PC gaming company Raptr on Tuesday announced the latest evolution of its platform. The company has released Plays.tv, a new, Instagram-like service that's described as a "fun, easy way for gamers to capture their most interesting gameplay moments and instantly share them."
Overall, Plays.tv is all about "celebrating the pro in every gamer," the company says. Raptr has even formed a partnership with professional eSports squad Team Dignitas for Plays.tv.
Gameplay recording game to Raptr last year, and so far, players have captured more than four million highlight videos from their play sessions. Plays.tv aims to offer a dedicated venue for players to showcase their favorite highlight reels.
Introduced today in beta, the Plays.tv client--which is free and works with any PC game--allows users to capture, edit, and then share their gameplay clips either to the Plays.tv feed (above) or to social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Similar functionality exists on consoles like the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Raptr promises that the new Plays.tv client won't be too much of a performance hog, noting that it uses "hardware-accelerated video encoding to ensure minimal impact on performance." In addition, Plays.tv can capture a user's webcam to allow for picture-in-picture. The client also supports videos recorded using other programs such as OBS and Nvidia's Shadowplay.
Below is a quick-hit roundup, courtesy of Raptr, of all the Plays.tv functionality.
- Instantly share short highlights from any game (up to the last 20 mins)
- Edit and trim clips from full session replays
- Follow friends, eSports stars, popular streamers and others
- Simultaneously post videos to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social networks
- Relive amazing moments with friends and the community
In addition, Raptr today announced that it has raised a new round of funding to the tune of $14 million, some of which will go towards the continued development of Plays.tv. The money comes from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, and Tenaya Capital. This latest latest round of financing boosts Raptr's total venture capital funding to $41 million since the company got off the ground in 2007.
For more on Raptr's announcements today, check out GameSpot's interview with CEO Dennis Fong.
GameSpot: What does the $14 million in additional funding allow you to do that you couldn't before?
Fong: Well, Plays.tv is just in its infancy and we plan to add a lot of cool features to it to make it the best community for capturing and sharing your gaming highlights. We want Plays.tv to be a place where gamers can memorialize and relive their best moments, which means potentially a whole lot of bandwidth and storage costs as serving video can be rather expensive. That's what we signed up for, though, and we're very excited about it. :)
How did you decide that this "Pro Moment Capture" technology was something you wanted to pursue? Did Raptr users bring it up as a feature they wanted to see?
Raptr users have recorded over four million video clips in the nine months since we added video capture, so that was certainly a huge datapoint for us that our community wanted to record clips of themselves playing. But they also expressed a bit of disappointment in the options we originally provided for sharing that content--Facebook and Twitter aren't really ideal for sharing your gaming life, and YouTube is so broad and sprawling that users' highlight vids seemed to just get lost in the avalanche of content on that site.
With that feedback in mind, it's not so much about the technology of capturing/editing/sharing, but the fact that we wanted a community that was centered around sharing and celebrating those moments that make gaming so awesome. I've always saved screenshots and such as I was playing, but I never felt comfortable sharing them on Facebook or Twitter. Now that we've made saving video clips as easy as taking a screenshot, we wanted to create a home for all those clips We also recognized that not everyone wanted to use Raptr for this, so we created a Plays.tv client that just does video capture, editing, and sharing.
What are the free vs. paid functionality differences? Are there any?
The entire Plays.tv service is entirely free, including the Plays.tv client which does video capture, editing, and sharing.
How did Team Dignitas get involved with this effort; what does their involvement mean for the product?
We approached Team Dignitas to see if they'd be interested in trying out Plays.tv in beta; they've just begun to use the site and client, but so far they're loving it. We believe that Plays.tv should be a community that involves all kinds of PC gamers, including pros like the Team Dignitas players; we expect their highlight vids will really appeal to the everyday gamers who make up the majority of Plays.tv members. Likewise, pros like Team Dignitas now have a less time-consuming, less "resource-intensive" way of reaching existing fans and attracting new fans, so it's a win-win. We're very interested in working with Team Dignitas and other pro teams and players to make Plays.tv as valuable to them as possible!
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