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Twitch Acquires Curse, Its Sites, Tools For Gamers, and Databases (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via VentureBeat: The Amazon-owned, game-streaming site Twitch has announced today that it has acquired Curse, a company that creates programs like voice clients, databases, and mod managers for PC games for some 30 million users. Twitch did not disclose how much they paid for Curse. VentureBeat reports: "Twitch has more than 100 million users a month, and it has helped to popularize new trends gaming like esports and the rise of influencers and personalities who create fanbases that watch them (and donate money to them) while they play. Curse has over 30 million users a month across its website, social media channels, and desktop applications. The company hosts popular websites for hit PC games like Hearthpwn for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and MMO Champion for World of Warcraft. Outside of its site, Twitch hasn't made many services for gamers. It could use this acquisition to extend a reach into that field."
This is a move at Discord, Raidcall and Teamspeak. Twitch will have its own now in the Curse app. Also Curse just took in all of FTB (Feed The Beast). Making it the largest modded Minecraft launcher hands down.
Just curious if Curse will be left here in Huntsville. Curse's website sends you to Twitch which has no info.
If you use a game that has a lot of mods like World of Warcraft, Curse updates your mods when they release new patches and it's a pretty big hassle. However, if you run backdated mods then you can't necessarily configure Curse not to overwrite your old folders. It would have been pretty easy to write an ignore folder feature but Curse refused to bother when I was using it a long time ago.
Other than that, you pay a premium to have a nice forum avatar from what I can tell.
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