twitch chat is more analogous to a trap house being crashed by a racist biker gang next door to your small house party and the bikers are trying to sell your guests meth

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

May 19 2014 01:46 GMT

#82

On May 19 2014 10:26 CParks wrote:
I don't see how this can be anything but good. I'm sure the streamers would make more money because Youtube would be a little better at getting ad money from companies. Also I see people saying how Google ruined Youtube, but I don't remember the last time I looked up a video on a website that wasn't Youtube, or someone sent me a video link from website that wasn't Youtube.

I think everyone is just butt hurt that Google forced G+ onto it / keeps pestering you to change to G+. The UI has arguably gotten worse but it's still usable and still quite good compared to most other services.

7mk

Germany10156 Posts

May 19 2014 01:48 GMT

#83

On May 19 2014 10:24 Jett.Jack.Alvir wrote:
amazingxkcd, what about all the racist comments before G+?

Youtube is putting accountability in the internet.

Just watched a Tracy Morgan interview and the most upvoted comment was how he looks like a gorilla/chimpanzee
I don't think it's the racist idiots that are most worried about their information being stored and tracked on the internet

Badboyrune

Sweden2247 Posts

May 19 2014 01:49 GMT

#84

On May 19 2014 10:21 amazingxkcd wrote:

Show nested quote +

You're probably one of those guys that likes calling the cops on a small house party a block down the street

There's a distinct difference between a small party and having a gathering of random people scream random things at the top of their lounges for hours upon hours on end. One is perfectly fine and the other is retarded and really should be put to an end sooner rather than later.

If the Google actually puts a atop a o the idiocy that is twitch chat that alone would make up for just about anything bad they could do to twitch

klipik12

United States241 Posts

May 19 2014 01:50 GMT

#85

This makes me feel like I'm the only person who hates hive-minded twitch chats that all yell meaningless meme trash for the sole reason of feeling like they belong with the other mindless twitch users. While I wouldn't necessarily like having to use my real name on Twitch because I try to keep my internet self and irl self entirely separate, that would solve more problems than it causes.

...unless they break the follow system and the GUI and the view counter and all my twitch add-ons (not adblock).

layabout

United Kingdom2600 Posts

May 19 2014 01:50 GMT

#86

google don't care about streaming they just want to collect data about twitch chat, the great mystery of our time.

This just makes me sad.

Waise

3165 Posts

May 19 2014 01:59 GMT

#87

On May 19 2014 10:48 7mk wrote:

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you're insane if you think youtube comments haven't improved since the changes. i hate the new youtube and i hate google, but i have no desire to go back to the "democracy" of seeing literally every single comment be djones69420 saying "ur all faggets". at least a MAJORITY of comments now are relatively coherent

skylarr

Canada209 Posts

May 19 2014 02:03 GMT

#88

This could actually help esports alot... youtube is 10x the platform than twitch

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

May 19 2014 02:05 GMT

#89

:| How in the world would the FTC allow this? This is basically the biggest video service taking over the biggest streaming service. It would basically make them a massive monopoly on user content.

erkicman

United States206 Posts

May 19 2014 02:09 GMT

#90

I love how a lot of people in the FGC are blaming Mike Ross for this :^)

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

May 19 2014 02:12 GMT

#91

I find it funny that this deal is only rumored to be worth 1 billion considering how Facebook bought Whatsapp for 16 or something billion worth in shares and cash and Oculus for 2 billion.

ilikeredheads

Canada1995 Posts

May 19 2014 02:20 GMT

#92

wow I can hear the champagne bottles popping from the Twitch founders already........so jelly

Beware guys, the COPYRIGHT MONSTER IS COMING!!!

FabledIntegral

United States9232 Posts

May 19 2014 02:23 GMT

#93

Crazy....

Remember when it was a fledgling Justin.TV?

EDIT: Concerning below, didn't even realize they officially split and didn't still have a parent/subsidiary relationship.

layabout

United Kingdom2600 Posts

May 19 2014 02:29 GMT

#94

On May 19 2014 11:03 skylarr wrote:
This could actually help esports alot... youtube is 10x the platform than twitch

Screw that we need to be alive not big! Videogame content is all over youtube and if you have any interest in games particularly competitive ones youtube is going to point you towards esports sooner rather than later.

I hadn't realized twitch had completely split from justin.tv. I supposed we could always go back and make them split videogames off again

Radicalness

United States271 Posts

May 19 2014 02:32 GMT

#95

Wow, I'm not sure what I think about this. It could be good, but my immediate thought is "really???"

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

May 19 2014 02:41 GMT

#96

Here comes Google+ integration

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

May 19 2014 02:44 GMT

#97

So we could finally get twitch on the Chromecast, nice.

catabowl

United States815 Posts

May 19 2014 02:46 GMT

#98

I think this could be potentially a good thing... but I'm curious how Subscriptions will be handled with streamers. Will they leave the format the same? hmmm...

divito

Canada1213 Posts

May 19 2014 02:58 GMT

#99

So much uninformed Google bashing.

At the very least, talks are underway and it should be interesting to see where they go. If played right, Google can take Twitch and its users to much further places.