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0 pointsDoesntMatter222y ago0 comments

I watch starcraft on twitch but can never watch it live. It'll get to a crucial moment and then a 3 minute commercial interrupts. Literally the game is over at that point. No point to watch.

They'd have done better with some sort of integrated commercials or banner bar or something else.

Or even just buffering those 3 minutes. So I do watch on twitch but I wait till the match is over.

What also sucks about twitch is you can't rewind. So many problems there

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KennyBlanken2y ago

Twitch allows streamers quite a bit of control over when and how ads run, including manually triggering them. As long as they run a certain number of ads per hour, you don't see a preroll.

The streamer you were watching didn't bother to reduce ads to short 15 second chunks or run them manually during slow points like sitting in-queue.

k12sosse2y ago

If you load the VOD while they're still live, you can pause in place and rewind. YouTube does it natively in the live broadcast, but Twitch being Twitch just isn't incentivized to make it on the actual live stream, probably because money.

belltaco2y ago

You can sub to the channel or get Twitch Turbo to remove ads. One sub is free if you have Amazon Prime.

DoesntMatter22OP2y ago

If I have to pay then I might as well wait for the vod

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