There are way too many guide channels at this point, most of which just copy off each other, or worse just read whats on wowhead Personally the only content I enjoy are the machinima videos that tell a story. Seen some really creative ones over the years and love it.
So yes, I too wish people would go back to being creative and make fun videos.
As for streaming etc. Don’t see any value in it and never have. Imo its bad for gaming as a whole. Devs should strive to create games people want to play, not watch someone else play.
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What is probably needed is a way to display and curate the WoW content from youtube in a more organised fashion. Twitch is a lost cause.
There’s probably some more old school, fun content out there but it’s buried by the trash.
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I watch only entertaining ones(like CaptainGrim and alike machinima/parodies) or guides.
The “WoW is bad because X” type of videos I avoid cause they have no substance just regurgitate what people want to hear anyway. If the current trend is to hate on Blizzard or its devs then they will post all kinds of vile hatred. If the trend is to like Blizzard then they will be singing praises left and right.
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Do you mean machinimas, like Illegal Danish and Azertothian Super Villains and other of the sort? That would be a massive yes from me. I remember loving this as a teen yeaaaaars ago.
I might be on the minority here, but I never watch people streaming video games, any kind. If I’m sitting on my pc/console, is because I want to game not watch others do so. Watching a specific guide of course is different. But the whole some webcam pointing at some person’s face whilst they play, big old nope.
I do enjoy watching channels like Bellular, Nobbel, and a few other more comedic ones. I enjoy Tomkek as well, an artist that recreates old warcraft mounts, weapons and armours with today’s graphical standards
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i personally made so many wow contents during these years.
mostly pvp and everything that me and some of my friends did in the game.
mostly for memories
I listen to the Weekly news and weekly reset from Bellular and SoulSoBreezy, and sometimes I let Dratnos read me patch notes when I´m doing other things.
Most of the others are either to full of speculation or constantly spoilering things, and I can do without both.
Though Nobbel’s lore videos or Platinum WoWs “top 10” videos are generally also quality content, and The Flying Buttress’ interpretations of lore Books are comedy gold
I don’t watch much streaming content, I work for 8 hours a day, and sleep for 8 hours a day, leaving only 8 hours left for things I need to do.
Take out cleaning, laundry, eating, and other such necessary parts of life there might be 2 or 3 hours a day left for actual hobbies, I’m not going to spend it watching videos about games, I am going to spend it playing them.
I think a lot of people who watch WoW streams don’t actually play the game (I read somewhere a large portion of for example: asmongold’s audience don’t play WoW) so you won’t find opinions here from them about how good or bad the content is.
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Same here. Like you I loved the machinimas, and vids like Tomkek’s are awesome imo, but I can’t think of many things that bore me as much as watching a streamer play WoW
My husband follows some things on Youtube, mostly building and wood carving related but he’s also a fan of Broughy and his GTA hilarity. I do enjoy watching that now and then because it’s just funny and he seems like a thoroughly decent guy.
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If you play arena, shuffle or blitz sure Ill watch you
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You can already do that if you manipulate your personalized algorithm by carefully culling stuff you don’t like. Removing content from your watched history, blocking channels from being pushed to you and such. I do this quite extensively because I don’t want to see stuff recommended that I already know I’ll hate.
While this is good advice, I tend to find that the recommendations include stuff that they are paid to place there / are popular, despite my having no interest in or watching that sort of video ever.
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There is only one kind of gaming related videos o watch and that is lore.
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I watch new players, news, opinions etc. I don’t watch anyone who pushes keys or raids, that’s so boring.
The main point is you, are you entertaining to watch. If so, you could make content about a worm and people would watch it.
I rarely get that kind of stuff. But then again; I suppose my viewing habits are pretty niche. Basically my whole algorithm consists of: WoW, Lego, DnD and some Movie related stuff (and karaoke videos because I like to sing and keep my skills up - was in a band for years - but I usually block those because I have a big playlist and if I want to add something new I’ll search for that specifically).
And besides that I tend to go into these rabbit holes from time to time and watch a lot of videos on a certain subject or with a certain theme - I’ve watched lots of videos of tiny homes, house tours, travel vlogs, abandoned places, documentaries on all kinds of places around the world (had a time where I was devouring Antarctica documentaries and vlogs from people working there, for instance) and lots of other stuff.
I prefer videos that I can I learn something from; I don’t really watch youtube videos that are just entertainment.
But at some point I get bored with a topic or theme and cleanse it from my algorithm. If you know what you’re doing it’s easy to manipulate, just takes a little effort.
I only watch Soulbreezy since Hazel stopped uploading on YT and only for WoW News or some Guides. I don’t watch pure Gameplay Videos, they usually bore me to Death.
I think personally its more the personality of the streamer than the content. If people like you, then it kinda doesn’t matter too much about the content. I don’t think people watch purely for gameplay anymore, unless its some world first thing.
I would watch you if you streamed arena, shuffle or blitz
I don’t like wow streamers and stuff, they are often bad players with main character syndrom.
I only watched Nax for improving my holy priest gameplay but she gave up about hpriest because Blizzard nuke our spec to the ground
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It’s the creative component I reckon. If somebody is doing something, well, creative and new, it’s a lot more fun. Just playing a game, even if somebody is playing well or making “fun” commentary whilst playing, I wouldn’t classify that as creative. Entertaining maybe. So depends what people are after?
I can see the comedic value in people trying to break the game in silly ways or do ridiculous feats. Like there was this silly pvp guy that wowhead used to highlight often that just found weird and interesting ways to break the game. Like he would have a horde of 100 pets from a quest following him and one shotting everything, or I think he once did 40 dks vs 40 hunters in alterac valley. Wacky stuff like that.
Whilst Baldur’s Gate 3 was hot stuff, a lot players made hilarious videos on how to break things. Some person managed to climbed up a really tall tower by stacking boxes on top of each other for example…
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I either strongly dislike or refuse to interact with most WoW “content.” I don’t watch gameplay streams because I find it beyond useless to watch someone play the game when I could be, you know, playing the game myself. News-style videos I also ignore, since most of the time I can just save 9 minutes and read the Wowhead article instead. Once in a blue moon I will watch a M+ tactics video. I don’t play PvP competitively enough to care about improving. And don’t even get me started on the absolute twerps that make clickbait videos about some absolutely deranged theories they pulled outta their butts…
What I would watch are roleplay streams/videos, though.