How important is having a facecam on during gameplay to you? Do viewers actually care more if they see a face/character on the screen next to the gameplay?
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How important is having a facecam on during gameplay to you?
depends, are you a pretty girl or some kind of grey-skinned depressing looking nerd in a studio apartment?
Girls love weirdos that look like slugs (a bit of eyebags and baggy clothes despite weighing no more than 140lbs stickman)
I don't like it or care whatsoever, but I'm not the norm.
I'm the same way. Seeing them very rarely added shit for me.
It depends. If the game is a blind playthrough of a game I like or if it's a game where getting fricked over unexpectedly is guaranteed to happen (Mario Party comes to mind) then I think facecam can add some things. Otherwise I honestly don't care at all. I do like being able to hear the person though (otherwise I'd just watch a walkthrough on YouTube) and value that infinitely much more than facecam.
just look up the data that was already collected by twitch itself ffs
I cant believe what has happened to this place
Bound to happen. Older crowd leaves, younger crowd comes in. also thank /misc/ (2016 election) and gamergate for bringing Ganker to mainstream notoriety and making this happen faster
I avoid streams with facecams. I want to see the game, not some random dude's face.
easier to relate to the person but you can make it with or without
I watch zfg for example and he doesn't have a cam
I hate seeing facecams and find they waste screen space, but the stats don't lie and using a facecam will increase your average viewercount
Having a shitty mic and video that constantly needs to buffer/stuttering/drops in quality is worse than no face cam to me, but this is right according to the numbers.
Imagine watching streams.
the facecam is a huge boost to your audience's parasocial friendship with you
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per the square law, indubitably
i can't imagine someone like vinesauce using a facecam, i don't wanna see vinny's face when he does his duck noises.
jerma is the only one i've seen to actually use facecam in a way that enhances the stream. his streams still feel like "the jerma show" rather than a one-way video call.
What is it about seeing some moron take 30% of the screen appealing? If anything it has the opposite effect me, I've never liked it nor found use for it. Same with the soi gay face on thumbnails. This world is fricking stupid.
>I really FEEL like we're hanging out together when I see them and it's easier to pick up on things like sarcasm and jokes because you can read the body language.
I wish I was making this up. It's also why jobs and workplaces want everyone on facecam even though mics work just fine (although in-person is better so you can use all of their affiliate's resources to give them more money, but I'm going way off topic at this point). It sounds stupid because it is.
Get me off this shit planet man, where did we fail so hard for things to turn up this way
As someone who has a lot of remote coworkers, mandatory facecams have made working with them way better.
It probably depends on the line of work. I don't think it makes a lot of sense for every meeting to require a facecam if you literally are a few floors away from them in the same building. That said, I think makes sense if you're having a 1 to 1 meeting about something of actual, legitimate importance (especially with someone high on the administrative ladder) or you're just meeting the person for the first time. If you're just doing what can be summed up as "check-in" meetings, tutorials, providing feedback with a group of people, and meetings that could we'll have been handled in a few emails, I'm not really for mandatory facecam
I miss the old pvp style compilation videos. Just some sweet pvp synced up to some cool tunes. I found interesting music through those types of videos when I was younger. DMCA shit ruined those videos
I typicallly prefer it being off.
If you're funny and/or really good at whatever you're doing people don't care. Just don't expect to attract the people who autistically care about it