Steam streaming sucks ass now.

[Dog]

It constantly stops streaming for some reason, and I know its not just me. The entire new friends functions is crap now. Go back to the way it was. I like nothing about how the friends stuff is now.

[Stipp]

ok

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Stream works just fine. Must be your own, either you have bandwidth issue, unstable connection, or something interfering.

Chat works fine, and it's even better, but that's just my opinion, just like yours.

[76561198407601200]

I have had zero of these problems you bring up. I haven't had streams stop. My friend functions have always worked.

[MonkehMaster]

i have never tried steam streaming but, they dont have near the options to create content as any of the others.

i would suggest a streaming program like obs or something and using twitch.

[Leinad Reign]

I agree with OP. I can't watch five minutes of a friend playing. It stops, i get no sound, buffering to eternal, ending with "an error occured"...
So steam is really a pain for such thing. It is horrible.

[ShiningDragon]

Zod the Defiler eredeti hozzászólása:

Go back to the way it was

Totally agree! Just remove the streaming-crap. If i want to watch a movie, i'll go to the cinema or stream a movie from netflix...

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

ShiningDragon eredeti hozzászólása:

Zod the Defiler eredeti hozzászólása:

Go back to the way it was

Totally agree! Just remove the streaming-crap. If i want to watch a movie, i'll go to the cinema or stream a movie from netflix...

Then do that... Why you going out of your way to watch someone stream a movie?

[ShiningDragon]

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 eredeti hozzászólása:

ShiningDragon eredeti hozzászólása:

Totally agree! Just remove the streaming-crap. If i want to watch a movie, i'll go to the cinema or stream a movie from netflix...

Then do that... Why you going out of your way to watch someone stream a movie?

Simple said:

Disabling in the options doesn't work. On every steam page a stupid, childish streaming video is popping up. This crap is annoying as hell.

Make this crap removable, and all is fine. Anyone who wants stuff like this, shall view it, but i don't want to see this stuff. Like the "curators" on the pages. Inefficient usage of place and room.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

ShiningDragon eredeti hozzászólása:

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 eredeti hozzászólása:

Then do that... Why you going out of your way to watch someone stream a movie?

Simple said:

Disabling in the options doesn't work. On every steam page a stupid, childish streaming video is popping up. This crap is annoying as hell.

Make this crap removable, and all is fine. Anyone who wants stuff like this, shall view it, but i don't want to see this stuff. Like the "curators" on the pages. Inefficient usage of place and room.

Check the box at the very bottom of the page for "Hide all live broadcasts on the store product pages." This will not let them play, you will see a banner, but won't see the stream, unless you gone out of your way to click on the banner to play it.
https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/#store_broadcast_settings

Game store page.
https://imgur.com/XtVS6xu

Main Steam store.
https://imgur.com/undefined

Neither of them will play, when you have check the box for "Hide all live broadcasts on the store product pages."

[ShiningDragon]

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 eredeti hozzászólása:

Check the box at the very bottom of the page for "Hide all live broadcasts on the store product pages."

Thank you. ;) (no joke, it's really meant to be friendly)

This one is checked, but doesn't work. It's working like you described, but i don't even want to see those banners... they are taken too much place and offers not enough information. It should be no problem to make them invisible after checking a box.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

There's not much that can be done, as that's the best we're going to get. You could use broswer instead, and use an adblock such as Ublock.

Before
https://imgur.com/2goypdR
After
https://imgur.com/ztdm2Bi

Before
https://imgur.com/eWmov0z
After
https://imgur.com/zNFs07a

[ShiningDragon]

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 eredeti hozzászólása:

There's not much that can be done

Hah! Not the way i'll go, but you gave me a useful hint. I'll configure my Pi-hole to block those streaming-urls.

Thanks!

[Hazuki-chan]

Broadcast is so broken now. Remember back when everything worked? And then it stopped working right around the time they "Upgraded" it with a Shiny New Hip Look?

Those days were nice. When function mattered and form was a bonus.
When yuppies didn't call all the shots.

[James BSK]

True, it sucks ass. The video quality sucks, there's no way to interact with the streamer. No way to follow them. No way to do anything. This feature is basically useless.

[76561198407601200]

James Harrys eredeti hozzászólása:

True, it sucks ass. The video quality sucks, there's no way to interact with the streamer. No way to follow them. No way to do anything. This feature is basically useless.

As stated on this very thread prior, streaming works and the issue you are experiencing is something you have to resolve on your end. I can stream with excellent quality perfectly fine.

Those watching the stream can in fact chat with the streamer, there is a chat window that will appear.

You can follow a streamer by going to their profile and select the follow option.

Regarding the "not being able to do anything" is vague at best unless you can actually describe what the "anything" is unless is was just residual ranting.