shizuka wrote:Claeyt wrote:As for why link our forum to Twitch, I can't believe I have to explain this again. The more people that watch the 'Salem' streamer the higher the game climbs in the watchable streams and the more people that scroll down to 'Salem' and wander onto the game's stream. It's simple, if we watch it, then it's more likely to be watched by people who don't watch the game and who are just looking for new games to check out on the Twitch game stream list. Many, many games get free advertising and catch on this way including 'Don't Starve', 'Tree of Life' and other crafting games. Hell, whole groups of players from here found 'Rust' and 'Tree of Life' randomly watching Twitch.
thats 100% true but salem would need like 100x more viewers to be in that bottom list i think =/.
First, I should have put Stardew Valley at the top of the list of games promoted by Twitch as that game is like Salem while being almost entirely Twitch driven.
Second, Salem has made the top 20 on the Twitch game streaming list several times now. Once it hit 1000+ for a couple of hourse when I think Lethalfang streamed it for a few hours. There was another streamer who came on with maybe 50 followers and he had 500 people watching. He was on for maybe 4hrs and some of the Tribe came on and killed a bunch of his followers after he left. He then stated he wouldn't stream Salem again. Whenever Daopa streams Salem it hits the top 30 or 40 games being streamed. He always has more than 200 followers watching but mostly it's EVE people and it's sort of a special type of streaming. There have been several other 200-1000 person followers who have streamed the game.
For the record, I was the first person to stream Salem on Twitch. I logged on with an explorer and just wandered around for awhile. I was immediately hunted according to what people were saying on the forums. It DOES take a special circumstance to stream Salem if you're a veteran player. Either you need to be behind safe walls and comfortable knowing that your enemies know where you live, like Heffernan. Or you need to be someone who everyone likes and doesn't really care to raid like Daopa. You could also be small and just exploring like some people have done. The most exciting ones in my opinion have been ones like NIxos's where he's hunting Fur Fur's. It was both exciting to watch him hunting and dangerous for him to be out there with a large hunter. I still hope he starts streaming again.