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New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    for me it's mostly because I am too depressed and unmotivated to get out of bed and go sit in front of the console/PC but not depressed enough to put the dumb addictive black rectangle down

    (i am taking medication i hope this changes)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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)_/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Well...

    1. "Videos about gaming" don't necessarily have to be gameplay footage. Reviews, promotional materials, discussions etc. count. Maybe even stuff like Viva La Dirt League's content which is live action skits about video games.

    2. Tutorials and walkthroughs exist.

    3. Some vintage systems are difficult to get up and running or even find. For a lot of people it's easier to just watch an enthusiast do it on youtube.

    4. Especially on Twitch with streamers it's as much about the player as it is the game.

    5. Especially with esports or speedrunning it's like watching a sporting event. Even if you like playing football too there's something to watching the professionals play at the top echelons.

    6. One can watch gaming videos while doing other things. When I was moving into my apartment in Greensboro I assembled my furniture while watching HCBailly play through the Gameboy Zelda games.

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