How many people watch the Stream?

Aptonoth · January 2020

Juhasow wrote: »

Comparing to last year it was pretty low. Last year total amount of viewers on twitch was 1,2M this year it was 260k so basically almost 5 times less. This year 2 hours long stream have similar numbers to 2017 stream that lasted less then 1 hour.

This year data https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/36681998144
2017 Morrowind announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/24395721104
2018 Summerset announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/28018595328
2019 Elsweyr announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/32200112160

In general pretty weak stream when compared to similar ones in previous years.

Yeah that's bad news. I bet sales and pre-orders are going to suffer. Every time I watch a stream with someone from Zenimax main company or Bethesda its always bad. I knew Pete Hines would jynx it. I hope ESO doesn't die learns its lesson and comes back next year bigger and better. I still hope to see all of black marsh since Bethesda will never do it.

Path · January 2020

Hey, I watched...kinda.

Banana · January 2020

I happily slept through it.

Sinhalis · January 2020

ok so I watched the stream, linked twitch with ESO and all - any idea how I can claim the loot?

MattT1988 · January 2020

SmukkeHeks wrote: »

Anyone knows where I could watch it today?

It started at 11 pm for me, on a workday it’s too late. But I’m still curious

I don’t know if this the full show but this is on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/0Jdor4QKjpY

JinMori · January 2020

Well i mean, people can point out the: Steam charts don't mean anything, or, it's not that simple, or the game is not worse, or the game is doing just fine, any excuse really, but the matter of fact is that people are less interested, and it shows in the numbers.

So again, fanboyism, stop it please, you don't gain anything from it really.

I do hope that this expansion does well though, but for me, they have a long list of things to do before this game is truly good, for one, revert dots to about elsweyr level, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, and honestly, the least important.

Clearly the changes after elsweyr were not liked much, and the general apathy to problems that should have already be solved did not help, or the fact that zos pretty much always resorts to the lowest effort solution, which causes problems in of itself. Yea, this game has problems, serious problems, there's no denying it.

It seems that not even skyrim saved the show this time, it's pretty amazing that they got such low numbers even with skyrim as the core of the expansion.

CelestialSlayer · January 2020

as an ex-player i have come here to check out if they have made the game fun again - it appears not. its still either a meta game or a dress up game with nothing in between for those players who are not new or dont want to be obsessed with builds. so its a no from me - still have nearly 12000 crowns though.

Czekoludek · January 2020

Juhasow wrote: »

Comparing to last year it was pretty low. Last year total amount of viewers on twitch was 1,2M this year it was 260k so basically almost 5 times less. This year 2 hours long stream have similar numbers to 2017 stream that lasted less then 1 hour.

This year data https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/36681998144
2017 Morrowind announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/24395721104
2018 Summerset announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/28018595328
2019 Elsweyr announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/32200112160

In general pretty weak stream when compared to similar ones in previous years.

Damn that's a big drop. So fanboys were wrong and Steam chart can be a viable indicator of game population trends. Good we have at least that

JinMori · January 2020

Czekoludek wrote: »

Juhasow wrote: »

Comparing to last year it was pretty low. Last year total amount of viewers on twitch was 1,2M this year it was 260k so basically almost 5 times less. This year 2 hours long stream have similar numbers to 2017 stream that lasted less then 1 hour.

This year data https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/36681998144
2017 Morrowind announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/24395721104
2018 Summerset announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/28018595328
2019 Elsweyr announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/32200112160

In general pretty weak stream when compared to similar ones in previous years.

Damn that's a big drop. So fanboys were wrong and Steam chart can be a viable indicator of game population trends. Good we have at least that

They may not tell the whole story, but it cannot be just ignored.

Kalante · January 2020

Czekoludek wrote: »

Juhasow wrote: »

Comparing to last year it was pretty low. Last year total amount of viewers on twitch was 1,2M this year it was 260k so basically almost 5 times less. This year 2 hours long stream have similar numbers to 2017 stream that lasted less then 1 hour.

This year data https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/36681998144
2017 Morrowind announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/24395721104
2018 Summerset announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/28018595328
2019 Elsweyr announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/32200112160

In general pretty weak stream when compared to similar ones in previous years.

