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green_sky on 27 January 2018
vivster said:
Wonder when these threads will stop. It's nothing unusual for high profile games to end up on a top position on Twitch. That's how Twitch streamers operate. You get the highest views if you play something brand new. Certain Twitch streamers do alone 30k views and upwards, so put a few top streamers on one game and you already have easy 100k views regardless if the audience is actually interested in the game or not.
MHW is right now at 150k viewers. The top 5 streams alone make up 60k of that. BTW Counter Strike is currently at 330k viewers.

What I'm saying is that Twitch views on launch day mean absolutely nothing. Check back in a week and see if it's even still in the top 10.

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vivster on 27 January 2018
Kerotan said:
vivster said:

The review score will boost it 10 times more than all stream views combined. Streams only make an impact on small games and not gigantic AAA ventures. Stop treating MH as if it was a tiny indie niche game.

In this day and age review scores are far less important to streaming views compared to the past. This is the new age. 

You say it, it's the new age. Every single AAA release is gonna get streamed a lot on launch day, it doesn't matter which. People who tune into the streams do it for the streamers, not for the games. They might as well be watching television, watching the streamer will do nothing significant to the sales of a AAA game. Everyone knows about the game and they know if they want to spend 60 bucks on it. A popular streamer screaming into a camera will do nothing about that. For AAA games review scores are much more important, as are mainstream news coverage, which is what reviews are. For indies it's the other way around. They don't need scores, they need publicity.

MHW is a big release that has long been anticipated by a lot of dedicated fans. If it's streamed or not will not make a single little spike in their sales.



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jason1637 on 27 January 2018
OTBWY said:
pitzy272 said:

Well what is Sea of Thieves at now?

Exactly.

Servers are down.

Edit: servers back up. At 62k viewers for SoT right now.



Chazore on 27 January 2018
Hiku said:

Since there's no cross-play between systems, I suppose PC could have their own schedule of events. My guess is they'll initially introduce them in quicker succession so that they catch up to the console schedule.

Sounds about right.



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Kerotan on 28 January 2018
tbone51 said:
Chorlin said:

A million just in Japan?

Its possible, hasnt been done in such a long time but the mainline 3ds games did around 800k and 650k ltd. 

 

This game being with the switches momentum might pull it off. I might make a thread bout it!

 

LudicrousSpeed said:
10 minutes later it fell down quite a bit, lol.

I hope it does well though. I thought about picking it up, then I read on GAF that there are cosmetic player creation microtransactions? Killed literally all my hype.

Sounds like you were looking for a reason not to buy. You play plenty of games with micro transactions so not sure why cosmetic items bothered you so much. 



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LudicrousSpeed on 28 January 2018

Depends on the DLC. I don’t play plenty of games with day one DLC. I’ve yet to buy a Forza this gen because of their DLC. Hope that helps :)



JRPGfan on 29 January 2018
OTBWY said:
pitzy272 said:

Well what is Sea of Thieves at now?

Exactly.

Right now?
Sea of theives: 27,710 (#7)
Monster Hunter World: 64,537 (#2)
League of Legends: 68,213 (#1)



TheGamer_1995 on 29 January 2018

It’s still number 2, did that ever happen before for a non-shooter-console-only game?



Kerotan on 29 January 2018
vivster said:
Kerotan said:

In this day and age review scores are far less important to streaming views compared to the past. This is the new age. 

You say it, it's the new age. Every single AAA release is gonna get streamed a lot on launch day, it doesn't matter which. People who tune into the streams do it for the streamers, not for the games. They might as well be watching television, watching the streamer will do nothing significant to the sales of a AAA game. Everyone knows about the game and they know if they want to spend 60 bucks on it. A popular streamer screaming into a camera will do nothing about that. For AAA games review scores are much more important, as are mainstream news coverage, which is what reviews are. For indies it's the other way around. They don't need scores, they need publicity.

MHW is a big release that has long been anticipated by a lot of dedicated fans. If it's streamed or not will not make a single little spike in their sales.

5m shipped. I've no doubt the big publicity from streamers since the betas went live have greatly helped. 



vivster on 29 January 2018
Kerotan said:
vivster said:

You say it, it's the new age. Every single AAA release is gonna get streamed a lot on launch day, it doesn't matter which. People who tune into the streams do it for the streamers, not for the games. They might as well be watching television, watching the streamer will do nothing significant to the sales of a AAA game. Everyone knows about the game and they know if they want to spend 60 bucks on it. A popular streamer screaming into a camera will do nothing about that. For AAA games review scores are much more important, as are mainstream news coverage, which is what reviews are. For indies it's the other way around. They don't need scores, they need publicity.

MHW is a big release that has long been anticipated by a lot of dedicated fans. If it's streamed or not will not make a single little spike in their sales.

5m shipped. I've no doubt the big publicity from streamers since the betas went live have greatly helped. 

Yes, those hundreds of viewers certainly must've made a massive impact on those 5m.

When will you realize that Twitch is not a mainstream outlet? It's not an advertisement tool unless you struggle to get publicity for your game, which MHW has not at any point.



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