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You may or may not remember my thread with Youtube/Google buying Twitch right? Well things changed a lot since then, because as of today, 25th of August 2014, Twitch belongs to Amazon.Yep, you heard it right, Twitch was bought out by Amazon for
So what do you guys think? Was this a good deal or not?
Personally, I think that it's miles better than a Google purchase!
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Now it's official. Many more infos in the source link.Amazon bought Twitch for $970 million on Monday, a surprise acquisition after the rumor that Google was pursuing Twitch for a similar sum. It’s tough to predict how the purchase will change how we broadcast and spectate PC games, or how Amazon will fold the world’s biggest livestreaming service into its existing media and referral services. But to expect Amazon’s acquisition to have no impact on Twitch is unrealistic.
“We’re keeping most everything the same,” Twitch’s CEO Emmett Shear writes in a post announcing the sale of his company. In a separate press release, Shear says that Amazon ownership will allow it to “create tools and services faster than we could have independently.” As users and casters ourselves on Twitch, here’s a wish list (an Amazon Wish List, perhaps) of the new features we’re interested in seeing and the aspects of Twitch we’d like to remain in tact.
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1st Image was made by @Julia_CaSsian
2nd Image was made by @momopeche
I just edited them to a bit smaller sizes and made them transparent background, but all the other credit goes to them.
Go and give them a follow, if you like their art.