Introduction

World of Warcraft (WoW) has been one of the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) for over a decade now. One of the biggest trends in recent years has been streaming popular games online, and WoW is no exception. In this blog post, I’ll explain why WoW players should consider streaming their gameplay.

Outline

1. Building a community

2. Generating an income

3. Improving gameplay

4. Sharing knowledge and experience

Building a Community

Streaming your WoW gameplay allows you to build a community of followers who share your interest in the game. These followers can provide encouragement, support and feedback, shaping your skills and interests in the game. Making new friends, meeting new people and sharing game strategies are all positives of building a community through streaming.

Generating an income

Streaming on platforms such as Twitch and generating an income is a huge draw for players. While it’s not as easy as turning on a camera and pressing “stream”, it can provide a substantial extra income. Streamers can generate income from ad revenue, sponsorships, donations and subscriptions amongst other things. More viewers could mean income, so the better the content, the more earning potential.

Improving Gameplay

Streaming your WoW gameplay can actually improve your skills. While some people call it backseat gaming, constructive feedback from your community may help to bring improvements to your gameplay, so you become a better player.

Additionally, having recorded your gameplay, the ability to review your stream and therefore your gameplay could help immensely in getting better and hopefully reaching your gameplay goals faster.

Sharing Knowledge and Experience

WoW is a massive game, and not everyone can have played every part of it. Streaming one’s game can help that community of followers to learn new things and gain better insight into the game. Players with experience can use streaming as a teaching experience too. This is a win-win situation, since players can broaden their knowledge and expertise on the game, while helping others become more invested in WoW.

Tips to Improve Your World of Warcraft Stream:

Here are some tips to improve your World of Warcraft stream:

1. Invest in Good Equipment

Invest in quality equipment, such as a good camera, microphone, and computer, to ensure a high-quality stream. Your viewers will appreciate the effort you put into making your stream look and sound as professional as possible.

2. Engage with Your Audience

Interact with your audience by answering their questions, comments, and concerns. Make sure you have a chatbot that alerts you when someone talks in the chat. Your viewers want to feel like they are part of the stream, and engaging with them is a great way to do that.

3. Have a Consistent Schedule

Create a schedule and stick to it. If your viewers know when you will be streaming, they are more likely to tune in. Consistency is key, and it will help build an audience over time.

4. Be Interactive

Incorporate interactive features such as polls, games, and giveaways, into your stream. This will create a sense of community and engagement among your viewers.

5. Focus on Quality Content

Play World of Warcraft in a way that showcases your skill and expertise. Offer insights into your game strategies, provide guides or tutorials through your gameplay. Create content that separates you from other streamers who do the same thing.

6. Collaborate with Others

Collaborate with other World of Warcraft streamers or content creators to broaden your audience and reach.

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Target your audience better

Streaming with the right class and stream categories can help you hone in on your niche viewership, so you can get the most engaged viewers and maximize your stream’s success. With class filtering on stream categories and vise-versa, you’re sure to reach a more engaged audience.

Display fallback videos and collections

wowstreams.tv offers premium features for its top-tier Patreons, including a fallback Youtube or Twitch video or collection. So even if your profile is viewed when you’re offline, you can still get a viewer through another platform!

Discord Notifications

Another top-tier feature includes the ability to send discord notifications to not only your own discord server, but also the dedicated class channel within the wowstreams.tv official discord channel – with potential to reach even more viewers specifically interested in your class!

Addon Links

Even the mid-tier patreon levels include beneficial perks, such as being able to list and directly link to addons on your profile which users can click on directly, opening a link in a new window, ensuring you don’t lose your viewer. It also saves the viewer from copying and pasting.

You can enter what you’d like for the text of the button, for example, for the nameplates addon “plater”, you could enter the full text “Nameplates – Plater” – this is particularly helpful for addons with names that may not be relevant to what they actually do.

Chat Commands

Chat commands are always hard to maintain and display nicely on a twitch channel page – either placing them in the title or under your profile, way down the page. on wowstreams.tv, you can place your chat commands in the chat command box, where your viewers can simply click-to-copy and then paste directly into the chat box above.

Social Media & Donation buttons

Enter your social media links and a link to your donation page, and display them on your profile – showing in the same place on all profile means they’re easy to find.

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Good luck streaming!