The Cursed Episode | When Epic Sued Apple | Table of Content S2 E5

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS S2 E5 8/16/2020

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Zazz - Welcome to Table of Content. The round table show where we discuss all the happenings around streaming, gaming and entertainment. I am joined as always by Eminent _Stump. How are you? 

Stump - This week on Streamer Spotlight we sat down with friend of the channel and Variety Streamer Hermes. Let's take a look.

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Stump - Great getting to know Hermes and we are looking forward to having him on the live show. If YOU would like to be a part of the spotlight or the round table join our discord or send an email to [email protected]. We also would like to hear any feedback and hate mail you have for us.

Zazz - We are joined tonight by returning guests OfficiallyRogue and 1Jacqie1 and for the first time ever the tableoc.com contributor and variety streamer the lovely DaintiestLeader

Streaming News

Shroud reveals insane Twitch stats after first stream back 
finally made his long-awaited return to streaming on August 12, and his comeback to his old stomping ground on Twitch was a sight to behold. Now, the streamer has shared just how remarkable his return stream was in statistics.
Although his move to Mixer in 2019 was a lucrative one, it didn't bode well for his average viewership. In fact, the move was so detrimental to his viewer count that he was only getting around 1/3 of his viewership from Twitch.
.By the time he did appear on camera (new beard in tow), he was creeping towards half a million concurrent viewers. Although it's not quite the record (this is still held by Ninja with over 600,000), it wasn't far off. Shroud flexed his stream stats on Twitter after the broadcast:

Rogue: What do you make of his numbers vs what we saw from Ninjas return? 

Amazon Renamed Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming, but Whatever, Call It What You Want 
 Twitch, the company is officially rebranding the Twitch Prime subscription service to Prime Gaming.

Despite the name change name, Prime Gaming is mostly staying the same. You’ll continue to get perks like free in-game loot and cosmetics
Prime Gaming access is available to anyone subscribed to Amazon Prime,but I have to wonder if the change in name could be a move towards making Twitch Prime a separate subscription.

Jacqie what are your thoughts?

Gaming News

Fortnite removed from App Store over Apple policy violations
Epic Games has announced that it is suing Apple over its decision to remove Fortnite from the App Store. This comes after the devs added a direct payment option for V-Bucks, which violated the tech giant's policies.
Early on August 13, Epic surprised players by providing them with a direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android devices. Experts in the games industry speculated that the move could be in violation of Apple's polices.
Epic Games has since filed another lawsuit, this time against Google following Fortnite's removal from the Google Play app store as well.
At roughly 4PM PT, Google opted to remove Fortnite from the Google Play App store. Just hours later, Epic filed a secondary lawsuit following the original case against Apple earlier in the day. The original story is as follows.

Daintiest do you believe Epic has a shot at winning this battle?

https://www.tableoc.com/2020/08/13/dead-by-daylight-cross-play-is-now-live/  

Dead by Daylight has now introduced cross-play, letting you survive the horror game with friends across PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. This follows Behavior linking up the Steam and Windows 10 communities with cross-play.
According to the announcement, this also came alongside cross-friends functionality, letting you keep one unified friends list. The studio had previously mentioned cross-progression on Stadia in September. Cross-play or progression doesn’t appear to be in the cards for the mobile version.
I will add Matchmaking has been removed and the old system is back. Queue times are down. We are stepping into a golden age of DBD. There is also a new DLC set to drop very soon.

Rogue will you be giving DBD another shot now that the failed matchmaking system is gone?

Entertainment News

SpongeBob pal Patrick Star is getting his own spinoff show
Patrick Star famously lives under a rock, but he's about to crawl out and grab some attention. The dimwitted best buddy of SpongeBob SquarePants is getting his own spinoff, The Patrick Star Show, which is still in early stages of development at Nickelodeon..
The new show will explore more about Patrick and his family, and the perennially unemployed Patrick might even find a job. According to Deadline, the new show will feature Patrick hosting a late-night talk show. There's no date yet for the show's premiere.

Daintiest on a scale of 1 to 10 what is your hype level for this show?

https://www.tableoc.com/2020/08/10/tron-3-with-jared-leto-finds-director/  
Tron 3 is currently in development at Disney, it hasn’t yet been given an official greenlight by the studio, so there’s no guarantee the new movie will actually see the light of day. Still, ten years after the release of Tron: Legacy, a followup is looking more and more likely.
Word of a Leto-driven Tron movie first surfaced in 2017, with The Hollywood Reporter indicating the film would be a franchise reboot rather than a direct sequel to Legacy. Leto is reportedly playing a new character named Ares, one who is said to have been a key part of the abandoned Tron 3 script. That could imply the reboot is still part of the same universe as the previous two films, but it’s unclear if characters like Garrett Hedlund’s Sam Flynn or Olivia Wilde’s Quorra will return.
Unfortunately, Tron himself likely won’t be appearing, as Bruce Boxleitner confirmed he’s “done” with the franchise. That said, Boxleitner did reunite with his original Tron costume earlier in 2020 for Disney+ series Prop Culture.

Jacqie - Are you a fan of Tron and what do you think this will do for the recent rise in popularity of synthwave/vaporwave music and style?

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