My first day on Twitch, or "how I built it and they didn't come".

For years I've had the mantra "if you build it, they will come" echoing through my head thanks to the Hollywood classic, Field of Dreams. Today I built my field of dreams, I set up my own Twitch.tv Channel, after watching streamers there "raking in money" and followers galore. Heck there's even one guy that plays Clash of Clans on his cell phone and has 3k+ people watching him. With this in mind I figured that at least a few people would come watch the hilarity that is me attempting to play World of Warcraft.

Well that wasn't quite the case this evening, I was live streaming for nearly 4 hours, and I had a whopping 1 visitor to my channel, he stayed all of 2 minutes before he left. About this time you're either laughing at me, or wondering what exactly this self deprecating blog post is really all about. Well I learned a valuable lesson today, while "if you build it they will come" may be a timeless adage from the silver screen, we like to read it as "if you build it, they will be clambering at the door to hand you fistfuls of money, and you will be an instant success". For those of us that have spent years gaming we know this not be to be, there are very few individuals that can sit down and "ace" a game right out of the box. Sure you see Call of Duty fans immediately take to the newest iteration, but let's be honest, CoD is the same game regurgitated each year with a different skin, if you're good at Modern Warfare, chances are you were good at Ghosts.

Take for example the #AGDQ2015 stream over on www.humblebundle.com raising money and awareness for Cancer Prevention. These are guys that can run through a game in a fraction of the time it would take you or I, but what you don't see in these epic speed runs is the hours and hours of prep work and sweat that have gone into those flawless runs.

I say all that to say, tonight I had 1 follower, by the end of the week if I have two I'll be marching in the right direction, and that's not all to bad for a Rambling Newb!