The livestream for Destiny broke the annual record for a game reveal on Twitch in 2015 with a peak of 137,000 viewers.
“Destiny is dead,” “Destiny is boring,” “Nobody plays Destiny anymore,” are comments that have been increasingly heard in recent weeks; in fact, they’ve been around for months. The MMO shooter disproved this on Wednesday evening our time. It was just before lunchtime on the West Coast of the USA. With a peak of 137,000 viewers, the livestream for the next DLC “House of Wolves” surged. And there wasn’t even everything to see: They introduced the Reef, the new social space, and explained, how upgrading would work exactly.
As the streaming service Twitch tweeted, the stream with 137,000 peak viewers broke the record for the revelation of a game in 2015 so far:
.@Bungie Reef Reveal for @DestinyTheGame snags biggest single game reveal of the year on Twitch w/ 137k+ concurrents! http://t.co/kWFeTAqhpl
— Twitch (@Twitch) April 24, 2015
Destiny is the Nickelback of MMOs
In the coming weeks, more livestreams are likely to follow. Let’s see if interest can be maintained at such a high level. And where does the impression come from that Destiny is over, despite the still massive interest from fans in the game?
The streamer Gothalion, who was also present during the Twitch record-breaking event, has an explanation for this. He says Destiny is like the Canadian rock band Nickelback. If you hate it, you cannot fathom how anyone could possibly like it. But they do fill stadiums.
Destiny is a lot like Nickelback. If you hate it, you can’t fathom how anyone can like it. But regardless of hate, it still fills stadiums. — Gothalion (@Gothalion) April 24, 2015
It looks like, Destiny continues to polarize the player base in 2015.
