Like a huge fag.
I really don't do it very often, actually. Pretty much never until this week.
I followed a couple Magic: The Gathering things recently. Today they tweeted about a couple people streaming the New Gen console version of the video game. I've already played it on 360, but I was still curious to see how the streams were.
None of them are happening yet except for the MicrosoftStudios one.
So I go in there and there's like 20 people watching.
Must have just started.
Actually no. It got to about 30 people at times. That seemed shockingly low for a seemingly important Twitch channel. I don't really spend a lot of time on twitch, so I guess I misjudged what a corporate twitch channel can pull in.
The chat was full of people not actually talking about the game at all. Two or three mods. They were just telling anecdotes and occasionally following along when the guy streaming tried to force some hype. I imagine at least 10 out of ~25 of the people there were Microsoft employees. Probably closer to 15. He kept telling people to be active in chat in order to help you win a giveaway, but all of that nonsense those Microsoft employees were filling up the silence with actually made talking about the game stick out. It felt uncomfortable to even talk about the goddamn game! Especially when he reads your comment out load and there's so much pressure omg.
I empathized with the guy and the awkwardness of the room pained me. So much so that I found myself more interested in how this Microsoft employee was acting than the game itself. He was just okay at what he was doing. Not great. I wanted to give him pointers but thought it might make the whole thing even weirder.
I kind of felt bad for everyone involved in that stream and I didn't want to leave it with one less viewer. I was one of like literally 2 people who actually made a couple comments about the game. About 5 messages total, I think. I figured they might notice my absence if I left and feel like COMPLETE disappointments, rather than just mostly so, so I stayed.
I would have to say that it was an interesting hour for sure. I got to observe a lot of awkwardness. I probably wouldn't do it again though.
But, y'know, I wouldn't have told you this story if it didn't have SOMETHING interesting in it.
They gave away about 5 keys for the game throughout, and one of the last ones was an actual quiz about the content of game instead of randomness. I knew I would win because nobody was fucking paying attention in that whole room.
Surprisingly, another guy guessed a misspelled version of the answer a few seconds after me. That made 2 active viewers and/or people who actually gave a fuck about MtG.
tl;dr
I now have what I think is a key for Magic: The Gathering, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015 for what I believe is the Xbox One. I might keep it because I might get an Xbone and might want to play it on there one day.
Or I might just give it to one of you fucks if you're actually interested in it.
I really don't do it very often, actually. Pretty much never until this week.
I followed a couple Magic: The Gathering things recently. Today they tweeted about a couple people streaming the New Gen console version of the video game. I've already played it on 360, but I was still curious to see how the streams were.
None of them are happening yet except for the MicrosoftStudios one.
So I go in there and there's like 20 people watching.
Must have just started.
Actually no. It got to about 30 people at times. That seemed shockingly low for a seemingly important Twitch channel. I don't really spend a lot of time on twitch, so I guess I misjudged what a corporate twitch channel can pull in.
The chat was full of people not actually talking about the game at all. Two or three mods. They were just telling anecdotes and occasionally following along when the guy streaming tried to force some hype. I imagine at least 10 out of ~25 of the people there were Microsoft employees. Probably closer to 15. He kept telling people to be active in chat in order to help you win a giveaway, but all of that nonsense those Microsoft employees were filling up the silence with actually made talking about the game stick out. It felt uncomfortable to even talk about the goddamn game! Especially when he reads your comment out load and there's so much pressure omg.
I empathized with the guy and the awkwardness of the room pained me. So much so that I found myself more interested in how this Microsoft employee was acting than the game itself. He was just okay at what he was doing. Not great. I wanted to give him pointers but thought it might make the whole thing even weirder.
I kind of felt bad for everyone involved in that stream and I didn't want to leave it with one less viewer. I was one of like literally 2 people who actually made a couple comments about the game. About 5 messages total, I think. I figured they might notice my absence if I left and feel like COMPLETE disappointments, rather than just mostly so, so I stayed.
I would have to say that it was an interesting hour for sure. I got to observe a lot of awkwardness. I probably wouldn't do it again though.
But, y'know, I wouldn't have told you this story if it didn't have SOMETHING interesting in it.
They gave away about 5 keys for the game throughout, and one of the last ones was an actual quiz about the content of game instead of randomness. I knew I would win because nobody was fucking paying attention in that whole room.
Surprisingly, another guy guessed a misspelled version of the answer a few seconds after me. That made 2 active viewers and/or people who actually gave a fuck about MtG.
tl;dr
I now have what I think is a key for Magic: The Gathering, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015 for what I believe is the Xbox One. I might keep it because I might get an Xbone and might want to play it on there one day.
Or I might just give it to one of you fucks if you're actually interested in it.
