Why do we always have fake starting times for Twitch broadcasts?
Why do we always have fake starting times for Twitch livestreams?
If Twitter says 1pm, then the livestream should start at 1pm. If it’s going to be later, then just give us the real starting time.
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probably technical difficulties. ever since they switched their livestream space to their main hq recently they’ve been having a lot of technical problems. it’s live now though on twitch.
I’m on Twitch, and I just see STARTING SOON. And I checked a streamer, and his screen says STARTING SOON too.
yeah they usually do 5-10 mins of “starting soon” to make sure people get in and don’t miss out right away. it’s a shame the stream started late because we are almost 20 mins into the initial start time but at least it’ll start soon.
This time, I think it's technical difficulties. The stream is only and Twitch and nowhere to be found on YouTube.
During the livestream, it was implied there were issues trying to get the stream working on YouTube, which caused the delay.
Currently in some countries Amazon servers(Twitch specifically) and YouTube as well encountered many server issues
I don’t know about situation in Canada and USA, but when I watched live twichcon of streamer from there, it was really bad. Tho it was days ago
Took the words right out of my mouth (literally). I acknowledge the technical issues, but completely unprofessional at many levels as a company of their size to not to have a support team that has that ironed out so things are ready to go live on-time. It gave off a very unserious image.
It's not "fake"; anyone who has ever working in livestreaming/live production will tell you that 1. stream start times are created with leeway in mind to make sure everyone is ready/there are no issues with the equipment and 2. to allow people to get into the stream before it starts, not everyone has the discipline/interest to arrive directly on time. Respectfully, I hate this attitude of thinking the devs are just completely imcompetent morons who have no idea what they're doing, especially when you're just flat-out being ignorant. It is free to be kind and would have saved you the 2 minutes it took you to write this post.
If their intent is to start at the given time but a technical difficulty or other mishap means they can't, then it's not "false." It's just a delay. You can always watch the VOD later if the delay is inconvenient for you.
This isn't the first time this has happened though. Sometimes the stream is supposed to start, and we get a 30 minute countdown timer instead.
And if there is a major delay because of a technical difficulty, they could have communicated that on Twitter, or switch the stream to a sign saying "technical difficulties, please wait", instead of just having people sit there for 20 minutes wondering what is happening.
You obviously don't watch much Twitch. When you go live, Twitch sends out a notification. With exception of your most dedicated regulars, nobody is just sitting there while you are offline waiting for you. So, they need a few minutes to wrap up what they were doing, get Twitch open, etc. Nearly every streamer that has been streaming for any significant amount of time does a "Starting Soon" screen for about 5-10 minutes to let people arrive, so they don't miss too much.
You don't know you are going to have technical difficulties until you log in. If you and I set up to play some games together at 10pm, if I log in at 10pm and my computer is suddenly crashing, are you going to say I am being unprofessional because I didn't fix my computer crashing beforehand?
If you were a professional game company, that was literally making a stream to show your customers that you are competent and capable of making good plans for the future, then I would expect you to log in BEFORE the stream's starting time, to fix any issues that might occur.
Like for reals, log in before the stream starts, and check if the audio and visuals work. And make sure no one's microphone is doing some weird echo thing.
Yes, but sometimes something can go wrong that you did not foresee.
We don't know that it was a hardware failure. One common problem I see streamers have often is that their OBS updated right before they got on stream and now it's broken. It doesn't happen very often, but it happens. When it does happen, yes it very much does just magically break over night. Bugs and stuff in software used by streamers is completely different than hardware.
Plus, what is this nonsense that crashing is only ever a hardware issue? More often than not, it's a software issue. You may be in the computer industry, but it's obvious what END you are on. You seem to know nothing about the software end.
Unfortunately, we had some last minute tech issues that were not present during our tech tests earlier in the day or in the tests done the day before. Whilst we fully endeavour to start on time, it was impossible in this instance.
We are not professional streamers, we are starting to do these Community Streams as a way to bridge the gap and give more information to players, it might occasionally have some tech issues - none of our jobs are as streamers, so we're doing our best here to make these work. I would really hope that we'd be given a little bit of leeway and that the community would understand that these are going to be a bit more casual in nature and things can go wrong.
I would like to say most of us understand, but… this thread seems to indicate otherwise.