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Amazon Renames Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming
- agustif 6y agoI misunderstood it, will they rename Twitch next? edited;
- echelon 6y agoWhy? There was a lot of money made on the sale.
- agustif 6y agoYeah but ego always trumps money, and the re-branding is now not when the sale was agreed?
- danudey 6y agoIf I started a company called dan.tv and sold it to Amazon for $970 million in cash, and then Amazon renamed it to danisastupidasshole.tv I'd be pretty happy with that deal all in all.
- stingrae 6y agoThey aren't renaming Twitch. This is a small feature that grants prime users one free subscription a month.
- agustif 6y agoOh yeah. I missunderstood that
- Urgo 6y agoThis is just "Twitch Prime" being rebranded to "Prime Gaming". Twitch is keeping the same name. But I wonder how long until Twitch is also rebranded to Amazon Gaming?
- Shivetya 6y agoSeems to be nothing more. I don't see it ever picking up the Amazon name as if there are any issues on the platform, and an streaming platform is going to have them, they don't want a direct association.
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- loceng 6y agoThe nomenclature is thrown off quite a bit by this. Streamers say "Check and see if you have a free Twitch Prime and subscribe"
- slavik81 6y agoRenaming Twitch to Amazon Gaming would be like renaming Lamborghini to Volkswagen Sports.
- rriepe 6y agoYeah but they just tossed out "Lamborghini Prime" like it was bad bacon.
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- mcraiha 6y agoHas Amazon provided anything useful to gaming space? They have bought lots of companies, but their track record in gaming space seems to be very poor.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoThey used to have "Kindle Underground" or whatever, for the Kindle Fire tablets, but they shut that down. Basically you'd get free upgrades to games and stuff at no cost. I used it to play games I'd have on Android for free without having to pay for upgrades. I also returned the same tablet two days later cause it had a dead pixel when I opened it.
- mysterydip 6y agoAmazon Underground, and as a hobbyist game developer it's the most money I've made on a mobile platform. I was sad to see it go. I put the same game on Amazon, Play, and App stores, with the same (minimal) advertising, and underground was an order of magnitude more profitable.
- ALittleLight 6y agoIs that more profitable per user, or more profitable total?
- OJFord 6y agoHow can you have either without the other?
- strombofulous 6y ago$1 per 1000 users on a store that gets you 100 users pays more than $0.01 per 1000 users on a store that gets you 1000.
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- cwhiz 6y agoInteresting rebrand. But why was Doc banned?
- k12sosse 6y agoAs someone who's been watching this space for a little more than a decade.. this is what I've deduced: Because Mixer died, twitch didn't need the tentpole any longer, they don't need to pay out a contract if they ban the streamer, there's a "council of snowflakes" that can't tell make believe from reality, and they pegged him with no disclosure to instil fear in all other streamers, a kind of general deterrence. Twitch has nowhere to go but down, at this point.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoThat is all speculation. The council you are talking about has no teeth, and there are many members that aren't "snowflakes."
- rmoriz 6y agoPrime Gaming will still display ads all the time?
- vorpalhex 6y agoYes, you need to pay extra for Prime Ultra Gold edition or whatever it's called these days to not see pre-stream ads. Last I checked it was still impressively expensive.
- Ductapemaster 6y agoAs someone who is both new to Twitch and uses it for “alternative” content to gaming (eg. music streams, cooking classes, etc), I find this rebranding confusing and poorly timed. Clearly the platform is mostly for gaming, but the pandemic has highlighted Twitch’s ability to become more than just that. It works quite well for live music events, whether it be a single artist playing in their bedroom to 50 people or a full-on live music festival with 30k viewers. I’ve been attending all manner of these streams for months now, and I don’t see them ending soon, or even after the pandemic subsides. It’s a completely new way for artists and producers to engage with audiences. Entire record labels have multiple weekly streams for their content and communities. I really hope that Amazon sees the platform for these other uses and makes it more friendly for other content producers. Clearly there is both a need and demand for it.
- smileybarry 6y agoI agree that Twitch is great for streaming things other than gaming, but the monthly offerings given with Twitch Prime were always gaming related: skins, credits, sometimes full games, etc. The included subscription is pretty much the only "not necessarily gaming" part about it. Naming it "Gaming Prime" isn't confusing in that context.
- bdz 6y ago>For Twitch viewers. Surprise - nothing changes! It had only good feature, the adless viewing but they removed that last year. But hey, you don't become the richest man on the planet without a reason Edit: it was 2018, my bad https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-turbo-ad-free-benefit-end-over-september-14 https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur...
- kevincox 6y agoWait, that seemed like the biggest benefit...
- minhazm 6y agoYou get ad-less viewing on the one channel you use your Twitch Prime subscription on. It is also a decent benefit in that you can basically contribute a small amount of money to your favorite streamer also. If you were already going to pay for a subscription to someone AND you had Amazon prime, you basically save $60 a year ($5 per sub * 12 months).
- t0mbstone 6y agoIf Amazon ever builds a highly optimized robot for delivering packages, they could call it.... Optimus Prime