Twitch starts selling Games

[Napper198]

Well it's official now, Amazon is now selling games through Twitch.

If you happen to come across a stream wich features a game listed below you can now see a buy button below the stream itself so you're only one click away from checkout. Add-ons and micro transactions for free2play titles are also available.

The download requires the Twitch desktop app.

If the streamer happens to be a twitch partner they'll receive a 5% kick back from that purchase. Purchases of 5$ or higher will also get you a Twitch loot box which can contain stuff like emotes and things you can put on your profile.

 

Featured games list:

Spoiler

• Anomaly 2
• Anomaly: Warzone Earth
• Axiom Verge
• BATMAN — The Telltale Series
• Beat Cop
• Breach & Clear
• Broken Age
• Clustertruck
• Darkest Dungeon
• Drawful 2
• Enter the Gungeon
• Fibbage XL
• Firewatch
• Hard Reset: Redux
• Heavy Bullets
• The Jackbox Party Pack
• The Jackbox Party Pack 2
• The Jackbox Party Pack 3
• Kathy Rain
• Kingdom: New Lands
• LOVE
• Minecraft: Story Mode
• Nuclear Throne
• Okhlos: Omega
• Psychonauts
• Punch Club
• Quiplash
• RunGunJumpGun
• Streamline
• The Banner Saga
• The Banner Saga 2
• The Walking Dead
• The Walking Dead: Season 2
• The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
• The Wolf Among Us
• This War of Mine
• Titan Souls
• Tyranny
• Zombie Night Terror

Games requiring Brawlhalla account:

• Brawlhalla

Games requiring Glyph:

• Atlas Reactor
• RIFT
• Trove

Games requiring Hi-Rez account:

• Paladins
• SMITE

Games requiring Uplay:

• For Honor
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six:Siege
• Tom Clancy’s The Division
• Watch Dogs 2

Games requiring Warframe account:

• Warframe

 

I think it's cool that streamers get a little kick back from this and that you get a little useless extra on top but I'm not sure if it is enough to lure me off of Steam for now. I also hope that streamers don't start begging for purchases now.

 

Source 1: Gamestar (german)

Source 2: Twitch Blog

[EminentSun]

So would this give you a steam code or would they launch through twitch?

[EminentSun]

Anyways, that's really cool, great way to support streamers. Hope this makes it to the level of amazon affiliate codes.

[Humbug]

good luck to them.

 

one thing though that everybody who starts these game stores needs to understand is that their customers are not just gamers but game developers. One of the reasons steam is successful is they give a good experience to game developers and you have tools to easily manage your backend and provide your content to customers. That's the area guys like gog need to catch up on..

[Napper198]

5 minutes ago, EminentSun said:

So would this give you a steam code or would they launch through twitch?

They will launch through the twitch app. I already claimed some of the games that came free with Twitch prime and I can start them just fine from their own shortcut but I guess games with more restrictive DRM might need the twitch client to be running in the background

[tom_w141]

Almost a good idea until they tried to make another game store I have to be logged in to and running. Nty steam is all I need and origin because EA are difficult...

[Humbug]

well the open competition between gog, steam and origin is a healthy thing for pc gaming. One thing you've got to appreciate on pc is that nobody offers 3rd party devs bribes to be exclusive to a particular store (except maybe oculus). E.g. Valve chooses to only sell their games on steam but they do not offer any other devs exclusivity deals. They can be on steam and other stores simultaneously. Same goes for EA, they choose to only sell their games on origin but they do not offer bribes to other devs to only be on origin. It's quite a difference from the console world...

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I like this marginally better than Steam, because although I'm unlikely to use a Twitch client, I could use it for purposes of watching streams (well, just the WAN show really). So if I had it for that reason anyway, I could tolerate having games linked to it.

My main problem with Steam is that it's bloatware with no purpose other than DRM.

I like my games as standalone and offline as possible.

[tlink]

38 minutes ago, Humbug said:

good luck to them.

 

one thing though that everybody who starts these game stores needs to understand is that their customers are not just gamers but game developers. One of the reasons steam is successful is they give a good experience to game developers and you have tools to easily manage your backend and provide your content to customers. That's the area guys like gog need to catch up on..

yea, they do have some sort of unified launcher but i never tried it, they should heavily invest in that.

[Doobeedoo]

Great, can't wait to see streamers be salesmen now haha.

[VerticalDiscussions]

 i tried too once.

 

My internet connection...

[Yoinkerman]

I already have too many launchers

[Napper198]

8 minutes ago, Yoinkerman said:

I already have too many launchers

that's what I'm thinking too. 1 is fine, I might consider a second one if it adds enough value but no way I have 4-5 running. I mean steam, Origin, uPlay, GOG Galaxy, now Twitch which we might see a rebranded one from amazon itself too and I bet you Humble Bunlde isn't far from it's own one either.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 minute ago, Napper198 said:

 I mean steam, Origin, uPlay, GOG Galaxy, now Twitch which we might see a rebranded one from amazon itself too and I bet you Humble Bunlde isn't far from it's own one either.

Isn't the whole point of GOG, among other things, no third-party software requirements?

 

Anyway, I agree with you: one launcher is fine. And it's called Windows.

[Napper198]

1 minute ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Isn't the whole point of GOG, among other things, no third-party software requirements?

 

Anyway, I agree with you: one launcher is fine. And it's called Windows.

90% of GOGs catalog will probably never recieve an update again and you also have the option to just directly download from their site as everything on their plattform is DRM free. Their launcer is only intended for the modern titles which still recieve updates and add-ons.

[ADM-Ntek]

why is warframe on that list it is F2P.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

14 minutes ago, ADM-Ntek said:

why is warframe on that list it is F2P.

I think they sell an add-on, not the game itself.

[Belgarathian]

That's pretty cool. Sound business decision.

[Treemasterx]

My major problem with Twitch selling games through it's own client is that, A) we already have too many clients. And B) There is no point to this client. Lets look at each popular client and their "Claim to fame"

 

Valve's Steam: The biggest and most universal client.
CDP's GOG: DRM Free with optional clent
EA's Origin: EA Centric Client with Exclusive way of playing EA games on PC.

Ubisoft's Uplay: mandatory client for playing Ubisoft games, games can be bought through Steam.
Humble Bundle: Storefront for buying both steam keys and DRM free games most of the time bundled together    

Amazon's Twitch Client: You can buy games with giving the streamer a cut. Oh, and you get free emotes and stuff.

 

Unless Amazon has some seriously good exclusives(Which they don't have right now, nor have announced any interesting ones yet).\

I fear that they will "Purchase" some exclusive PC versions of games so no other platform(Steam) gets certain games.

[RagnarokDel]

9 hours ago, EminentSun said:

So would this give you a steam code or would they launch through twitch?

The twitch app (http://app.twitch.tv) I'm in the beta for breakaway and the twitch app has a launcher section.

[Thony]

"twitch desktop app required" fuck that ! Already sick of blizzard and origin. 

 

 

[3vitor]

18 hours ago, EminentSun said:

So would this give you a steam code or would they launch through twitch?

Wow this would be really dumb move by Twitch/Amazon. If they lock the games on their desktop app I would not play it. I have a few games locked on U-play and EA launcher (don't know the name) that I refuse to play at all. I don't have and SSD anymore and I don't want 4+ game launchers running on my machine.