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Viewers Watched 611 MILLION Hours of Fortnite in March Alone - Fortnite - MMORPG.com
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Viewers Watched 611 MILLION Hours of Fortnite in March Alone - Fortnite - MMORPG.com
Fortnite News - SuperData Research has an amazing statistic to add to Fortnite's growing list of amazing statistics: In March, viewers spent 611 MILLION hours watching the game. Obviously, that doesn't even include the hundreds of millions of hours that were collectively played by those they were watching. Can anything stop Fortnite?!
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It's like a sport. Why watch baseball on TV when you could just go play baseball.
Damn, panther beat me to it. But to expand on his already excellent point, why watch TV at all? "Why watch a movie when you can just go pretend you're on a ship that's sinking because it hit an iceberg?"
"Why watch porn when you can just go outside and piss on any girl you like?"
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I mean why watch anything since you can do most anything?
Why watch sports? Get out there and play. Watch TV/movie? screw that get involved in community theater.
If one can watch sports then I see no reason why one can't watch gaming.
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That said, most of us aren't all that great at the games we play and it's fun to watch people who are highly skilled do so. I love to watch professional football. While I can run out in my front yard and play, I, quite frankly, suck. It's fun to watch skilled players. Sue me.
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Edit: I will watch someone play a preview of a game for a couple minutes.
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Not much exercise in playing video games unless it's dance/dance revolution.
So being a gamer/player still has a bit of "potato" involved.
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However, I'll never understand why people watch Hearthstone matches (or any other CCG). I can think of nothing more boring than watching two people playing cards.
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i've actually found myself asking that same questions lately as i sit there watching others play on Twitch. why is this so entertaining? why don't i just play myself? why do i almost prefer it to actual gaming? the reason i think it's that it's a passive vicarious entertainment. lets face it, gaming can get frustrating and stressful and rightdown enraging at times. watching someone else game is completely passive. the same principle that reality tv employs. why do people watch reality tv? because there is a specific pleasure in watching and experiencing things through others, as you expend absolutely no energy and sit in perfect comfort. as gamers, we focus on other gamers, but the process is the same.
Almost every stream you go to, its either people talking to the streamer, or the chat having a discussion among themselves and vice versa.
1) Learning and seeing good players play. It can be inspiring to watch someone who knows what they are doing and you get that feeling that you could do that if you just apply yourself. But if you never sought out their techniques, you might of trained your muscle memory wrong or not known about certain tactics, etc... I think this is a fairly easy one to get.
2)Have you every just wanted to be in a crowd but not really be part of it. (I think the analogy of going to the mall just to be in a crowd is a commonly used one) Gamers are generally loners. And having that sound of a voice of someone with the same passion as yours, when so many people have given gamers crap growing up, can be refreshing to have that sense of validity and feeling of being part of a bigger community than just yourself in your moms basement.
Besides that, Im sure you see a lot going in chat thinking everyone is watching it fulltime, but id venture to guess most people are playing and watching at the same time, either on two monitors or having Twitch in the background and just participating when something strikes their fancy. Or you know, they are at work and unable to play but they just happen to be able to see their phone.
1. Part of a crowd. - Really sad. This is the internet we are talking about. Any sense of being a part of something is almost always a delusion. But it seems the youngins have grown up with this being the bar. Might explain certain things.
2. Want to watch someone good - okay, within limits. But come on.
3. People chatting together in twitch streams - Okay, my experience is limited, but typically the chat doesn't make any sense, no one is having a coherent conversation, and any stream worth watching has constant spam and trolling. so no.
4. It's like sports. - No it isn't. It isn't anything like real life sports. It's not even like bowling or darts. It's like gaming. And if you are entertained by it, don't hide behind other reasons or excuses. Some people are, some people aren't.
But here's the thing that goes unsaid. Not only are most of us not very good at these games, we aren't good because the games aren't that good. On the PC, high tier gamers macro everything to shit, especially in fortnite. I imagine it's already happening with usb controllers on the PS4 as well. And even if it isn't, it requires certain skills and behaviors that are just awful to put into practice.
Example, I actually know a guy who's decent at fortnite. I learned his secret. He does the same fking thing every single time. He uses the shotgun, every time, exclusively. He has memorized and practiced how to build a few schematics quickly (and now macros). He has practiced just a few techniques for engaging another player, progressing away from the storm, avoiding sniping/ambushes. He has a nice headset that allows him to hear footfalls from pretty darn far away. The whole thing is such utter bullshit that any casual gamer who wants to actually have fun will just get blasted in the face, unless their idea of fun is the above.
Now here's where I rant about competitive games in general. They suck. They are ruining the genre of gaming, because they aren't part of that genre, they are something new. Esports are esports, video games as they were known a decade ago overlap only in the most minimal way to esport games today. But look at those hours watched. That's money. That's what it looks like when your favorite single-player experiences are gutted to make way for gaming that is more profitable.
We could have produced better TVs and faster internets to watch all those things!
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Some people like many of my friends from 'developing' countries can only watch games cause they don't actually own a computer. People always assume everyone has a game ready personal computer but that's not the case in many parts of the world.
Meanwhile back at nearly every gaming companies HQ's...Drop Everything! Get that Battle Royal game out!
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