy for the game, but it's not necessary for the community, and the vast majority of streamers aren't too interesting because there's such a low barrier to entry—anyone can try it out.

Vaqual

I agree with the above. A core aspect of RPGs is living out a fantasy or expressing parts of ones personality through playing a character and the interaction with others. That shapes the importance and meaning of certain actions and activities in game. And that is just mostly boring to watch if you are in no way attached to that character. It has slow paced progression, relatively low impact of player action and mild consequences. PvP stands out a bit, but it isn't really special if you neglect the RPG context. The very low game difficulty doesn't help a lot either, so information sharing is not a real factor most of the time.

This is the type of game that is simply more fun to play than it is to watch.

Orbital78

Vaqual wrote: »

This is the type of game that is simply more fun to play than it is to watch.

That is how I thought originally, but some streamers build quality communities to chat with if you hang out enough to see it. One of the stream team member (probably others) goes out of their way to help new players and mid-levels get into harder content. I have managed to get many of my hardmode clears thanks to community night dungeons. Having 3 other experienced players preformed makes your chances exponentially better of success vs randoms with no comms.

Even if you're not in the current run, you are most likely seeing a hard mode done with the chance to hear mechanics explained in real time when needed.

I know a few smaller streamers that stream their hardmode runs which is also a good tool to see how players do mechs and such. Youtube has plenty of guides too, but this gives you the chance to ask when they aren't focus faced.