Dr. Disrespect permanently banned from Twitch

iamtheoneneo said:
Well given he ended up doing stuff with the WWE and NBA and now he has started his own games company id say his aspirations are pretty well placed...also whilst he rolls around on the millions he makes every year.
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Does he actually take home millions every year?

If so that's impressive, and fair play to him. Would explain a bit why kids think being a professional youtuber or whatever is favourable to them.
 
Jay85 said:
Tbf i had no idea this guy even existed till i saw this thread :cry:. Streaming just screams attention seeking to me, like onlyfans.
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I can see what you mean. I'm a Gen X gamer, and I recall being introduced by a friend to TwitchTV years ago when I started to play League of Legends back in Season 3.

I was like "Who the hell wants to watch other people play games over the Interwebz?"

However, I really like Twitch and having this ability/functionality to watch someone play the same games you do or games you are interested in purchasing.

But you are right a certain degree, there are a lot of attention seekers, but there are also a lot of genuine good people who stream and have developed good communities. Its pretty mixed.

Doctor Disrespect stream are tongue in cheek comedy, he's pretty good as a streamer, he's very entertaining however he never reads his own chat lol.
 
Jay85 said:
Tbf i had no idea this guy even existed till i saw this thread :cry:.
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Same here, but I look into this thread from time to time because I'm now curious as to why they were banned from Twitch. Although at this rate the answer will probably never be revealed.

Streaming just screams attention seeking to me, like onlyfans.
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I didn't see the point myself, but then someone who makes game lore videos I liked did some streaming and I thought I'd watch one for a bit while I was eating. The game was one I was idly thinking about maybe wanting to play and they'd just started it, so the stream was possibly of some relevance to me. They did it as a sort of real time game lore video, exploring and explaining on the go and with interaction with (and help from) viewers. It worked better than I was expecting and wasn't hyperactive attention seeking. It wasn't gripping viewing, but I was watching it as a recording after the stream had finished, so I played it on 2x speed and that worked better. I decided that I liked the game story but not the game mechanics, so I watched the whole series of streams of the very complete playthrough.
 
Jay85 said:
OK you're an exception cos you know you explain what's actually going on so its like a review in some cases haha.

Was wondering when you was gonna comment haha!

:cry::p
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haha I didn't want to let you down. I don't stream for the numbers, just think it's an extension to chatting, might as well share some gameplay and laughs with whoever wants to pop on. Beats watching the absolute turd that you find on every channel on the TV these days.
 
Angilion said:
Same here, but I look into this thread from time to time because I'm now curious as to why they were banned from Twitch. Although at this rate the answer will probably never be revealed.



I didn't see the point myself, but then someone who makes game lore videos I liked did some streaming and I thought I'd watch one for a bit while I was eating. The game was one I was idly thinking about maybe wanting to play and they'd just started it, so the stream was possibly of some relevance to me. They did it as a sort of real time game lore video, exploring and explaining on the go and with interaction with (and help from) viewers. It worked better than I was expecting and wasn't hyperactive attention seeking. It wasn't gripping viewing, but I was watching it as a recording after the stream had finished, so I played it on 2x speed and that worked better. I decided that I liked the game story but not the game mechanics, so I watched the whole series of streams of the very complete playthrough.
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Yeah we'll never know, must be serious though for them to kill contracts. Can't imagine what it is for him to get banned and contract ending so something that affects both parties.

If im looking for game reviews i tend to watch "worth a buy", the guy is comical and i love his honest opinions and doesn't just review AAA's, he does a lot of indie games too that i've gotten into. If the stream has thought put into it and its actually showing the games mechanics and explaining how things work then i can see the point. But if its just someone sat there eating cornflakes while chatting rubbish, no thanks, waste of time unless you're into that sort of thing like people who watch others eat...

TonyTurbo78 said:
haha I didn't want to let you down. I don't stream for the numbers, just think it's an extension to chatting, might as well share some gameplay and laughs with whoever wants to pop on. Beats watching the absolute turd that you find on every channel on the TV these days.
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Yeah i know that, you've never been about the numbers just for fun content and reviewing whichever game you're on. I don't mind that at all, your playthrough on humankind was pretty good! Still undecided if i want to buy it though.
 
Jay85 said:
[..] If im looking for game reviews i tend to watch "worth a buy", the guy is comical and i love his honest opinions and doesn't just review AAA's, he does a lot of indie games too that i've gotten into. If the stream has thought put into it and its actually showing the games mechanics and explaining how things work then i can see the point. But if its just someone sat there eating cornflakes while chatting rubbish, no thanks, waste of time unless you're into that sort of thing like people who watch others eat...
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I think there's also a lot more skill involved than many people realise unless they've watched a few. It's not hard to do but it's very hard to do well. I've watched bits of a few other people doing it and almost all of them aren't doing it well. I've done quite a lot of live presentation work with an audience of a couple of dozen, which probably gives me a bit more understanding of the skills involved than most people. Game streaming with any amount of success would add some more difficulties since you'd have an audience of tens of thousands or more and interaction would be more complicated. A streamer might well be playing a game and reading 2 or 3 chats simultaneously on different platforms. But the core skills are those of live presenting and that's much harder than many people realise. It was much harder than I thought it would be before I started doing it :) I was doing it with material I was very familiar with and which I had prepared myself, although of course I had to be able to handle anything coming in from the audience. Winging it with a game I didn't know while I was playing the game sounds a fair bit harder to me.

I've found that "Let's Game It Out" on Youtube works for game buying decisions, although that's not at all what it's for. It's a comedy channel based on creatively playing games "as wrong as possible", as the presenter puts it. Indie business game where you start off panning for specks of gold and try to work your way up to a business empire? They'll probably start off by trying to find a way to steal stuff from the shop you buy equipment from. Then see if they can go "fishing" by filling the river with dynamite and setting it off. That sort of thing. But as a side effect their creative approaches often give a good indication of how much fun a game will be. Game devs often send them a free key with no strings attached. They'll probably show up exploits, tank the frame rate and crash the game, but they'll have a laugh doing it. So it's good publicity in at least some way - the whole point of a game is to have fun with it. It's also good for finding bugs and balance issues.
 
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