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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
I am laughing a bit at the Anti-Trust, or whatever the Justice Dpt. is thinking of doing because of market share. | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
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gneGne
Netherlands697 Posts
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Brett
Australia3821 Posts
Maybe twitch will actually be fucking usable and have less retards spamming chat. GL to them. | ||
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SebaZ
Italy223 Posts
On May 19 2014 22:39 Jett.Jack.Alvir wrote: I don't want Google to buy Twitch because I like competition in the market I don't think Twitch has any real competition right now anyway. | ||
nimdil
Poland3751 Posts
On May 19 2014 20:36 Pr0wler wrote: G+ didn't succeed ? Well then I guess they have no other choice but to buy facebook too  Not gonna happen. There are a lot of companies ready to throw money and FB and some of them - inlcuding Microsoft and probably Apple - have a lot bigger cash reserves. Plus Zuckerberg is not selling. EIDT: What will happen with Justin.tv? | ||
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Cynry
810 Posts
Only terrible thing (well, interface could be one, but that's a matter of taste I guess) was the shutdown of many channels because of copyrights. About which I'm fairly sure even Google wasn't too pleased, but maybe they got tired of receiving complaints from the copyrights holders. People seem to think that they did that to piss off the community or something, again, acting a bit dumb imo, it's probably way more complicated than that. Yes, Google wants to pretty much rule the world. Yes, they want the monopoly over the internet, and are well on their way to do that. And considering what they have done so far, I'd be much happier with this becoming true than a lot of alternatives coming from governments or other firms (hullo Facebook). Hell, I even plan to help them achieve that... | ||
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
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Knighthawkbro
United States183 Posts
On May 19 2014 22:59 Cynry wrote: So, one thing people fear is the google+ integration, because of what happened to youtube ? How come I have a youtube account, same as before, not showing my real name, not linked to anything g+ ? Am I an exception or are people acting a bit dumb about that ? I can post comments, publish videos. Maybe I couldn't get paid for that, don't know, don't care. Only terrible thing (well, interface could be one, but that's a matter of taste I guess) was the shutdown of many channels because of copyrights. About which I'm fairly sure even Google wasn't too pleased, but maybe they got tired of receiving complaints from the copyrights holders. People seem to think that they did that to piss off the community or something, again, acting a bit dumb imo, it's probably way more complicated than that. Yes, Google wants to pretty much rule the world. Yes, they want the monopoly over the internet, and are well on their way to do that. And considering what they have done so far, I'd be much happier with this becoming true than a lot of alternatives coming from governments or other firms (hullo Facebook). Hell, I even plan to help them achieve that... I am a user who has kept his original youtube name. I have separated my g+ account and my youtube account by declining all the merging options. The only thing I hate about youtube is that they constantly reconfigure something that makes it that much harder for me to find what I am looking for. Hope that doesn't plague twitch post acquisition. | ||
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d_runk
124 Posts
What I'm wary of is the legal team that will be a pain, the company patrolling streams for illegal music or anything deemed NSFW can put a dent in the nice grassroots feel twitch has right now EDIT: Imagine chromecast integration and watching WCS in 1080p without having to fumble around with HDMI extenders!! | ||
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yido
United States350 Posts
This could finally break esports into the mainstream. Hope Google finally gets this mess together. | ||
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
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FuRRie
Belgium815 Posts
Other then that, Google can screw twitch over pretty hard. | ||
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shin ken
Germany612 Posts
Not much of a loss for me, as I can happily life without twitch chat (and youtube comments) but a dickmove nontheless. I hope honest streamers will go the Total Biscuit route. As he closes comments in his youtube videos and refers to his reddit, honest streamers post google-aquisition should close the chat and link to a external website with IRC webchat and the embedded twitch stream. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25995 Posts
In terms of Twitch, I'm quite ambivalent until we see something more concrete , however within the streaming marketplace if anything it's Twitch's dominance that has seen it stagnate and really not push service improvements. Not that YouTube provides such things currently, but things like spoiler-free VoD capability is something many have cried out for and haven't really been implemented. | ||
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figq
12519 Posts
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veQ
Poland339 Posts
On May 19 2014 17:49 crow_mw wrote: Comming soon - can't watch a stream unless you share it on Google+. Im afraid this can get even worse. Cant watch stream cus ur not logged into g+. That whole g+ bullshit is scaring me as is cus im against fb and other shit like that but if that comes to twitch I might end up watching it for good or just a lurker no chatting cus ure not logged and ur not providing us your data... "Here's some cash guy's someone take it" "money, money, money" "It's raining money!" "Dosh! Grab it while it's hot" Oh well for me this is going nowhere... | ||
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Cynry
810 Posts
On May 19 2014 23:28 obesechicken13 wrote:when really they're any other. Yeah, right, any other. I just looked at the biggest companies, where google ranks 50+, and you'd have to compare them to banks, oil companies, Apple and Microsoft. Could you keep a straith face saying they're the same ? Google isn't "godsent", of course, but at least they haven't screwed us yet, even though they totally could. | ||
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Fuchsteufelswild
Australia2028 Posts
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