Warning - U wont get tokens watching the league on a TV

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I’m very disappointed with this token in youtube… the only way to get tokens is watching in your PC or Mobile and doing nothing more in your devices… i’ve been watch all Mei melee and discovered today… you cant watch the league on your second monitor while you work or something else, because youtube thinks you are not watching it and wont grant you tokens… and when i watch on my youtube TV app… it simple doenst support drops…

Blizzard didnt make that clear, only today when i checked my tokens i found out i got almost no tokens for all MM event.

You suppose to watch a 2 to 4 hour stream doing nothing more? and not even using your most comfortable screen?

I am disappointing, i decided to make this topic just to warn people like me that may be confused by this and are not getting tokens, tokens in twitch worked as expected, i could do my work or other things while watching the league on my second monitor, and i could just chill on the sofa and watch it comfortable on the tv… and get tokens.

this is just a warning… i guess there is nothing much Blizzard can do right now… seens to be youtube`s fault…

More info about this here.

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Thanks for confirming. I watch on a TV on a correctly connected account and haven’t gotten any drops. Oh well, I guess.

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I watch it on TV + let it run back at my PC minimized/low quality.

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That’s smart. I considered doing something like this but then decided I didn’t care enough.

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Yeah, sadly it won’t give you tokens if you watch the OWL on consoles. I learned that the hard way. I was wondering why I wasn’t getting tokens lol

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I just watch at the official owl site, minimized and muted and get the tokens normally

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SOrry that happened to you.

I watch it from the OWLeague site on a mobile device and it’s been actually amazing at correctly awarding me free internet points.

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No reason to be that harsh on yourself. I’m sure you are a wonderful person and got plenty of strong points :slight_smile:

BtT:
Its really unclear why they did this. Are they that scared of People afking just for drops?

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I open Google Chrome, enter the OWL website, log in into my account, I leave it playing the OWL stream and I open OW game as “window without borders” mode, not full screen mode, and I leave the OWL site on the background while I play the game, it counts as watching, I get tokens this way.

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You can just watch on mobile and cast it to your TV if you have a Chromecast (or similar)

Or plug your PC in to your TV.

But I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. The YouTube app on smart tvs is the complete basic version of the app.

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I remember I could whatcha owl in kodi, a htpc media player with a twitch addon and just worked.

If the account where linked, it shouldn’t matter how you are watching

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You can watch it on your phone and use the airplay feature to your tv.

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Yeah, but that was twitch.

Sadly, YouTube brings more viewers, and YouTube preferes use of things like Chromecast.

Google wants you to buy all their devices.

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Owl averages 30k viewers on youtube for normal non tournament games. On twitch, they used to average 100k and even sometimes 300k for such games.

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You are ignoring VoD numbers. Not many people watch the Asia games live.

Just like viewers in Asia tend not to watch the NA games live.

Last week they have 575k viewers for day 3, 610k viewers for day 2 and 440k viewers for day 1… this is just the NA games.

Asia games were all about 250k

Plus another 30-80k viewers on the individual game VoD’s

So yeah, they get a lot more views on the Tube, which is why they were able to pull in much bigger sponsorships.

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Also, Twitch for some reason, doesn’t allow me to obtain drops in the SEA region.

Youtube allows me to get those drop, able to replay and doesn’t crap itself as hard as twitch when I replay the video.

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It’s almost as if the switch to YouTube has been a complete s—show. Hehehe. :slight_smile:

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How. The viewing numbers are massively up.

Sound like a success to me.

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u do get drops if u go to the website while on the console.

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How does Youtube define a view?

Clicking the video and immediately closing it counts as a view? Watching 1% of a 3 hour video ? 10 seconds?

Those numbers without knowing how youtube defines a view is pointless. What we do know is that live viewership is down.

And looking at the like/dislike ratio and comparing them to other channels with similar viewer numbers OW’s is pretty low.