![]() and the rest of the details I picked up as I played. If I was in a good position, I didn't know what the controls did. ![]() I certainly knew what to do in the game, but I could never get out of my elementary-school soccer habits where I just chased the ball around like an idiot, never in a position to make a play. I didn't find it that much fun and the learning curve was a bit too steep. Twitch is more of a return to old-school TV in that regard. Meanwhile I wonder how people have time to finish entire seasons of TV shows on netflix, given the modern trend of story-driven shows that assume you've actually seen all the previous episodes instead of pre-internet-era sitcoms that you could jump in and watch any 30-minute episode with little context. This gives me (somewhat surprisingly) lots of the same satisfaction that playing games used to give me plus it's a lot less stressful (I was mostly into competitive multiplayer games) and without any practice required to get good at the game. I mean, I'm sure there are core fans who do that, probably students and single young professionals like you say, but my use case for Twitch is "hey, I have 10-20 minutes free not even enough time for a full DotA game, but I can see which pro players happen to be online now and watch them play for a bit". Streamers aren't meant to be consumed by watching them every day for hours on end. I watch Twitch because I grew up playing lots of video games and now watching is less of a time commitment then playing the games.
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