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Fighting Games Weekly | Dec 22-28 | On the Xrd Day of Christmas
- Thread starter enzo_gt
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One day someone would troll us with a "new KOF game" link, and the troll will be that it's actually a proper new KoF game.
Sooooooooooooooooo Douyu x fighting games happened
The Chinese esports boom finally hit the arcades. 500,000 concurrent viewers watching KoF 97.
The Chinese esports boom finally hit the arcades. 500,000 concurrent viewers watching KoF 97.
Patch made it worse, or so I heard. Fuck asw.
KidA Seven
Member
When I posted the link yesterday, there were 350k to 430k concurrent viewers watching. 500k is fantastic.
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Are you guys sure that site counts the current viewers and not the total, like NicoNico does? Anyway, still an awesome number
In my experience using Douyu for watching chinese dota 2 pros, it's current viewers. The personal streams for those players regularly get 100k+ viewers. There's a kof streamer right now that has 6k viewers.
China's big.
You can almost be sure that Douyu fake their numbers, it's something that various industry people have speculated about for a while now. The site constantly has similar amounts of viewers for just one person streaming LoL/DotA.
KidA Seven
Member
When I was watching for about 20 minutes, I made sure to see if the number didn't just get larger, otherwise I would think it would be total viewers and not concurrent viewers. The number did decrease though. It went from 425k to 430k to 350k.
Yeah that was my first assumption, but does every stream do it? Is it simply built into the site to inflate numbers? A bunch of the personal streams seem pretty legit with the amount of donations they get.
KidA Seven
Member
That's possible too.
I'd assume they directly inflate the numbers for certain events/streamers to lure in unsuspecting sponsors/investors. Based off of statistics out there approximately half of the Chinese population have access to internet and from website statistics, which are never 100%, twitch gets much much more traffic than Douyu. For example, a dota player called YYF had around 700K watching his stream when the peak concurrent players for dota was 900K for that day. Highly unlikely that the number was legit.
The chances of even half that 500k number being legit is slim to none. There's been times where the total viewers on one douyu steam has been more than the total viewing every twitch stream combined.
Lostconfused
Member
This still seems unusual for ASW games, then again maybe the 1 month delay between P4AU releases helped iron out the problems.
Some of the numbers aren't completely unbelievable because China > US populations by a factor of 5.
PC gaming in China is worth about 6-7 billion dollars now according to estimates from this year. ArcLive, china's GGPO type platform is incredibly popular compared to GGPO (it's also hilariously shady because they let you download the ROMs there too). I wouldn't put it past China for breaking current FGC stream records, but not by that much so quickly.
PC gaming in China is worth about 6-7 billion dollars now according to estimates from this year. ArcLive, china's GGPO type platform is incredibly popular compared to GGPO (it's also hilariously shady because they let you download the ROMs there too). I wouldn't put it past China for breaking current FGC stream records, but not by that much so quickly.
Nemo da God
I'm not surprised by this. I'm surprised that KOF 97 is poppin like that because that's my least favorite version of KOF.
Frosty Faustings, KiT, Canada Cup Master Series, Apex 2015. Tourney season is not that far away.
They've been doing that since IPW started streaming it which is great, but then it's not so great when you see the same CVS2 clip over and over again.
And doing something like streaming other games during intermissions requires additional logistics which I've only seen Level Up able to do when they've streaming UFGT. But I'll take anything instead of dead air.
KidA Seven
Member
If only his shit teammates could have won some matches we could have seen more of his Rolento that day.
CountBlack
Member
Rolento's high/low game > Elena's high/low game
I am a metalhead. I can get down on being an unholy trinity. We'll need to replace bursts though. I'm actually not huge on bursts / shadow counters / on-block activation safety mechanics.
TAC's are terrible.
All of these events look very strong this year. Faustings is pushing to be a larger regional, KIT was extremely well run last year according to picky attendees, Apex is in what could be a banner transition year, and the Master Series is a promise of strong matches.
Should be a good, and varied, Q1 for tourneys.
Karsticles
Member
Isn't the Injustice system basically a less thoughtful burst?
Oh shit the Beast Busters reboot
Speaking of KOF, here's the Fatal Fury CVs rapping http://youtu.be/iOw-qtvVIS0
SolarKnight
Member
I had forgotten this was coming out despite having cropped the "featuring KoF" thing for future use
Isn't the Injustice system basically a less thoughtful burst?
In some aspects yes, but not outright. Meter burning an attack for instance to activate a 2 hit vs 1 hit offensive move doesn't ensure safety, and creates its own mini mind game (this is particularly true on batarangs).
I'm not incredibly deep in my anime play but I've been finding bursts to be a get-off-me or X-factor / Instinct safety mechanic. Meter burning in injustice isn't used that way to me (mainly because clashing covers that).
sixteen-bit
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hitsugi
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That was great. It always blows my mind to see combos being pulled off in COTA; that game was something else.
SloaneRisette
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I'm losing track of days because holy shit I forgot there was a new thread and was confused when I saw everyone voting for titles
ViewtifulJC
Banned
so you're saying you forgot to get me anything for christmas, huh
well I guess I'll be keeping this stocking stuffer, sending it right back to Amazon
SloaneRisette
Member
Wow gosh rude ;_;
I'm looking forward to Faustings because I want to see some Xrd and UNIEL play. KiT ran extremely well last year so it's good to see them continue to grow and cover more games. I know people who went last year and they had a great time. I wish I could go but it's tough to take off work at the beginning of the year.
Apex will be fine on the Smash side of things. I don't know what to expect from Master Series. There hasn't been much advertising for it and it's supposed to take place pretty soon, but January is pretty stacked. There's also Winter Brawl in February, Final Round in March, and somewhere in between we should know what the EVO lineup is and what Capcom's plans are for the next season of Capcom Pro Tour.
And outside of the creepiness, Last Man Standing was entertaining to watch on Saturday. It's good to see NYC with an event like that, and they should be running another one before Winter Brawl happens.
Likewise, Cheers everyone. Have fun, stay safe.
CountBlack
Member
Happy Holidays breh
Hope I get that new stick I wanted in my stockings, Markman.
make it happen
or a DaiGOAT signature
Happy holidays yo.
CountBlack
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SloaneRisette
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Coffeeling
Member
You 'murkan scum of course realize that football is not a game where you carry the ball.
Right?
Right?
The guy's in charge of Faustings are really trying to grow the event and its presentation this year, and the GG history under the Faustings brand has always been very, very sound. I'm looking forward to it (and for more than just the annual Faust whooping given out).
CapCup this year is ludicrously interesting. I'm very interested to see which of the rumored contractions / expansions take place.
