Steam charts and Twitch

[rav]

So i was browsing http://steamcharts.com/ for a bit and i noticed that the Playercount doesnt at all relate to the viewer count on twitch.

I mean obviously there are gonna be some minor and major difference but it doesnt fit whatsoever, apart from dota 2 and cs go.

Some of the most played games according to steamcharts are literally "dead" on twitch. While some other games that are that are less played seem to have a way bigger viewerbase on twitch in comparison.

For example warframe that supposedly is the 7th most played game with 44,245 currently playing on steam only has roughly 500 viewers on twitch at the moment.

While rainbow six siege has currently 38,932 players playing and roughly 4k people watching

i know that playerbase does not equal viewers and both are changing constantly but its completely out of proportion and doesnt make any sense to me.

I wonder why this is the case. If anyone has any good reasons on why or how i would be thankful for an explanation.


edit: rainbow 6 was probably a bad example because of uplay so ill give another example:

terraria currently has 21,885 players playing and has 69 viewers on twitch.

[wuddih]

most of them are just completely boring and uninteresting to watch.

[rav]

Originally posted by wuddih:

most of them are just completely boring and uninteresting to watch.

that mighte be true for games like civilization but theres plenty of games that arent more boring to watch than cs or dota. for example rocket league, many people play it, very competetive, just as entertaining to watch as cs go, yet nobody watches it
any you want to tell me that hearthstone is exciting to watch or why is it always top5 ?

Yeah you might be right with some games but on most games it makes no sense.

[Daxank]

Because people stream and play what they want. I, for exemple, often play Overwatch but barely stream any of it

[rav]

Originally posted by Daxank:

Because people stream and play what they want. I, for exemple, often play Overwatch but barely stream any of it :VSnake:

this thread is about the lack of viewers or the unproportianally big amount of viewers not the lack of streamers.
even 1 streamer can be enough for 30k people to watch.

Im not denying that csgo, dota, Lol etc are really popular games.

now im not suggesting anything but think about how easy it would be for a company like steam that owns tens of thousands of servers to boost viewercounts on their own games.
Same with blizzard, you might think their games are struggling but they are also always up there in the top 10-15
Seeing the viewer gap between most games even 2k-3k viewers is enough to boost a game to the "front page" where it is always visible.

Its not a big secret that young people tend to like what appears popular.
Its a win-win situation for big publishers and twitch.

its a common practice in the advertising industry to say stuff like " our product is the NR. 1 sold in <insert any country>" and similiar stuff, you get the idea.