Twitch streamer banned for playing Forspoken despite it releasing Luminous ProductionsA Twitch streamer has been suspended for playing the new Forspoken title seemingly early, despite it being live to some players, and some aren\u2019t happy about it. As we\u2019ve seen over the year, whenever a big new game goes live, plenty of Twitch streamers rush to not only be one of the first to play it, but also be one of the first to complete it. Of course, some of these are helped by pre-ordering special editions of games so they get them a few days early, but others use loopholes. By changing a console to another timezone, you typically can play a game a little earlier than planned \u2013 even if it\u2019s only a few hours. Some of the biggest names on Twitch have regularly done this in the past. Notably, xQc almost completed The Last of Us 2 before it was released in the United States. However, it seems they\u2019re now clamping down on this practice. Twitch streamer banned for playing Forspoken \u2018early\u2019 despite it releasing With Forspoken, the new RPG title from Luminous Productions going live in the Southern Hemisphere, a number of Twitch streamers have jumped on the game a few hours early. That included GTAMen, a Dutch content creator who typically focuses on GTA Online, as he was struck down with a 48-hour ban for playing the game early. \u201cBanned for 48hrs for streaming a game that\u2019s been officially released and legally bought. Cool,\u201d the streamer said, showing the ban email from Twitch. He added that he\u2019d submitted a ticket to have the ban overturned given that it has been released and others have already started streaming it \u2013 even if they aren\u2019t in the correct timezone. Some responses were disappointed by Twitch\u2019s decision to bring out the banhammer, pointing to the fact that a number of others hadn\u2019t received the same punishment. \u201cCannot believe they actually messed up so bad. Hope you get this sorted out,\u201d said one. \u201cTwitch you better fix this ASAP,\u201d added another. Game publishers do, occasionally, warn players against trying to access games earlier by changing their system\u2019s timezone, but punishments don\u2019t usually extend to their channels. So, we\u2019ll have to wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer banned for playing Forspoken despite it releasing Luminous ProductionsA Twitch streamer has been suspended for playing the new Forspoken title seemingly early, despite it being live to some players, and some aren\u2019t happy about it. As we\u2019ve seen over the year, whenever a big new game goes live, plenty of Twitch streamers rush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}