I don't see anything wrong with giving the guy who puts up a very, very large amount of money to make these games happen a few moments of glory.
As I said, you have the option to "mute".
It's so simple really.
Not, not that simple.
Part of the reason people love action is, it's more than just dudes running racks well.
Like nobody would pay to watch shane run an 8-pack in practice all alone.
We're paying so we can experience the mood and atmosphere and tension...
if not in person then the next best thing.
There's a sort of social thing where everyone talks to everyone else, and gets excited about how close it is,
and one guy's pulling for their hero and the other guy is pulling for the underdog.
Having a guy like French ruins that. It's not two guys rooting for 2 different players or wishing for
a close, tight, exciting match. It's one dude talking nonstop, hogging the mic,
rooting for only one player, and shouting out dumb predictions.
We're paying for an exciting match, and dead silence is almost never "exciting".
The mute button is not a solution.
French wants to give people the same excitement he feels.
But he's shooting himself in the foot by making his own stream intolerable, so we can't share it and enjoy it
the way he enjoys it.
Would you pay $25 for a stream where the audio kept cutting out? Because that's basically what's happened.
I paid for a stream with working audio and I'm getting a stream with shit audio.