In the very near future Treyarch will unleash its newest cash cow juggernaut Black Ops 2. With it comes a new feature, the ability to stream your game play live over the internet. Immediately words began streaming through my head. Cool, fun, great, and awesome. So I had to look into this whole live streaming further. So I ventured out across the internet and found the most popular streaming site for games out there. None other then Twitch.tv, made an account, began perusing the site, and interacted with streamers as well as watchers. It is good times indeed.
Though the more I watched live streams on Twitch.tv, the more I became a witness to chicanery. As many great and beautiful like minded people you meet in life. There are those who dwell in the dark under belly of shame. They are ashamed of not being able to make friends, constantly feeling sorry for themselves, trying to drag you down to their level. These are the type of people that are disrupting the streams and ruining the fun social aspect of it all. They come in the forms DDoSing and "stream trolling".
DDoSing outright kills the stream by sending large amounts of information to your IP address, then the stream must be restarted. Stream trolling is where a individual(s) watches your stream, then joins your game. If they are on the opposite team they immediately know where you are at all times. Making far easier to kill you in a match. If they are on your team they will purposely kill themselves to prevent a win, among other lame things.
Now I predict all of this bullshit is going to increase seven fold with the advent of CODcasting. Call of Duty has always been the top console title sought by hackers, glitchers, and boosters. This latest iteration of COD won't be any different. Treyarch's security will be tested more so then their last games. Here is to hoping the social fun times won't go offline went it matters most, meeting great and beautiful like minded people.
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