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Overwatch League Offseason |OT| Support Tier Two Overwatch!
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Good to hear. I know you can pause and it won't automatically jump you to live, which is nice.
Yeah, I agree the quality is better. But even though twitch chat can be shit sometimes, I'm going to miss it. Same with using emotes and stuff
Nah, not anymore tho, they integrated the content with regular YouTube a while ago.
The move's... Interesting, YT is bigger than Twitch anyway you slice it in terms of overall activity, and I think part of the deal consists in having more exposure with ads too? You also have to consider that this will be good news for League sponsors overall.
Plus they'll outright will get more money, so they can afford low viewership while they rebuild the fan base.
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Someone said on reddit that you can also rewind a few seconds during the live broadcast. These 2 features and the better bitrate already make this nicer for me. I also still have the YT app on my TV, whereas the twitch app disappeared last year.
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I wonder if Merch will be sold at the Homestands. Would love to buy a bunch of the new Defiant stuff but USD conversion to CAD plus customs make ordering stuff from the US way too expensive.
Almost certainly. I went to the Valiant homestand last season and they had tons of OWL stuff, not just Valiant.
Perfect. If anything now I should just be scared for how much I'll be spending at the venue lol
Believe the Channel could turn off the "DVR" mode if they wanted to, so it only plays live
I kind of imagine it will since it may effect Ads?
The twitch app on PS
So many of those away jerseys are let down by stock looking font but that XL font is ace.
That NYXL merch is 👌👌👌
So many of those away jerseys are let down by stock looking font but that XL font is ace.
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My poor Boston Uprising at the bottom of the power rankings. I hear their management is terrible.
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We haven't had offical word on that, I'd wait till people get theirs to confirm quality. Fanatic has some involvement but might be just distribution.
The hope is that they're only doing distribution and not actually making anything. I would say this is a possibility since you can buy OWL stuff form Into the AM
Looks like you can see Fanatics inside of the jerseys, so that'd be my guess. Oh well
Guess since the new season starts in 2 weeks and it's not in the store no fans are wearing this stuff to the opening games lol
I like some of their players, but It's hard to like their management when they seem to treat players like currency.
They seem to be more interested in making money than actually competing.
Ditto for the Valiant, who at least have Packing10 as a coach. Not only do Boston not have Crusty anymore, they've got some real headscratchers when it comes to who they pursue
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Is anyone else down on Season 3 so far?
With the change to home games it is going to be impossible to watch like 2/3 of the Matches live
No cheering/emotes or weekly community cheer goals and such
No command center (with player views and all that)
No Token system set up
No prediction plugin built in
Like half of the camera Talent left
With the change to home games it is going to be impossible to watch like 2/3 of the Matches live
No cheering/emotes or weekly community cheer goals and such
No command center (with player views and all that)
No Token system set up
No prediction plugin built in
Like half of the camera Talent left
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Not really, the only thing getting me down about it is the chance that the Chinese games will be moved, those were going to be incredibly hype homestands.
We're getting better casters in this year, a better desk with Custa and Reinforce, they meta is shaping up nicely with the latest ptr patch, homestands will be hype. Should be a fun year.
We're getting better casters in this year, a better desk with Custa and Reinforce, they meta is shaping up nicely with the latest ptr patch, homestands will be hype. Should be a fun year.
Yea same. Doesn't help that most of my favorite players left the Valiant. But i'll still give it an honest shot.
I'm more worried with the OWL being exclusively broadcast on YouTube Gaming, as I've had noting but scuffed streams or a lousy time running a decent stream session on that platform.
Your're assuming like half of this stuff. I'd be surprised if they abandoned all their initiatives with YT. Command Center was new for Twitch as well, and YT has done drops.
Well the tweet by Pete above mentions that the drops/tokens are only being explored now, which likely means that they wont be there for the start of the season
I don't think Youtube even has any kind of plug-in system in stream do they? I've never seen one with one, though you could still do it on the OWL site likely, but that only helps if you watch it on the OWL site
Don't think the Command Center equivalent has ever been done on Youtube before and there is no indication there will be any equivalent so far?
Forgot to mention the No Clips thing too, if they disable the DVR feature, there will basically be no way to live share good plays or funny moments
- Sure with the change to home games it is going to be impossible to watch every home game live - imagine now the possibility of those elsewhere in the world now for the first time being able to consistently being able to watch a game live. I am sure many people will be in the same boat and they will have a rolling catch up for people who miss it "live".
- The no cheering/command center or token is speculation. While the tweet from Pete sounds like it would not be in initially because of how late Activision signed on Youtube, i don't think the tokens will be far behind the start of the season and the command center will also not be too far behind either. The prdicition plug in i imagine will be a while off as i have not seen similar on youtube yet.
- Yes quite a bit of talent has left the full time roster but most have been open to return and likely will return if they are near a homestand and are available. Puckett is now based in NY and is already confirmed as a pick up to host the opening week NYXL homestand.
I felt down when talent started to leave but at the same time i remind myself how hype the homestands were last year and i am cautiously optimistic that this could be the best season of OWL yet but also weary that it could be the worst season as well. I don't think there will be any inbetween - it will be one or the other.
