{"id":34,"date":"2016-08-26T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2019-04-06T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:48:11","slug":"warcraft-facebook-stream-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"WARCRAFT FACEBOOK STREAM TEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blizzard launched it\u2019s new streaming service today via it\u2019s Launcher program.&nbsp; It\u2019s currently in Beta so you can bet that things will change and get tweaked as it&nbsp;progresses forward.&nbsp; Currently it streams only to Facebook Live, but I\u2019m sure it will change as there other social media sites that are also integrating a live streaming feature into their platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first impression is that it\u2019s pretty cool, however there is a tremendous amount of lag and latency within the game itself that I do not experience when using just an overall screen streaming program (such as the XSplit Gamecaster or XSplit Broadcaster).&nbsp; Using Blizzard\u2019s streaming service, I started off with seeing a 1986ms Home latency coupled with a 1665ms World latency.&nbsp; Those numbers grew and topped out at around 4300ms Home and at about 3500 World.&nbsp; That translates to about a good 4 to 5 second latency in the game to any action you try to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out my video play of it here (I actually took two of my streams and blended them together for this video):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kczXWqssQOY?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing I noticed is that the ending of my streams (roughly 3 to 4 minutes)&nbsp;were totally missing.&nbsp; It still informed me in game that it was streaming, according to Facebook I was streaming live at those times, but when I went back to review to recoding, the endings were just not there.&nbsp; This happened across 3 different tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not sure how viable this streaming service is going to be for players that do Twitch.tv since it only goes direct to Facebook (for now).&nbsp; It makes me wonder if Facebook is going to allow people to begin to monetize their live streams just to try to garner some of that Twitch.tv crowd.&nbsp; I mean, listen, if you are on Twitch.tv and are actually making money with it, why would you want to suddenly start streaming onto Facebook and not make money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While my FPS in the test was lacking (I was pulling down 16 FPS at the lowest point), I don\u2019t think it was as a result of the streaming service.&nbsp; I\u2019ve been suffering from bad FPS issues since they updated Warcraft to patch 7.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all,&nbsp;Blizzard\u2019s Streaming Service is pretty cool, but because of the bad latency I was getting, I doubt that I\u2019ll return to it any time soon.&nbsp; I will, however, keep checking back with it to see what new streaming platforms they add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I\u2019ll go unplug my webcam now\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=34\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard launched it\u2019s new streaming service today via it\u2019s Launcher program.&nbsp; 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