Some games with nudity/sexual content are banned, and some games with nudity/sexual content are NOT banned. This creates a dilemma; on a daily basis, I see many broadcasters and users saying, "Why is X banned, while Z is unbanned? Z is worse than X! We should be able to broadcast X on this website!" These inconsistencies have caused confusion and frustration for broadcasters and viewers alike.

For the purpose of this suggestion, let us establish two types of games:

1. Pornographic games.
2. Games that contain nudity/sexual content, but are NOT pornographic in nature.

Pornographic games can be defined very easily; the sole purpose of the game is provide sexual gratification. Examples:

The Maiden Rape Assault: Violent Semen Inferno
Artificial Academy
Artificial Girl
Battle Rape
RapeLay

There are numerous games that DO contain nudity/sexual content, but do NOT exist for the sole purpose of sexual gratification. Examples:

South Park: The Stick of Truth
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Grand Theft Auto 4 & 5
The Order: 1866
Dante's Inferno
Conan: Exiles
Manhunt 2
Apotheon
Outlast
Rust

Some of the games on Twitch's list of prohibited games contain nudity/sexual content, but were NOT created for the sole purpose of sexual gratification. Examples:

What's Under Your Blanket?
Yandere Simulator
Genital Jousting
Second Life

Some of these games are arguably LESS sexual and have LESS extreme content than several Mature-rated games that are currently permitted on Twitch. In order to prevent users from experiencing frustration and confusion when trying to determine "Why is X banned, while Z is unbanned?" Twitch could change the way that it classifies games.

Instead of:

1. Prohibited
2. Not Prohibited

We could have:

1. Prohibited - Completely banned.
2. Restricted - Locked behind an 18+ "age gate".
3. Neither - Visible to everyone.

Twitch currently permits streamers to click a checkbox that marks their stream as "Mature Content - Inappropriate for younger audiences". Streamers would be required to click this checkbox if they intend to play any game that has been added to Twitch's "Restricted Games" list.

Any non-pornographic game that prominently features nudity / sexual content (Such as South Park: The Stick of Truth and Conan: Exiles) would be added to the Restricted List.

Optionally: Viewers would be able to opt-in or opt-out of "Restricted" broadcasts. Broadcasters who are streaming restricted games would be hidden completely from viewers who have not opted-in. Potentially, e-mail verification could be used to finalize the opt-in. The list of restricted games would be updated over time.

If ALL non-pornographic games with nudity/sexual content were treated the same way - everything from South Park to Conan to Yandere Simulator - then Twitch would benefit in multiple ways:

1. Broadcasters would be able to stream non-pornographic games that are currently prohibited.
2. Viewers would have a greater degree of control over the type of content that they want to watch.
3. Twitch would never be accused of inconsistent rule enforcement or suspected of biased judgements.

Thank you for your time.

smile.amazon.com allows amazon users to select a charity organization from a massive database and 0.5% of purchases will be given to that charity.

It would be fantastic if users on Twitch could select a charity from the existing Amazon Smile database on their Twitch profile settings, where an amount is taken from the Twitch portion of every sub purchase or bit purchase. The broadcaster receives the same amount, but a small percentage is donated from the bit fee or Twitch portion of sub revenue. Users making this choice could receive a special chat badge indicating they support a charity!

In addition to this, a separate tool for broadcasters to enable a similar option on their channel (if desired) where a portion of their sub and ad revenue go towards a charity of their choosing. Amazon Smile has a massive database of charities, and it would be excellent to provide partners access to this database to expand the charities available for integrated support.

Before you implemented the new player you didn't need to refresh the page when a stream went live. Now you will not even notice when a stream goes live unless you refresh the page.

Example:
Current behavior:
1. Go to offline stream page (ex https://www.twitch.tv/reckful)
2. Reckful starts his stream
3. Nothing happens and the user has no idea that reckful has gone live even if he has had this tab open for hours

Wanted behavior:
1. Go to offline stream page (ex https://www.twitch.tv/reckful)
2. Reckful starts streaming
3. Stream starts playing instantly

I know that this worked previously with the old flash player, so is this feature gone because of limitations in the HTML5 player or was it just overlooked?

Older games and indie games are almost unplayable if a streamer wants to continue to grow. The likelihood of gaining new viewers or a decent audience is severely decreased due to how these games are categorized on Twitch. However, it should be a simple fix. Implement a system similar to browsing the CS:GO map sections or the various subcategories in Creative. Create an "Indie Games" option for broadcasters to list as their game. Within that, you can include subcategories of the different games. For older games (such as the Mass Effect series), make a game listing that encompasses the whole series. From there, you could have subcategories to each specific game.

