Dota 2 Decline on Twitch

[tabten]

For a couple of years Dota consistently used to be #2 for most viewers on Twitch.

Now it has dropped off and sometimes is as low as number 8 or 10 for viewers. It sometimes moves back to #2 but nowhere near as often as it used to be.

Is this because of more people watching in-game or is something else happening?

[Krpa]

Dota lost the top spot a loooong time ago. LoL is dominating on twitch, unless there is a dota tournament going on.

[tabten]

For years 99% of the time LoL has been at the top. It is only surpassed these days by Counterstrike tournaments.

Just weird that Dota seems to have dropped off on Twitch while other regulars at the top (H1Z1, Hearthstone etc.) seem to always be in the top 5.

[Ranked is not for kids!]

I prefer watching in-game rather than in stream.

These are the reasons:
- In stream you are forced to watch only what they want you to see
- Consumes more internet speed when watching stream
- Avoid stream interruption
- etc.

[Yerbad]

I would bet it's more people watching in-game. All those other games in the top spots don't have in-game spectating that's as intuitive and convenient as Dota 2 from what I've seen. And lets face it, games like H1Z1, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and even CS:GO are all usually much more watchable than Dota 2. Dota 2 is too slow for a lot of twitch viewers.

[Furubayashi]

Originally posted by Yerbs:

I would bet it's more people watching in-game. All those other games in the top spots don't have in-game spectating that's as intuitive and convenient as Dota 2 from what I've seen. And lets face it, games like H1Z1, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and even CS:GO are all usually much more watchable than Dota 2. Dota 2 is too slow for a lot of twitch viewers.

It still depends....consider DotA2 then LoL...LoL is much slower.

But since LoL themselves doenst hve ingame spectating pretty much explain why LoL always beating DotA2 when it come to twitch stream.