Shortly after switching over to content material creation full-time following his retirement from skilled Name of Obligation, Seth “Scump” Abner is slowly starting to discover video games outdoors of his wheelhouse, regardless of some comprehensible trepidations.
On Jan. 25, the CoD legend introduced he’d be doing a partnered stream to disclose a brand new Halo Infinite map created within the in-game Forge system alongside OpTic founder and longtime good friend Hector “H3CZ” Rodriguez.
Whereas Scump isn’t the one former OpTic CoD legend to maneuver in Halo‘s path (his longtime teammate in Matthew “FormaL” Piper moved to Halo at the start of 2022 and received a world championship afterward), that’s not the one sport he’s contemplating both.
On an earlier stream, Scump mentioned that he’s “all the way down to run some [VALORANT]” however admitted he’s a little bit hesitant to leap straight into different video games, saying he wasn’t positive if folks would watch him play. However he acknowledged in the identical stream that he has received to “get out of the mindset” of being scared to enterprise out past CoD, which is simpler mentioned than completed given he’s spent the previous decade of his life solely devoted to that title.
Throughout that clip, 100T founder and former OpTic teammate Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag informed Scump to “maintain off” on enjoying VALORANT till a time when he could be comfy going weeks with out CoD. Nadeshot disagreed with Scump relating to the notion that individuals wouldn’t watch, placing him within the class of streaming stars like shroud and making certain him that viewership would “slowly however certainly go up.”
Final week, proper after Scump introduced his retirement, Nadeshot mentioned the timing of the choice was “weird” provided that each the participant base and content material round Fashionable Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 have been declining.
Regardless of that, it’s clear that there are nonetheless loads of alternatives for Scump to make CoD content material that rakes in viewers. Through the first set of on-line qualifier matches after his retirement, Scump’s watch social gathering stream did higher numbers than the precise CDL stream itself.
