EPTGoogle was so much more awesome when it wasn't the corporate monster it is now. Their motives just aren't clear. At least to me they aren't.
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chaos021
United States258 Posts
Google was so much more awesome when it wasn't the corporate monster it is now. Their motives just aren't clear. At least to me they aren't. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On May 21 2014 12:43 chaos021 wrote: I'm just wondering if they're going to let twitch.tv sort of grow organically or if the potential buyer is going to mess with the way it works right now. I like twitch.tv to an extent, but the current user interface is crap. They're connections are crap. Twitch clearly needs a backer that has infrastructure or the ability to upgrade infrastructure. I just don't see what Google plans on getting out of this that they can't already do with Youtube so-to-speak. That has me worried. Is it really necessary to buy out a whole other company's site to stream content when you have a platform for this type of thing already? Google was so much more awesome when it wasn't the corporate monster it is now. Their motives just aren't clear. At least to me they aren't. It's easier to buy an established player than to waste time building from the ground up. It's not exactly easy to get millions of people to just switch services over night. | ||
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chaos021
United States258 Posts
On May 21 2014 12:56 skyR wrote: It's easier to buy an established player than to waste time building from the ground up. It's not exactly easy to get millions of people to just switch services over night. My point is that they wouldn't exactly be building from the ground up. They already have a platform to use. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
On May 21 2014 14:26 chaos021 wrote: My point is that they wouldn't exactly be building from the ground up. They already have a platform to use. To be fair, Google tried to implement Google+ and that sucked, as Facebook already took primary the user base. | ||
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chaos021
United States258 Posts
On May 21 2014 15:00 skyR wrote: Uh yes they would be building from the ground up. How many people use Youtube to live stream games? Practically zero. Google starting its own service instead of buying Twitch is like hoping for a miracle that Twitch will be stupid enough to choose to die instead of selling out to the likes of Facebook or Microsoft. So a start-up with Google's resources could never be outright better than Twitch? | ||
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MrMedic
Canada452 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On May 21 2014 15:35 chaos021 wrote: So a start-up with Google's resources could never be outright better than Twitch? Never said anything about being better. There's lots of better products out there but users still decide to use the older, crappier, but more familiar product, eg. Skype versus Hangouts. What reasons would established streamers have to suddenly make the switch from Twitch to Google's service if Twitch works fine? | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23515 Posts
Upstream Sites Which sites did people visit immediately before this site? Site Percent of Unique Visits 1. facebook.com 10.7% 2. youtube.com 8.8% 3. google.com 8.5% 4. reddit.com 3.6% 5. twitter.com 2.9% 6. imgur.com 1.2% 7. yahoo.com 1.1% 8. google.com.tr 1.0% 9. battle.net 0.9% 10. vk.com 0.8% Top Sites in: All Categories > Games 1.Twitch.tv Platform that allows players to livestream their video game play and viewers can chat in real-t... 2. Ign.com Movie news, previews and behind the scenes information. 3. Battle.net Battle.net has been home to an ever-growing number of gamers from around the world since 1996. 4. Pch.com Online sweepstakes and shopping site. Cookies required to use the site. 5. Steampowered.com Delivers a range of games straight to a computer's desktop. Includes automatic updates, lists o... 6. Leagueoflegends.com Official site. Features, media, screenshots, FAQs, and forums. 7. Gamefaqs.com Includes FAQs, walkthroughs, message boards, user submitted reviews, and codes for all console ... 8. Gamespot.com News, reviews, previews, screen shots, movies, message boards, FAQs, game guides, and downloads... 9. Freelotto.com Offers several daily games. 10. Williamhill.com Online betting and gambling at William Hill, the world's biggest bookmaker. Visit us now for sp... 11. Xbox.com The official web site for all things on the system. 12. Kongregate.com Single player and multiplayer games. Visitors can win badges and beat challenges and also uploa... 13. Ea.com Independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for various platforms... How is this site ranked relative to other sites? (How frequently visited) There's more interesting information here if you are interested. **WARNING** If you are paranoid about who's keeping track of what, this place isn't going to make you feel better.... http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/twitch.tv | ||
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SharkStarcraft
Austria2249 Posts
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
On May 22 2014 03:28 SharkStarcraft wrote: Well inb4 twitch layout completely ruined with google+ and some other useless shit. I don't like that, but at if we get better server I would take that trade off. | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On May 21 2014 15:35 chaos021 wrote: So a start-up with Google's resources could never be outright better than Twitch? having been in a startup for the last 4+ years, and seen it grow to almost 100 people now: I'd doubt it. A lot of the growing pains we had could not be solved by throwing 'resources' at them. The amount of custom scripts/tools/reports we use is huge, and stuff evolves all the time. We even discovered some bugs in pretty standard open source products by just using them at scales that no one had imagined. Finetuning our servers took years. Some of our software is in the 3rd of 4th major iteration, and now faster by a factor of 100, compared to what we were using in the production environment only 3 years ago. | ||
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aeligos
United States172 Posts
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Kenobii
Canada35 Posts
On May 22 2014 09:13 aeligos wrote: Not a good idea. Why is it not a good idea? There plenty of positives that should be overlook, for example: Google $$$. | ||
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
On May 22 2014 09:49 Kenobii wrote: Why is it not a good idea? There plenty of positives that should be overlook, for example: Google $$$. Don't forget all the "seamless integration" with Google卐 | ||
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pebble444
Italy2500 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23515 Posts
On May 23 2014 01:07 pebble444 wrote: wtf. Isn' t youtube google owned? google wants to take over the world. Did you see their new slogan? Google, a more friendly OmniCorp. I just hope they build a backdoor to take out Skynet when they put it online. | ||
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chaos021
United States258 Posts
On May 23 2014 04:37 GreenHorizons wrote: Did you see their new slogan? Google, a more friendly OmniCorp. I just hope they build a backdoor to take out Skynet when they put it online. Because the AI wouldn't shut that door? | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23515 Posts
Could only hope it would be one that humans would recognize but not AI... I mean it's going to happen, I can at least hope for a chance for humanity right? I don't like our chances in a terminator/matrix man vs machine type fight... | ||
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fireforce7
United States334 Posts
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