Youtube gaming (twitch rival)

Streaming is a great thing. Its great for the streamer to play his game and socialise at the same time and for people watching its great to see what a game is truly like before they buy it.
Iv saved myself buying a few games from watching streams and deciding Its not for me so its definatly helpful.
 
So, it's officially launched - https://gaming.youtube.com/

Runs quite well and it's a dam sight better than Twitch. In my personal opinion, if Twitch doesn't pull up it's socks this has got every potential to take over.

Plus everything is automatically archived to YouTube so means if any developers are doing any commentry on what they're working on it won't just disappear into the ether.

This is pretty good though...

Twitch posting to YouTubeGaming "Welcome Player 2, add me on Google+" :)

https://twitter.com/twitch/status/609429653271384065?lang=en

EDIT:

No, wait, they've managed to pull a Goolge+!

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/08/26/youtubes-approach-copyright-claims-scare-off-streamers

If ContentID starts throwing false positives around I can see people leaving on mass pretty sharpish. It happened with Twitch in the past, but because there was limited alternatives it was kind of forced on users to stick with it. That won't be the case this time if Google screws it up.
 
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Was playing around with the iPad app last night - very impressive. Streaming was quick and good quality, although the comments section was the usual rubbish. Having streams auto saved is pretty cool as it means you don't need to leave youtube for streaming/recorded gaming content.
 
The UI is all over the place, it also won't pull in any of the big streamers because there is no subscribe option. That and the fact of the content blocking and so on, twitch will still be the place to go for anyone looking to make money of streaming.
 
Checked it out, my opinion as follows:

Pros:
- YouTube will be able to push this through existing channels as they are doing so already
- Video playback is excellent
- A semi-pro is the rewind, it's a nice feature but I don't believe anyone who will be wanting to watch live will use it
- Anyone can use quality options right away
- It will take away already large channels from Twitch, leaving new fresh blood to twitch more likely to see your channel


Cons:

- Not as personal as twitch, no sub icons, emotes
- Standard emotes are terrible (look like phone whatsapp emotes)
- Feels far too corporate
- As of yet, no API implementation
- Gets mixed with YouTube videos so actually pretty confusing



Overall Twitch feels community based, this just feels forced. It misses the little guerilla bits thus, I'm not worried.
 
This has to be most user unfriendly program available compared to Twitch.

I'm using GFE and selected stream to YT, but I checked my Youtube channel and there is no stream. Where does everything go?
 
The whole interface is rubbish, IMO. Jumbled together with videos and the fact that you play and it automatically saves a video I think is stupid.
 
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