Tag: Streamers

Why I would rather watch Twitch than Old TV

Why would I watch a Twitch Stream over a regular tv with ads and flashy graphics?

Simply put, Twitch is more authentic. While there are some users I avoid on there, it is a great platform where the internet is used for its original purpose and not turned into a linear experience. Netflix has become of that and I do not enjoy it. There are too many ads.

There are some ads on Twitch but they are not nearly as intrusive as Youtube.

On Twitch, there are no broadcast tv stations flooding the feeds of users like on YouTube. It is mostly younger people and I feel at home there.

This is why I purchased a Turbo account for Twitch. It is worth the money, much more than spending money on a shrinking Netflix library where they cancel shows at the drop of a hat.

Twitch is by gamers for gamers and I hope remains true to its original nature.

Streaming Empire Earth on Twitch

Twitch is an intriguing little site. While it isn’t little in its cultural impact on the internet, there is something to said about how “media” ignores it. There are so many users who spending time on Twitch who have audiences in the tens of thousands and yet because it is not something that the older generations understand, they are not picking up on it and trying to understand it. In some ways, I like how Twitch is popular yet hidden away. Unlike YouTube, there is no presence of the old brands trying to muscle their way onto the site. YouTube basically gave up on its own userbase in favor of propping up TV stations that had their start in the 1950s. Linear Television should remain where it is; YouTube is its own thing and that’s better for the internet as a whole. However, in the rush for ever greater profits over building the internet into something useful, they have flooded YouTube with all these useless recommendations and taken away its creativity. I still use it as there are redeeming qualities to it, but there needs to be more competition here.

Here are some screenshots of the session that I streamed on Twitch. I realized that I was playing without the right output at the time but I still count it as a stream.

The screenshot below is from a successful stream. I decided to test out whether my settings were correct and whether the video was playing back to any viewers. Sure enough, it was. I did a quick random match on a continental map. Empire Earth’s AI loves to cheat so I didn’t want a stream where it was a difficult game so I had an AI ally with me.

It was an enjoyable experience but I need to do more streams before I get a handle on this site.

Twitch Early Impressions

I started streaming on Twitch and it is a rather smooth experience. I have not really streamed a video game before, so I chose something that was easy and familiar to me. It was Empires: Dawn of the Modern World which came out in 2003.

I played for about an hour and there were some hiccups in the stream. One of those issues was that the game would sometimes freeze up and then start working again after a bit of waiting. These were not that big of an issue, but it is an annoyance.

I managed to get one viewer on my first stream.

That is a big victory for a man just starting out in streaming.

However, practice makes perfect as they say. I will get better at this and Twitch will be an interesting journey to be taking. As I love writing, video streaming wasn’t exactly on my radar but now after this experience, I have to say I enjoy it.