{"id":6768,"date":"2020-04-29T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playlab.uta.fi\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:30:34","slug":"does-streaming-esports-affect-players-behavior-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/does-streaming-esports-affect-players-behavior-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Streaming Esports Affect Players\u2019 Behavior and Performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Streaming and playing games at the same time may lead to the assumption that either the
\nperformance of the streamer is suffering or that the play sessions are longer\/shorter as a result of
\nthis activity. The article at hand takes a deep dive into research conducted by the authors in order
\nto explore and confirm or deny the hypotheses they started off with.<\/p>\n

Because League of Legends (a popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game \u2013 MOBA) and
\nTwitch (streaming platform) are independent, the researchers had to approach data collection in
\ntwo ways; in order to collect information about players, they accessed the Riot Games API
\n(Application Programming Interface) which allowed them to gather data about number of kills,
\nnumber of assists, number of deaths per match. Similarly with Twitch, the official Twitch API
\nallowed for the gathering of data regarding players who streamed LoL matches; information about
\nnumber of followers, views per video and so on. Through formulas and graphs, the authors then
\nproceed to explain the results of the research conducted.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Killing a dragon with the help of my summoned bear\u2019 by Sicarius (61585) on Dec 22, 2009
\nhttps:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/user\/sheet\/userSheetId,70866\/<\/p>\n

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Firstly, the effects of streaming on engagement. The first observation is that the match length
\nis increased when the player is also streaming; an increase of about 5 minutes per match was
\nrecorded. It is also noted that the sessions with streaming are longer than the ones without,
\nindicating that streamers feel more encouraged to play for a longer period of time if they have
\nothers watching them. Secondly, the effects of streaming on performance are also measured. The
\nmain result underlined is that regardless of streaming and having to engage in different activities
\nat the same time, the win rate is not affected. Another interesting fact is that high-skill players
\nseem to be much less affected by having to stream, than low-skilled players.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, the article presented aims at understanding the connection between streaming and
\nplaying a game at the same time and how this affects a player. The results of the research have
\nultimately showed that streaming has a positive effect on the player engagement with the game
\nand may even make the player play the game for a longer period of time. However, another
\nnoteworthy observation is that streaming has a negative effect on the performance of a player,
\nespecially on lower levels of skill. This, presumably, is due to the multitasking required when
\nstreaming, as the streamer frequently makes some sort of contact with the viewers at the same
\ntime.<\/p>\n

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“TWITCH STREAM STUFF” by Kylian Jacquet is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/p>\n

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Games and Culture
\n2020, Vol. 15(1) 9-31
\n\u00aa The Author(s) 2019
\nArticle reuse guidelines:
\nsagepub.com\/journals-permissions
\nDOI: 10.1177\/1555412019838095
\nJournals.sagepub.com\/home\/gac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article about Twitch streaming and how it is affecting the performance of the streamer. The researcher gathers data from both APIs and interprets the results, leading to surprising discoveries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":6772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[206,1018,345],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-research-highlights","tag-digital-games","tag-esports","tag-game-research","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}