I watch starcraft on twitch but can never watch it live. It'll get to a crucial moment and then a 3 minute commercial interrupts. Literally the game is over at that point. No point to watch.
They'd have done better with some sort of integrated commercials or banner bar or something else.
Or even just buffering those 3 minutes. So I do watch on twitch but I wait till the match is over.
What also sucks about twitch is you can't rewind. So many problems there
Twitch allows streamers quite a bit of control over when and how ads run, including manually triggering them. As long as they run a certain number of ads per hour, you don't see a preroll.
The streamer you were watching didn't bother to reduce ads to short 15 second chunks or run them manually during slow points like sitting in-queue.
If you load the VOD while they're still live, you can pause in place and rewind. YouTube does it natively in the live broadcast, but Twitch being Twitch just isn't incentivized to make it on the actual live stream, probably because money.
They'd have done better with some sort of integrated commercials or banner bar or something else.
Or even just buffering those 3 minutes. So I do watch on twitch but I wait till the match is over.
What also sucks about twitch is you can't rewind. So many problems there