Twitch today released a new report running down all of its growth statistics for 2013 (view it now). Twitch VP of marketing Matthew DiPietro spoke with us about the report, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One integration, combating streams that violate terms of service, and goals for the year ahead.
A third game in the Falconeer series has been announced as the second, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, launches.
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
Hopefully Hercule will at least get his jetpack.
Twitch is good and all but they need improve on the buffering, because some videos are freezing here and there. I like the old system they when the PS4 launch. It was working great with little to no buffering, but the new system they updated to made it worst. Hope they can fix this sooner. Ustream is a little bit better in quality, but also has the same problem.
Can't wait for some next-gen console RPGs to come out so I can just sit back and enjoy the story. Love streaming, Love watching streams, love learning how other gamers play, new strategies, chatting with these people and even seeing developers show play some of their games early using the PS4 to stream content.
It's really cool and one of the best things they added to the next gen systems. Surprised it was there at the start too (on PS4), not having to wait months for a great sounding feature to be implemented is awesome.
Great article, a bit long but interesting overall.
Twitch got fucked up afther last update , so many people are reporting constant buffering no mather in witch qualty they watch streams , I'am also having this issue , but only on my laptop , wiressly connected on my internet , on PC I watch on source no problem , on laptop i buffer on lowest ( mobile ), I can watch yt 1080p on it so it's not on my end , also when I open up twitch on m laptop I cant open another site it's like twitch shuts down my internet !?