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Nalha Saldana
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-08-25 22:00:59 UTC
http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/a-letter-from-the-ceo-august-25-2014/

So today Amazon bought Twitch, does this affect CCPs use of their site at all?
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2014-08-25 22:07:43 UTC
Not sure if this is worse than google or not. Either way expect a lot of issues with music.
Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#3 - 2014-08-25 22:09:38 UTC
of the two, i'd rather see amazon owning it over google. google has too many assets and too much control.

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Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#4 - 2014-08-25 22:15:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Fury
Nalha Saldana wrote:
http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/a-letter-from-the-ceo-august-25-2014/

So today Amazon bought Twitch, does this affect CCPs use of their site at all?



Why would it?

What would CCP possibly have to say when this only just happened? Think how long it takes to get a response when something serious actually happens.

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Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2014-08-25 22:16:18 UTC
How can anyone own that many different things and be good at it?

It'll serve one singular purpose in the future, at make as much money as possible for Amazon shareholders, and it'll be ****.

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Maxxor Brutor
Borderline Procurements
#6 - 2014-08-25 22:17:54 UTC
At least Amazon has good servers... and maybe Amazon drones can send swag to streamers :S
Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-08-25 22:20:07 UTC
Maxxor Brutor wrote:
At least Amazon has good servers... and maybe Amazon drones can send swag to streamers :S


Amazon will treat the streamers the same way they treat their warehouse employees, or worse.

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Ashlar Maidstone
MoonFyre BattleGroup Holdings
#8 - 2014-08-25 22:31:54 UTC
Let's hope that Amazon's cloud can handle the huge volume of traffic *shrugs* anybody else other than Google would suit me better.What?UghShocked
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#9 - 2014-08-25 22:37:46 UTC
At this stage it's ownership, not operational control.

Will be interesting to watch what happens, but I wouldn't imagine any short term impact on CCPs arrangement with twitch.
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#10 - 2014-08-26 00:57:28 UTC
Sentamon wrote:
It'll serve one singular purpose in the future, at make as much money as possible for [someone's] shareholders, and it'll be ****.
So, business as usual then.

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Martin Corwin
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-08-26 01:01:49 UTC
Maxxor Brutor wrote:
At least Amazon has good servers...

I LOL'd Lol
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#12 - 2014-08-26 01:07:39 UTC
INB4 Next alliance tournament stream will only be available to Amazon Prime members.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Thead Enco
HR..
#13 - 2014-08-26 01:54:03 UTC
Nalha Saldana wrote:
http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/a-letter-from-the-ceo-august-25-2014/

So today Amazon bought Twitch, does this affect CCPs use of their site at all?


Does this mean i don't have to see another fricking ad since i'm a "Prime Member" Lol
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#14 - 2014-08-26 02:47:15 UTC
Thead Enco wrote:
Nalha Saldana wrote:
http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/a-letter-from-the-ceo-august-25-2014/

So today Amazon bought Twitch, does this affect CCPs use of their site at all?


Does this mean i don't have to see another fricking ad since i'm a "Prime Member" Lol


Speaking as one myself, I sincerely hope so. Commercials are something I loathe with such intensity that English fails me to describe it.

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Rankan
State War Academy
Caldari State
#15 - 2014-08-26 03:38:22 UTC
You can bet they will offer streamers some sort of deal to hawk their products.
Wacktopia
Fleet-Up.com
Keep It Simple Software Group
#16 - 2014-08-26 06:04:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Wacktopia
baltec1 wrote:
Not sure if this is worse than google or not. Either way expect a lot of issues with music.


That said; there is potential for Amazon to do something innovative here. They already sell and rent the copyright to music plus the whole Prime membership thing.

Not saying I'd want to see twitch turn into more of a commercial venture than it already is (turbo, donations) but when I see people dropping $1000s on stream donations it seems reasonable that accommodation could be made for the makers of music that support that stream.

Perhaps smaller, Indy artists could supply music into a stream library that streamers could use at low cost - mutual benefit.

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Wacktopia
Fleet-Up.com
Keep It Simple Software Group
#17 - 2014-08-26 06:09:02 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
INB4 Next alliance tournament stream will only be available to Amazon Prime members.


Heh. Charging people directly for access or barrier-to-entry for non Prime members would be a sure fire way to sink twitch IMO.

No ads for Prime I could stomach.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#18 - 2014-08-26 07:32:28 UTC
An Amazon accountant probably just misclicked.
Adrie Atticus
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#19 - 2014-08-26 08:39:37 UTC
Lets get some predictions going:

1. Amazon refuses to pay american ISP's who are keeping your bandwidth as hostage; stream quality plunders in the USA.
- At the same time, Prime membership is required to have an ad-free experience at High or better quality
2. Transcoding becomes available to every stream due to the amount of computing power Amazon has
- But copyright issues will lead to immediate closures of accounts instead of warnings
- Increased occurrence of lawsuits when someone accidentally has Nicki Minaj as their ringtone and it goes off on a live show
3. Non-US viewers will be forgotten as no one cares about a billion potential customers, just like Amazon has done already. There is a reason why eBay is way bigger than Amazon in the EU.
4. Due to horrible stream quality, bad connectivity to rest of the world and horrible copyright enforcement Twitch will die and we all start using hitbox.tv
5. Amazon writes off the loss and sens all Twitch employees a bar of gold with their drones as an apology.
Vyl Vit
#20 - 2014-08-26 08:52:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Vyl Vit
Wacktopia wrote:
Perhaps smaller, Indy artists could supply music into a stream library that streamers could use at low cost - mutual benefit. My 0.2 ISK
I woulda laughed had it not been so sad to read this. But, it typifies the purely lost mentality of this age - artists "supply" artwork for a "low-cost mutual benefit"....how very capitalistic. I'm moved. You'd have gone over big during the Rennaisance. I can imagine the convo with Mozart:

"Give us something in C. A bouncey C. And...put in a lot of drums. People love drums! Can you add some bass to that?"

Mozart: Loads large firearm.

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