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Count down until you no longer log on to the internet - you log on to "the google" :p
With the incredibly poor effort they put into their own youtube streaming, I can't see this improving twitch at all.
Not to mention all the recent crap that happened on youtube on their watch such as basically shutting down thousands of channels for no valid reasons and the period of the exploitable comment section. Also I'm sick of having g+ and gmail shoved at me! My account throws a hissy fit every time I log in using my hotmail email, it's frustrating.
I also generally don't like when competition gets diminished.
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On May 19 2014 13:25 skyR wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2014 13:23 Kiernan wrote:On May 19 2014 13:14 BreAKerTV wrote:
Personally I would rather have Microsoft picking up the slack than google. Anyone else with me? Yeah, because M$ has done such a great job with Skype, huh? This will be terrible, YouTube is near unuseable without custom Scripts to make the Layout better. Over exaggerate much? No idea what you do on Youtube but I just click Subscriptions and viola a list of videos...
Look at the Channel Pages etc. Back then everything was better. I was not on the YT Mainpage since Years, because its terrible and does not show me what I want. Back then you just had your Videos in a better, more compact layout.
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On May 19 2014 20:24 nimdil wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2014 19:47 Overtime wrote:
R.I.P Twitch. You will be missed.
Another step for Skynet Google to complete internet & world domination. That statement would be justified if G+ would have succeeded in winning casuals over FB.
They wanted to buy Twitch so they would have some proper streaming of their takeover when their army of robots&drones starts rolling out:
Google Robot Army
Google buys Artificial Intelligence Company
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I am actually happy for this!
I can almost always watch youtube videos in 720p, while I frequently have to change twitch stream from 480 to 360, and sometimes it stutters even in 360. If this means that twitch will get access to googles bandwidth, it'll be a great improvement for me.
I don't really approve of the shared login etc, but I dont mind it too much either.
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lethalfrag made a good point actually.
do you really believe that twitch is worth only 1 billion dollar?
i think the site generates more profit than that in a year, so it's value should be much higher. especially since the site is on the uprising and with the fact that livestreaming gets more popular by the minute.
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On May 19 2014 18:20 nimdil wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2014 17:47 Zax19 wrote:
Hm, I'd probably take a good deal like that and cash out, although as a viewer I hope they don't sell it. Why? Google will probably be able to eliminate lag for the most part, thanks to a lot of data centers.
Be that as it may I dislike their design and don't want the major streaming platform end up in the hands of the major VOD platform.
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RIP Twitch. It was a great ride. Guess I can start spending less time online once this goes through.
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I'm not sure how I feel about this... I don't think I like it. Google has the tendency to makes things terrible.
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Does this mean i ll be unable to watch live streams due to the geographic region i live in?
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On May 19 2014 08:43 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Wow, twitch is worth over a billion? Didn't think it was that much.
r u serious?
Facebook paid 19 billion for a stupid chatprogramm (that every kid is using today although, before installing, it actually warns you, that it will save all your private data, pictures, calls, texts, your GPS data, your passwords onto their servers and sell some of it)
Why shouldnt a service like twitch be worth that?On May 19 2014 08:47 geokilla wrote:If this is true... Wow that'll be crazy. Hopefully it improves Twitch and gets rid of their bugs and stream lags. At the same time, I hate this world where it is dictated by money and corporations. Show nested quote +On May 19 2014 08:43 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Wow, twitch is worth over a billion? Didn't think it was that much.
I don't really know what to think of this. I like google as a company, and they have the better infrastructure... I like it. Instagram isn't worth a billion. Neither is Oculus VR.
sure it is.
Instagram had millions of users and growing, meaning there is lots of personal data to sell. Not only at the useraccount, but think of what every picture on instagram also has in its EXIF data...
Oculus has a huge potential to be the VR leader in games. PPL dont care if it is owned by FB now. Well some do, but the mass won't care, as the mass doesn't care about facebook or instagram or whatsapp in general.
And if Oculus ever gets into more then games, like 3D using some internet stuff or similar things to google glass, it is ofc worth more then a billion.
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On May 19 2014 09:12 Boucot wrote:
I like Google, I like YouTube. YouTube's VOD tech + Twitch's live tech + Google's servers seems to be a pretty nice combo IMO.
on the technical side it is an absolute improvement. Twitch has lagged and was bugged so many times.
Just recently, where I had to look at stephanos twitter account, to see how the game went, because all twitch streams were down...
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On May 19 2014 09:20 Kiernan wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2014 09:12 Boucot wrote:
I like Google, I like YouTube. YouTube's VOD tech + Twitch's live tech + Google's servers seems to be a pretty nice combo IMO. Have fun using YouTube(now Twitch) in Germany... which isn't youtubes fault, but GEMA. Other countries have the same "Verwertungsgesellschaft" but they don't act that stupid as the GEMA does...
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And we were worried about our Battle.Net Real IDs a few years ago. Now, we get to have Twitch chat linked with our Google+s.
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Just saw this on the wire, holy crap!
Sigh, should have applied for that Twitch job huh?
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On May 19 2014 21:56 Rollora wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2014 09:20 Kiernan wrote:On May 19 2014 09:12 Boucot wrote:
I like Google, I like YouTube. YouTube's VOD tech + Twitch's live tech + Google's servers seems to be a pretty nice combo IMO. Have fun using YouTube(now Twitch) in Germany... which isn't youtubes fault, but GEMA. Other countries have the same "Verwertungsgesellschaft" but they don't act that stupid as the GEMA does...
Sure, but for us that does not really change a lot, right? No matter whos fault it is, both sides are acting stupid as fuck in that conflict and the viewers suffer the consequences.
I can live with huge chunks of Youtube being only accessable by proxies, but Twitch as well? That wouldt be just awful. 
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On May 19 2014 22:04 atenthirtyone wrote:
And we were worried about our Battle.Net Real IDs a few years ago. Now, we get to have Twitch chat linked with our Google+s.
Oh, the real life threats we will see... 
Or will we? now that the aggressor cannot hide in anonymity? Hmmm.... 
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I took a look at other communities and news aggregation sites on the web. It looks like the general consensus is quite negative. So uh, yeah, people have similar concerns.
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Maybe we will be able to Kappa-spam Youtube videos :D
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Im gonna go ahead and say goodbye in the name of the German community. We will disappear from viewership but only for a few that go through the trouble to circumvent the restrictions.
The ramifications will be interesting if this actually happens since WCS is done by a German company.
Hope Im wrong, but this could be really bad for German viewers.
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I don't want Google to buy Twitch because I like competition in the market, but I don't understand why everyone thinks G will ruin Twitch.
First, when G bought YouTube, they saved YT from the brink of bankruptcy from lawsuits piled sky high. After buying YT, they kept all 67 original employees.
I don't like monopolies like many others, but Google is the least evil monopoly. We will see if the FTC approves this, because this is a huge acquisition.
Google still has to do the paperworks and jump the hoops the FTC makes, so this isn't 100% yet.
What I don't understand though, when G bought YT for $1.65b, YT really needed that lifeboat. Now G wants to buy Twitch for $1b, but Tw is no where near dead and can probably make $1b in revenue in a year or two.
Some people don't think Tw is worth $1b, but I think they are worth 2 because of the amount of content that gets developed on their platform.
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