YT has one feature that Twitch does not, in-place rewinding of live streams. It's great for watching something delayed at work. Everything else is Twitch for me. Haven't tried Mixer.
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So did Youtube become the preferred platform for game event streaming?
- Thread starter Busaiku
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Mate, I know there's loads of toxic people on all streaming platforms. I just feel like it's highlighted on Twitch, for me, because it's immediately there in your face as you enter the stream.
I never experience it in YouTube because I only use it to watch conferences and events anyway, and I go straight to the channel I wanna watch those on (usually on my TV or PS4), and it never shows me the comment section ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Again, this is my experience, I should have pointed that on my comment for clarity
Settle down tough guy, this attitude of yours is most likely why you're so bothered buy a chat you have the power to disable.
I always use youtube when it comes to conferences/directs. I never have issues with it like I do other streaming platforms.
YouTube shit the bed for me this e3. Kept freezing up during the conferences. Twitch ran flawlessly.
YouTube allows you to actually rewind the livestream, and that's the only reason I watch on there for events. Why Twitch doesn't have this basic as feature I'll never understand.
I defaulted to Youtube and thenTwitch in the beginning of the Xbox press conference, since it's what I had available through my AppleTV. I was offput by the quality, so I booted up my Xbox One X and started streaming through Mixer for the first time ever. I was shook at how nice it looked in 4K. I used to watch things on Youtube / Twitch, and then watch the trailers / gameplay demos released thereafter in better quality. But Mixer gave me that latter experience from the start.
YouTube has been good for a few years but this year for E3 I had some playback error id screens during the stream and had to refresh the page.
What was surprising is YT didn't push E3 on its main page or trending selector with Microsoft's conference. Had to type it in. With the low view count and not being on the front page at least when I went I wasn't expecting to get stream drop off. Usually it's been bomb proof.
What was surprising is YT didn't push E3 on its main page or trending selector with Microsoft's conference. Had to type it in. With the low view count and not being on the front page at least when I went I wasn't expecting to get stream drop off. Usually it's been bomb proof.
Same. Mixer's quality is the best for me...even if it is usually the last to realtime.
YT does a much better job dealing with video archiving. For things that are fundamentally advertisements, it's good to have them up as soon as they're available as is being able to keep them up. Twitch had a rather notorious reputation for not being a place to keep stream archives/vods; perhaps they've changed their focus over the last couple years but given that it requires zero thought on youtube to do so I no longer bother with Twitch streaming except for cases where Twitch-specific features like multi-feed streams (multitwitch is great for races) are useful.
That and I can watch YT more easily on my television; a lot of Twitch apps aren't very good, if they even exist in the first place.
That and I can watch YT more easily on my television; a lot of Twitch apps aren't very good, if they even exist in the first place.
YouTube errored out for me multiple times during multiple events. I don't use it unless I need to.