>>23268116I mean yeah I get that, but there's like what, maybe 3 of us that gave a shit about FFXIV before Binx? (Me, Yule, and Eveener I think?). And I'm so jaded after more than a decade that I've looped around to the point that silly FFXIV content is more entertaining than anything else.
FFXIV just isn't a very streamer friendly game unless you're catering to an audience of exclusively FFXIV fans. There's a ton of visual information you need to memorize to understand what's going on (icons, telegraphs etc), and it's not even uncommon to run into people in endgame dungeons that don't have a fucking clue that X animation means boss is going to do Y.
I think it's why her golden saucer (where she does all the mini games and stuff) have way more engagement than any other FFXIV streams she does. They're immediately readable by even someone who's never seen the game before and we can still laugh at her failing, cheer at her succeeding, and anyone that wants to snipe is free to join in on the shenanigans.
Like if I'm going to be completely honest (and no offense B), she's running casual level content with a casual skill level and attempting it in earnest. It's not really entertaining for FFXIV veterans, the indifferent, nor people that enjoy the game.
IMHO, it's like when Sam shows up at a fishtank house and he's just phoning it in while working out. Using the stream as an excuse to be doing something you wanted to get done in your off time.
Do I really want to take all the noobs to go ERP? Not really. But I think it'd be funnier than her stumbling through raid encounters neither she nor the majority of chat understands neither the references within nor the mechanics to.
Monster hunter/Dark souls streams get popular because they're instantly readable by hitboxes, etc, even by someone that's never played. FFXIV is not like that