Aside from Puckett and maybe Malik, we've lost nothing of value with the talent
Also this - tbh while i did not mind Monte you could tell towards the end of last season that he was simply not interested any more and i found his casting quite dull in that back half - i would rather someone be there who wants to be there then not. Also i did not rate semmler or DOA very much at all so again from my view no big loss.
Puckett and Malik were the biggest losses but i think with reinforce coming back and custa joining the desk with Soe hosting, i think it will still be a great desk. Custa shows he has the chops on the recent plat chat episodes.
YT has done drops with Epic. But yeah, not sure about Command Center.
I'm getting hyped with the patch changes, so much so I'm actually considering installing the game again.
Also, Surefour tweeted something really interested a few weeks ago about how we could see two completely separate metas develop with Pacific and Atlantic division teams scrimming with each other substantially less than during S1 and 2.
Plus, YouTube is a WAAAY better place to stream the matches, Twitch felt scuffed a lot of the times, at least for me.
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Please don't go :(
Also, Surefour tweeted something really interested a few weeks ago about how we could see two completely separate metas develop with Pacific and Atlantic division teams scrimming with each other substantially less than during S1 and 2.
Plus, YouTube is a WAAAY better place to stream the matches, Twitch felt scuffed a lot of the times, at least for me.
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Please don't go :(
I will pay to not see ads.
This is what gets me. It's just a worse off experience for the viewer
Although it pains me to say it, I have a feeling that YT will push YouTube Red (or whatever they call it these days) if you don't want ads. Mind you, I can't recall if there even were ads midstream during E3, but I don't think so... For sure there are ads during VODs but someone else will have to remind me if there were any for livestreams.
I'll raise this again, but I knew of OWL but never bothered checking it out until the Homestand format was revealed.. and I'm not the only one. The OWWC solidified that I was into the scene and the off season allowed me to catch up on everything I needed to be ready for season 3. This plus the partnership with YouTube will only make people check out the League more, the barrier of entry is gone for casual folks since they don't need to download Twitch on their phones to give OWL a shot. With Google's advertising, I figure anyone who watches games on YouTube will get ads about the league, which will bring more folks into the scene.
I strongly believe Homestands + YouTube will make the scene blow up for the more mainstream audience. Now whether this is a good thing or not, I'll let you decide.
I'll raise this again, but I knew of OWL but never bothered checking it out until the Homestand format was revealed.. and I'm not the only one. The OWWC solidified that I was into the scene and the off season allowed me to catch up on everything I needed to be ready for season 3. This plus the partnership with YouTube will only make people check out the League more, the barrier of entry is gone for casual folks since they don't need to download Twitch on their phones to give OWL a shot. With Google's advertising, I figure anyone who watches games on YouTube will get ads about the league, which will bring more folks into the scene.
I strongly believe Homestands + YouTube will make the scene blow up for the more mainstream audience. Now whether this is a good thing or not, I'll let you decide.
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Looks like they are moving players out of China
Sideshow mention that wolf and achilios would be casting from the Asian homestands.
Sideshow mention that wolf and achilios would be casting from the Asian homestands.
This has been on the cards for the past couple of weeks and is indeed the right call to be making. Whether that means relocating the home stands or simply putting them on hold indefinitely until a later date, it is the right move.
A real shame if this does affect the Chinese honestands significantly but one of the realities that this model of competition can possibly face. I think it is safe to say that the Shanghai, Guangzhou and spark honestands in week 2, 3are most suspect to be relocated or cancelled.
A real shame if this does affect the Chinese honestands significantly but one of the realities that this model of competition can possibly face. I think it is safe to say that the Shanghai, Guangzhou and spark honestands in week 2, 3are most suspect to be relocated or cancelled.
Mayhem new's colorway is awesome but it had the unintended impact of forcing the Spark to switch to a shade of pink that feels a lot more pale. It seems like an improvement if you're going to template the teams but I wish there were better fonts.
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Jersey up in the shop, $90, EU pre-order shipping 3/31
https://shop.overwatchleague.com/jerseys/d-31662334+z-9603754-3979083766?ab={wt-static_graphic}{pt-HP}{al-ASpot}{ct-STAPLE}{OWL}
https://shop.overwatchleague.com/jerseys/d-31662334+z-9603754-3979083766?ab={wt-static_graphic}{pt-HP}{al-ASpot}{ct-STAPLE}{OWL}
This season was already a huge leap but goddamn everything's gonna be fucked because of the coronavirus. They're gonna have to shuffle the schedules around.
Edit: Oops, Era loaded the tweet posted above after I posted lol
Edit: Oops, Era loaded the tweet posted above after I posted lol
Copped one of the new Defiant jerseys. Seems like it will ship and be delivered to me exactly on the week of our Homestand
If you use a random email and sign up you get 15% off so it's technically $78.25 😝 Canada can't get free shipping though which sucks.
I'm really hoping at the season opener at Rec Room they'll have jerseys for sale. Last year at the opener they had jerseys which in hindsight was the cheapest way to get them at the time ($60 CAD iirc and no shipping costs).