When new games come out, some Twitch streamers do everything they can to get their hands on the game early. They promise themselves a lot of viewers if they show it in front of everyone else. But as a streamer from the USA has now noticed, this can also cause trouble. According to the streamer NaDeXe, he bought an extra early version of NBA 2k23 and received a Twitch ban.
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Early start is worthwhile for Twitch streamers – many viewers
This is how it went: When the Twitch streamer ventured onto the platform with NBA2k23, viewers just flocked to him
Streamer apparently ruins 11 years of career in 14 seconds – Twitch permanently bans him
48-hour twitch ban after Take-Two copyright strike
That was his bad luck: After a few hours he was banned from Twitch. Because Take-Two had reported a “copyright infringement”.
He received a 48-hour ban from Twitch, which is the normal penalty for such violations.
So now NaDeXe couldn’t do anything with his $200 game on Twitch.
Streamer receives a ban for violating an embargo that did not exist
This was the mean: The streamer complained that the ban was completely unfair since he was streaming at the same time as everyone else.
And indeed, the ban seems to be an accident. Because on September 6, Ronnie 2k, a marketing specialist from 2k with 1.4 million followers on Twitter, announced: There is no embargo for streamers. Anyone can just stream once the servers are online.
Oddly enough, however, Ronnie2k then tweeted on September 8 at 4:30 p.m. that the streaming embargo had been lifted (via twitter).
In any case, it was a false start for twitch streamer NaDeXe. He’s currently serving his ban on Twitch and streaming on YouTube.
There are always very strange bans:
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