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Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by mbesto »

mc42 wrote: post #12
Macha wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are streamers hosting their chats on Discord as opposed to Twitch's chat system, which tends to break down after a certain level of activity? Only thing I can think of.

Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily. Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots for the more complicated stuff. Discord also has voice chat built in, whereas Twitch has none for their chatters. Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of la…

Discord is also arguably a better implementation for team chat than Slack. Being able to jump in a room and have audio session out of the box alone is huge advantage compared to Slack.

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by leonnoel »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #17
SandersAK wrote: post #16

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I actually disagree that Discord doesn't have a functional business. They have massive growth and many many top teams, streamer personalities etc use their services. If Discord becomes a critical component to the content creators of the whole gaming ecosystem, there's going to be plenty of revenue opportunities.

As I just said, and you confirmed: Discord doesn't have a functional business. Discord currently makes no money. "Opportunites" are just that, opportunities. A lottery ticket is an opportunity, but it is not a business. Discord promises it will always be free with "no gotchas". It specifically notes no "slot limitations" as an example of that, which indicates premium tiers are unlikely. They promise to never charge f…

LINE made $268 Million from just stickers last year http://qz.com/704768/line-sold-268-million-worth-of-stickers...

If Discord can keep up the growth, things like stickers, emojis, and sound packs could pull in good revenue. Also, the gaming community is already used to paying for these items on sites like Twitch

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by jamra »

xenihn wrote: post #26
goeric wrote: post #20

Discord will likely grow to the value of Twitch was at (when it was acquired by Amazon) in the next couple years, it's a really big space.

I feel this way too. I was amazed at how much better Discord is in comparison to Ventrilo and Mumble when I first used it.

Discord doesn't do video streaming, but it seems as though they can pull away a lot of viewers should they choose that route.

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by b1naryth1ef »

rev087 wrote: post #21
jamie_ca wrote: post #19

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"despite being an electron app", I'm way happier using Discord than I am using either Hipchat or Skype. Discord is a really well-put-together app, has text and voice chat that do their jobs, and get out of the way. The only complaint I have is that there's little to no support for searching history, but for an app focusing on live "community" chats, that seems a reasonable compromise.

I'm on the same boat, the only complaint being the lack of history search. And I like Discord so much that I switched our office from Hipchat to Discord, despite it being exclusively marketed towards gamers. We have been completely happy with the switch, in special the ability to hop into voice chat with remote coworkers with one mouse click.

(Discord Dev here) Awesome to hear Discords a good fit for workplace environments too, we've heard a couple success stories around remote teams swapping. Search is a huge priority for us, but its also something we wanna spend time getting right. e.g. soon!

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

leonnoel wrote: post #32
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I just said, and you confirmed: Discord doesn't have a functional business. Discord currently makes no money. "Opportunites" are just that, opportunities. A lottery ticket is an opportunity, but it is not a business. Discord promises it will always be free with "no gotchas". It specifically notes no "slot limitations" as an example of that, which indicates premium tiers are unlikely. They promise to never charge f…

LINE made $268 Million from just stickers last year http://qz.com/704768/line-sold-268-million-worth-of-stickers... If Discord can keep up the growth, things like stickers, emojis, and sound packs could pull in good revenue. Also, the gaming community is already used to paying for these items on sites like Twitch

I will stand corrected, with this excellent example.

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by Trisell »

Twitch is dying? They had 258k+ people watching The International. There were 130k watching an EULCS quarterfinal today. And those are just a couple of streams of the thousands that are online at any given time. Not to mention the popular streamers who have 10 of thousands of subs who pay $5+ a month which Twitch gets part of. Twitch is most definitely not "dying."

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by mc42 »

jamie_ca wrote: post #19
mc42 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily. Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots for the more complicated stuff. Discord also has voice chat built in, whereas Twitch has none for their chatters. Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of la…

"despite being an electron app", I'm way happier using Discord than I am using either Hipchat or Skype. Discord is a really well-put-together app, has text and voice chat that do their jobs, and get out of the way. The only complaint I have is that there's little to no support for searching history, but for an app focusing on live "community" chats, that seems a reasonable compromise.

I stated that transparently just to say that it was one, not that it isn't a well done one. I actually am running a Canary build for Linux of Discord and have had almost no issues with it, and any problems have been fixed very transparently.

Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

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Post by smnplk »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #36
leonnoel wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LINE made $268 Million from just stickers last year http://qz.com/704768/line-sold-268-million-worth-of-stickers... If Discord can keep up the growth, things like stickers, emojis, and sound packs could pull in good revenue. Also, the gaming community is already used to paying for these items on sites like Twitch

I will stand corrected, with this excellent example.

God, I'm so disconnected with current millennial trends, I had to lookup what those stickers were.
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