Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week
by NeeT on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:04PM
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Our philosophy is to start from the streamer. Twitch and curse joined forces to provide an amazing out-of-the-box desktop experience for our streamers and their fans. Of course this competes with other products, but we do not view it as a zero-sum game
We still have a long way to go to deliver that experience and we are actively looking at community feedback on our launch this month.
Hubert, Founder of Curse now working for Twitch
Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week
by developer2 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:22AM
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What popular streamer has recently switched to Curse? Every streamer I watch uses Discord. Each and every one of them. I haven't seen Curse used in well over a year now. Curse finally got around to updating the UI and features of their client a while back, but it was too little too late. Discord had already won.
Time. Curse has significantly better community integrations. Discord has taken a long time to deliver on its features and lacks even the most basic (text channels per voice channel for instance). Curse already has video calls, its a significanty better replacement of Skype than Discord is.
Many are migrating to Curse because streamers use it, and it makes it easy and lucrative to do so as a streamer.
Unless Discord does something unique, like client side modding support and some cooler things you can do with servers, they're going to get crushed.