Fanfest 2014: TwitchTV
So, it has been a busy few weeks. I moved, again. I am refinishing multiple pieces of furniture. And in Eve I am making a lot of transitions that have left me with a bunch of half written articles, but no time to edit them into postable stuff. But I did follow FanFest pretty closely. There were a lot of things announced: Legion, new ships, the “new” dev cycle, and other stuff I am forgetting. I tried to follow it as close I can, and I bought the HD Stream through Twitch TV. While the content of FanFest was great, I have been rather disappointed by the stream. I work during normal business hours in the US EST timezone. Because of this I was hoping to use the mobile app on my iPhone to listen while working as I could, and then come home and watch the other panels while unpacking the new place. This did not really work out so well. The mobile app for Twitch is pretty awful. Laggy, drops connections all the time even with good data signals, and worst of all, it plays advertisements on a stream I paid for access to. That last bit is Continue Reading →