Damn that's a big drop. So fanboys were wrong and Steam chart can be a viable indicator of game population trends. Good we have at least that

Their defense is always "But EsO dOeSn'T wOrK oN sTeAm"

MLGProPlayer · January 2020

They should have called the chapter "ESO: Skyrim". Would have helped bring in new viewers.

mikikatze · January 2020

Why did they chose a Thursday for the event anyway? And we also counted less than 75.000 viewers, including YouTube and several Twitch channels. But I'm happy to get that bat, so...

MLGProPlayer · January 2020

JinMori wrote: »

Czekoludek wrote: »

Juhasow wrote: »

Comparing to last year it was pretty low. Last year total amount of viewers on twitch was 1,2M this year it was 260k so basically almost 5 times less. This year 2 hours long stream have similar numbers to 2017 stream that lasted less then 1 hour.

This year data https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/36681998144
2017 Morrowind announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/24395721104
2018 Summerset announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/28018595328
2019 Elsweyr announcment https://twitchtracker.com/bethesda/streams/32200112160

In general pretty weak stream when compared to similar ones in previous years.

Damn that's a big drop. So fanboys were wrong and Steam chart can be a viable indicator of game population trends. Good we have at least that

They may not tell the whole story, but it cannot be just ignored.

They represent a sample of 20,000+ active players each month. That's an enormous sample size and as close to perfectly representative as you can mathematically get.

The game lost a huge chunk of its active player base this year. My friends list is down to just 3 players still logging in. My trade guilds went through massive purges. I literally just log in to pay my guild dues and get my daily bonuses (if there is anything I like in the month, and there usually isn't). I haven't actually played the game in a few months.

Performance issues are the main reason for my hiatus.

Nemeliom · January 2020

MattT1988 wrote: »

I lasted five to ten minutes then turned it off. The cringy overly enthusiastic (some of which are paid to be there) crowd was too much to take. It just seemed so insincere and forced.

There was this guy shouting "yeaahhh!!" in a barbaric/Nordic way that annoyed me a lot as well. Seemed so fake.

Hotdog_23 · January 2020

Hallothiel wrote: »

10pm on a school night in the UK; even later across most of Europe.

Not surprised they did not get huge numbers. Some people have to get up early for work and so would not have time to watch live.

2pm for me so no go watching live. Actually 150k was a high number i thought.

Michae · January 2020

So when do the bats ship out?

Thevampirenight · January 2020

I watched it, It was pretty interesting.

aubrey.baconb16_ESO · January 2020

theyancey wrote: »

The 80K was across all streaming channels and that was easily met. They did no meet the upper one. We will all still get the bat pet. Add in that 5:00 PM on a weekday prevents many people from having access to the streams and the numbers are not bad at all.

Plus it was past some European's bedtime with work the next day. I gave it 15 minutes to contribute to the number then went to bed.

Edaphon · January 2020

Nemeliom wrote: »

MattT1988 wrote: »

I lasted five to ten minutes then turned it off. The cringy overly enthusiastic (some of which are paid to be there) crowd was too much to take. It just seemed so insincere and forced.

There was this guy shouting "yeaahhh!!" in a barbaric/Nordic way that annoyed me a lot as well. Seemed so fake.

That same annoying guy always turns up when they do a stream like this. Probably a Zos employee.

redlink1979 · January 2020

I watched the whole show on Twitch n got the drops.

Kalante · January 2020

aubrey.baconb16_ESO wrote: »

theyancey wrote: »

The 80K was across all streaming channels and that was easily met. They did no meet the upper one. We will all still get the bat pet. Add in that 5:00 PM on a weekday prevents many people from having access to the streams and the numbers are not bad at all.

Plus it was past some European's bedtime with work the next day. I gave it 15 minutes to contribute to the number then went to bed.

Here we go again. Enough with the damage control already. Past broadcast was done exactly at the same time and the stream got over 130k viewers just on twitch, ON A TUESDAY. So you are wrong.

Foxhearted · January 2020

I tuned in before the stream started because I got a notification, closed it because I wanted to let it run when it really started, but then I forgot... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