OWL on YouTube is garbo, bring back Twitch

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I get that it’s because busine$$ reasons, but…

  • Chat is boring, no emotes just cringe emoticons, no BTTV
  • Quality is terrible, massive compression artifacts even at max bitrate
  • UI is way less optimized for live streams.
  • No clips.
  • No synergy with other streamers.
  • Bad branding, who is excited about YT Gaming? It’s a Johnny-come-lately attempt at capitalizing on the market that Twitch built.
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then tell twitch to offer a better deal

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That’s no one’s concern but OWL’s. No one knows how the negotiations looked. All we know is the product, OWL itself. Aside from being there in-person, the stream is all there is. So a measurable loss of broadcast/stream quality is directly connected to the quality of OWL.

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I use YouTube anyway and I got notifications. If it was on Twitch I would have missed it.

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Twitch has notifications…

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:man_shrugging: They got the viewers out today without Twitch tokens so they must’ve done something right.

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The only argument I could find pro YouTube is that I can rewind the stream anytime and don’t have to wait until the stream is finished to check back on something.

That’s it though.

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I personally didn’t notice much of a difference but I don’t use any of that stuff. I will say the Crunch Time was REALLY BAD THOUGH!

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B O T S

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They don’t realize they’re not getting tokens. Give it a day.

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Day 1 of Stage 1 of last season (Season 2) had 200K average concurrent viewers. Today averaged around 100K. Day 1 Stage one of Season 1 averaged something like 350K concurrent viewers.

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That’s it - they released the skin to goad people in but there is no token drop… gotta love it…

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I mean we all know what happened, they buffed the bot easy crap and everyone stopped playing and watching.

Brigitte is going to be remembered as the biggest mistake in gaming history

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That and Moira and WB, those three did it in.

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The mercy rework and Moira and brig and the general design philosophy tied to those decisions

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This is big business, kid. Twitch ain’t coming back. But I’m sure they appreciate the feedback and will upgrade their platform soon.

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i was surprised to see such bad video quality, i mean, its 2005 level quality , i thought youtube had better streaming

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This. A thousand times this. Twitch had issues with Bitrate but ad time went on they tried to fix it. YT right off the bat has bad bitrate, they need to address this ASAP.

YT Gaming would have been so much bigger if YT didn’t let the platform go to waste and shut it down. The treat gamers as second class when they bring in a ton of views for the platform.

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At least you can rewind with YouTube.

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Waiting for 4k resolution.

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