EPTAmazon acquires Twitch.tv - Page 2
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Erik.TheRed
United States1655 Posts
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TimKim0713
Korea (South)221 Posts
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Doraemon
Australia14949 Posts
On May 19 2014 08:34 Kiernan wrote: I hope the Twitch Guys just start a new Twitch with their knowlage. I bet Google will ruin Twitch like they ruined YouTube... google would be stupid to acquire them without having them sign a non-compete...and google isn't stupid | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12056 Posts
On May 19 2014 08:50 [SXG]Phantom wrote: lol google ruined you tube? Sure. Well maybe it's me who thinks this, but google seem to somehow go backwards in terms of features and functionality of all their services. Niconico for example has features in it that Youtube should've had years ago, some of them eventually got added in, then consequentally removed again. Somehow the UI on Youtube has gotten worse and worse as the years have gone on too. Then again, I don't really like twitches anything either, their network infrastructure is a total joke so hopefully having google on side will help. I can personally see someone setting up a "new twitch" because the amount of streamers who will be hit with copyright just for listening to music will skyrocket. | ||
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Penguinator
United States837 Posts
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Larkin
United Kingdom7161 Posts
A lot of streamers rely on that revenue. It would be crippling to see it taken away from them. Good ol' capitalism at work, cutting the tree at the top and not caring who it falls on. | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12056 Posts
On May 19 2014 08:56 Larkin wrote: Well I hope it doesn't affect the personal income of streamers too much. It will suffer, but perhaps a larger audience will compensate (I imagine YouTube's streaming service will cease to exist after this). A lot of streamers rely on that revenue. It would be crippling to see it taken away from them. Good ol' capitalism at work, cutting the tree at the top and not caring who it falls on. I hope google keep that and replace twitches service, because youtube streaming is lightyears ahead of twitches offerings. In terms of both streaming itself and watching without any lag/delay. | ||
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Mahanaim
Korea (South)1002 Posts
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opaqueNZ
Australia48 Posts
Googles infrastructure will be nice for twitch, but all the other shit they've introduced to YouTube since the end of last would not be. | ||
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resfirestar
United States109 Posts
I do hope that they make some effort to preserve Twitch and its existing community rather than just uprooting everyone and closing down the site. | ||
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ooDi
Canada170 Posts
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Klonere
Ireland4123 Posts
On May 19 2014 08:55 Qikz wrote: Well maybe it's me who thinks this, but google seem to somehow go backwards in terms of features and functionality of all their services. Niconico for example has features in it that Youtube should've had years ago, some of them eventually got added in, then consequentally removed again. Somehow the UI on Youtube has gotten worse and worse as the years have gone on too. Then again, I don't really like twitches anything either, their network infrastructure is a total joke so hopefully having google on side will help. I can personally see someone setting up a "new twitch" because the amount of streamers who will be hit with copyright just for listening to music will skyrocket. "A new twitch" requires a lot of venture capital and probably even more now if twitch really does get bought out by Google. Azubu is trying to compete with Twitch and is falling pretty flat right now in the extremely unscientific method of comparing viewer numbers of streamers post twitch to their twitch days. Voyboy, huge LoL streamer who got 11k on a good evening? Scrapes up about 1.5k on Azubu. MLG seems to be an interesting alternative but their model right now is heavily focused on CoD, events they run themselves and seemingly random people like Idra. Could you sell VC people on a market where your main and direct (not much room for creating a niche in a niche sector) competitor is Google? | ||
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NKexquisite
United States911 Posts
Edit: Twitch's mobile app also leaves a lot to be desired, as does a lot of other facets of their website. Twitch should only continue to get better with this. | ||
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Boucot
France15997 Posts
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On May 19 2014 08:51 Chocolate wrote: Google does a bunch of ostensibly nice things to make you like them. They provide free, simple, and reliable email, free storage for all sorts of different documents through google drive, a free (and fast) web browser, tons of good pr from their weird tech experiments and the amenities of the googolplex, etc. However, look at their actions and you'll see that they truly wish to dominate in almost all aspects of the tech industry, and thanks to their data collection and custom tailored advertisements, they can simply buy out those that truly outcompete them. Now all I want to do is get a startup going. I'm not refuting what you're saying, but would you mind expanding on some examples? And some links to where this is evident? I just like google, and would like to educate myself better in it. | ||
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27406 Posts
As to stuff on copyright claims, yeah Google should tweak how flagging etc is done, unfortunately they can't realistically say 'fuck you' to GEMA and the likes who make these claims. I don't see Twitch as one such places. In fact within that particular market their pseudo-monopoly is detrimental to the user experience IMO, literally every LR will contain somebody with some problems with the service. | ||
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Costanza9
Canada8 Posts
On May 19 2014 09:14 ACrow wrote: So, that means TL will soon be sponsored by google (per proxy)? And wouldn't it be the same for other teams/organizations sponsored by twitch, as well? Could they potentially get dropped by Google/Twitch after the acquisition? | ||
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Sjokola
Netherlands800 Posts
On May 19 2014 08:41 SpikeStarcraft wrote: Before Google Youtube was just a page for funny videos. After Google its a place where people can earn their living. I would expect that monetization would get a lot better because more companies would run their ads through twitch. Which is a huge problem currently. I actually never thought about it like this. It seems like they still did a lot of good work for youtube. | ||
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Kiernan
101 Posts
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... | ||
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