Gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming on YouTube and Twitch than playing games themselves.
    • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The wisdom of streams is simple.

      I do shit with my life other than gaming. If I want to experience a cool game without spending the money and without investing the time to get good at the game, it’s a no-brainer to watch a playthrough done by a professional gamer and a professional live commentator like the best streamers are.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Never really understood watching it when playing is also very little effort. It’s not football.

    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m definitely one of those people, but I work in an office where they let us watch shit on our phones as long as the work still gets done. A hell of a lot easier to watch YT videos than to try to sneak an Xbox S into a cubicle farm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I didn’t use it, but I’m still salty that publishers had a fit about that. It’s honestly none of their fucking business where you run your games.

          I’m not investing in a cloud only platform like Google’s abandoned attempt, so the only hope is a hybrid like Geforce Now.

            • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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              2 years ago

              A guy at work used to use a cloud service called Shadow PC.

              They’d basically rent a gaming PC out and he’d just torrent them right on to the cloud machine. Pretty sure mods would have worked there.

              It felt a touch laggy with a mouse, but a controller would probably have been just fine. It’s a shame there’s a disconnect between what gamers want (a gaming PC that’s just somewhere else) and what providers want (a walled garden).