Blizzard on Stream Sniping. - Page 20

Ktk

Korea (South)753 Posts

January 23 2012 01:44 GMT

#381

On January 23 2012 10:39 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
I know for a fact that HoN players/casters use delayed streaming, why cant Starcraft 2 casters/players do the same thing?

just delay the stream about 5-6-7 minutes.

Our streams are more entertaining because players can interact with the players too. Like they can read what the viewers want them to do, and sometimes, they just might do it.

For people who interact with their viewers less, of course delay is recommended - but quite a few successful streams are ones with player-viewer interaction.

phANT1m

South Africa535 Posts

January 23 2012 03:59 GMT

#382

I think thats really bad on their part about saying people are willingly giving the info away. Oh well hope streamers start using delay in streams or something.

nakedsurfer

Canada500 Posts

January 23 2012 04:28 GMT

#383

People expect Blizzard to fix everything. It's quite sad how people think sometimes I think. Why should blizzard do anything honestly? Because people viewing the stream aren't getting as good as quality they hoped? Well is streaming acually part of the game they created? No, not really. It's part of the community and the player chooses whether or not to stream. Now if Blizzard had an ingame stream function or what have you that they implemented then I think it would become their problem to a certain extent. Until then it should never be any of their concerns.

Do I view it as cheating and a problem, yes. Do I think it's blizzards problem? no.

Actually IMO if anything it's the streaming site's problem(it's not really their problem but it is more-so than Blizzards) or the player playing.
You should have the option to put sign-on only viewing(if there isn't already) and/or a way to permanent block some people from viewing.

Forsy

Canada36 Posts

January 23 2012 07:30 GMT

#384

Add a 10-15min delay? Seems more of a streaming software problem than Blizzard's. Is it necessary to watch a stream in real time?

Vindicare605

United States16109 Posts

January 23 2012 07:42 GMT

#385

On January 23 2012 10:41 phar wrote:

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That works when there are a sufficiently large number of people queuing in a given MMR range. What would you do if your rule caused highly rated players to have to wait in the queue for 10~20 minutes between matches? (This is exactly what used to happen in Blizzard's old matchmaking algorithms, in Wow Arenas circa 2007).

It's a tradeoff. Out of:

Quick games
Evenly matched games
Games against unique players

You often only get to pick one or two out of those three variables when the pool of players in a given MMR range becomes very sparse.

This guy gets it.

30 minute queues aren't fun, and since your ranking is based indirectly on how many games you can play, it would completely degrade the competition of Grandmaster's league if this was enforced.

In essence, whoever played during peak hours would have the opportunity to gain many more points than anyone playing at non-peak hours which is harmful to the competition. that's what happened during WoW.

NeonFox

2373 Posts

January 23 2012 09:15 GMT

#386

What could Blizzard do against that? They shouldn't even have to justify themselves, it's not their fault and there's nothing they can do about it.
It's up to the streamer to implement delay if they suspect someone cheating.

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

January 23 2012 09:32 GMT

#387

On January 20 2012 13:57 nicknack wrote:

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Not sure if trolling or just didn't read

User was warned for this post

Seriously, dont know why you got warned, sorry dude,
But i have always thought that if they delayed their stream, there would be no problem. Why hasnt this happened?

purpose

Sweden1017 Posts

January 23 2012 11:50 GMT

#388

How bad and patetich stream sniping may be, sadly this is not really Blizzards issue to fix. If a person decides to stream, he must take the risk that someone will play unfair and watch the stream to get an advantage. There are no rule or law that say that you can not watch a stream while playing.

Streamers have to either put on delay, or turn of the stream when they play someone they know streamsnipe.

Boundz(DarKo)

5311 Posts

January 23 2012 11:53 GMT

#389

Isn't "stream sniping" just a different form of "ghosting"? Why rename it?

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