Google is Buying Twitch

But they made an app, oh wait. It sucks.

Search before you post Brian!

This is also in the wrong category.

As long as they keep the same staff I don't really seeing Twitch change much. It'll just become a bit more reliable than it currently is.

Twitch getting youtube functionality, yes.

Twitch being combined with youtube so you get the best of both worlds from the same site, yes.

Twitch and Youtube both being owned by the same company and possibly getting monopolized and ran downhill over greed for squeezing pennies from it, NO!

That last one better not happen, I would kickstart or sponsor a private streaming site to restart a new true Twitch site if it did.

And to specify, I grudgingly accept requiring a motherf***ing google+ account for twitch for now on, as a reality. I however will be pissed if it gets much worse than that. As long as it doesn't, coo, coo...

I HAVE BEEN ENLIGHTENED

#sarcasm

My only real concern is that if everything is owned and hosted by Google, if google crashes, where does that leave us?

pure and utter chaos ... chaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

You mean Discord?

Google+ accounts for everyone!

****.

I don't think we need to worry about Google...

Large corporations are surprisingly simple things to understand when viewed as a whole entity:

They exist to fulfil a single purpose- to extract money from whatever sources they can whilst avoiding getting into trouble within the various constituencies they operate within.

Any notion of them wanting to do 'the right thing by the customer' is simply clever marketing, they make what sells. In Google's case they sell advertising- ergo they need services that attract users en mass. As long as a service is popular enough they will continue to support it to help feed their advertising revenue engine.

I don't really fear anything that I understand- everyone has an agenda, the key is to KNOW what it is and then you know what to expect...

It's not quite as simple as that. The goal may be to make money, but corporations aren't mindless entities, they're driven by the people inside them. Changes near the top can make a big difference. I've been part of at least one company that gave a lot to charity simply because one of the directors was big on giving back, the tax breaks didn't make up for the amount they were giving.

Possibly, but the bigger the firm, the less influence any one person has.

At the end of the day once firms reach a certain size the board of directors and share holders tend to get in charge (which is usually the point things start to go wrong... Apple, Microsoft etc).

All that is on my google+ account are my youtube comments, which my girlfriend stalks sometimes

likely we'll get slightly better video quality and forced usage of Google+

Beautiful http://esportsexpress.com/2014/05/twitch-chat-users-may-destroy-youtube-ecosystem/

AdBlock is just a bunch of Javascript, what it does is seeking for some specific classes and IDs, and add to them the inline style "display: none;". Or alternatively, it removes the element from the DOM. It's so simple that hurts, not that great mystery after all.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8715904/how-adblock-plus-works-in-chrome

Edit: actually it does a bit more, but you can read it on the link above

I think a company like Apple shows that isn't true. It depends on corporate culture.

Google has dropped the forced integration of G+

Any site that gets ruined to a significant degree will just be replaced by another site that just has the functionality of the old site.

Worst case scenario, we use a different streaming site. Best case scenario, things improve.

Most likely scenario, the changes will be minor enough that it won't matter.

still waiting on that new youtube.