Twitch to start selling video games this week

Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by bigtunacan on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:51PM (#13981055)

This has not been my experience. Mine experience has been seeing total fragmentation around chat apps for awhile with Skype, Teamspeak, Curse and Discord.

Now it seems most players I encounter have both Curse and Discord installed and will use the URL share feature that both have to share team invites for one or the other.

With them generally being used for gaming and now the acquisition and integrations happening between Twitch and Curse I suspect over time we will see Discord go the way of MySpace if they don't find someone to sell to and soon.

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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by Lazare on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:21PM (#13982168)

My experience was that Ventrilo, Mumble, and Teamspeak had the market split between them, then Discord took it over. It's been months since I've heard of anyone using anything other than Discord, and I've never even heard of someone using Curse's client.

(Disclosure: My experience focuses on the WoW and to a lesser extent Overwatch communities, mostly in the Oceanic Aus/NZ region. But in those communities, Discord is utterly, crushingly dominant.)

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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by Aeyris on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:06PM (#13982713)

Coming from the ANZ Overwatch community here as well, Overwatch has pretty much completely taken over any voice communications platform that isn't just in-game voice.

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