Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

Post by mFixman » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

gverrilla wrote: post #171

I don't understand it: these companies have enormous funding, an army of employees, and they can't provide the service reliably (both regarding consistency and safety). What all these coders do all day? I'm asking as an uninformed party of course. But it looks to me like these are companies that build bridges, and their bridges are collapsing all the time.

Post by valeness » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

bluecatswim wrote: post #177

sbarre wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a pretty harsh moral/value judgment on how someone chooses to spend their entertainment money. What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too? What about paying cover at my local bar because a local band is playing that night? What about buying tickets to a baseball game, to see a bunch of millionaires play a game for a few hours? You are making it see…

Sorry, I didn't mean that in a derogatory way. I just meant twitch users pay for the sake of giving money to their favorite streamers rather than paying for a product. Strip clubs are the first example that came to my mind, bands or comics also stand. My point was that OP's argument about comparing twitch to movies doesn't make sense because paying for a movie is no different than paying for groceries.

Post by valeness » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

Jxl180 wrote: post #179

sbarre wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a pretty harsh moral/value judgment on how someone chooses to spend their entertainment money. What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too? What about paying cover at my local bar because a local band is playing that night? What about buying tickets to a baseball game, to see a bunch of millionaires play a game for a few hours? You are making it see…

If the Dave Chappelle show were free but you chose to donate your money to Dave Chappelle anyway, yes, you're a sucker.

Post by vkk8 » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

canada_dry wrote: post #300

> Vapor - an unreleased competitor to Steam Until Steam has a couple major screw ups, potential competitors better have tons of capital to keep throwing at their platform-in-waiting! Amazon does have the $$$, but they also have hungry shareholders that won't wait like they used to . Gamers by-in-large quite like the platform Gabe has built.

Post by tyrfing » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

ryathal wrote: post #339

meibo wrote: post #53

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Amazon has even more money to throw at studios than Epic, so they can just force themselves into it.

It's more than just throwing money at it. EA tried and failed to separate from Steam. Epic might succeed, but it's not going to be because of money, but because Fortnite let them capture young gamers before they got into Steam. Wherever a user gets a critical mass of a library built up first is going to be the winner.