So I watch a lot of twitch streamers, a lot. For you of those who stream EU4 have probably seen me lurk and keep chat active. I mainly focus on low-viewer streams to try motivate them to continue streaming.
So when the embargo ended, I saw a lot of new streamers, and I felt most of the english streams were playing CoC. There were also turks, germans, cyrillic titled streams, also quite a few from balkan region, and poland.
But today I came across a streamer, who has a decent number of hours playing (less than 1500h, more than 700h), next to no achivements. This particular streamer has a lot of CK2, HoI, Stellaris content, including EU4 on youtube. But watching this streamer, could not tell which features were from CoC, how they work besides having "heard about a feature but havent read anything about it". This made me sad.
I could tell this person was enjoying streaming with the community, but when I saw a "donation" describing this person as the best EU4 streamer they knew, my heart sank deep. And by best, I interpreted this as skilled. This person has an enjoyable format, relaxing cute chat, but severely lacked knowledge on so many small and big things that comes with just playing the game. (Read between the lines here)
Besides, for me personally, everyone and their parents having CoC on twitch, playing almost all the same nations, ruined the excitement for me. First off the bigger and more famous streamers have a big chat and getting a question in is almost impossible - risking ban for repeating the same thing over and over, so no go - no joy. And you can only see so many Mamluke/persia area runs concurrently on twitch before you get ... bored. I put the rest in that category.
I really enjoy the dev diaries, and it sucked me into this DLC, as the previous ones has done. Once a dev diary is out, it gets shared on Twitch, youtube, Steam, Twitter, Facebook, VK, Reddit and everywhere else imaginable, and chat literally stops while they are being read by the viewers.
But this massive pre-release thing took all the curiosity and excitement away pretty quick, and not just for the DLC, but the game too. I guess you could call me a DLC addict, I need that mystique, not knowing whats up in the next dev diary, counting the days for release, being teased and sucked into "take my money and shut up".
Currently I spend a lot of time on twitch, so perhaps this is what always been happening, but just coincided with me being active there, and the flooding by CoC.
I would like to point to one streamer I really enjoyed learning CoC from, and that was @Colruth
And yes, I know there are a lot of very different players in this game. I also teach new players best fundamental practices, answer their questions, give them links to wiki, try to connect the dots between stuff in this game, on twitch. I enjoy watching their learning progress and epic failures they need to have to learn this game. Example I wont touch terrain penalties until they get rekt and are completely baffled as to why. Because you need to experience some of this stuff, and then get into the mental state 'why did this happen', and then you can explain things. Its a very rewarding hobby. I also have a rule I never speak about anything I'm not 100% sure and have double checked before informing.
I am having a hard time expressing this issue properly, so if I'm not alone, please share your thoughts too. I felt that pdx should know how at least one of their players experienced this release. Hoping for not-so-many red ticks.
So when the embargo ended, I saw a lot of new streamers, and I felt most of the english streams were playing CoC. There were also turks, germans, cyrillic titled streams, also quite a few from balkan region, and poland.
But today I came across a streamer, who has a decent number of hours playing (less than 1500h, more than 700h), next to no achivements. This particular streamer has a lot of CK2, HoI, Stellaris content, including EU4 on youtube. But watching this streamer, could not tell which features were from CoC, how they work besides having "heard about a feature but havent read anything about it". This made me sad.
I could tell this person was enjoying streaming with the community, but when I saw a "donation" describing this person as the best EU4 streamer they knew, my heart sank deep. And by best, I interpreted this as skilled. This person has an enjoyable format, relaxing cute chat, but severely lacked knowledge on so many small and big things that comes with just playing the game. (Read between the lines here)
Besides, for me personally, everyone and their parents having CoC on twitch, playing almost all the same nations, ruined the excitement for me. First off the bigger and more famous streamers have a big chat and getting a question in is almost impossible - risking ban for repeating the same thing over and over, so no go - no joy. And you can only see so many Mamluke/persia area runs concurrently on twitch before you get ... bored. I put the rest in that category.
I really enjoy the dev diaries, and it sucked me into this DLC, as the previous ones has done. Once a dev diary is out, it gets shared on Twitch, youtube, Steam, Twitter, Facebook, VK, Reddit and everywhere else imaginable, and chat literally stops while they are being read by the viewers.
But this massive pre-release thing took all the curiosity and excitement away pretty quick, and not just for the DLC, but the game too. I guess you could call me a DLC addict, I need that mystique, not knowing whats up in the next dev diary, counting the days for release, being teased and sucked into "take my money and shut up".
Currently I spend a lot of time on twitch, so perhaps this is what always been happening, but just coincided with me being active there, and the flooding by CoC.
I would like to point to one streamer I really enjoyed learning CoC from, and that was @Colruth
And yes, I know there are a lot of very different players in this game. I also teach new players best fundamental practices, answer their questions, give them links to wiki, try to connect the dots between stuff in this game, on twitch. I enjoy watching their learning progress and epic failures they need to have to learn this game. Example I wont touch terrain penalties until they get rekt and are completely baffled as to why. Because you need to experience some of this stuff, and then get into the mental state 'why did this happen', and then you can explain things. Its a very rewarding hobby. I also have a rule I never speak about anything I'm not 100% sure and have double checked before informing.
I am having a hard time expressing this issue properly, so if I'm not alone, please share your thoughts too. I felt that pdx should know how at least one of their players experienced this release. Hoping for not-so-many red ticks.
