EVE General Discussion

Improving our presence on twitch.tv would increase our legitimacy as an e-sport that requires skill within the gaming community, I find it in bad taste that eve has such a small fan base for streaming, and I think the community should focus on promoting eve via the live streams in order to not only gain recognition, but increase interest in our beloved game.

So I propose the first ever reach out to the eve community, let this post be a motivating factor in populating twitch with eve streams, and increasing our viewer presence to gain front page recognition to complete with lesser games that don't deserve such followings.


Perhaps corporate leaders could be so obliged as to eve mail their respective player bases and to convince them to watch your stream, I also see great potential in using live streams as a mean of intelligence gathering with the possibility to have multiple people coordinating live local broadcasting in active pvp areas it may encourage more fights, and reduce gate camps, thanks to intelligence gathering from key covert ops streamers. This is just one way I see eve evolving in the future, another means may be an e-sport related tournaments that are player driven, and offer content that's not seen within other games, such as the psychological impact of losing isk, and items. Perhaps we could higher psyche major to talk about why meaningful pvp is the only pvp thats inspires emotion, and why eve players may or may not have micro dicks.

Don't think Twitch TV goes well with EVE due to the ability to know what a person or corp is doing. Might be OK for someone to stream doing missions, but beyond that...yea, not much.

There's not even enough EvE players to post at game sites about the game, forget a niche of niches.

If folks want to promote EvE in other venues they have to be out there, even challenge other games.

Goto sites like MMORPG, and a thread about EvE will be steamrolled by the numbers of other game players alone, futher beating it down to a "sandbox" redheaded stepchild game ("sandbox" is a codeword for "fail" by other gamers) with less players than GW2.

It's even difficult to promote WoW at twitch, because those that follow it are those who'd arena, and that's not the main focus of that game. MLG won't even include it's arenas in it's lineup, as it's not balanced.

EVE has been dying for years, but the reality of it is that soon games like ELITE Dangerous, and Star Citizen with more diverse game play options will definitely hurt EVE's current population. Unless CCP gets serious and adds real avatar game play, players are more likely to go where avatar characters are as important as ships.

WTF is a 'sodapoppins'?

Please don't tell us it's some stupid WOW thing.

Then it is as I feared, we have already lost.

Star Citizen won't offer meaningful PvP, the game is based completely on hype, and will be a distant memory in the near future after its release.

eve is a boring game to watch other people play. i sometimes fall asleep while watching my own screen...to say nothing of watching someone else watching theirs.

CCP could maybe work with Twitch to have an official 'EVE Players' stream which got shared between a few different people.

Or maybe just have a dedicated "I'm sitting on a titan" cam.

I streamed some on twitch the other day and felt like a pro - even though I'm not.

/c

Well sorta, I was running around in the Veldspar DUST.