It's entering way too late in the scene. It'll gain some traction, but there's really no cancer chat like twitch chat. Maybe during the next Horror incident people will migrate, but people don't have many reasons to switch unless youtube pays the streamers enough to switch.
Also enjoy posting with your real name in chat Kappa (making alt google accounts is a lot more annoying now that you need a phone or tablet).
It's entering way too late in the scene. It'll gain some traction, but there's really no [s]cancer[/s] chat like twitch chat. Maybe during the next Horror incident people will migrate, but people don't have many reasons to switch unless youtube pays the streamers enough to switch.
Also enjoy posting with your real name in chat Kappa (making alt google accounts is a lot more annoying now that you need a phone or tablet).
If there is a question of some sort of competition, I really question it. Twitch could likely support replays in a similar fashion, but replays would lower interaction and might make it suffer in that regard, since interaction IS a large part of the twitch experience. Sure, in most E-sports events that's null and void -- and only in certain instances are replays even needed (which should be on the casting side anyway), but as a whole, the majority of income comes from interaction and ads on larger streams (spitballing on that last bit, but a reasonable assumption.)
Assuming single streamers would switch services is silly unless there was an infrastructure for interaction on par with twitch (possible in a short period, but it still remains in question). And beyond casting, which doesn't suffer from multiple platforms, since they can easily pick whatever one they want or do multiple, there isn't much value in Youtube Gaming Streams for most streamers; pending there isn't a similar infrastructure.
If there is a question of some sort of competition, I really question it. Twitch could likely support replays in a similar fashion, but replays would lower interaction and might make it suffer in that regard, since interaction IS a large part of the twitch experience. Sure, in most E-sports events that's null and void -- and only in certain instances are replays even needed (which should be on the casting side anyway), but as a whole, the majority of income comes from interaction and ads on larger streams (spitballing on that last bit, but a reasonable assumption.)
Assuming single streamers would switch services is silly unless there was an infrastructure for interaction on par with twitch (possible in a short period, but it still remains in question). And beyond casting, which doesn't suffer from multiple platforms, since they can easily pick whatever one they want or do multiple, there isn't much value in Youtube Gaming Streams for most streamers; pending there isn't a similar infrastructure.
brownymasterIt's entering way too late in the scene. It'll gain some traction, but there's really no cancer chat like twitch chat. Maybe during the next Horror incident people will migrate, but people don't have many reasons to switch unless youtube pays the streamers enough to switch.
Also enjoy posting with your real name in chat Kappa (making alt google accounts is a lot more annoying now that you need a phone or tablet).
I beg to differ, there's a lot of really big YouTube streamers that only rarely stream on twitch as it's a separate platform and they lose a large chunk of their audience, if these people start streaming on YouTube and some twitch streamers see how successful it is I think some would jump ship.
However, I guess this won't really stop people like phantomlord and other streamers that just sit there and open cases.
And just take a look on how it looks: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/lookout-twitch-youtube-gaming-is-coming-this-summer/
twitch better have been working on something.
[quote=brownymaster]It's entering way too late in the scene. It'll gain some traction, but there's really no [s]cancer[/s] chat like twitch chat. Maybe during the next Horror incident people will migrate, but people don't have many reasons to switch unless youtube pays the streamers enough to switch.
Also enjoy posting with your real name in chat Kappa (making alt google accounts is a lot more annoying now that you need a phone or tablet).[/quote]
I beg to differ, there's a lot of really big YouTube streamers that only rarely stream on twitch as it's a separate platform and they lose a large chunk of their audience, if these people start streaming on YouTube and some twitch streamers see how successful it is I think some would jump ship.
However, I guess this won't really stop people like phantomlord and other streamers that just sit there and open cases.
And just take a look on how it looks: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/lookout-twitch-youtube-gaming-is-coming-this-summer/
twitch better have been working on something.
GetawhaleFrost_BiteAdditionally, unless they upgrade their streaming service, YT is about 3 seconds behind twitch from my experience.
Friendly reminder that this is Google, who have more than twice the assets, financially, that Amazon has.
I'm sure they could. It remains to be seen if they will.
[quote=Getawhale][quote=Frost_Bite]
Additionally, unless they upgrade their streaming service, YT is about 3 seconds behind twitch from my experience.[/quote]
Friendly reminder that this is Google, who have more than twice the assets, financially, that Amazon has.[/quote]
I'm sure they could. It remains to be seen if they will.