LE BEAM, LE-ONG, LEONG89

As what I told @Lylia on the other post, I am going to share a lttle bit on why I am leaving (or considering leaving) beam. It's been 3 days since I stopped streaming on Beam, I've been consistently streaming on beam everyday for the past 2-3 months. Even if its for 30mins to 1hour.

I am by no way dissing beam, dont get me wrong, beam is a great platform and the community is tight knit also helpful.

I feel that the 'follows' and 'viewership' for beam feels superficial. It's nice to see that you get X-amount of concurrent viewers / followers while streaming. But in my short time on beam dedicated to only streaming on beam I noticed a pattern not only on one stream but it happens almost on all streams.

Further elaboration on why i used the word 'superficial', I've made friends with a few of the top streamers on beam (although nothing compared to what twitch has) who pulls 100-150 concurrent viewers daily, partnered. Have been Raided/Hosted by these people a few times now.

I'm guessing this happens on twitch too.. But here's what im talking bout, majority of the people on beam are supportive in the sense that...

1. They usually follow for follow.
2. They would tune into your stream to help you increase viewership
3. Shout you out pretty often if you frequent their stream

Now the problem stems from point 2, it's at the point where majority of the people does that. And it happens on almost everystream i visit (unless they are partnered or beam's top streamers)

I know twitch probaly has this problem too, but in my 6-8 months on twitch i may have gotten lesser concurrent viewers but people who come, they come and stay to actually watch. Instead of just here to 'park'

My other problem is even though beam has this FTL (sub second delay stream) its still lacking in comparison to twitch. Stability and Usercount are two of the bigger things i have in mind.

Going into stream ,everywhere you see familiar faces this is a good thing because it means you are well networked in this platform. But it also means that the crowd is that small.

Take my pointers with a pinch of salt, because I was nowhere as close to how involved to streaming when i was on Twitch. I've also picked up a lot of things on networking, streaming and interacting during stream while i was on Beam.

Now.. onto some numbers. On how I came to this conclusion as to where I am right now on Beam.

I've garnered more followers (4 times more) in 3months than I've ever had on twitch over a period of 6-8 months. Recently received a substantial amount of tip from someone on Beam. I've also made a few friends who i some times play games with nowadays.

Dont get me wrong, no one should go out streaming with the idea of making money or making it a job ( at least i'm not and is not supportive of it ) After receiving that tip i went around to people i believe in and support, tipped boout 4-5 of them.

Now... I apologize or the lengthy post BUT! If you were considering going into beam. dont let my post put you down. It IS a great platform to learn about streaming and not just streaming but also the social aspects of it.