I play Battlefield 4 once in a while. That's about it. Not really in to
anything else. I got pretty good at shooting down helicopters with a
tank and it really pisses off the kids, even the 40 year old ones. It's
always, 'ur a haxor'. Lul.
On 12/4/2016 6:48 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote:
the fallout series is my downfall. i love it, i just dont play it
until all my chores are done and ive accepted i may end up fired if i
dont show up to work for 4 days
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Jason McKemie
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I enjoy video games, but I prohibit my self from playing them
since they're an absolutely terrific waste of time.
On Sunday, December 4, 2016, Bill Prince <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My life will not be diminished whether I get it or not. I feel
fulfilled without any video games in my life (either me or
someone else playing them).
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 12/4/2016 10:24 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
Think about it this way: it's the first "sport" that has
international
reach outside of soccer. It already has more exposure than
baseball,
football, etc. The only thing it doesn't come close to is
FIFA World
Cup viewership (3.2 Billion in 2014). The barrier to
viewership is
that it only requires internet access to YouTube/Twitch - it's
viewership growth does not require some
expensive/exclusive sports
Cable package. Baseball, football, boxing, car racing
(largely) etc
are all slowly and painfully dying off. The growth is in
MMA and
eSports.
Although you "don't get it" (I don't either, largely), the
rest of the
world does. Ignore that at your peril :P
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Bill Prince
<[email protected]> wrote:
Despite the amazing popularity, it still does not draw me.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 12/4/2016 9:47 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
Just to put things into perspective, League of Legends
is currently the
largest competitive scene. The 2015 championships,
which was a multi-day
multi-city bracketed event held in several countries,
had over 334 million
viewers (not counting multiple people watching the
same stream). The final
numbers on the 2016 event aren't in yet. Colleges are
giving out
scholarships for this (no joke).
These events sell out places like the Staples center,
and world cup
stadiums. Madison Square Garden may be next year.
On Dec 4, 2016 11:40 AM, "Josh Reynolds"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Fun, fame, and profit.
Some of these YouTube streamers bring in over 150k
a year in advertising
revenue. Most of these are young kids (preteen),
some actually teenagers.
Twitch streamers can bring in several hundreds of
thousands a year in
stream donations.
My oldest (17/m) doesn't watch traditional TV.
He's unfamiliar, largely,
with commercials. Sports on TV? No way. He watches
Hulu, Netflix, but mainly
YouTube/twitch.
There's a new eSports bar going up here in KC. I
bet they end up with more
net profit in the first year than the local
Buffalo Wild Wings. Mix of bar
w/ pub food, TVs streaming games/championships,
and actual PCs/gaming
(half-hourly charges).
On Dec 4, 2016 10:39 AM, "Ken Hohhof"
<[email protected]> wrote:
I was born without the gaming gene, so can
someone explain Twitch to me?
I have a customer spending a lot of money (now
that harvest is over) for
a speed tier with 5 Mbps of upstream so he can
broadcast. Which I see he
does for 12 hours straight.
What is the appeal? Fun? Fame? Or profit?
Does this bring in
advertising money? Enough to make it worthwhile?
And how does someone stream their game play
for 12 hours straight?
Astronaut diapers? Lots of Mountain Dew and
Doritos? Or do they get
breaks?
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