Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg

Re:Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg by eecks on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#25282391)

Unless there's some hidden complexity to this site.. it looks fairly straight forward. Why have MS bought it?

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg by arleny on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:02PM (#25282959)

I'd say since smash.gg is already the established method of organizing esports events across a variety of game communities, despite being straight forward.

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg by nwsm on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:45PM (#25283392)

Same reason behind most tech acquisitions: the users

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg by marc__1 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:54PM (#25283466)

or the team

here is the series A announcement from 2017, with some interesting VCs participating

https://blog.smash.gg/growing-our-team-at-smash-gg-912f1caaa...

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