People only want to watch videos/streamers whose views match theirs and most of the forums are complainers.
There are still really good NA streamers on the platforms but they speak truths about the game like having to put in effort to be successful and f2p, the first one that comes to mind is DatModz.
Tbf the fact that zeals gets 10k in the middle of the night, saintone gets like 4 or 5k in the evening, and Stoopzz gets between 4 to 7k while Asmon is actually streaming is pretty impressive.
That being said, our version currently is at a content wall, and streamers that aren’t just actively raiding on korea are just grinding mats in prep in our version. Its not very exciting, so people who watch Saintone, Stoopzz, and Zeals are doing so because they’re interesting and/or entertaining.
Those are mostly the Hardcore Players, though, who put the streams on second screen, to fight the tedium and boredom of the repetitive grind.
Wait some people pull streamers up on the main screen and just watch them?
Thats me, minus the hardcore part 
The point is that they are a distraction.
And playing a game that is so mundane that the players wants to distract themselves from it, is not a good sign.
I’ve never played an mmo that i didnt have a secondary form of stimulation going in the background except when going through story quests in FFXIV. Mmos are by their very nature grind fest, and secondary stimulation is practically mandatory to all activities that arent story or raiding.
Why should I watch a streamer play a game instead of play the game?
misleading conclusion even if the evidence is factual. ALL of the famous NA streamers are on NA east… this is a fact, thus all the bots moved to NA west for some reason.
LA NA won’t pop off untill more content drops most likely legion raids
This made me laugh. Maybe its because i have kids though.
This hahaha People don’t need to watch a streamer playing a game since they can just play the game. Streamers are doing same thing we are doing. They just want easy money. Don’t create anything helpful.
When we start to talk about tutorials videos, game news videos, mostly uploaded in YouTube, watch these content creators start to make sense.
Streamers as Asmongold are useless. They content is useless.
I can barely stand to watch me play lost ark, let alone watch someone else play it.
Sounds like a good tutorial for developing adhd
lack of content but then people complain when they aren’t at the content and call them out for enforcing p2w.
The thing is that lost ark is not “cool to watch”
I mean the majority of the content is farming, there is no real interest to watch someone farm and fill in his “to do list”…
In opposite, I like watching a stream of elden ring or a raid from WoW for exemple, because there is some chalenge, there is competition during the world first etc…
When (or if) lost ark becomes an “esport” game, maybe there will be more viewers.
I didn’t see a lot of stream from kr version, but I suppose that the content is not the same and there is viewers because they show very late game content (on which there is a real difficulty). Where is the challenge for farming guardians and do abyss donjons…
Guild wars 2 doesn’t have a big stream or content creator presence either but when I played the game it was doing just fine with lots of people online
Lost Ark still has awesome social media numbers which is quite surprising for how tedious the game loop is. The story is enjoyable but after it it’s just repeating una/chaos/abyss with multiple characters for hours every day same.
do people actually watch or minimise streamers for reasons other than twitch loot?
Ive never thought to myself. “hey, lets watch someone play something ive got installed and could be playing”