Phoenix Jones
Shockwave Innovations
Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2013.11.13 23:10:00 -
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The brass tax is this...
Should CCP go out of its way to hire a streamer.
Actually it goes even farther than that. What Mad literally asked CCP is this.
Will CCP hire a news reporter who streams ongoing events in Eve on a 24 hour basis?
Mad Ani's probably one of the best people for the job. I'm being honest here. He doesn't have a side to take, he's streaming the facts, and he's basically been doing it solely because he likes it. He himself is removed from 90% of the game populous because he's already done most of whats in the game already. His literal interest is putting on a good show. I don't fault him for that.
Is he an expert? No.
Is he perfect? No.
Does he know everything? No.
Does the person willing to do this job need to know everything? No.
The only thing the person needs is to be neutral, report the facts, and put on a good show.
He can do that, he's proven that too. The difference between him and the other streamers is that there is no propoganda with his stream. There is no mega corp, conglomerate, coalition supporting him. He's essentially totally neutral.
Which is what a reporter on the game needs to be. Its equal reporting on all sides, with 0 influence from anybody.
Based solely on that, he would be a good fit for doing the job of being a reporter. I could honestly care less about what he did up to this point. He didn't shoot anybody in the head, not a convicted felon and he doesn't generally hate on every living thing (as far as we know). He can do what he wants as it is currently his stream. He's bound by no rules, but he's been fairly straight forward to the community.
The community helped him with his PC, cool, no big deal.
The community (some) subscribed to his stream, hey that's there choice, and allowable as per twitch.
He does raffles, cool, that's him keeping the community watching.
His sole reason, least as far as I can see, is that he would like to keep streaming, and do it as more of a professional job. He can't do a 24 hour stream, keep it interesting, and ontop of that, run a 9 to 5 job on a daily basis, stay up to 3 to 4 in the morning keeping up with the CTA's, alliance attacks, and eve events, and live what most would attempt to conceive as being a normal life.
If he wants the job, hell I say hire him. You can figure out in what capacity later on. Having a 24/7 guy doing streaming of a game, that is itself 24/7... Not a bad investment. I've seen what other game companies do or attempt to do in regards to there dev's being streamers. Its usually for 2 hours on a friday, and all there doing is chatting with the community, or killing some enemy's trying to show-off the game. Mad kinda gets into the middle of everything, keeps it objective and clean, and explains like a reporter does, what the heck is happening, what stuff does, what that light and that beam is, and does it constantly as if the person just changed the channel and began watching Eve for the first time.
You don't get allot of people like that, who are capable of explaining a game on a constant basis, at all times of the day and night.
You currently have no developer in CCP that wants to do that because its not game development, it is solely reporting.
There are some people on this post that say "Hey there are other streamers, look this corp is steaming too". The difference is that there streaming for "Their corp". Mad's literally a guy who walked into a warzone with a camera and decided to report the whole thing before everybody decides to go find him and kill him.
Stabbers are totally broken
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15116553
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