Anyone here work on YouTube Gaming? How's it going?
Over in the CSGO scene you guys are getting a lot of negative comments and reactions. Are you looking at that feedback?
Whoa cool to see someone from Valve here! Big fan of CS and some of your older titles since 2004! ๐๐โฅ๏ธ
Here are the top three reasons in no particular order:
1. Hard to watch stream with a friend because you are easily 30+ seconds apart. Anecdotally it's seen as worse/harder to do than with Twitch which is usually just a few seconds apart.
2. Perception is streams are hard to find and people are relying on third party sites like HLTV. No one seems to know the URL for YouTube Gaming and just go to YouTube instead
3. Impossible to link to a timestamp for a video/stream that's currently live (so if a stream has been live for 8 hours I can't link you to a timestamp 4 hours in)
Some of these are admittedly not Google's fault but they're being hated by association:
1. Overall viewer numbers have started to go down since tournaments started getting paid by Google to use YouTube
2. This weekend there was a tournament on YouTube and it was super laggy. This was ESL's fault though apparently.
What's the hate from CSGO for YouTube gaming folks? Curious what's going on
Whoa cool to see someone from Valve here! Big fan of CS and some of your older titles since 2004! ๐๐โฅ๏ธ Here are the top three reasons in no particular order: 1. Hard to watch stream with a friend because you are easily 30+ seconds apart. Anecdotally it's seen as worse/harder to do than with Twitch which is usually just a few seconds apart. 2. Perception is streams are hard to find and people are relying on third party sites like HLTV. No one seems to know the URL for YouTube Gaming and just go to YouTube instead 3. Impossible to link to a timestamp for a video/stream that's currently live (so if a stream has been live for 8 hours I can't link you to a timestamp 4 hours in) Some of these are admittedly not Google's fault but they're being hated by association: 1. Overall viewer numbers have started to go down since tournaments started getting paid by Google to use YouTube 2. This weekend there was a tournament on YouTube and it was super laggy. This was ESL's fault though apparently.
+1 to all listed above