Why do fags here watch streamers play their favorite game instead of play it themselves? Whats the point other than maybe not having enough time because of work?
>>720866010Honest answer?I use it sometimes to get into the mood of playing and try to hype myself up to play
>>720866010it's because society is collapsing. it's over
>>720866010Why do fags here watch... huh? Did I say that already?
>>720866010F
streamers are exclusively a poorfag problem.
>>720866010I. AM. A. POORFAG. or i really don't care about the game that much
>tfw theres no diehard games
Same reason I used to leave my TV running in the background while doing homework as a kid.
>>7208660101. I'm lonely and want to hear someone talking about bideo games near me2. I want validation for my opinions on games I've played, or want to see games that look kind of interesting maybe, but not interesting enough for me to be arsed to buy them/set up emulation
sometimes the guy in the box makes me laugh
>>720866010Why not both? Nothing to watch on tv anyways.
>>720866248>>720866307>>720866410:(
>>720866804>I'm lonely and want to hear someone talking about bideo games near meOp here. I'll concede because I have this problem too I'm just testing the waters due to not knowing who to watch. I'm very lonely
>>720866010A lot of my favourite games just aren't very replayable.Mystery games, for example, lose all of their challenge (and thus become boring) on a second playthrough because I already know all the answers; at that point it'd actually be MORE entertaining to watch some chucklefuck streamer/youtuber play them than to replay them myself, because at least the streamer will be figuring things out for the first time and might have some interesting and/or amusing reactions
>>720866410i feel like there's at least 10 videogames from the 90s about navigating a skyscraper and clearing it out from terrorists
>>720866410There are multiple made for SEGA systems.Die Hard Arcade, Die Hard Trilogy, Dynamite Cop / Dynamite Dekka
>>720866010It's not super often I catch livestreams. I'm significantly more likely to watch a VOD since I can do that on my own time. I've been doing YT for a bit now and have reached a point where I'm happy with my vids and I'm finding a balance between editing and streaming. I also find it extremely difficult to watch others when I'm focused on my own stuff, unless I'm watching others with the intention of bettering myself. Makes it difficult to make friends in the space. If I do watch others, then it's only for games I've already played myself.
>>720866410What the fuck have I been playing then?
i watch esports or people who are very good at a game. i do it when im tired or just dont feel like playing vidya right then.
>>720866010EVO last year for 3rd strike was awesomedidn't watch this year
>>720866410You could always play this Bruce Willis game
>>720866010What Bruce Willis movies did Kojima rip off?
>>720868483die hard man
i've only ever watched streamers who are good at the game to try and learn from themthe more recent phenomenon of parasocially watching streamers for tits or because you agree with their politics is retarded
>>720866010It's for friendless losers
I dont watch streamers but i do archive their VODs
>>720866010Why do fags here watch athletes play their favorite sport instead of play it themselves? Whats the point other than maybe not having enough time because of work?
>>720871954>comparing vydia to a physical activity like sports
>>720866917 he's like a little gremlin that screams about jumpscares and falls off cliffs in minecraft, it's oddly comforting after a long day doing nothing at all.
>>720866010I just want to watch other people enjoy my favorite games
>>720873249>watch people to see them enjoy your game>they end up shitting all over itnot too good ace
>>720872147t. Sits his fat ass on the couch with his beer and wings watching SPORTSBAWL
>>720873331I have yet to watch someone do that who wasn't either DSP or a sweat who hates fun
>>720866010The same reason those same fags are freaking out about not being able to play borderlands 4 right now. The same reason those same fags are freaking out about nintendo prices right now.They're poor fucking losers lmfao
>>720866010>work
>>720866010i don't watch them play games i haven't played, i watch them play games i have played to see another person's live perspective of it because my friends have long since grown out of playing video games and I have no one else to talk to about them beside you disingenuous fucks or streamers
>>720873567>refusing to pay 70$ for a re-release of games that were made two generations ago is poorfag behavior
>>720874293No one is forcing you to buy them though. It's literally such a dumb complaint. If you were old enough when they came out you already have them if you didn't get to experience them then it's $70 for 2 great games you've never played. It's not like you have to give you switch back to nintendo if you don't buy it lmfao. You guys are so fucking gay and annoying.
>>720866010I don't. The only streamer I watch does variety streams of mostly indie games I don't want to download without seeing some gameplay first , the only games he does repeatedly are autism sim games like CDDA which is always fun to see how people customize it or mods for popular games I might want to check out
>>720874781Just to point out, this isn't some new fad or random thing. NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, etc. games were all rereleased on stuff like the GBA and DS and people loved it. Now suddenly zoomies are like "omg wtf this game already came out how dare I have to pay money for it!1!!!"It's fucking embarrassing.
