Posted by OG

Yea cool you have maybe 100-500 subs but what you're failing to see is that graal is a game that lacks content, there really isn't anyone knowledgable that uploads content besides droid!

Unless graal advertise this for weeks it won't work as the playerbase is way to young to understand how to use a streaming website and in its current state iGraal won't pull any viewers, Unixmad defiantly won't allow the server to drop below 2.5k players lol.

I understand that Graal doesn't have enough weekly content to put out worthwhile videos, which is why I tried to spice it up but it is hard to be motivated, as well as actually make time to create something decent. I'll probably end up recording the finals anyway because it's Alumni and US.

I just wanted to pose the idea, I didn't expect as many people to like my content as there actually is, I am still new to this and want to improve. Graal would benefit massively from a "Media Team" I think, you have a group of people who would want to do it - Me and Aguzo at the very least - and it would be nice a to gain a small amount of recognition from Classic itself for it.

I make videos for the love of the game, similarly to Aguzos  

Posted by Droid

I understand that Graal doesn't have enough weekly content to put out worthwhile videos, which is why I tried to spice it up but it is hard to be motivated, as well as actually make time to create something decent. I'll probably end up recording the finals anyway because it's Alumni and US.

I just wanted to pose the idea, I didn't expect as many people to like my content as there actually is, I am still new to this and want to improve. Graal would benefit massively from a "Media Team" I think, you have a group of people who would want to do it - Me and Aguzo at the very least - and it would be nice a to gain a small amount of recognition from Classic itself for it.

I make videos for the love of the game, similarly to Aguzos

Hell I'd make videos if I had the software and equipment but I just don't wanna broadcast to like 30 people lol.  

Posted by Droid

I just wanted to pose the idea, I didn't expect as many people to like my content as there actually is, I am still new to this and want to improve. Graal would benefit massively from a "Media Team" I think, you have a group of people who would want to do it - Me and Aguzo at the very least - and it would be nice a to gain a small amount of recognition from Classic itself for it.

I make videos for the love of the game, similarly to Aguzos

One good thing about Graal is it can be a hobby which allows you to learn all types of different things... but I've always considered it just a stepping stone

I do agree it would be cool to get more people doing videos (actual good quality videos not the "ELLO UTUBE" type videos). I'd love to do more but I'm old af now and have a career and stuff so I am restricted on time. I'll start producing more soon.  

I volunteer to also stream on my channel or as a camera man or for an official channel.  

*News has been Updated!*
Graal.Classic is hiring for its newly established Media Team!

Troll  

Posted by Droid

*News has been Updated!* Graal.Classic is hiring for its newly established Media Team! Troll

I wish  

Posted by Droid

Many people have stated ways to reduce server lag during the GST tournament. One idea was that the server would be locked to everyone except those participating for a few hours and if people wanted to watch the GST it could be viewed on Twitch, being broadcast by a staff member.
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My understanding with Era is that they do not have viewing rooms for their GST. If classic was interested in broadcasting the GST then locking the viewing rooms (not the server) to 'participants only' would be needed, so it would give players a reason to go watch (or removing the viewing room completely). I like the idea of the GST being broadcasted on Twitch, but not to reduce lag, but it would be better than running around trying to find matches in the viewing room.

Another reason I like it is because the recordings can be used to help the hosters improve in case of mistakes (can also be used by players to cry, but the main purpose should be to help make improvements in hosting if a certain mistake happens). I'm not saying it should be used as some type of instant replay thing as it would cause more problems than solutions.


Like somebody mentioned it already (think it was aguzo) people at towers could watch it on their PC while afk at their tower.

Posted by Droid

I can't shut the server off, but I could be in a position to stream the GST, however this wouldn't really work if <100 watched the stream AND logged off.

If classic went this direction then it would most likely require trusted staff members to do the recordings. IMO it would require an unoffical, official source in order for it to work. It would facilitate everything as they would have access to whatever they needed. They also need to feel confident that whoever is broadcasting is not going to do or say anything that's going to make the server look bad (inb4allthegraalisbadjokes).

The way I see it this would need team effort to execute. I don't know how Twitch works and it's capabilities, but here's how I would think it would be done.
Having the main guy as the director. Each hoster would have their own broadcast without saying anything. The main guy would be the one telling people what matches were next and by what hoster. If there was a way for the main guy to have the other hosters channels as some type of group chat deal where people could easily click between channels then it would make it much easier (not familiar with twitch so I apologize if it sounds stupid).

Posted by Droid

Do you guys think this would actually work?

Depends on what is the desired result.

• Reducing lag? nah maybe prevent excess lag
• Making respectable money off ads? no
• Bringing in new players? maybe
• Having 50-200 people watching it? I think so

 

JUST DO ITTTTTTT
lol it's easy to pull 500+ viewers on twitch.
Just have some decent staff livestream and globally announce in game and give out a event hat.
Pretty much what nyn n azrael did  

Posted by Zetectic

Just have some decent staff livestream and globally announce in game and give out a event hat.

That's pretty much what you have to do.

"Hello, everyone. We are now live streaming the tournament to twitch.tv/GraalOnlineClassic. We are also doing events on that stream in which we will randomly pick someone who shouts 'GST' in the chat. We hope to see you there."

A ton of people are gonna rush to that link, and start spamming "GST".  

Sounds like a superficial way to gain views. You're not getting any real community going that way.  

Posted by Aguzo

That's pretty much what you have to do.

"Hello, everyone. We are now live streaming the tournament to twitch.tv/GraalOnlineClassic. We are also doing events on that stream in which we will randomly pick someone who shouts 'GST' in the chat. We hope to see you there."

A ton of people are gonna rush to that link, and start spamming "GST".

You'd be surprised how many actually won't. HEY JOIN OUR STREAM THAT OPENS IN NEW BROWSER/APP AND STOP PLAYING THE GAME!!!!

Maybe a lot of the spar community does and a couple people outside of it but the numbers will drop fast.  

@rufus its a way to get things hyped. I think its necessary Sometimes.
Then graal twitch will slowly grow from there.  

there's literally 4 times out of the entire year that someone would watch Graal on Twitch, and it'd be less than 1000 people watching  

1000 viewers? only games like LoL can pull that number on average. even NightmareRH the runescape livestreamer gets only 200-500 viewers on average. Swifty the WoW lvestreamer gets 500 to 2000 viewers.

Theres 1/1000000 chance that a graal player go to twitch and search Graal.

If a staff does this for the first time and say they are gonna giveaway, it will spike up to 300 or more and from there it's their job to keep players entertained.
regular streamers gonna start from ~20 viewers woth all kinds of ads, then whichever guy that can entertain viewers will success.
OR something similar.

It's sad I still don't know how to save my video after livestreaming. I think i can't keep fulgores promise :/  

Posted by Thallen

and it'd be less than 1000 people watching

as in 50