Thursday, 27 August 2015

YouTube Gaming Launch

I was very excited to try out the new YouTube gaming service so I started streaming Dota 2 on the old service an hour before the new service was officially rolled out. I had about 10 viewers up until the new service launched when my viewers jumped up to 65+! I was excited to be part of the launch and to be amongst the first streamer viewers were seeing on YouTube Gaming! I was so pumped by that stream that I went back to YouTube Gaming later in the evening to stream The Witcher 3. I changed the name of the game I was streaming in the dashboard but people just weren't tuning in. I discovered later that I was still appearing on the Dota 2 page instead of The Witcher 3 despite a couple of stream restarts. It was very disappointing as I was looking forward to meeting new viewers that might be interested in watching me play The Witcher 3. It sounds like there are numerous small problems with the service like this that Google needs to work out ASAP if their service is to be a successful alternative to Twitch. For now I'll likely keep using YouTube for Dota 2 and everything else will be on Twitch. I love that I can stream at a higher bitrate on YouTube Gaming and not have to worry about people buffering but if no one is watching because they can't find me then what's the point!

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