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Topic	Should GameFAQs expand to include video guides?
adjl 02/02/23 5:00:23 PM #7:	pionear posted... Why when people already go to YouTube/Twitch etc. Plus I don't think they have the Bandwidth to handle that. Pretty much. Other sites are so well-established that it's virtually impossible to carve out a meaningful niche, and the technical infrastructure just isn't there to host videos. At best, GameFAQs could act like a catalogue of video guides and link to Youtube and the like (there is value in collecting and curating a bunch of different guides for a given game in one place and having a rating system to help people pick which one to watch), but I don't see them ever being able to succeed as an actual video host. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:971283669] in Should Gam... [t:80333503]...</cite> <quote>pionear posted... </cite><quote>Why when people already go to YouTube/Twitch etc.Plus I don't think they have the Bandwidth to handle that.</quote>Pretty much. Other sites are so well-established that it's virtually impossible to carve out a meaningful niche, and the technical infrastructure just isn't there to host videos. At best, GameFAQs could act like a catalogue of video guides and link to Youtube and the like (there is value in collecting and curating a bunch of different guides for a given game in one place and having a rating system to help people pick which one to watch), but I don't see them ever being able to succeed as an actual video host. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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