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Why Twitch Needs A Competitor
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Re: Why Twitch Needs A Competitor
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
At about that same time, members of Counter Logic Gaming were claiming to make 5-6k a month each streaming, and that they actually lost money going to tournaments and winning them, if they had just put in a normal amount of time streaming over those weekends.
Although winning tournaments might make their stream more popular?
Hard to know without (1) longitudinal data and (2) surveying samples of their viewers. Your idea is highly plausible, IMO, but only that.
Re: Why Twitch Needs A Competitor
#43This is THE thing that governments should solve. It should be illegal for companies to refuse service to anyone or offer them worse terms that someone they never did business with. Even more generally, it should be illegal to ban users from any service, and censor public speech in any way, even on private forums.
I'm fairly anti-business as a rule, but this goes a bit too far for me. There does exist a right to refuse service and it is a legitimate, if very gray-area, right. There do exist multiple fora for political speech, though I'm not sure if that's what you meant by "public speech".
What you're asking for is, in my mind, a pretty clear violation of the right to assembly which includes the right to not associate.
Re: Why Twitch Needs A Competitor
#44Now if only I could live stream myself watching movies... Or coding... :)
Notch does pretty well at attracting viewers when he codes live.
Re: Why Twitch Needs A Competitor
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, this is rough for us. We want perfect global service and don't have it. There are issues in many locales, mostly because of last-mile delivery. We're doubling EU capacity now, because every time we add capacity we grow until it's all used up. Which is no compensation to you, I realize, but that's what's going on. (I'm the CEO of Twitch)
This is off topic, but do you think a competitor for Twitch TV would be good for the industry as a whole and grow the market in terms of professional video gamers and tournaments beyond what Twitch could do alone?
No business really wants a competitor. And I think we're working pretty hard to grow the industry regardless.
However, I recognize long term what's good for the world in general is competition, so all I have to say is: bring it on :-)
Re: Why Twitch Needs A Competitor
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
At about that same time, members of Counter Logic Gaming were claiming to make 5-6k a month each streaming, and that they actually lost money going to tournaments and winning them, if they had just put in a normal amount of time streaming over those weekends.
Although winning tournaments might make their stream more popular?
In the short term, no- however, it does keep them relevant as time goes on. most of the reason they said they did it, was because they just couldn't be that interested in the game if not playing at that level.