Even if the subcategories are too complicated for implementation on the site, the "Indie Games" and "[Example Game] Series" should be available for broadcasters to use as their listed game while streaming. It will benefit both streamers and viewers alike, and hopefully provider an overall increase in traffic and viewer satisfaction!

Thank you for the consideration!

It would be awesome if Twitch allowed artists who design emotes for partnered streamers use them for free!

A suggestion is for Twitch to create the option for partnered streamers to specify which artist(s) created their emotes when they upload them which would then allow the artist to use those emotes on Twitch.

Benefits to this is that it would provide more exposure to both the streamer and the artist. The artist would get more promotion through sharing their created emotes on Twitch. Fans of the artist who enjoy their art style would be able to see which emotes the artist has created and which stream they're from. As a result, this would bring more exposure to the streamer, leading to more subs!

I feel that Twitch artists, though they contribute so much to the streamer communities, often receive little recognition for their hard work since they work behind-the-scenes. It'd be nice if Twitch implemented this feature to show their support for their artists!

I’m developing a game called Yandere Simulator.

In January of 2016, Twitch added my game to their list of prohibited games: help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1992676-list-of-prohibited-games

This was a newsworthy event, and numerous websites reported about it:

http://www.pcgamer.com/yandere-simulator-banned-from-twitch/1
http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/22/10815594/yandere-simulator-banned-twitch-reddit3
http://kotaku.com/yandere-simulator-dev-says-twitch-hasnt-told-him-why-hi-1754533741
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-22-what-is-yandere-simulator-and-why-has-twitch-banned-it1
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/127108/20160123/twitch-bans-users-broadcasting-yandere-simulator.htm

The Twitch community reacted with confusion, unsure why the game deserved to be banned: www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/4230gv/so_yandere_simulator_is_now_banned_from_twitch/2

I made a video about the subject, expressing my own confusion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_KPVLXf3B03 This video has been viewed over 877,000 times.

Over the past 11 months, I have attempted to contact Twitch numerous times to ask why Yandere Simulator is banned. However, Twitch has never given me a response.

I’ve submitted report tickets — no replies.
I’ve e-mailed the support team and the dev success team — no responses.
I’ve messaged Twitch administrators — no help.

I would be more than happy to alter my game’s content to permit it to be streamed on Twitch, or produce a “Twitch Friendly” build of my game. But, first, someone at Twitch would need to speak with me and tell me what content needs to be removed or toned down.

As far as I know, Twitch does not make it possible for developers to contact them and discuss the reasons why a game was banned, or work together in order to get a game allowed back on Twitch. A solution should be implemented as soon as possible.

Streamers regularly have to Mod persons of interest in their chat, whether other streamers, devs, community managers or just general "VIPs" in chat so they can be more visible and be interacted with more effectively.

This results in many streamers having Mods in the triple digits, and management of the Mod team being more complex.

A simply implemented fix to this situation would be to bring in a "VIP" status badge, with none of the authority of a Mod Badge.

Implementing this feature would allow streamers greater flexibility in how they handle their communities and make communicating with one another and other VIPs significantly easier.

Hi Twitch Staff,

I really like what do you a lot, but most of the streamers i like are in a totally different timezone. When i want to see a specific game being played by them, i have to look through VOD thumbnails until i find the game I'd like to see.

As weird as it might sound, there's several adult websites that have markers in a vods timeline (when a scene changes, for example) and when you hover those markers, they will show detailed info at what happened at that part of the video.

My suggestion is: Monitor events during a vod, mainly for game changed, but this could also be used for submode activated or many other things (many big streamers have giveaways for example, and people might want to catch up on what was given away last stream). So when you hover over a game changed marker it could state extended info such as "Game changed to: XYZ" and maybe even if the streamer himself did it or one of the mods issued it.

I'm very curious of what you think of my idea!

The new Twitch layout forces me to have a purple navigation bar at the top of the webpage that I cannot hide or scroll away from. This means the layout now has 2 bars at the top of the screen that display different things and neither of which can be scrolled away from and neither of which I have the option to hide. Now when I watch a stream on a 1080 monitor in fullscreen, the video is not centered on my monitor and is instead lower on the screen and there is no way for me to center it through scrolling the page.

This is extremely annoying and you should give us the option to have the old layout or remove the bars altogether OR the option to scroll the page down so the bars can be hidden.