The good news is, the VOD will be auto-deleted in 3 weeks anyways. Twitch thought of everything! In the meantime we can play Let's Guess Which Song Was Flagged, because there's no way to know.
The good news is, the VOD will be auto-deleted in 3 weeks anyways. Twitch thought of everything! In the meantime we can play Let's Guess Which Song Was Flagged, because there's no way to know.
3 weeks? YouTube takes up to a month, sometimes longer if I remember Angry Joe's rant about it correctly. So even if they're wrong, they're going to delete good videos before they get a chance to fix them. Awesome. Gotta love websites that thrive on their users, yet don't give two trouts about those users
Makes me wonder how long we have to wait before Valve says smurf it and develops their own streaming service.Originally Posted by Dat Matt
...Hadn't even thought of that. It'd probably be hugely beneficial to them. Here's hoping they're interested, honestly. Seems like a perfect fit right now
It's definitely a direction they could go in, but with all the current complaints of steam [Terrible broken games getting greenlit, poor search functionality etc], I don't think it's something they should focus on just now.
Considering there's nothing stopping them from doing both (and a lot of the complaints about steam these days are stupid anyway), I see no reason they couldn't go that route. It'd be a good feature to integrate with steam letting you stream any steamworks enabled game easily, and have another function to let you stream any that aren't.
So the deal has happened and it turns out the buyer is...
...Amazon.
Not really any better, I guess.
The Facebook-Oculus comparisons again rear their head as this is just not a buyer I would've expected. I'm nevertheless plugged into the Amazon ecosystem, so it works for me.
I wonder if this hints at Kindle compatibility with the Second Screen features the XBone/PS4 support? At least for Twitch streaming I'd imagine...
Amazon has been big into distributed web hosting for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services One good potential outcome is they use some of their resources to make Twitch run more smoothly. Twitch has had problems scaling. Amazon has also dabbled in streaming video already.
Beyond that who knows. Just hoping, again, that they don't ruin Twitch for everyone.
Wait what? Damn internet. All the freaking out made me think Google already bought Twitch. Hence them implementing a damn ID system similar to YouTube's (though I'm aware it wasn't exactly the same, but it caused the same problems..)
Never used Twitch, but use Amazon a lot. I also use Google a lot, but I don't think Google buying Twitch would have been a good situation for consumers. At least this allows some form of competition between two of the most dominant video/streaming services.
Wait, so this means all the crap Twitch pulled in the past month was completely their own decision? It wasn't Google? What. So they were dicks before they got bought out? I don't even...
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
That was the first indication the talks fell through. They wouldn't have implemented their own system if they were going to be integrated with Google, who has their own proprietary Content ID system
They were hoping to impress Google by showing that they could implement a system just as bad as Google's.
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