Amazon x Twitch

[RealClifford]

So, there has been rumours surfacing for a while in regards to Google acquiring Twitch for upwards of $1 billion.

So, Google bought Twitch you say?
It would appear you'd be wrong.

Twitch has confirmed a deal with Amazon to buy Twitch for $970m by the end of 2014.
Source: http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/a-lett...ugust-25-2014/ (http://forums.oce.leagueoflegends.com/board/redirect.php?do=verify&redirect_url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.twitch.tv%2F2014%2F 08%2Fa-letter-from-the-ceo-august-25-2014%2F) & http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/08/2...eports-suggest (http://forums.oce.leagueoflegends.com/board/redirect.php?do=verify&redirect_url=http%3A%2F%2Fau.ign.com%2Farticles%2F 2014%2F08%2F25%2Famazon-not-google-in-talks-to-buy-twitch-reports-suggest)

Thoughts?
I liked the idea of instead of muting audio of vods, they could provide a link to buy the song in Amazon instead. aha

Anyway, I feel like I am more okay with Amazon buying Twitch than Google as I don't think a huge amount will change in the user experience department unlike Google who like to change everything to be Google+ branded.


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[Stephen]

good that its not google but still not good for twitch users. These big companies buying these money makers always ends bad for the users

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[auffant1]

I can see Amazon doing really big things with Twitch and expanding it to loads of different platforms. Maybe Fire TV?

[scottish]

Did you copy and paste this, as you included the links at the bottom thumbs up, thumbs down, etc. and the link is to LoL forum.


http://forums.oce.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=76410 yes you did.

[peteyt]

Im surprised Google didn't end up with Twitch as it would probably fit their company better but I could imagine it being integrated too far with lots of stuff removed in favour of their own services so hopefully Amazon improves things without trying to change too much

[scottish]

Im surprised Google didn't end up with Twitch as it would probably fit their company better but I could imagine it being integrated too far with lots of stuff removed in favour of their own services so hopefully Amazon improves things without trying to change too much

They probably did bid then Twitch CEO thought it would be better with Amazon.

[David]

twitch weren't making very good decisions on their own, although better than what google would have done.
doubt amazon will make any improvements to it, people are easily pissed off about changes.

hitbox.tv is probably gonna be the next big thing if they play it right

[scottish]

Doubt anything will overtake twitch for a long time yet.

Twitch is basically in the same position Youtube is with their market share. All major gaming competitions etc go to twitch as well as anyone steaming a game.

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Looking at hitbox it just looks like an uglier replica of Twitch a few updates ago lol.

I doubt it's going anywhere :P

[lRhyss]

As long as Amazon don't make it exclusive to Prime users, this could be a good thing.

[A4R0N]

netflix is still king pls

[Stephen]

and some reptile elite squad ddos pro people have ddosed twitch

i wish i could ddos
but apparently the skills required are so advanced that I might aswell kill some famous person for attention instead

[Kyle]

considering all the manual paywalls on twitch already i doubt amazon would do something so reckless as make it exclusive to prime users. a few years and already almost 1 billion dollars. jeeeez.

twitch can only grow, good move amazon.

[e5]

What's twitch? Surely I must know this :(

[scottish]

and some reptile elite squad ddos pro people have ddosed twitch

i wish i could ddos
but apparently the skills required are so advanced that I might aswell kill some famous person for attention instead

Lizard Squad, they've ddosed most major games lately (WoW, LoL, Runescape, GW2, etc)

https://twitter.com/LizardSquad


What's twitch? Surely I must know this :(

The biggest gaming streaming website in the world

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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/amazon-promises-not-to-change-twitch-following-buy/1100-6421918/

[peteyt]

and some reptile elite squad ddos pro people have ddosed twitch

i wish i could ddos
but apparently the skills required are so advanced that I might aswell kill some famous person for attention instead

So you want to have lots of people hating you ha