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http://www.afreecatv.com gets auto-translated to English for me a little bit after the page loads in Korean. This is different from Afreeca's global site (http://www.afreeca.tv/). Pretty neat. Seems very recent, as it didn't do this for me yesterday.
Not all pages are translated, but the main ones are. It was pretty easy to navigate before, but it is cool to see that they care about us a bit.
Also, I found that I can now chat using my foreigner Afreeca account that I created a year or 2 ago. This didn't work before, as I never bothered to submit my ID for verification.
http://imgur.com/a/3hiCN
Now we can chat with Koreans 
edit: seems like they are still implementing payment options for donations/balloons/candies/stickers
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Also you will be able to buy balloons easily as foreigners soon =)
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On February 24 2017 12:30 classicyellow83 wrote: Also you will be able to buy balloons easily as foreigners soon =)
Ya :D
We should totally pool some money and then donate a large amount of balloons or make it a prize of a showmatch or something.
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On February 24 2017 12:33 purakushi wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2017 12:30 classicyellow83 wrote: Also you will be able to buy balloons easily as foreigners soon =) Ya :D We should totally pool some money and then donate a large amount of balloons or make it a prize of a showmatch or something. That sounds like a cool idea.
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cool stuff. On a side note, what is with afreeca requesting personal documents to verify your age? They were asking for my driver's license and other personal documents. Anyone know whats up with that?
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On February 24 2017 12:52 ReachTheSky wrote: cool stuff. On a side note, what is with afreeca requesting personal documents to verify your age? They were asking for my driver's license and other personal documents. Anyone know whats up with that?
The identification/documents are there to just verify that you are of age to view the adult section and other things. You should still be able to create an account and chat without submitting those things. At least, that is how it was for me 1-2 years ago.
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This is probably a reaction response to lots of migration of former/ex Afreeca Korean streamers moving to Twitch.tv lately. Even popular Korean streamers have been migrating to Twitch lately.
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On February 24 2017 13:48 QuickStriker wrote: This is probably a reaction response to lots of migration of former/ex Afreeca Korean streamers moving to Twitch.tv lately. Even popular Korean streamers have been migrating to Twitch lately. interesting. Any of these ex-BW players? I know Nal_ra uses twitch I think and has played on ICCup recently.
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On February 24 2017 13:58 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2017 13:48 QuickStriker wrote: This is probably a reaction response to lots of migration of former/ex Afreeca Korean streamers moving to Twitch.tv lately. Even popular Korean streamers have been migrating to Twitch lately. interesting. Any of these ex-BW players? I know Nal_ra uses twitch I think and has played on ICCup recently. I haven't noticed any ex-BW players to Twitch lately. Nal_ra actually went from Twitch to Afreeca from what I believed. But lots of variety gamers and talk show streamers moved from Afreeca to Twitch.
And if there's one thing about Korean streams, their viewers are super loyal enough to actually move with the streamer from Afreeca -> Twitch. That's why new Twitch Korean streamers sometime starts with hundreds to thousands of viewers that all migrated with the streamer. Sometimes a Korean streamer who has 900 followers on Twitch is already a Twitch partner. There's even a dedicated Korean Twitch community site for Korean streamers/viewers that's all 100% Korean.
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gorush was also partnered with twitch korea as well and made the move over to afreeca - there's no reason for bw streamers to move to twitch, but if you're doing stuff not bw it makes sense to.
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This is really good! The only thing left to do is to make video's run smoothly without lag as twitch's.
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getting this message when i try to chat:
Administrator Penalty Info A 24-hour chatting ban has been put in place by an Administrator. Depending on previous bans, it may last between 3 ~ 7 days.
no idea why...
Edit: nvm it works now
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I talked with hyun and played with him while he was streaming lol awesome :D hes funny <3
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On February 24 2017 12:30 classicyellow83 wrote: Also you will be able to buy balloons easily as foreigners soon =) I want to donate to them and see their happy faces ^_^
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Next step should be translating what are all these streamers saying :D
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On February 24 2017 13:58 BigFan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2017 13:48 QuickStriker wrote: This is probably a reaction response to lots of migration of former/ex Afreeca Korean streamers moving to Twitch.tv lately. Even popular Korean streamers have been migrating to Twitch lately. interesting. Any of these ex-BW players? I know Nal_ra uses twitch I think and has played on ICCup recently. The SKT lol team streams on twitch. Faker got like 250k viewers for his first stream.
