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True grace is beautiful in its imperfection, honest in its emotion, freed by its own frailty .
(League of Legends)
What is Twitch?
- Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions. In addition, it offers music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, "in real life" streams. It is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon Inc.
- It was founded as a spinoff feature on now defunct Justin.tv, to allow anyone to broadcast gaming online.
Pouring money into not just pixels
Without passion, you are already dead
(Max Payne)
With companies battling for faster processors, better graphic cards and churning gaming titles of the highest aesthetic appeal, the gaming industry is here to make a mark, rather than looking back. Esports industry is growing in millions of dollars.
- Tech-giant Microsoft came up with it's own streaming service called Mixer, paying Shroud and Ninja approximately 20-30 million USD to leave Amazon-owned Twitch for its platform. However, Mixer shut down it's services and merged with Facebook gaming, while Ninja and Shroud returned to Twitch.
- Twitch has since been thriving under Amazon's able leadership and clouded it's nearest competitors Facebook and YouTube.