>>720873357Beer and wings are an overrated as fuck combo. Whiskey and wings , beer and Thai food is what a patrician eats when watching niggerball
Because I can bully them for being bad at the game.
>>720866010>Doing art or gamedev with it on the second monitor>Playing a chill game and using it like a podcast>Watching something while browsing 4chanThere are plenty of times where it seems reasonable to have someone/people talking in your ear while you do something.
>>720866010I really don't understand how anyone really has time for anything. Feels like all I do is sleep eat, work and play some video games when I have time.
>>720873357I love when fags make this comparison lmfao. There's a difference between watching peak athleticism in sports vs playing yourself. Also most people who watch sports play sports but it's a lot more expensive and complicated then gaming is(my rec beer league fees per year are around $2k without including travel, gear, beer, etc.) Meanwhile I can launch CS2 at any hour and play a match AND I can play against Global Elites because I'm not a loser. Same for any other competitive game. If I want to play BL4, or Oblvion, or DK Bananza, etc. I can. Watching a streamer play makes no damn sense lmao.
>>720875104Yeah but there's actual content that's better for that (and music) then some faggot puppeteering his faggotry for the camera while playing a game you could just be playing.
>>720874781What a fucking retarded post. If I'm not buying the 70$ games some tendie consoomer is, therefore reinforcing this shitty behavior to Nintendo making them do this practice in the near future ultimately fucking up even more good will among the fan base and drawing even more people away due to bullshit prices on everything. Refusing to buy games on these obviously bullshit prices is a good practice that helps send a message.
>>720875189Once you're older and have an established career if you don't ruin your free time with having kids it's pretty easy. Even easier if you get a WFH job.
>>720875257>there's actual content that's better for thatLike what
>>720875291>if I don't enjoy something no one else canYou cannot comprehend how retarded you sound? $70 is literally pocket change for me dude. Gaming is the fucking cheapest shit I can possibly spend my money on. Like, if I bought a $70 game every single week for a year it'd only be 4% of my income, if you add it on top of my bills and remove taxes I'd still have 29% of my income left to spend on other stuff, or literally almost 8 times as much as I spent on those video games. And of course, obviously, no one is buying 1 game a week full price for a year. It was harder for me to buy a gamecube game in 2001 then it is for me to buy a brand new console or PC part currently in 2025. Like, get a job you fucking bum and put the fries in the bag. Newsflash faggot, $70 isn't expensive, it's especially not expensive for video games literally and historically.You're not going to send a message because you're an outlier.
>>720875664>t.professional cock gobbler
>>720875397Plenty of good youtube channels to subscribe to that release videos on a good schedule and youtube premium is dirt cheap (including music) also if you're not retarded you could set up a plex server and have live tv channels and stuff you set up(I have 10 channels setup like [as], mtv2, comedy central, cartoon network, etc.) on top of just generally newly released content. I have a 57" UW monitor and usually I have stuff in the middle and YT or Plex open on the right and discord on the left. Watching streamers and shit is like the lowest form of content you could consume, I'd even put it over fucking reality tv and gay ass shows like dancing with the stars.
>>720866410How could you forget the 2002 classic, Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza?
>>720875802Notice how instead of forming a proper response you resort to insults. Sad, I'm gonna buy 3 copies just to piss you off. 1 for me, 1 for my gf, and 1 for my best friend
>>720875664>You cannot comprehend how retarded you sound? $70 is literally pocket change for me dudeIt's all I needed to know that your a corporate cocksucking consoomer. Thank god I wasn't born a retard who consooms for the sake of it
>>720866917how is he so witty all the time
>>720866116i do that with dorf fort sometimes as I'm learning; watching ambiguousapmpihibian is comfy
>>720866010most people watch streams for the streamers themselves. it's not like I'm going out of my way tp watch some unknown fag play a game i like.
>>720867553I would like to ask the same thing
>>720876138Bro not cool, please deleat this post I'm too sad over his condition
reading about Bruce Willis's dementia is genuinely depressing
>>720875983This weird association of people who have money being "consoomers" is so retarded and poor coded lmfao. Nigga my net worth is half a mil, I'm set to retire with millions in savings, I travel the world frequently, and I have a loving amazing girlfriend. Not everyone is a destitute loser man. It's mostly just young people, and the more I interact with you faggots the more I'm glad you're all mentally deranged trannies who don't enjoy anything. And I know this is gonna sound like boastful faggotry but I'm literally one of the poorest people in my friend group from a small midwest suburb, I don't even make 6 figures yet(If you weren't smart enough to figure out that math from earlier). God if /v/ was as insufferable about shit like the chrono trigger or mario 64 DS releases back in the day I never would have stayed here long enough to be having these stupid fucking conversations with you faggots.
