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The Fanfest 2014 Stream disaster.

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4IN1
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#21 - 2014-05-03 10:30:13 UTC  |  Edited by: 4IN1
I have to say that this year's live stream have been a really bad experience compare to the last few year's, audio problems, bad camera angle, out of focus cameras, direct feed digital glitch, and of cause that ******* idiot who pull the ******* cable during EVE keynote (who totally deserves to have his/her salary remove that day), and the overall anything but HD quality stream. the 20 bucks/1 plex was not worth it.

CCP: Ambition but rubbish
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#22 - 2014-05-03 10:42:23 UTC
March rabbit wrote:
Rowells wrote:
Am i the only one who didnt realize there was a free stream on twitch until reading a dev blog today?

not really. yesterday i've talked to one guy who was thinking the same

actually: after watching fanfest for 2 days i still have yet to see a thing worth paying PLEX (read: something what really needs to use HD for this stream)

The HD stream looks a lot better on a bigger screen, it gets you immediate access to all the videos on demand, so you don't need to watch the shows live, and the in-game items you got are worth about a PLEX. It's only not worth it if you don't care about video quality, can afford to schedule your life around the stream or don't care when or if you even see the videos. For most interested in the fanfest stream though it's a good deal you have very little reason not to take advantage of.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#23 - 2014-05-03 10:46:14 UTC
What's a fanfest?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#24 - 2014-05-03 10:47:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
The HD stream looks a lot better on a bigger screen, it gets you immediate access to all the videos on demand, so you don't need to watch the shows live, and the in-game items you got are worth about a PLEX. It's only not worth it if you don't care about video quality, can afford to schedule your life around the stream or don't care when or if you even see the videos. For most interested in the fanfest stream though it's a good deal you have very little reason not to take advantage of.

…not to mention that the HD is essentially free if you're quick to go to market.


As for “disaster”… did anyone's computer and/or TV explode due to streaming errors? If the total number of injuries in those explosions <10, it hardly qualifies as a disaster.
Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#25 - 2014-05-03 10:55:34 UTC
Tippia wrote:
As for “disaster”… did anyone's computer and/or TV explode due to streaming errors? If the total number of injuries in those explosions <10, it hardly qualifies as a disaster.


Oh c'mon, that 10 seconds blackout was traumatic as frakk!

Millions of voices in my head suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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Medalyn Isis
Doomheim
#26 - 2014-05-03 10:55:36 UTC
Alt Two wrote:
but you chose to pay for the upgrade so when the free viewers got to watch a black screen you were privileged enough to watch the same black screen in HD quality.

lol
Medalyn Isis
Doomheim
#27 - 2014-05-03 10:58:24 UTC
Frederick Nurks wrote:
I paid for the the Stream, but had to run low quality just to get it to work

Same as last year then. People never learn.
Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#28 - 2014-05-03 11:02:10 UTC
Strange, I bought HD and got HD but I have internet connection instead of linen twine.

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Mjollnir Arcote
The Praxis Initiative
Gentlemen's Agreement
#29 - 2014-05-03 12:55:49 UTC
Medalyn Isis wrote:
Frederick Nurks wrote:
I paid for the the Stream, but had to run low quality just to get it to work

Same as last year then. People never learn.


Sorry, but no. Last year two HD streams playing beautifully, this year, drop outs at small and medium sizes, not to mention amateur hour on the keynote last night.

And whats with not getting multiple streams this year? I loved the dev stream last year, much more interesting to me, only watched the keynotes on the main stream. Really disappointed that it wasn't done again this year.
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#30 - 2014-05-03 12:58:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Jarod Garamonde
Py Te wrote:
Hi,

i think, i'm not alone with my opinion when i say, this year the Fanfest stream was a disaster until now. The first problems begun with the wrong link in the german Account Management page.

then yesterday we saw a bad Concep Art session, then the performance session was not show'n,audio problems and so on, today we get many black screens.

now i come home from a 10h work day and want to see the recorded keynote and there is only a 10h record where i must search for the right thing, in addition to this the records are shuttering. (With live stream i have no problems)

I am very disappointed and regret to have it a Plex invested What?



Disaster: (n)
1. a catastrophic event involing loss of life, limb or safety on a mass scale
2. word used by emo-angst teens and/or unadjusted grownups to describe any minor inconvenience

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

    [#savethelance]
Hurtado Soneka
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#31 - 2014-05-03 13:23:55 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Py Te wrote:
The Fanfest 2014 Stream desaster.


