I follow a gentleman named Pestily on twitch and he’s the most popular Escape From Tarkov streamer on twitch. He has over 2 thousand and counting viewers on his stream today than the official Halo competitive channel. The funniest part is that Tarkov to my knowledge doesn’t even have any twitch drops to boost viewership! Every one of these Halo comp streams have inflated view counts so guys like me can get the free skins and its pretty sad that we’re at the year and a half mark with Infinite and its fallen into obscurity.
Meanwhile Fortnite and Warzone are 2+ years older than Infinite and have more viewers averaging in a day than Infinite has peak players for the month lol.
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Well what do you expect, very few people are left playing this game, 95%+ of the playerbase left, in large part due to lack of content, destync, high ping, overly agrressive sbmm ecc.
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That’s Nice, good for him 
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You have to admit. This has got to be the most poorly handled games in Halo’s existence. And it’s still better than Vanguard.
That takes a special kind of talent.
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watching someone else play 4v4 multiplayer is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Ooh look he jumped and then 4 shot someone with the battle rifle. Good stuff.
BR games seem to just have more variety and play styles and POI’s to interact with and learn about. The pacing of BRs also give team members time to talk with each other and their audience in character instead of just constantly giving “he’s one-shot” callouts the entire time.
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I guess it’s because it’s a big area.
Most people tune into these Twitch streams to get the free stuff or get those Twitch points for their account. The moment those rewards are redeemed, the streams start losing viewers. Sure lots of players watch the beginning of Halo HCS but by Sunday(which is the best day of any HCS event), those numbers are cut in half. I know a guy who watches Twitch streams and redeems drops for games he doesn’t even own lol He says it’s just for points that goes towards his Twitch level and if he ever does play that specific game he’ll already have unlocks waiting for him.
Also, normal Halo matches are incredibly boring to watch. I only somewhat enjoy watching the Pros play because I can learn new skill jumps or tactics. That’s why hardly anyone is streaming this game outside of HCS events. Only the Semi-pros and Pros stream this game and most of that is to prove that they are “at work.”
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That what I never understood about professional halo. Its so bloody boring.
I’d rather watch a bunch of amateurs with funny commentary then this.
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Oh my god. I just can’t.
You know what else has a low viewer count?
CSGO
You know why? These are tournament games.
Nobody cares about watching anything other than Major events.
When orlando rolls around, it will get 150k just like Kansas city did. At the moment the EU reginal is sitting at 15k which is really good for the EU because well. Halo is NA dominated. Not many people care about anything outside of US players.
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You tube is where it is at… they had like 150 viewers earlier… smashing it!
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Did not read.
Here’s the facts
HCS Kansas city.
THIS IS SUNDAY ONLY
Peak concurrent viewership: 150k
Overall views. 1.2 MILLION.
You’re wrong
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This is also facts… 20 million players have created accounts on Halo Infinite… but but… where are they now?
Oh yeahhhh they ran off to MCC lol or to a different game.
Besides this forum, where else can we gauge the amount of players playing Halo Infinite? Using ONE or TWO events in two or three months doesn’t prove ANYTHING at all. So what else can we use to gauge the population more accurately?
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You haven’t watched 1 professional Halo event.
Ad hominem. The white flag of a lost argument.
You can’t refute the numbers so back to school yard insults, which I’m not surprised by from a waypoint, kid,
Also who the hell cares if they were Halo players? That’s the entire point of Esports. To pull an audience old and new. What is your point? It’s the year 2022. A healthy Esports scene brings with it a Healthy game.
The HCS so far has been a success but the issue, once again, is the PC community feels left out. That is a problem in the year 2022. It’s not 2008 anymore where everybody has xbox.
I don’t blame him. You’re pretty rude.
Chill out.
This thread was relatively peaceful until you walked in.
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A number we can see clear as day by simply looking them up is not an “OPINION”
Saying that Sundays during the HCS is where viewership dips, when in reality the numbers are on Twitch to see with a simple search in a search bar that say the opposite, is not an “OPINION”
Facts are objective truth. It’s not a matter of opinion. I don’t like when people just say lies for the sake of it.
I never needed a number to see infinite is in bad shape.
My question is do you see it that? I can see it plain as day. It’s not hard.
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Infinite is in bad shape because this community is stuck in 2008 and refuses to let it go. This isn’t xbox, PS, and Nintendo are the dominate platforms people play on anymore. Nobody cares about console games anymore. Unless you have a solid PC title, that is competitive, and played by the big name streamers, nobody cares.
Halo MISSED that opportunity by focusing on a dead platform style and it’s top players only being supported by that dead platform. I love all the Halo pros but we needed Halo to be at lead 50% PC 50% console, and it failed.