5 minutes ago, fhdz said:

You're thinking of unofficial streams. The official FFG stream has never had overlays.

It looks like you are correct actually, the final I was thinking of was apparently streamed Team Covenant (although it seems to be blessed by FFG). Thanks for correcting me. But in that case, that's another argument for allowing 3rd parties to stream the final game if they are going to have higher quality content. I'm fine with FFG streaming it, but if they are they should at least match the quality of others.

16 minutes ago, JaxonEvans said:

It looks like you are correct actually, the final I was thinking of was apparently streamed Team Covenant (although it seems to be blessed by FFG). Thanks for correcting me. But in that case, that's another argument for allowing 3rd parties to stream the final game if they are going to have higher quality content. I'm fine with FFG streaming it, but if they are they should at least match the quality of others.

Team Covenant didn't actually stream them, though. They record them and then do everything after, including commentary, so they have the benefit of better being able to edit them. With the exception of the overlay, FFG had a pretty high production quality with multiple camera angles, etc...

1 hour ago, SOTL said:

If you aim your official coverage at the experienced players your target audience is 1) much much smaller, 2) already heavily invested in the game, and 3) you talk so much jargon that it can be impenetrable to less experienced players, so there's minimal marketing benefit.

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Where the official coverage streams tend to suffer is when experienced players watch them expecting the third party stream experience and don't understand why they're not getting it.

These are very important points and it is perpetually baffling to me that people either do not or refuse to understand them.

Double post.

1 hour ago, SOTL said:

Third party streamers tend to have very different goals - they're not trying to sell the game down the player pyramid, they're trying to piggyback their own revenue stream/scubscriptions off the experienced niche players who are already invested in the game.

That's the issue I guess. I've mainly watched 3rd party streams (no official FFG streams for tournaments in Europe), so I kinda considered their style the norm and the way stuff should look like.

Thanks for the insight