Top 50 streamers in October 2012 - Page 3

On November 06 2012 23:27 SolidMustard wrote:
Interesting. Not sure why Destiny's stream is listed in "sc2 streams" though (and I'm not even being sarcastic here)

On November 06 2012 21:08 RaiZ wrote:

Would you really like to watch a bronze for countless hours and getting featured ? I know he's not bronze but you get the idea.

On November 07 2012 08:23 Jigsy wrote:
Good work, but why is TakeTv not listed? Would be interesting to see how he is doing as he streams every day with his team.

On November 07 2012 11:08 shizaep wrote:
This is the most interesting thing for me, how little love HotS is getting. I understand the reasons for it but I know that a lot of streamers (TT1 mentioned it) were overall disappointed with the viewer increase that they though they were going to get from having (not not so much but stil) exclusive access to HotS. Thoughts?

On November 07 2012 17:59 Conti wrote:

Because the list only includes players, and not casters or events. Casters especially have wildly varying viewer numbers, depending on which even they cast. Combining them all into an average doesn't make a lot of sense.


I think there's various factors playing into this.

For one, the viewers curiosity got sated pretty quickly. Another aspect is that more and more people have access to the beta themselves now. Also, when the beta started practically every streamer started to stream HotS, even those that have not streamed at all the weeks prior to the beta. So, basically, there was more competition.

IMHO the most important point, however, is that the pros themselves quickly went back to playing WoL. That's quite understandable, given that it's WoL and not HotS they're making money with at the moment. At least I think that's the reason. I'd be quite curious about any pros' opinion on this, especially those that streamed HotS for a couple of days before switching back to WoL (like TLO or Stephano, for instance).

On November 07 2012 02:05 Conti wrote:
Hmm. So I've compiled a bar chart for the total SC2 stream viewers by month. The actual numbers are not important, so ignore the y axis numbers. It's the ratio between month that's important. The results are pretty interesting. See for yourself:



I first compiled the bar chart without differentiating between WoL and HotS, and I started to write various possible reasons as to why the drop in viewer numbers could have occurred this month (start of school, lack of revenue from streams, etc.). Looking at the same graph with WoL and HotS viewers split up, however, it becomes quite obvious what the problem is. Viewership of WoL streams actually went up from the previous month, if only slightly. And between August and September, the total viewership didn't change, either. What did happen, however, was that the pros stopped streaming HotS and got back to playing WoL, and it appears that most of us that watched HotS did not go back to watch WoL.

It could be the other way around, too. It's not possible from this graph alone to find out whether the viewers stopped watching HotS streams (therefore making the streamers play WoL again), or if the streamers stopped streaming HotS and the viewers lost interest. Either way, I did not expect HotS to have such a big influence in viewer numbers. Interesting.

Pros: Go and stream more HotS shenanigans!

I've added this to the OP.

On November 08 2012 01:04 Zorkmid wrote:


This goes contrary to what DJWheat was saying about Twitch.tv SC2 stream numbers.