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@classicyellow Do you maybe have insight into the ability of a foreigner living abroad to be able to receive donations, and withdraw the funds?
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So that's why several days ago when streamer goes off says "The broadcast has finished" or something.
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Hm, my old account got apparently deleted. Lame. Also, what do they mean with "password not in the correct form"?
On February 24 2017 13:10 purakushi wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2017 12:52 ReachTheSky wrote: cool stuff. On a side note, what is with afreeca requesting personal documents to verify your age? They were asking for my driver's license and other personal documents. Anyone know whats up with that? The identification/documents are there to just verify that you are of age to view the adult section and other things. You should still be able to create an account and chat without submitting those things. At least, that is how it was for me 1-2 years ago. Doesn't sound like it would be worth it then (As if they would be getting my personal information, ha.)
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Bisutopia19205 Posts
On February 25 2017 20:01 McRatyn wrote: @classicyellow Do you maybe have insight into the ability of a foreigner living abroad to be able to receive donations, and withdraw the funds? Afreeca.tv is really easy to use if you want to stream and recieve donations. No reason not to use their global site over their korean one.
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How does this work for you guys? I checked it out, clicked some stream of some dude watching girls dancing.. http://play.afreecatv.com/cocoa898/189321443
Took forever for the chat and video to load but now it plays for 3 seconds and then has to load again yet the chat keeps moving.
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After the registration apparently bugging out on me at first, I finally registered (again) and was able to watch streams just fine. The response speed is awful as always though. Also, you can't watch more than three streams at a time.
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On February 26 2017 08:58 Lucumo wrote:Hm, my old account got apparently deleted. Lame. Also, what do they mean with "password not in the correct form"? Show nested quote +On February 24 2017 13:10 purakushi wrote:On February 24 2017 12:52 ReachTheSky wrote: cool stuff. On a side note, what is with afreeca requesting personal documents to verify your age? They were asking for my driver's license and other personal documents. Anyone know whats up with that? The identification/documents are there to just verify that you are of age to view the adult section and other things. You should still be able to create an account and chat without submitting those things. At least, that is how it was for me 1-2 years ago. Doesn't sound like it would be worth it then  (As if they would be getting my personal information, ha.) This is actually quite common way to identify yourself (eg. to bar tender, officials, money related websites, police... )
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On February 26 2017 11:21 Piste wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2017 08:58 Lucumo wrote:Hm, my old account got apparently deleted. Lame. Also, what do they mean with "password not in the correct form"? On February 24 2017 13:10 purakushi wrote:On February 24 2017 12:52 ReachTheSky wrote: cool stuff. On a side note, what is with afreeca requesting personal documents to verify your age? They were asking for my driver's license and other personal documents. Anyone know whats up with that? The identification/documents are there to just verify that you are of age to view the adult section and other things. You should still be able to create an account and chat without submitting those things. At least, that is how it was for me 1-2 years ago. Doesn't sound like it would be worth it then  (As if they would be getting my personal information, ha.) This is actually quite common way to identify yourself (eg. to bar tender, officials, money related websites, police... ) Offline, sure. Online though, pretty much no website wants this, especially no streaming one.
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On February 26 2017 18:09 Lucumo wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2017 11:21 Piste wrote:On February 26 2017 08:58 Lucumo wrote:Hm, my old account got apparently deleted. Lame. Also, what do they mean with "password not in the correct form"? On February 24 2017 13:10 purakushi wrote:On February 24 2017 12:52 ReachTheSky wrote: cool stuff. On a side note, what is with afreeca requesting personal documents to verify your age? They were asking for my driver's license and other personal documents. Anyone know whats up with that? The identification/documents are there to just verify that you are of age to view the adult section and other things. You should still be able to create an account and chat without submitting those things. At least, that is how it was for me 1-2 years ago. Doesn't sound like it would be worth it then  (As if they would be getting my personal information, ha.) This is actually quite common way to identify yourself (eg. to bar tender, officials, money related websites, police... ) Offline, sure. Online though, pretty much no website wants this, especially no streaming one.
All Korean websites have to do this. Its just the law unfortunately.
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