When Amazon announced it had acquired game streaming service Twitch, many expected the takeover to draw gamers' ire. After all, passionate players Twitch users were uproarious when rumors swirled several months ago that YouTube was purchasing the service. #RIPTwitch quickly became a trending hashtag thereafter.

But that angry narrative didn't play out Monday evening.

"I think a lot of the Internet is in a 'glad that Google didn't get them' state of mind right now," Reddit user DoctorWaluigiTime posted to the Twitch subreddit.

Indeed, the popular party line from gamers was that Google was going to ruin Twitch by shoehorning social services like Google+ onto the app, or pushing its ContentID copyrighted content flagging service onto Twitch streams.

@chelseabot google and youtube have already shown themselves to be heavy handed when it comes to content and copyright. — Wendy (@fasterkitty) August 25, 2014

@chelseabot both could be of great benefit, but Google has that tendency to screw up many of its products. Maybe Amazon has a better shot? — Dario Sepulveda (@mithical) August 25, 2014

"If Google had bought Twitch, I think there would have been much more integration, and I think that might have been part of the reason why Twitch's owners sold to Amazon instead," Redditor TheFreeloader posted.

Users were much more interested in the potential of an alliance between Amazon and Twitch, especially after Twitch CEO Emmett Shear confirmed the company would a fully owned subsidiary of Amazon that would retain its branding and leadership.

"OMG, great! Remember, Amazon owns a TON of companies that they let do their own thing: Zappos, IMDB, Goodreads, Alexa, etc. So don't start raging about it," Reddit user Strubius wrote in the Twitch subreddit.

"Amazon definitely came out of left field — but I can't think of anytime they've rocked the boat too hard with an acquisitions," Joseph Alminawi, better known by his Twitch handle Swiftor, told Mashable. "I figure that's why most of the community is relieved. Still, I think it would have been more exciting to see what Google and Twitch could have done together. But as a streamer who makes their living on twitch, I'm definitely looking forward to new revenue opportunities."

Many users brought up the fact that Amazon Web Services are widely used by large companies (like Netflix and Spotify, to name a few) to stream entertainment. Shear said it was too early to know if Twitch would be using AWS, but did tell Mashable he expected his team to learn a lot from "Amazon's talented engineers."

@SPNKr @chelseabot agreed. Also the fact they own one of the most popular cloud computing services will definitely help with Twitch's limits — Dario Sepulveda (@mithical) August 25, 2014

There were a few Twitch users that expressed concerns, especially if Twitch would be harder to access on streaming hardware that wasn't owned by Amazon.

"The problem is that they are really into locking customer into their own platforms. We will probably never see a Chromecast/Roku/Android TV integration... and if their own phones/tables get some traction, they might decide to even drop support for Android/iOS, although that is a far cry, as the Kindle is really popular but they still have a reader on pretty much every platform," Redditor Fernandofj said.

"As an Australian, I was really happy when I heard Google might be buying it. I can hardly load streams at low quality from twitch, but I can stream 720p on YouTube," Reddit user Heenicks_ wrote in the r/Games subreddit. "With Amazon being very American centered, even if they do decide to help international viewers, it probably won't be for a very long time."

The Twitch/Amazon acquisition won't be finalized until later this year, and Shear remained mum about plans for the future. Twitch users will have to wait a few months to see how the acquisition effects services.

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