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YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
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Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#112That’s sad. Less competition, worse both for those watching and making content. Makers of (gaming-related) content for YouTube – worried about the future of YouTube – have often already been relying on Twitch to provide them some stability, to stand on more than one leg. This competition also insured that YouTube couldn’t do literally anything. Makers of content had a place to go if things didn’t work out. This is a…
A lot of my "hardcore" gaming friends have been moving to http://beta.azubu.tv/ with all of Twitch's issues lately.
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#113This is disappointing. YouTube's 'community' is extremely toxic, I can imagine if Twitch is rolled into it, it'll die a long, slow death.
Twitch community is also pretty toxic. Most of the time the biggest streamers put their chats in sub mode (paying supporters) to avoid it.
The Twitch chat is half the value of the stream-watching experience for me.
The "character" of the Twitch chat is valuable. The manically insane hivemind, with all the juvenilia and "shittiness" that is inherent to it, is a roiling primordial stew of genuinely worthwhile culture. It's the birthplace of memes in both the vulgar sense and the higher sense of that word, and, to me, feels like 4chan in its early days. The ecstatic chaos of the chat during an unmanageably large event is a unique and deeply valuable thing.
It was why Twitch Plays Pokemon was such a massive phenomenon. Channels which set their chats to subscriber-only mode are shooting themselves in the foot.
I've always desperately craved a comparable live mass chat experience for non-gaming-related events, eg during a football game, or a televised cultural event or major news story.
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, Twitch livestreams is unwatchable for me most of the times I have tried to use it. Youtube on the other hand, while available, have worked quite good.
It's funny that my experience is the complete opposite, I wonder if it's just our confirmation bias, or the fact that we are too small a sample. It could also be that us being in different countries (I assume) impacts a lot in our experiences.
I didn't provide enough information, streaming from both Twitch and Youtube works flawlessly from London where I am located now.
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#115It's worth noting that Twitch partially became popular because it wasn't YouTube , and gamers could stream without content restrictions (e.g. copyright and region) Miraculously, this could end up making YouTube comments even worse .
Well, looks like it's time to start another competitor :)
At this point it's probably a better move to build and then sell/license a streaming service directly to the game publishers. If they provide a streaming system, they can control the copyright directly.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
On a back of the napkin calculation, how much outgoing throughput would one need to be able to stream to ten clients directly on say 720p (~30 frames per second)? I was wondering if it would be possible to create a set up where people can stream from home without any third party in between. Is that even possible for larger audiences?
A decent quality 1080p stream is around 2Mbps minimum. Your pipe needs to be able to sustain that times the number of clients.
My thought was to piggyback off of web rtc and other free software projects already available just to learn more about it. I'll be pretty happy to just get it working so two clients can watch a stream. I was already looking to learn something this summer so this should be a nice place to start. Thanks!
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#117Why on Earth would Twitch let themselves be bought by a company that was in the news just a few months ago for systematically destroying the Let's Play community?
Let's not pretend, many of us would do the same. Many people would quickly forget their opinion for $1M. And we are talking a billion. Can't judge those guys.
It kind of makes me sad to think of all the bad things I would do/let happen for $1 billion, or even $1 million.
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#118It's worth noting that Twitch partially became popular because it wasn't YouTube , and gamers could stream without content restrictions (e.g. copyright and region) Miraculously, this could end up making YouTube comments even worse .
Well, looks like it's time to start another competitor :)
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Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#119> Reps for YouTube and Twitch declined to comment. Yeah. I call this just a rumor.
Declining to comment literally doesn't mean anything. They are not saying yes OR no, possibly because as a big company you need to weigh up various effects of making public statements that might seem trivial to the lay-person.
The opening words of the article are:
> Google’s YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch
This means that the deal is done! Then there is no point in not commenting.
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#120I hate YouTube with a passion, this is terrible news for Twitch users. YouTube is absolutely dreadful and makes design decisions that just go against common sense. This is a terrible loss. :/
Will I still be able to see Twitch streams on my PS4? Blergh.