Oh, and turns out New World, Amazon’s one reasonably-sized success in gaming, is shutting down in 2026, and development is ending imminently.

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    The layoffs also hit Twitch which has had a notorious bot problem for years. So now they’re going to use bots to fight bots?

    Honestly the best thing Amazon could do is just shut down twitch completely. It’s become a dumpster fire of its former self. It used to be about people playing games and now it’s about which streamer is sexually assaulting which other streamer and dudes putting shock collars on dogs.

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      i still dont get why people are so upset about shock collars on dogs. fuck hasan cuz he supports terrorists, but the shock collar thing aint somthing id hate him for

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      Yep, frankly I am amazed Twitch still exists at this point, given how server demanding it is, and how it is s constsnt clusterfuck of incompetent messaging that regularly produces quite bad PR.

      I very much would not be surprised if they went to some kind of ‘yeah you have to pay a monthly subscription to watch more than 5ish hours of streams in a month, and you also watch ads’ kind of model.