not really sure I would call this a rant though.... guess it's more along the lines of complaining I guess......... or just wondering "why bother" ..... so anyway... I like streaming and stuff... watching other people and talking with them and such.... but lately I've noticed......... my streams are like... completely dead, it's usually only my girlfriend who watches anymore and in the entire 8-9 hour stream.... MAYBE 1 or 2 people come in and they never stay long. Am I doing something wrong? is my stream lagging and unwatchable?? I honestly don't know. Now I know I'm not streaming huge popular games like Call of Duty and things like that, but I'm not streaming completely unheard of games either. lately it's been a game called 7 days to die, it's not super popular like CoD is but it's not even close to being unheard of, however.... it goes back to what I said before... I'll stream for multiple hours and there might be 1 or 2 people that stop by for a minute or two and then nothing. it wasn't like this before, I know I haven't streamed for a while and I can be kind of inconsistent with my stream times and such (pretty much whenever I feel like turning it on), but I used to have 3 or 4 people who would always pop in and hang out, chat, goof off, whatever, while I was streaming... which makes it more enjoyable for the streamer.


I guess I'm just starting to wonder what the point is.... as an example... at the time of writing this journal I've been streaming for roughly 2 hours... I will admit, I was away for probably about 30 minutes total, but even still. I've had maybe a total of 5 people show up and the counter never got above 3 (1 person is myself since twitch counts my account as a viewer on my laptop so I can keep an eye on the stream and actually respond to people... without having the game squished due to the twitch app being snapped).

edit: Am I scaring people off by actually talking??????????? what, should I unplug my headset and ignore the viewers like I've seen some popular streamers do? I've seen a few who completely ignore the viewers and anything that's going on in the chat, like... is that what I'm supposed to do to get people to actually stick around and stuff????