Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Final fantasy is a niche game in general, and the mmo even more so.

I've played this game for close to 10 years now, and I have yet to watch a streamer or content creators content other than the press stuff around expansions.


I simply would rather experience the game myself. I only watch people who play games I normally don't.
This is something I read ironically enough in a XIV twitch stream. The reason XIV streams have low view count compared to World of warcraft is that most players can actually clear and enjoy the content. As opposed to games like Wow, BDO, and Blade and soul where you tune in to see these amazing clears in really hard and punishing content; because let's be real, the majority of the people in those games won't really clear those things or are excluded from running them. Why should I watch someone clearing Hades extreme or Ruby extreme when most people in XIV, including myself can clear it? I rather enjoy the game myself than enjoy it through somebody else. It's all about accessibility.

With all that said, XIV streamers suffer from a few problems. One being that a lot of XIV streamers are not dedicated enough to the game, venturing off to streams other games or downright saying they don't know what else to do while playing the game. I've seen a lot of that in some XIV streams. Why would I watch you play a game you're visually bored to play? The other problem is that since the game is very accessible it's hard to cultivate "super stars." Lastly, a lot of XIV streamers don't know how to categorize themselves, they're all just "Monday XIV stream!" there's nothing special about that. It doesn't help that twitch's categorizing/sorting is complete trash, they could learn a lot from other websites and how they use tags and categories a lot better.