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Hm I do like that the matches are uploaded so fast.
@1: Does the paid version lag too? o-o If so that's bad.
I think people should stop being to selfish thinking its horrible that they are asking a fee for better quality while also keeping a free stream tho. This tourny has I think as much or more international players than EVO + the guy flies some players in himself. I cant imagine the price tag
The free one doesn't lag for me at all though.
Chances are they are doing this to appease people for charging to see archives.
its not a main event type status yet i wouldnt even pay for evo i think they think its there but its not yet maybe a couple years in the future if they make a fighting game noone can resist then maybe but till then it will remain hype but not hype enough to pay
@1 maybe it wouldn't lag for you if you stopped stealing your neighbor's wifi.
@9 at one point during HDR everyone with a star by their name was beyond pissed. The stream lagged, the 720p turned into 360p at best. The free 360 looked like 180. Premium stream still had Twitch ads, even though the stream was promoted as "Ad-free". All it did was disable the hundreds of ads they crammed in between every single match. HDR matches are so short the match to ad time ratio was literally 2:1 at many points.
If dude flew a bunch of people in on his own dime and he has to recoup a bunch of money then he needed to come right out and state what the situation was clearly. I think most of us were expecting a stream like any other stream. One without the couple of ads per hour that we normally see and the other with the ads. What happened yesterday was rediculous. The quality of the stream was crap. The stream was so full of ads, of course the stream monsters are going to say something about it. The mods go nuts with five minute chat restrictions making the chat about as unhype as you can get. I read somehwere else they started banning anyone who said '8.95' which was the running joke of the day along with Desk's death. The lack of communication on what was actually going to take place as well as the crappy execution made a lot of the stream suck.
Someone already mentioned this but seriously solid commentary.
The mayor was epic with his perfect. did anyone catch Justin Wong's Akuma comeback ? I give it a 8.95/10
$8.95 for a lag-tastic stream. I can't believe they had the nerve to charge for this.