E3 Game Trailers

E3 recap featuring game trailers video clips from DaOpa's co-casting streaming on twitch.

Game Trailers:

Arma III Apex


Batman Arkham VR



Battle Chasers: Nightwar


Battlefield 1


Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare


Dawn of War 3


Day of Infamy


Days Gone


Death Stranding


Detroit Become Human


Dishonored 2


Dropzone


EA Star Wars


Fallout 4 Contraptions


Fallout Shelter Updates


Farpoint VR


Fe


Fifa 17


Fifa 17: The Journey


Final Fantasy XV


For Honor


Forza Horizon 3


Ghost Recon Wildlands


Giant Cop VR


God Of War


Grow Up


Halo Wars 2


Horizon Zero Dawn


Inside


Killer Instinct General Raam


Killing Floor 2: Bulls-eye


Killing Floor Incursion VR


Lawbreakers


Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens


Madden NFL 17


Mass Effect Andromeda


Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord


Overland


Oxygen Not Included


Prey


Quake Champions


ReCore


Resident Evil biohazard


Sea of Thieves


Serious Sam VR


Skylanders: Imaginators


Skyrim Special Edition


South Park The Fractured But Whole


Spiderman


Star Trek Bridge Crew VR


Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission


State of Decay 2


Steep


Superhot VR


The Division: Underground Expansion


The Elder Scrolls Online Highlights


The Elder Scrolls Online Dark Brotherhood


The Last Guardian


The Surge


The Turing Test


Titan Fall 2


Trials of the Blood Dragon


Tyranny

FTC Disclosures for streamers

What streamers need to know about FTC Disclosures

The FTC a couple years ago released a guide on .com disclosures which you can find on the following URL:
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bus41-dot-com-disclosures-information-about-online-advertising.pdf

Here is my opinion on what streamers need to know about FTC disclosures. Also a important disclaimer note; DaOpa is not a lawyer.


Instances that generally require disclosure:

• Sponsors / Giveaways
  
  • If a company is giving you a product to giveaway on your stream
  • If a gaming company / developer gives you a free copy of a game to review / play on stream
• Affiliate Programs
  
  • If you have links and or images going to affiliate related programs
• Twitter / Facebook / Social Media Promotions
  
  • If a company is paying you to play their game or show their products
  • If a entity is paying you to tweet a message
• Loyalty Systems / Programs
  • Similar with sponsors and giveaways
•  Employee of Company
  
  • Talking about your companies products and services

Here is my Twitch Panel Disclosure notice that I currently use because I have affiliate links on other panels.

Twitch also discloses sponsored streams and advertisements by using a special badges and coloring.

 Check out their blog with more details of "Transparency in Sponsored Content and Promotion".

Also remember as per Terms of using Twitch: "You, and not Twitch, are solely responsible for any endorsements or testimonials you make regarding any product or service through the Twitch Service."

Bandwidth Testing tool

Twitch Bandwidth Testing Tool

How to test your bandwidth to Twitch.tv's ingest servers.

Step 1.

Download the following app
Twitch Bandwidth Test
Created by OBS Developer R1CH

Step 2.

Unzip the zip file, go to the folder and click on the TwitchTest.exe application file.

Step 3.

Enter your steam key in the provided space.

Step 4.

Click off the nearest Region, remove all others.

Step 5.

Press the start button.

After the test is completed it will show you, the ingest server name, the max bandwidth to the server, the rtt and quality.

Start up OBS or whatever streaming software you use and select the ingest server that has the best quality, highest bandwidth and lowest rtt.

RTMPSockBuf_Fill, remote host closed connection

OBS Pop up message:

Could not access the specified channel or stream key. This could be because the key/channel is invalid, or because the server still thinks you are logged in.

RTMPSockBuf_Fill, remote host closed connection

Steps to take to fix this issue:

• Reset your stream key
  
  • Go to Dashboard on Twitch and click on option "Stream Key"
  • Click button "show key", then "I understand"
  • Copy the new stream key
  • Go to OBS, Settings, Broadcast Settings
  • Paste the key into Play Path/Stream Key section, then apply and ok
  • Try go to live and see if that worked
• Disable all firewall programs
  
  • Sometimes firewall programs will block obs from working correctly
  • Disable any firewall / malware program and see if it works
• Make another Twitch account, use other key
  
  • Create another twitch account and use that key in obs
  • This will determine if your main account is locked up
  • Locking up is rare to happen but it has occurred a couple times for my account.
• Verify your network connection / Internet is working correctly.
  
  • Check your upload speed
  • Run the Twitch Bandwidth Testing tool
  
   

8400+ Streamers for Overwatch Launch

Overwatch Launch had over 8,400 concurrent streamers on Twitch.tv!

A mind blogging 8,400+ streamers at the time of this post were live streaming Overwatch on Twitch TV for launch day. And over 230,000+ viewers are watching the streamers in a impressing showing for a new game  title.

Here is snip showing some of the many streamers on the directory:

Click on image to enlarge! 

DaOpa's Opinion: 

Overwatch launch is total streamer cannibalization, I never seen this many people streaming a single game on Twitch before. The question I would have to ask is how long will this hype train last?


Usually when a new triple A title comes out, viewership spikes then slowly dies out after a week or so. And with a majority of the top tier streamers all joining the bandwagon, floating viewers will get soaked up fast.

Observing the directory, showed some interesting tidbits:

• Many top tier streamers are working together, forming teams and battling against others.
• Tons of click bait titles
• Lots of questionable giveaway's and promotion advertisements by streamers

 This is just really bad news for a small time streamer like myself, which is a reason why I wont be streaming this game anytime soon.