Just Missing a Premium Live Stream is a Frustrating Experience

1. See tweet about live stream and go there.
2. Show has ended. That's too bad, I'll...
3. Go back home to see archive
4. Large banner link to archive is up!
5. Wait that's the link to the dead live stream. No archive to be found.
6. Get angry

Video:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mw8921r9ihq2uvm/gb-frustrating.mov?dl=0

This isn't a bug. And why did you add a Dropbox link?

Are the This Is The Run! streams actually livestreamed? I don't think so. They really shouldn't put these up as livestreams...

@gaff: Well...yes many of them have been streamed. I'm not sure what you are saying here.

Hm. They (or more specifically, this batch) were recorded live and they're not taped in advance?

They are live, for now at least. One run per day and that is it. The game can be beat in 15 minutes so if they knocked a bunch out at once they likely would beat it in a day and there would be no tension.

@gaff: I know ep2 was live. Not sure about ep1.

The first episode was also live.

Regardless, as someone that has just missed things, I agree that it is frustrating but it's absurd to consider it a bug. It's a live show, just because the website hasn't caught up yet doesn't mean there's a "problem" and it's also not like you'll never have access to the content.

As someone who develops software for a living, any time one of my users has a frustrating experience, I consider it a problem and we do our best to fix it. GB can do whatever they wish with the information, including ignoring it, but I appreciate hearing this type of feedback for my products and I thought this was the best place to document it.

@chadjones: That's awesome! However, in this case, (IMO) it's a person showing up for a live show after it's over. I don't doubt that the staff does everything that they can to ensure that it gets dropped from the site as quickly as possible, but it hardly seems like a "bug". Again, just my opinion.

I mean living in the UK this is a part of life.. I'm never around for live streams. Thankfully we have VODS!

It sounds like we are working on a system where the promo for a livestream will automatically switch to a VOD of the livestream as soon as chat is killed, so clicking on the promo at that point should take you directly to a video that you can view from the beginning even if chat is over. So this will hopefully fix some of the issues that you're running into here, but I don't have an ETA on this functionality.

I guess I'll consider this fixed! Nice work, team.

https://twitter.com/giantbomb/status/1103821633918103552