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Is it worth becoming a letsplay streamer as a hobby, sorta? (piefed.zip)
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I want to know the whole process of what its like streaming games as a hobby. Im not the best at games but i still like them and i think it would be neat to build a community possible, but im still unsure?

Im not even sure where to start to stream to a community? i may be hard on myself but i just feel im boring, i really demotivate myself instead of starting things i want to do.

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[–] B4nH4mm3rplays@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

It sure is worth it, for fun but for profit is a lot of work. If you like to interact with people while you play it is great. I'm not that good, I do it for fun, and have a couple dedicated viewers and a bunch of random for a time viewers.

Easy enough to get set up with OBS on pc, super easy, barely an inconvenience, so long as your system can support running OBS and everything else and your Internet is good enough.

I just went to YouTube, but there are other options to consider.

If you meet the hardware, software, and infrastructure requirements I say go for it. I actually started because I was bad at bug reporting so I just tell the dev to look at this timestamp to see how I broke your game lol

I can help you set up if you want, but only on pc as I know nothing about consoles