The numbers only matter if people are actively watching and buying what they’re advertising. If you’re not properly watching then you could have 2 million viewers, it means nothing.
Would be good to pump up those numbers, there just isn’t a market for it. Only reason the tournaments are a better watch because you get changing POVs to the action and commentators.
Halo is not a good game for streaming, and unless they create a new game mode it never will be. I think Forge has potential maybe, we will have to see.
Agreed, but you can’t prove how many people are passively or actively watching so the fact there is high viewership is good regardless.
TV shows been doing it for years brother. In the UK they had a thing where they knew people weren’t watching adverts referred to as TV pickup. Everyone goes and slaps the kettle on when the adverts start ha.
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Except you can online. It’s very easy to detect using JavaScript when a window is in the primary focus of the user. Twitch (and any other platform worth their salt) would have the metrics to see who is actually watching and who has the stream going in the background. It’s pretty easy to do.
So if Twitch makes the metrics available then you absolutely can see it and make judgements based on who has actually seen and advert and who hasn’t.
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What that mean…
The twitch numbers during HCS events are “low” if you’re comparing Infinite only to the very tippity top few games that get crazy esports numbers (CS, Valorant, LoL).
In the context of shooters in general, Infinite has pulled off a pretty difficult feat. It’s a new game that launched less than a year ago and has maintained +50K viewership for 3 straight major esports events.
Go ahead and name any other game that’s launched in the last couple years and was able to hold consistent esports viewership for months afterwords. Infinite has largely succeeded at a nearly impossible task tbh
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I hope you are not suggesting that the stress players feel while in a competition (higher heart rate) is somehow related to health and fitness.
You think people are actually really watching it? They’re playing it in the background on mute for the skins bro
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All those people in chat must be background typing too.
You think all 53,000 of them are typing? Obviously those ones are engaged, but the vast majority? No.
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Probably around 52,000 people typing out the 53,000.
300 people background watching, 20 people using the restroom and the other 680 probably making cups of tea.
That’s so unrealistic its funny.
Well, they had to take turns using the restroom, obviously.
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It means people are having a good time because of Halo Infinite.
I just wanted the gold and black Rockethog skin, because it matches the Rockstar Warthog and Razorback. You think I’m going to watch other people play video games for three hours? No. I leave that muted in a background tab. If there were no drops, I don’t think anyone would really watch HCS, and they know this. 343 is basically paying for bot viewers without paying for bot viewers
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Yes sorry… it’s all about the new mode coming in S4 HaloGo: Gotto catch ‘em Spawn!
I got all the drops on both my main and secondary accounts. That equates to approx 14 hours of viewing in total (7 hours each) for all drops available…I actually watched the stream for less than 5 minutes.
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Came for the rewards, stayed for the Sentinels big W
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You sound like the type of person who likes spawning with an AR and thinks the BR is overpowered
Watching someone play any other type of Halo Infinite is more boring.