Quoted By:
Take a lesson from Finana.
She loves gacha games, loves em. She likes long game playthroughs rather than short variety streams. If you were to visit her channel, you'd see nothing but long gameplays, and collabs. I was saying at the time, she has to diversify her streams a little bit. I honestly have a hard time recommending streams for people to watch, because the only things to recommend are collabs with other girls, or super long gamplays that nobody has the time to sit through.
Then she struck gold with Honkai Impact. It turns out she was one of the only livestreamers that streamed that game. This brought a huge amount of greynames in her chat, and a huge spike in viewership. She even got up to 8.5k at a certain point, and bragged about that fact on twitter.
But then, over time, the audience started to trickle away. That's because some of the older viewers got bored, while newer viewers had trouble getting invested into part 52 of a long gameplay series. So naturally the audience declined. Furthermore, because she went so hard into Honkai, she lost many of her other fans. And it turns out that Honkai was "fools gold" anyway, because gacha gamers don't spend money on anything that isn't their gacha game.
The result is that her channel is now in the dumps, while her genmate Pomu is thriving. Pomu's streams have much more variety. She'll never play the same game more than once in a week, and she's always switching this up and doing a huge variety of different games and creative stream ideas. Like today she's drawing Arbocs, that's fucking crazy who thinks of that? That's pomu.
So the moral is that you can do long gameplays, but you have to mix in variety too. Otherwise your hardcore fans drain away, and the gameplayfags desert you the moment the game is over.