Not nearly as catastrophic as the 2014 thread title spelling disaster.


Wow your a total ****** arent you lol?
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#32 - 2014-05-03 13:25:20 UTC
Hurtado Soneka wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:
Py Te wrote:
The Fanfest 2014 Stream desaster.


Not nearly as catastrophic as the 2014 thread title spelling disaster.


Wow your a total ****** arent you lol?


No he isnt.

But if you think that using that word is clever, then it is you, Sir, who are the ******

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#33 - 2014-05-03 13:51:38 UTC
TheMasterSenor wrote:
REFUND CCP failed to provide service..... submit your petitions!!!! They tried to play it off by saying it was just the ending you didn't miss anything. Sorry but if I go to a movie and they stop playing it before it's finished and tell everyone to leave they didn't miss anything, I'd want my money back.

Over all the footage this year has been horrible everything from feeds cutting out to horrible sound quality and last but not least the absolute worst camerawork. And I don;t care if it's in the youtube video, I didn;t pay for the youtube video.


Nope, it's more like (in fact identical to) a TV station / broadcast experiencing technical issues. You don't get your months subscription to cable/Sky free if the Simpsons lost a minute of air time, nor do you get your subscription to Netflix back for free if there's an error in playback.

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#34 - 2014-05-03 13:56:27 UTC
FYI if your stream is stuttering on high bandwidths, it has nothing to do with CCP since they broadcast one resolution then Twitch re-size that on the fly.

You can try:

- Ctrl+F5 to reload the page, this will give you a new server
- Checking your bandwidth and latency
- Checking your flash; you often need to clear the cache and sometimes reboot
- In many cases, if it only drops out on the higher resolutions, it can be your ISP doing traffic management. You can access the stream through a VPN, where this problem is usually circumvented.

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#35 - 2014-05-03 14:23:06 UTC
Anyway, I must say that I've found the stream a lot more stable and consistent this year than the last one. Then again, last year, my connection often behaved a bit oddly. Lol
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#36 - 2014-05-03 14:37:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Ramona McCandless
Tippia wrote:
I must say that I've found the stream a lot more stable and consistent this year


Thats the asparagus at work, Ill bet

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#37 - 2014-05-03 14:40:31 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Thats the asparagus at work, Ill bet

Isn't the point of asparagus to avoid a constant stream?
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#38 - 2014-05-03 14:47:30 UTC
I've watched the HD stream from the start, and is still watching.

Haven't had any issue.

CCP Greyscale: As to starbases, we agree it's pretty terrible, but we don't want to delay the entire release just for this one factor.
Xiantra
#39 - 2014-05-05 06:24:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Xiantra
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
March rabbit wrote:
[quote=Rowells]... after watching fanfest for 2 days i still have yet to see a thing worth paying PLEX (read: something what really needs to use HD for this stream)

The HD stream looks a lot better on a bigger screen, it gets you immediate access to all the videos on demand, so you don't need to watch the shows live, and the in-game items you got are worth about a PLEX. It's only not worth it if you don't care about video quality, can afford to schedule your life around the stream or don't care when or if you even see the videos. For most interested in the fanfest stream though it's a good deal you have very little reason not to take advantage of.


Used a 55" screen and 23+Mbps service, but I have to agree: HD was not worth a PLEX. Resolution didn't seem that good all the time (yes "high" quality was selected), there were stutters and dropouts, and a yes bit more production quality would have been appreciated, but for me the Twitch service was the most annoying aspect of all. If there are ads then users shouldn't pay, if users pay there shouldn't be ads, period. The ad based free broadcast model has been employed for 60+ years and any service trying to scoop a little from *both* sides needs to be loudly and immediately routed. Part of the CCP HD deal *should* have been no ads, but Twitch forced us to watch an ad (often the same ad) *every* time a video, live or recorded, was started, including restarting broken or failed streams.

Add to that poorly organized recorded clip navigation and Twitch.tv was clearly a pretty poor choice.
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#40 - 2014-05-05 07:43:19 UTC
I didn't really care that the quality of the so called HD was nothing but I just wanted the pimped up industrial and an in-game T-shirt seeing fanfest was just a bonus. PCool
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