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[439.48 --> 445.84] Google is rebranding their, yes, their messaging service again. |
[447.60 --> 449.02] So, yeah, we'll talk more about that later. |
[449.82 --> 456.66] I would love it if, that's one of my main issues with Google Hangouts is that there isn't, like, a first-party Google Hangouts desktop application. |
[456.66 --> 459.82] And that it has to run in my browser in a Gmail tab. |
[460.18 --> 462.44] Or I can pop it out and I could, like, have it all over the place. |
[462.50 --> 463.46] But it's very disorganized. |
[463.74 --> 465.92] I would prefer if it was just a desktop app. |
[466.14 --> 473.62] I just don't really see why, for gamers, it is considered a boon to have more crap running in the background. |
[474.02 --> 481.68] So, the app's going to include community servers, screen sharing, which, like, why not just use a business platform if you're going to be screen sharing? |
[481.80 --> 483.56] Why would you need to screen share when you're gaming? |
[483.56 --> 490.42] Voice and video messaging and game content distribution. |
[491.30 --> 494.90] So, same thing, like, you could get mods or whatever else on it, I guess. |
[494.98 --> 498.22] It's meant to give streamers, followers a place to connect. |
[498.40 --> 499.70] But doesn't Discord already do that? |
[500.90 --> 504.22] And keep people, okay, so here, finally, we get to the meat and potatoes of it. |
[504.28 --> 507.94] And keep people on the site after game streams have ended. |
[507.94 --> 512.50] With features like communities, Twitch Creative, and Twitch Presents. |
[513.02 --> 519.54] So, as far as I can tell, they pretty much went like, hey, lots of streamers are using Discord to manage their communities. |
[520.82 --> 524.30] Why don't we just, like, phase them out? |
[525.58 --> 525.92] Okay. |
[526.50 --> 528.66] I mean, I guess, okay, well, now the strategy is clear. |
[528.80 --> 530.02] At least we've got that sorted out. |
[530.02 --> 530.50] Yeah. |
[532.36 --> 535.12] So, I guess that's what it is. |
[535.18 --> 535.32] Yeah. |
[535.42 --> 537.20] So, the launch is on March 16th. |
[537.22 --> 540.46] And existing Curse users will be upgraded to the new version. |
[540.84 --> 541.58] Just like that. |
[541.86 --> 542.24] Enjoy. |
[543.08 --> 545.48] It's kind of a funny thing. |
[545.64 --> 550.86] Like, do you feel a little bit like a baseball player? |
[551.44 --> 553.42] Where you just kind of get, we're getting traded. |
[553.42 --> 554.12] You know? |
[554.54 --> 558.62] Like, when one company that you've kind of, you've got your loyalty to. |
[558.68 --> 560.24] Yeah, does anyone still use Razor Coms? |
[560.60 --> 561.40] Speaking of. |
[562.50 --> 563.70] Is Razor Coms still a thing? |
[564.06 --> 564.66] Oh, yeah. |
[564.90 --> 566.52] Or is it part of, like, Synapse now? |
[567.12 --> 567.40] No. |
[567.74 --> 569.34] Razor Coms is a thing. |
[570.10 --> 570.84] Razor Coms. |
[570.86 --> 571.26] Look at this. |
[571.32 --> 573.12] You can see, you can tell something's a thing. |
[573.28 --> 577.32] When it doesn't just have, like, the top line here. |
[577.38 --> 579.88] When it has, like, lots of other crap under it that's important. |
[579.96 --> 582.80] Mind you, some of this is Razor Coms lol scouter. |
[582.80 --> 584.22] Okay, I don't know what that is. |
[584.42 --> 585.84] But mobile to desktop. |
[586.28 --> 587.72] Free in-game overlay. |
[588.18 --> 589.08] Connecting made easy. |
[589.18 --> 589.36] Okay. |
[589.68 --> 590.02] All right. |
[590.52 --> 593.44] I forget what the point I was trying to make was. |
[595.16 --> 597.56] I completely forget what the point I was trying to make was. |
[599.54 --> 599.90] Okay. |
[600.18 --> 601.46] So, Twitch is getting this thing. |
[601.52 --> 602.32] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
[602.32 --> 602.54] Right. |
[602.68 --> 608.00] We're, like, you sign up for a service or you give your, like, you create a profile with |
[608.00 --> 613.04] the company and you give them personal information, like your phone number, your email, your payment, |
[613.48 --> 615.38] your payment details, or whatever the case may be. |
[615.62 --> 621.20] And just, like, you know, one day you're Jose Canseco and you're, like, you're literally |
[621.20 --> 622.70] out in the field playing. |
[622.70 --> 627.28] And it gets announced on the news that you've been traded. |
[627.80 --> 628.60] You've been traded. |
[628.72 --> 630.02] Now you belong to someone else. |
[630.22 --> 630.54] Uh-huh. |
[631.12 --> 633.80] And they can just sort of acquire it. |
[633.84 --> 634.76] They can rebrand it. |
[634.82 --> 635.76] They can change the features. |
[635.86 --> 637.24] The entire vision can change. |
[637.70 --> 642.46] And as a user, you have no influence here at all. |
[642.46 --> 648.22] Does it bother you that you can be a Twitch streamer? |
[648.32 --> 650.94] So, I mean, okay, because it's one thing as just a user. |
[651.04 --> 658.24] But let's say you've invested significant time, whether it's developing a mod or whether |
[658.24 --> 660.34] it's building a following on a platform. |
[660.44 --> 665.30] Perfect example of that was, oh, that stupid platform that I never got into. |
[665.40 --> 665.64] Vine. |
[665.76 --> 665.94] Right. |
[666.04 --> 666.28] Vine. |
[666.28 --> 667.44] We're just like, boom, no. |
[667.74 --> 668.58] Now we're Twitter. |
[668.86 --> 668.96] Yep. |
[669.04 --> 671.20] Now Vine's just, yeah. |
[671.20 --> 674.88] If you don't have Twitter followers, if you're just a pure Viner, you're done. |
[674.98 --> 675.24] You're dead. |
[677.04 --> 679.66] Where Twitch can just kind of go, oh, yeah, we're selling to Amazon. |
[679.88 --> 683.30] And Curse, okay, yeah, we're selling to Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. |
[683.46 --> 687.58] And it's just like, it's almost like an exercise in just kind of collecting users. |
[688.56 --> 691.98] I mean, yeah, that's, at the end of the day, that's kind of what it seems like, right? |
[691.98 --> 697.14] And that's, you know, the game that a lot of people nowadays, including us to a degree, |
[697.24 --> 700.12] are playing is like, how do you get more eyeballs? |
[701.20 --> 701.84] You know what I mean? |
[702.26 --> 706.58] Like, the acquisition of Twitch is all about, okay, how do we integrate Amazon products |
[706.58 --> 710.36] into this thing that's already garnering, you know, hundreds of thousands to millions |
[710.36 --> 713.84] of unique users per day and sell through that? |
[715.30 --> 722.08] So, yeah, from a user perspective, it kind of feels, you know, it just feels crappy to |
[722.08 --> 725.02] kind of go, okay, well, here's this thing that maybe I really liked. |
[725.22 --> 726.52] Maybe I really liked Curse Voice. |
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