>>720875842>Plenty of good youtube channels to subscribe toBut that's what I'm watching>and youtube premium is dirt cheap (including music)Why would I pay for thatI also don't watch TV shows, and I'd rather give anime my full attention rather than just have it on in the background and not pay attention. I don't need to have a ton of stuff on my screens, just a youtube vid off the side of whatever I'm doing is enough for me, even discord stays in the taskbar since I'm usually not using it.
>>720876398>more rambling about how cool he is with being a cocksucking consoomer drone and blowing his cash on retarded bullshit.k.
>>720876247tf you feeling sad for this dude for, his daughters arent sad at all
>>720876529...what else is cash used for but to be spent on retarded bullshit?
>>720866248evil
>>720876421>Why would I pay for thatBecause it's dirt cheap, makes it ad free, gives you a music app, and supports the channels you watch? What a dumb question.>I also don't watch TV shows, and I'd rather give anime my full attention Anime is a tv show. It's what one of my channels are 24/7 anime channel, also rewatching bleach rn. While enjoying new SP, KotH, and futurama inbetween.
>>720875664NTA, but it's not even about the money and how much disposable income you have, it's how SMART you are about your money and where and how you spend it.tldr : you're a consoooooomer faggot KEK, and part of the huuuge problem we have with the gaming industry nowadays. Bet you're a brainless bingbing wahooooo faggot fanboy too. Nintendo looooves your money
>>720875664This is quite literally seamonkey behavior let me guess you're also a gachafag?
>>720876657>KEKI keep forgetting how 4chan fucking censors the world c*ck and transforms it to "kek" , what a faggot ass website this has become.
>>720876398That's nice and allJust remember, eye of a needle
>>720876645>makes it ad freeBro, your ad blocker and extensions to mitigate the other bullshit?And like I already said, I want to give my full attention to what I watch.Listening to people is something I can just put on in the background so there's noise in my ear, I don't actually care what they're playing or what they're doing, they're just there to possibly say something funny.
>>720876657I am smart with my money though. I buy probably like 10 or less new games a year. That's literally like, .008% of my income lmfao. You make no sense.
>>720866010I don't want to play that game, so I watch someone else play it while I also play a different game.
>>720876723A man with great wealth hands it down to his children while he ascends to heaven having lived a rich life.
>>720876690No, but I do go to Vegas about once a year with friends. The closest thing to gacha and me was when I went to Japan I visited the Nintendo store and got the controller keychain things from the gumball machines. Of course it only cost like $10 usd to get all of them iirc, big whoop.>>720876807Why worry about an adblocker when you can just pay $10 to have a service you watch for 100s of hours a month? This is what I mean about zoomers having to be so fucking poor to be this retarded. Meanwhile you probably uber everywhere and use doordash 24/7>>720876723>>720876981Christianity is gay and me and friends spend a shit ton of our money on each other instead of just hogging it and going "look ma! I'm not a consoomer my bank account is 100000000" Also it's just money, you can always make more if you're not a mentally ill retard. Work is easy, networking for good jobs is even easier.
>>720871954Because being a peak athlete is more of a challenge than being a faggot who cracks unfunny jokes while playing games at an average skill level.
>>720877165>Why worry about an adblocker when you can just pay $10 to have a service you watch for 100s of hours a month?>paying instead of actually using the free adblocker and saving cashI encourage to go back to whatever normalfag shithole you came from jesus christ.
>>720877519Nigga my Plex server is over 50TB of pirated content. There's nothing wrong with paying for a good service.
>>720866804Its weird to think they only had about a million subs at their peak yet made a living for three dudes.
>>720874938>variety streams of mostly indie games>autism sim games like CDDAAre you talking about Tomato?>>720876002Experience, he's been streaming for over 10 years
>>720877165>Why worry about an adblocker when you can just pay $10 to have a service you watch for 100s of hours a month?Because I get all your benefits for free>Meanwhile you probably uber everywhere and use doordash 24/7I cook for myselfSounds like the retard here is you for wasting your money
I think it's because the idea of playing a game is more enjoyable than the act playing them. Not for me of course, I prefer playing games to watching them. But I think that's why people would rather watch.
>>720866010My PC can't run most modern games and I can't be asked to upgrade it. Plus I have a hand injury that makes gaming for long people of time unbearable
>>720877715free adblocker + ublock origin is infinitely better than some retarded service for 10 bucks. Its also better if you raspberry pi your router to block ads then and there
>>720871954The barrier to entry to playing a team sport is to have a venue, enough people to form two teams, and equipment. The barrier to entry to playing a video game is to have the fucking video game. And I say this as someone who doesn't watch or remotely give a shit about sports.
>>720866010They're underage and their mom won't buy them the game. There is literally no other reason.
