Speaking as someone who streams events, it actually provides a couple of nice advantages compared to simply keeping it in game.
1) More people hear about it/find it - the more the merrier!
2) People not necessarily in your zone can interact with you in a way besides tells. Also people who aren't in-game can speak with you.
3) It's ends up being a lot like a radio show, only with gaming video. In other words, it's a form of interactive entertainment. You can share music and chat with other players. I think Speedi's got a bot that lets you request music as well. You can do a lot of stuff with it.
4) You can archive the broadcast for people who want to watch stuff while at work without you actually playing, as well as document things you've done that you might want to go back to watch again. We never had that kind of stuff back when EQ was first out. Would've been nice, I think
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The question of whether or not promoting your twitch channel is some form of arrogant self-promotion hasn't really cropped up until recently, I think because twitch has really started to take advantage of the popularity of some streamers and turned them into a kind of marketing tool for the gaming industry. It's also very standard for streamers to allow others to donate to them for whatever reason (something I don't really agree with personally). Twitch and the twitch community make it very, very easy to obtain some sort of personal gain through the otherwise unlucrative activity of gaming as a regular player.
That said, I don't think all stream promotion is inherently bad. Yeah, you do want more viewers for your stream. More viewers means more people to interact with while grinding. You can find people to team up with when you wanna take down something bigger than the usual stuff, despite not being in a guild or anything. You can make friends through streaming. You can demonstrate unique facets of a game (EX: Sirken shows some of the inner workings of petitionquest - certainly not something you normally see) or teach others strategies.
In regards to if not streaming would make the event
seem more charitable...maybe, if you have a poor opinion of twitch streamers in general. But at the same time, it's still a really good advertising tool if you want more participation. P99 has a pretty good twitch community, anyway.
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Are you saying that someone could possibly happen upon this live stream on Twitch then feel compelled to get a copy of Titanium EQ, install it according to P99 instructions and play just from seeing such an event?
Ok, again who is seeing it and being part of this event other than the players on the server?
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To the first question, yes. I've seen this happen just with regular grinding streams. The person gets to ask a p99 player questions directly and even get help with installing or starting out. It's like a personal recommendation! For event streams, people actually see what's going on and see all the participation, and it's often quite different from regular MMOs and it gets them interested. Like a demonstration of the p99 community! Look at us, none of us are 15 year old boys screaming that we're going to rape each other! Yay!
Second question: p99 streamers are able to select which game they're streaming, in this case EverQuest. This lumps them in with the live streamers, so they tend to label their streams Project 1999 before anything else. People who want to watch EQ stuff will search for streamers playing this particular game, and voila! They've found Project 1999.