Microphone is pretty necessary, people like a streamer who engages the audience and talks back to them, if you plan on having a larger channel, you'll need one and you'll need to communicate with the chat and be interactive with them. Watching games is boring, it's the commentary of the streamer that makes them exciting.
Background Music is difficult, some songs are a hit some are a miss, find a good spotify playlist that appeals to a large crowd and stick with it.
Give-aways meh, you don't need them to build a channel.
Other things, people beg for facecams, people just like to see streamer's face for some weird reason, you can be successful without one, but it's easier with one. But the microphone thing is a must have, it's weird to get used to, but even when you aren't streaming just sit there and talk to yourself like you are, make it second nature to talk while playing games and even when you're streaming if you have 0 viewers, still talk like there are people there, it'll make it so much easier when you have 500+ viewers.
Main issue with mic I have at the moment is my daughter and partner. Currently space limited since I had to give up my gaming room for my daughters room. Gaming through the day will get a lot of background noise such as TV's and kids toys, at night I'll be whispering.
Thanks for the feedback though, I'll have to work on some solution with the microphone. Not against it, just I've got the issues described before to contest with. Maybe when we move I can do that sort of thing full time when I get a room back. Face cams, not an issue but I'll probably do when I get a room back.
Yea, I understand, I've got a kid too and had to switch from using a Blue Yeti mic (condenser) to a Studio quality (dynamic) Mic to pick up less ambient sound and use a Mixer because of all the background noise, the condenser mic would pick up the least little noise even with the gain set to it's lowest setting. Good luck though and wish you the best.
Microphone is pretty necessary, people like a streamer who engages the audience and talks back to them, if you plan on having a larger channel, you'll need one and you'll need to communicate with the chat and be interactive with them. Watching games is boring, it's the commentary of the streamer that makes them exciting.
Background Music is difficult, some songs are a hit some are a miss, find a good spotify playlist that appeals to a large crowd and stick with it.
Give-aways meh, you don't need them to build a channel.
Other things, people beg for facecams, people just like to see streamer's face for some weird reason, you can be successful without one, but it's easier with one. But the microphone thing is a must have, it's weird to get used to, but even when you aren't streaming just sit there and talk to yourself like you are, make it second nature to talk while playing games and even when you're streaming if you have 0 viewers, still talk like there are people there, it'll make it so much easier when you have 500+ viewers.
Main issue with mic I have at the moment is my daughter and partner. Currently space limited since I had to give up my gaming room for my daughters room. Gaming through the day will get a lot of background noise such as TV's and kids toys, at night I'll be whispering.
Thanks for the feedback though, I'll have to work on some solution with the microphone. Not against it, just I've got the issues described before to contest with. Maybe when we move I can do that sort of thing full time when I get a room back. Face cams, not an issue but I'll probably do when I get a room back.
Yea, I understand, I've got a kid too and had to switch from using a Blue Yeti mic (condenser) to a Studio quality (dynamic) Mic to pick up less ambient sound and use a Mixer because of all the background noise, the condenser mic would pick up the least little noise even with the gain set to it's lowest setting. Good luck though and wish you the best.