I've been very interested at the thought of being able to broadcast my progress in an MMO out onto the Internet for other people to watch. I'd also love to be able to see some of the "leet" players do their magic so that I can learn from them. I think everyone has at least once looked at someone in one game and said to themselves "how the hell did they do that?"EA have added a very interesting thing to their sports games. As with a lot of sports games there is an instant replay option, but now they've added a very simple video editor to change camera angles, colors, effects etc and upload them to EASportsWorld.com where everyone can watch your exploits similar to YouTube.
Obviously an instant replay system wouldn't be ideal for an MMO but it's a start!
Xfire has an option where you can stream your gameplay while playing, its not limited to MMO's either. It's great that they offer this service and I think it's something that developers should be looking in to. Apart from PvP everyone loves nothing more than showing off and instead of making people go off and have to get fraps or install unwanted programs, developers could make something that optimized for their game, which would end in better quality and less lag or framerate drop.
Final Fantasy XI had a live stream of one server up on their website (they still might have it there) That game is quite old now, I'm sure the likes of Blizzard and Cryptic could come up with something themselves ;)
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