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It's so OP nobody builds it.

Geneva Convention. It's so ridiculously OP that everyone agreed to not use it.
Like Napalm and Mustard Gas.

But as you recall, there was a video playback version for COH1, which was not translated onto the Steam version of COH1, and video replays never appeared on COH2 at all.

Why would that be, do you think?

This was really the first thing that came to my mind:

Hmm couldn't you save states at say specific intervals (5mins, 1min, etc.) so you could get a way to rewind ?

I think even these "images" in intervals would drastically increase the replay size because you had to safe a map "as is" every 5 minute. And a map is about 10-20 MB big I guess. That meant replays of about 250MB for 1 hour games.

This method of replay has been around since the original Doom, if not earlier. Great way, but unfortunately, no way to go "backward".

As far as I know, Age of Empires and League of Legends can.

That seems like a really complicated way to do replays.

It is not. In fact this technique is extremly efficient. If you look at the demo file, it is usually around 100kb big. And that is for a file that represents a Full HD "video" with lengths of up to an hour and more.

Movies like this are usually about 5-6 GB big. That is more than 80.000 times the file size.

Instead of telling the screen each frame (usually 60 per second) the position of each and every pixel, you can simply say "Gren Squad moved from Position A to B at 0:12" and that's it.

I as a "marketing person" don't see why streaming and restreaming should be forbidden.

I respect all the streamers around here and sometimes I also like to rewatch games (not from this particular tournament), especially from Dane and A_E, because I enjoy them the most.

BUT

People complaining about copyright law and stuff sound a tad ridiculous to be honest. This is not the League of Legend LCS also not an MMA Tournament, as someone mentioned. It is a CoH2 game, please stay with your efforts.

While the LCS and MMA attract between 1 and 20 million people depending on the game and tournament, the "average" game of CoH2 has usually around 50 viewers for a "usual" stream and around 500 for this kind of tournament.

So it is not like these kinds of tournaments are here to make money. With the uploads on Youtube that get usually 2.000 views at best, you make less than two dollars. The LCS and the MMA are such events so there are strict laws who may stream and who may not.

But my personal opinion? Let the guys stream. It brings attention to these kinds of events. The money comes from sponsors like Dr. Wachs who would also benefit from a bigger viewership.

Honestly some things feel like the stuff we were protesting against 5 years ago, NDA and such. Most viewers will either way watch the "main channel" of a tournament, in this case A_E's. Other streamers can generate more viewers out of post-match analysis and stuff that's okay too.

But right now, I personally have no idea what this tournament is about and I am on this board everyday. I hope I wasn't too harsh about you guys, but sometimes I feel like some people here tend to sit on some kind of a high horse.