Hardcore shooter is the biggest game on Twitch in 2022 – “Could take over gaming, but …”

Like the last 3 years, the hardcore shooter Escape from Tarkov is (PC) the world’s biggest game on Twitch at the turn of the year 2022. Tarkov has overtaken GTA Online and LoL in Watched Hours in the past 7 days. Streamer DrDisrespect says: Escape from Tarkov could do all the gaming if it didn’t have a big problem at the beginning.

How strong is Escape from Tarkov on Twitch?

• Strong as a bear. The Russian hardcore shooter has overtaken the long-running hits GTA 5, LoL and Valorant on the right. In the past 7 days, no more games have been watched on Twitch than Escape from Tarkov. Tarkov’s audience increased by 126% in the last 7 days – by as much as 637% in the last 30 days.
• Tarkov was seen for 37.34 million hours in 7 days – 13 million hours more than GTA 5, 17 million hours more than LoL.
• As every year, the leading streamer at Tarkov is Australian Pestily. He specializes entirely in Escape from Tarkov. But people like summit1g or shroud also stream the shooter. And DrDisrespect also has a look.

Twitch drops fuel the rise of the shooter on Twitch 2022 again

Why is that? It’s been like that since 2019 that Escape from Tarkov takes the lead on Twitch at the end of a year. This is due to the fact that the game donated “traditional” Twitch drops before the turn of the year and Tarkov’s watching is particularly worthwhile:

• Escape from Tarkov regularly “wiggles” the entire game so that everyone has to start over. That leads to a surge in interest. The last wipe was on December 12th. There was a peak in the number of players.
• From December 28th to January 8th, players can get the Twitch Drops. December 28th marked the start of Escape from Tarkov’s wedding on Twitch in 2021.
• This year all editions by Tarkov are also 25% cheaper.

Somehow it has become so common that “Tarkov” ends up on the menu of Twitch streamers in the last weeks of December. While the game doesn’t play a big role on Twitch for most of the year, viewer numbers skyrocket at the turn of the year.

DrDisrespect criticizes the rough “weak phase” after every wipe

Was sagt DrDisrespect zu Escape from Tarkov? The actually chronically dissatisfied DrDisrespect is also back with Tarkov fever. He explains:

Guys, I think it’s a lot of fun. I think there would be even more people playing, but there is this huge barrier. Honestly: They just had to change this one thing and the game would [die Gaming-Welt] take over.

DrDisrespect

DrDisrespect sees the difficulty as the initial phase after every wipe, in which players start with nothing and their characters are weak:

Every time someone comes back to Escape from Tarkov or the first time they play it, they have to go through this bad part. Your character feels lame and slow, you are constantly gasping for breath. I know that when you level it changes, but everyone asks: When will I finally be through with it?

It’s tedious and they say anyone who doesn’t grind 24 hours a day is at a disadvantage. Immediately. It’s not fun and it makes the game less fun. That’s the only thing Tarkov really needs to change.

DrDisrespect

DrDisrespect admits, however, that such a change would likely happen to the shooter’s “brutal hardcore nature”. They would have made the game as they see fit – he also accepts that. DrDisrespect says he really likes Tarkov and is giving the shooter more players. But this barrier prevents the very big success.

We dealt extensively with a map in Tarkov on MeinMMO:

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