Bring back the Roku channel!
The Twitch app was removed from the Roku Channel Store and will no longer receive updates is the word from Roku. I'm not buying a Fire TV to watch it, Amazon. I tried your Fire TV and Roku just works better; plus Roku makes it easier to find my channels which are buried under all your Amazon garbage on Fire TV. Limiting the ways people can watch content from entities you own seems like shooting yourself in the foot.
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bean_bun
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I would watch Twitch.tv so much more if there is a Roku app. My alternative is to watch it on my 12 inch work laptop. Instead I watch Netflix or Hulu on my Roku smart TV because Twitch isn't available.
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robin_hutton
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I feel like this is a lost opportunity for Amazon/Twitch to increase streaming Twitch among Roku users. If Roku is such a big competitor of the Firestick why are we able to stream Amazon Prime? Why are we able to buy Roku devices on Amazon with a Amazon Prime membership?
Keeping products from competing streaming devices like Roku may seem like a good idea until you realize that in doing so you frustrate an entire chunk of your clientele that uses said device.
Prime Video has over 800k ratings on the Roku. That’s only the people that decided to leave a rating. The group of people that crossover between Roku and Amazon make up a sizable demographic.
Of this demographic 17,465 Roku users rated the Twitch app when it was still offered (Nov. 2, 2017). I’m willing to bet the number of people using twitch and Roku has increased since then.
I know that Amazon is a big company, but do they really want to inconvenience over 17,000 people in hopes that some of them drop everything and buy a fire stick?
I know I’m not buying a fire stick for a reason like that. Why should the little guys pay for a new hunk of plastic to stream with when they already have one that works perfectly fine? Amazon is a 300 billion dollar corporation (Twitch is 5 billion) that has the capability of streaming its app on multiple platforms. It was already on Roku and they took it off.
I speculate that they can get away with removing Twitch because it’s not as big of a platform as Prime, but it’s growing.
In March of 2020, the term “does roku have twitch” reached its absolute search volume on Google dating back 5 years. Imagine how many more eyeballs would have been watching Twitch on a Roku device at the start of the pandemic.
Just in April of this year (2021), google searches hit 71% of the peak search volume of this specific phrase. This doesn’t take into account repeat searches or different phrases that were searched of a similar nature.
The fact of the matter is that Roku users continue to want to stream Twitch on their Roku device. I love Twitch and I use it regularly throughout my week, but I know that I would use it even more if it was accessible to my Roku.
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MadeTraveler
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Amazon is really taking the wrong choice here. I won't by a fire stick. Bring back the roku app. There's the Amazon Prime Video channel in roku!! I really see no reason.
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zer0studioz
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I agree. Twitch was pulled from Roku once it was acquired by Amazon, and the logic is that Roku is a competitor. That makes no sense. If that were true, why is Amazon Prime still available? This needs to be discussed within both Amazon and Twitch
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adwissler
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Add a Roku app.
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adwissler
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Add a Roku app.
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adwissler
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Add a Roku app.
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adwissler
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Add a Roku app.
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adwissler
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Add a Roku app.
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ByucknahTheRed
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I 100% support this idea and hope that we get an official Twitch.tv app on Roku. It seems really odd that Twitch has not hopped on this considering all its competitors have, such as Youtube.
I would LOVE to be able to watch my favorite streamers on my TV through my Roku. I don't want to have to set up one of my gaming consoles to go to the web browser to watch Twitch on my TV.
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Userbosco
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It makes no sense. Roku supports Amazon Prime Video, but Amazon won't let them put a Twitch channel back in because of ??? I've stopped watching Twitch almost completely because of this bone-headed decision. Something tells me I'm not the only one!
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Anonymous
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I swear I have heard a hundred reasons that there is no App to watch Twitch streams with the Roku player, I have a Roku Ultra and really wish there would someday, if possible, be an App that I can use with it.
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mood2
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The Twitched app was just yanked from the Roku store. I don't know if it was forcefully removed or not, but there are no remaining alternatives or methods for watching Twitch on Roku devices.
I have a Roku-enabled TV and so the Roku platform is the only option for me.
I looked into coding my own app on Roku, but there is no web browser for apps to use, which means that I cannot make use of the only officially supported way of watching Twitch on other platforms - embedded browser.
Please, Twitch, do something to allow your Roku viewers to be able to watch Twitch once again.
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mood2
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The Twitched app was just yanked from the Roku store. I don't know if it was forcefully removed or not, but there are no remaining alternatives or methods for watching Twitch on Roku devices.
I have a Roku-enabled TV and so the Roku platform is the only option for me.
I looked into coding my own app on Roku, but there is no web browser for apps to use, which means that I cannot make use of the only officially supported way of watching Twitch on other platforms - embedded browser.
Please, Twitch, do something to allow your Roku viewers to be able to watch Twitch once again.
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Taylor
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The current 3rd party app Twitched on the Roku system sucks. Horrible stream quality. Horrible menu selection. Horrible everything. please bring Twitch channel back to Roku.