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attract viewers for the latter. When
starting a channel, you have to
make it something that people will
want to see, and Elvine saw that
those bases were already covered.
The challenge for a growing channel,
Elvine says frankly, is to build a
community. Getting viewers is one
thing. But growing to the point
where people stay and chat after
you’ve gone offline? That’s very
difficult, he adds, and proceeds to
reference a handful of channels that
have been able to do so. He ascribes
part of the difficulty to needing
to branch out from one game to
others -- fans of your work in WoW
might not be so interested if you
start playing Destiny, Minecraft, or
Counterstrike: Global Offensive.
He’s also aware that being an
educational channel -- or at least,
not an entertainment channel -does work against him, if only in
the sense that most of his viewers
media in advertising a channel,

his words. He chose gold-making

are one-time only. Someone might

he is aware that a good portion

because it was a way for him

be interested in making gold and

of his viewers at the beginning

to stand out from the crowd. I

doing it quickly, so they find his

came over from the WoW Factor.

mentioned in my article last month

channel -- great! -- and they learn

that there are two main camps

what they need to, go back to the

Everybody can stream, he tells me,

of WoW streamers: PvE and PvP.

game, find success -- even better!

and it’s true. If you have a decent

Well, Elvine says, the former isn’t

-- and then stay there, with no real

computer and a decent upload

consistent because of lockout,

need to return. Every so often, he

speed, you could be a streamer:

and only Rank 1 Arena Gladiators

says, somebody will come back and
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