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Forgive me but that sounds... outdated? With the proliferation of e-sports and people making a living on twitch and all, it just seems a little unbelievable.



I'm not sure, the numbers on twitch don't even scratch the number of unique individuals who own consoles / buy games.


Atleast inside the mmo community streamers are very relevant. On the start of july a famous streamer started playing FFXIV and look at google trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F064ln09


Are people within the streaming community considered "average gamers"? Would the average gamer even care anout streamers?


Whether we like or not, streamers are very influential to the gaming community, all of the games that blew up in the pandemic (among us, fall guys...) Blew up because of streaming.




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