Guild Wars 2

I love GW2 as much as the next guy and obviously the game has it’s flaws like any but there’s a reason I play it over others.

The one thing I am finding interesting though is on twitch.tv Guild Wars 2 streamers are rapidly getting subscriber buttons which is great dont get me wrong that means the game’s growing in popularity but how is this happening?

The twitch.tv application clearly states 400+ constant viewership and that’s not really happening with many streams so I was curious if anyone knew why? (I know this is probably gona get deleted but i’m hoping for a quick answer if possible)

inb4 conspiracy; Anet paying off twitch.tv to promote gw2

Twitch can activate it at their own discretion. Meaning they probably are willing to promote the more popular gw2 streams. As far as I understand there is no hard minimum or maximum amount of viewership.

I think some of the larger gw2 streamers argued in their sub/partnership applications that gw2 just simply doesn’t have the base viewership for streamers to stay around 400 constant viewers.

So Twitch would have just given them some wiggle room. So like say gw2 averages 200-500 viewers a day, and streamer X consistently averages 100-200 viewers, yeh they aren’t getting 400 views, but they are holding the current majority of said viewers.

TL;DR – Gw2 doesn’t have enough viewers for people to stay around 400, so Twitch is giving the larger streamers some slack.