Launch of YouTube Gaming

[longbyte1]

It's available at gaming.youtube.com and it categorizes by game, and includes both live and recorded sessions of games. Maybe KSP streamers will try it out one day?

Hopefully their lists will _not expand as people come to see other alternatives to Twitch. Even though Twitch is the best game streaming website in the world :kappa:

[LordFerret]

That link took me to a screen which read:

404.

Lorem ipsum other castle, arrow to the knee set up us the bomb.

Ok.

I'd say they've been hacked.

Edited August 28, 2015 by LordFerret

[NFUN]

That link took me to a screen which read:

Ok.

I'd say they've been hacked.

If it's new enough, they might not have bothered to put up a clever 404 message and Lorem ipsum just threw together a bunch of video game memes together dolor sit amet out of time constrains and laziness.

[LordFerret]

Whatever it is, it's not english, makes no sense ... and if this truly is how people 'talk' these days, we're doomed.

[Kryten]

The UI is terrible, I can literally feel it giving me eyestrain. Way too many icons and much too dark.

[Endersmens]

Link worked fine for me.

It looks just like twitch for youtube. Which is what it is if I'm not mistaken.

[LordFerret]

The page refuses to load for me.

[Cydonian Monk]

It's actually a frustratingly bizarre mix of Twitch and Youtube, where regular YouTube videos show up next to the YouTube live streams. I haven't figured out yet if comments left on a video in YouTube Gaming show up in regular YouTube, but I suspect they do. (Unlike comments on Google+-shared YouTube videos, which only show up on YouTube if you're in the circle or community they were posted from. Meaning the video creator sometimes can't see or respond to the comments on their own video.)

And yes - I find the website interface noisy to the point of being incomprehensible. Which isn't that much different from YouTube, to be honest. Just very, very Red. The iPhone app is better.

It also apparently doesn't work yet in many countries, and may never fully work in places like Germany thanks to "differences of opinion" on copyrights.

[lajoswinkler]

Very frustrating layout. Typical for Google-run YouTube. Oh how I miss the days before Google bought it.

[Greenfire32]

So long as youtube keeps throwing arbitary "copyright" strikes randomly all over the place, their streaming service will never take off. I've seen 8 (EIGHT) streams taken offline for "infringing content" (in ALL 8 cases, this means...the game itself) already and it hasn't even been a week yet.

So....good luck youtube, you'll need it.

[LordFerret]

You all do know that Google, YouTube, etc, are all gearing up for taxable downloads/streaming ... yes?

[Flymetothemun]

I see this as youtube trying to be something it's not. It's a simple webite for hosting and watching videos and for it's users to keep updated on when their favorite video makers upload videos. Then they tried to add "google plus hangouts" which are nothing but a disaster compared to other streaming services specifically built for streaming. Finally, they're combining the bad parts of youtube (erroneous copyright strikes, etc.) with "google plus hangouts", creating a very poor quality product. To try to increase interest in their new, crap product, they brand it as a "gaming" service, and soon everybody will be dependent on it like they already are on youtube.

This may be another step on their plan to making videos and users whose videos you have to pay for, but with the information that I have presented above I'd conclude that this is yet another Google failure. They saw the success of Facebook and decided to cash in on it with Google Plus, and that was a failure. They're now seeing the success of twitch.tv, and are now trying to cash in on it.

Google's a big, lumbering beast of a corp., They don't have the agility of these new (in the grand scheme of things) sites and companies that they're trying to emulate. They try to make themselves look "silicon valley" and "cutting edge tech" with constantly updating (and stupefying) website UI reskins and new features that barely work but all they really are is a big, lumbering corp. along the likes of Kraft foods and Exxon oil, the only difference is that instead of dealing in petroleum or food, they deal in data. Kraft has ovens, flash-freezers, and USDA inspectors & cleaners, Exxon has rigs, pumps, and refineries, Google has servers. Lots and lots of servers.

[Superfluous J]

I went to that link. I scrolled up and down, thought, "Wow that's ugly" and closed the page.

[Flymetothemun]

I went to that link. I scrolled up and down, thought, "Wow that's ugly" and closed the page.

Yeah, the UI's busier than a workaholic.

[longbyte1]

If this doesn't take off, I think Google will consider shutting this down during spring cleaning time. (But a lot of good innovation gets thrown out the window too... )

[Kinglet]

I hope it dies, quickly. Youtube has developed a horrible monetized "culture", and this is just another opportunity to make it even worse.

[Flymetothemun]

I hope it dies, quickly. Youtube has developed a horrible monetized "culture", and this is just another opportunity to make it even worse.

Agreed. I see so many video makers having apparel/etsy shops and now I've heard that Pewdiepie managed to write a book and get it published by Penguin Books's YA imprint. I saw the promo video for the book and he's pretending to be a European philosopher along the lines of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and talking what is essentially BS. Whatever happened to just making good videos? I mean, I'm not opposed to donations, the money for videos has to come from somewhere, but people are trying to rake in the dough so much that they aren't focusing on the content and the quality of it.