 How is it going lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I am making a video about Alvo. First things first, as always any time I'm talking about Alvo I have to give the disclaimer that I'm a community moderator for first contact entertainment. I'll put this a little bit further away. So that means that whatever I say about Alvo but because Alvo is technically in competition with Firewall, which is developed by first contact entertainment, you can go ahead and take everything I'm saying with a grain of salt. Although I do hope that you will know by now that I'm not going to just talk shit about a game or make up stuff about us or anything like that. Having said that, this video more than maybe any other video I've met about Alvo so far might come across as being negative. That's not the intention. Basically this video is kind of asking a question, looking at things, analyzing some numbers or whatever and you know just trying to vibe check as the kids would say word. Basically what sparked this on? I wanted to see what was going on in the world of Alvo. I wanted to and then this is why I got the chrome up here. Let's say I go to YouTube. Okay so what I was doing was I just want to see who was streaming Alvo you know so I searched for Alvo and I popped up the filter for live. See who's live streaming us and here we have the results. We've got Mick Coles here. We know on the channel how you do and make if you're watching. We've got this person the drunk gamer and we have THS viewer. So three people streaming virtual or not virtual as Alvo on YouTube. So unless I'm searching things incorrectly that seems to be the extent of people streaming it right now. Now as I'm speaking it's Sunday night. Sunday night for me here in Ireland which means it's Sunday evening in America I would say. So that's just YouTube. Three people total of what 10 viewers. I don't think this is any views or else I would say. So let's check out Twitch. Twitch.tv you know I searched for Alvo here. You don't want to hear that and you find the game thing and we've got one person here playing Alvo as far as I can tell. Maybe this is because the videos aren't tagged correctly so they're not showing up in my searches or whatever. I'm very... I know this is how sparrically I am right now. I apologize. The game hasn't even been on a month yet so it was the 13th of April it released. We are now on the 3rd of May so we're getting close to the one month anniversary of Alvo and I was planning on doing like a vibe check one month later but this I don't know is kind of concerning me a little bit because the game is still so fresh we can go to Reddit. The official Alvo Redis is slash Alvo of the Year and we can check how active it is. We can search by new. So latest post nine hours ago 14 hours ago a day ago. Now this not really a great indicator. It only has 300 members like a lot of people wouldn't use Redis or wouldn't care about Reddit or whatever but then I use the Discord and I think the Discord is pretty active remember was at launch that Discord I could not keep track like it was just common common common common whereas today it's a much more manageable kind of thing it's this comments have slowed down a lot again maybe everyone's playing us and maybe not many people are streaming compared to other games or whatever but it's hard to get any kind of an indication of how game is performing with any degree of accuracy so even though I'm using like streaming as a kind of a metric I understand completely it's not 100% accurate it's open to all kinds of misinterpretations or whatever very variables I should say but then let's let's do the same for firewall for example seen as it is kind of its closest competition so YouTube firewall zero hour we will go with live kind of offended that petrified pumpkins didn't pop up immediately we've got two people streaming six watching this five watching this a total of 11 people interested watching firewall streams right now and we do the same on twitch.tv and we have four streams live over here for a total of seven viewers apparently point is I kind of expected firewalls numbers to be something like this because it is pushing on what three years now at the stage two and a half years but then the concern impaired is that alvo isn't even well it's what three weeks old is it even three weeks I'm not too sure so is this something to be concerned about that's kind of the question I guess I'm asking here and I know it might come across as like oh hey look alvo's not doing well that's not the intention at all I want alvo to do well I want firewall and alvo to do well and the more healthy virtual reality multiplayer games there are the better for the industry as a whole that's what I want to see the question is what's going on here am I overblown this is this something you've noses yourself are you someone who played alvo and then maybe you've dropped off and if so why have you dropped off or maybe you're still playing alvo you love us and it's just a matter of well just not as many people are streaming it for whatever reason maybe you're someone who's looking at the price tag and you're thinking okay when it's a bit cheaper I'll go for alvo keeping in mind of course there's lots of factors to consider for why firewall might have that many people streaming it right now in terms of it was a ps plus game back in February it's down to like 20 dollars so it's half the price of alvo right now so it's a lot more easily obtained I suppose compared to alvo right now but I still think it's a little bit concerning maybe something needs to be done I don't know what needs to be done I know the alvo developers have been very active in terms of updating the game they've already put a bunch of updates out they've improved things that needed improving they've done a very good job there so yeah this is the video that I don't even know if I'm going to post this I can already see people being like pumpkins is a fucking firewall shell trying to throw dirt on alvo all I can say is that's not the case again I want alvo to be a success I like I'm probably gonna stream alvo right now after I finish making this video I don't know yes I'm yeah again I'm not the more I talk about the more I think it might be a bad idea to put this video up but if this is a potential thing that I'm kind of onto or realizing then you know it might be worth talking about now instead of a few months down the line where it's too late to do anything about us that's the kind of angle I'd be approaching it I don't know what to do maybe the price needs to be dropped maybe something needs to be patched or maybe I don't know like I said I don't know what needs to be done but if we want alvo to be something long term if we want it to be viable then maybe speak up if you think something needs to be done and feel free to tell me I'm completely like just overreact and if that's the case which it very much could be the case and then of course you know keep in mind this game is coming to other platforms in the future so that will give the player base a boost especially when they have cross play attitude as well so that should help boss you know we don't know when that's coming in the future we don't want the psv or audience to kind of die off too soon and then it doesn't matter about cross play if the audience is kind of dead they're already if you know what I mean but yeah like I say just just my honest opinion it's more of a concern or a worry and I'm hoping maybe I'm just overthinking this or taking it out of context or whatever maybe you think we should be getting ahead of it too to try and maybe do something about us I don't know I'm talking in circles here I'm waffling so I'm just going to end the video here I guess before I do let me thank my 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