>>720877943You guys keep saying "wasting your money" but it's not a waste. You don't get YT music for free lmfao and I use that for hours a day. Meanwhile you have to keep circumventing google messing with your ad blocker while I always enjoy YT with 0 issues in the highest quality. For literally pennies a month. The thing that is super obvious when talking to people in lower tax brackets is you say shit like "waste money" when referring to dollar amounts like $10 lol. $10 is roughly what I spend on a cigar and I'm buying those by the box.
>>720876218It's the second game in Die Hard Trilogy. It's a Virtua Cop clone.
>>720878093>infinitely betterNo it's not lol. I subscribed to google music like a decade ago or whatever and it's been flawless ever since. You sound like you're trying to explain why it's better to be poor lmao.
>>720878464>just consoom something thats freejesus christ You sound like you're trying to explain why its better to be a consoomer drone lol.
>>720878321It ain't the 2010's bro, I haven't touched my ad blocker since getting it, I search what music I want to hear and listen to it hassle free.
>>720866917His takes on quirk chungus and texting while driving were abysmal.
>>720878212My hockey league is over $3000 a session in team fees for 12 games + playoffs. So like $300 a person 3x a year. We play after all the kids and bullshit as well so your average game is at like 10pm or later unless it's summer session. Equipment degrades pretty fast depending on the level you play at and sticks can be from $50 (trash) to $400(also trash). I think my golf club set cost like almost $1500? Not to mention cheap balls like Members Mark are $25 a box and good balls are $50+ for a dozen. Green fees and cart fees can be $30-$100 per person. So just golfing once a week for 2/3rds of the year can be like $2000.Kids here are too poor young and stupid with no friends to comprehend anything outside being upset at their cheap video games.
>>720878582>just consoomStop with this bullshit. If you weren't a braindead "consoomer" you wouldn't be on 4chan right now discussing things that cost money on a pc/phone/whatever that cost money with an internet subscription that cost money. Stop being a consoomer and just go off yourself.>>720878586>I search what music I want to hear and listen to it hassle free.Searching sounds like hassle to me. Also you clearly wouldn't have it remotely available anywhere on anything, sounds like another hassle to me.
>>720878321>Meanwhile you have to keep circumventing google messing with your ad blocker while I always enjoy YT with 0 issues in the highest quality. For literally pennies a month.>He can't into finding alternatives for his favorite platforms that provide the services for free
almost all the time I spend on twitch is for competitive (mostly 1v1) games that I playbut sometimes after I beat a game I like to watch others play it to see how they do on certain parts
>>720878925>having to look for alternatives to a service>because you can't afford the serviceput the fries in the bag bro
>>720878874>this site was made for braindead retarded consoomers like me otherwise why would you be here? kys
>>720866010The high profile streamer phenomenon is just bots acting as cover for money laundering.
>>720879007This entire board is about video games. You know, an entertainment sector that costs money to enjoy and consume.You cannot enjoy video games without some sort of consumption. So you might as well fuck off.
>>720879095>conveniently ignores piracy and how most anons pirate their games on this board and aren't throwing money around being retarded consoomersagain kys
>>720879170I'm not ignoring anything. You can pirate the game sure, then what? How are you playing that game? Sounds like consumption to me.
>>720866010If I have already completed the game there is no point in doing so again. That's the same kind of masturbation that gets people into speedrunning.If I'm watching someone play a game I have played I would like to see their mistakes or their approach, like a master observing a student.
>>720879170You sure are taking a long time to reply to >>720879239
>>720878981literally not my problem that your normalfag brain doesn't allow you to not spend money on otherwise free shit
>>720879435It's not free though. Also the free way is a shitty experience vs the paid.
>>720879510>It's not free thoughyes it is>Also the free way is a shitty experience vs the paid.No not really especially when you can find a cracked version or modded one of the real thing if any alternative do not show up.Again its not my problem that you have learned helplessness
>their favorite gameswrongi just watch multiplayer slop that i'm too lazy to play myself or games with little-to-no story (roguelikes, civ games, etc.)i will only watch someone play a game I enjoy playing myself if I've already completed it and know it inside and out
>>720879665The fuck are you talking about? The fuck is the cracked version or modded version of youtube?
>>720879781>freetube (both mobile and desktop)>revanced>pipepipe>tubular (fork of pipepipe)>mytube>vutube>modded youtube clientquite alot of youtube frontends and clients if you actually went out and looked
>>720879959Why would I go out and look for broke people shit?
>>720879239>>720879432Damn, got called out on consooming and fled.
>>720880398I accept your concession
>>720880515What concession? That I can spend money on youtube and you can't? This is such a retarded thought.
>>720866010I dont watch streams much, but i did recently see oney plays play third strike so i decided to hop on and fight them, and watch while i was waiting for my matches
>>720866010i have pretty bad depression and I like having someone playing games in the background while I'm doing other stuff because the music/sounds of the game and the streamer talking and making jokes and stuff makes me feel better for some reason.
