Twitch TV:

Twitch TV is something new to me. I read the patch notes where they spoke of integrating it with Eve, but as it wasn't an alteration to my ships, or something new I had to worry about killing me, I only paid it a seconds attention.

Then one of my corp mates set up a stream in an enemy system during war, and I started to see a little appeal. I still wasn't sold on it entirely, but it certainly helped to be able to see if a swarm of red was about to head in my general direction.

Around this time I took a little time out of Eve, and when I came back it was one of those forgotten things, like the doctrine ships I had in an old staging system.

When the Alliance Tournament came around however, Twitch was suddenly a thing I had to care about, because I love watching it. I spent entire days glued to my monitor watching what I consider to be the "most fun pvp possible" (equal sized small gang).

When the tournament ended however, I went back to ignoring it.

Recently, one of my corp mates pointed me at a stream of someone playing Eve, which I can honestly say I never thought would happen (my assumption was that if someone advertised their ship, fitting and location, some lowlife scrub would hunt them down and kill them, because it's all the intel you need). I really enjoyed watching him flying around looking for fights, and I was suprised to see he didn't suffer the gank I'd so cynically expected.

On further trawling of the site, I've found that there's a number of really good streamers out there, who catch my interest for one reason or another. Sometimes it's nice to sit back with a drink and watch somebody else flying around. Some streamers offer advice, some run give-aways and competitions, others are just doing stuff that it's fun to watch. Some even manage to make money (all be it not very much) from donations and subscriptions (and very annoying advertisements).

From time to time I'll share a streamer I've found interesting, maybe they'll catch your interest too.