Is Twitch still for real "Live" streamers?
As someone who has watched too much Twitch over the years, I have never even thought to come to a page like this until recently. In the hopes that someone actually reads this, I'd like to express my concerns about the overall quality of streams recently on Twitch, and the tactics some streamers are using to try to make more money.
One of the biggest issues that is bothersome as a viewer is streamers that are now "Live" for days on end. They go live for a certain amount of time, and then just loop videos with a message on screen saying they're not live until they get back in front of their computer and take over again.
I understand that streamers want to generate ad revenue, but this isn't what twitch is about. Looping YouTube playlists for hours and hours on end every day is not "Live" content. If I wanted to watch prerecorded content, I would go to YouTube.
I understand that I can just not click on the creator's stream, but just allowing streamers to get away with this practice degrades the entire user experience on the platform as it goes unchecked (from a viewer's perspective) on the platform. It might be a small subset of creator's abusing the system like this now, but it will become more widespread as time goes on if twitch allows it.
Perhaps twitch may consider becoming a platform to host prerecorded content as well as live content that is suitable for their niche of users? I wouldn't mind content creators posting pre-recorded content to their channel if that's what was being advertised.
Tl;dr - going to "Live" streamers channels and watching looped YouTube video playlists is a bad user experience, and it will continue to get worse if left unchecked.
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king_a1d1 commented
Totally agree but I do not think Twitch cares. They do nothing about this or some of those same unethical streamers who will use viewer bots and then run max ads on top of it all. To your point, Twitch is a LIVE streaming platform and the content should be just that. Twitch needs to crackdown on prerecorded content and viewer bots.