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Twitch cyber hunter1/3/2024 ![]() This just goes to show how powerfully a community can connect with a title and the atmosphere that builds around it. ![]() ![]() This week saw the 15th anniversary of NCSOFT's prolific MMORPG Lineage II, and the corresponding attention, celebration, events, promotions, and sweepstakes completely reinvigorated the title's streaming community, doubling its total number or channels while seeing its total viewership explode, as seen above. Lineage II Increase Viewership: 575,903 Hours (535.55%) Increase Total Streamers: 719 Channels (104%) The latter is still pulling in gargantuan numbers, sure, but the former is growing fast, and this is just the latest example. It's worth noting that the Mythic Championship, which features the physical version of the card game, also drew significant viewership numbers over this time, and is included in the graph above, however it's undeniable that this latest expansion is another important moment in what could be the increasingly intense competition between Arena and Hearthstone. Magic the Gathering: Arena has absolutely rocketed up the charts, over the last year, to the point that, now, it's second only to Hearthstone in regards to Twitch viewership in the genre. As you can see above, it was a successful event, with the game reaching a peak of nearly 300,000 viewers, and two days later, when the expansion itself was released, it led to even more massive numbers. On April 23rd, two days before its full release, Wizards of the Coast allowed select streamers access to stock accounts within Magic the Gathering: Arena, so they could get early access to the brand new cards within the game's latest expansion, War of the Spark. Magic: The Gathering (Arena) Increase Viewership: 1,146,063 Hours (104.91%) Increase Total Streamers: 1916 Channels (50%) Forager might have that kind of potential. Think of titles like Terraria and Don't Starve, games that variety streamers still dive in to now, years after their release. When the community adopts a game like this, it's lifespan at the absolute top of the charts is often limited, but it can exist and sustain a community on the platform for years to come. What we're seeing here, in its first full week on the platform, is that there's a broad array of influential creators playing the game in substantial numbers. Forager features a classic combination of resource management, exploration, and base-building that makes every player's experience of it unique, and streamers often gravitate to such titles. ![]() The year-in-the-making survival adventure game from Humble Bundle and developer HopFrog already made our list last week as the number three new release, and this week exploded up the charts on the strength of big time streamers like GRONKH (100,531 viewer hours), LIRIK (92,413 hours), and sodapoppin (53,194 hours). Forager Increase Viewership: 1,015,675 Hours (621.22%) Increase Total Streamers: 2799 Channels (284%) To compare to last week's rankings, click here. As such, dominant and stable titles near the top of the charts will not always, or often, appear. Note: The following rankings are based on a combination of both gross and percentage change to viewership and total streams. Which games are rising on the Twitch charts? Which titles are sliding? We bring you the hard numbers and reaction, every week, in the GAMESIGHT power rankings! ![]()
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