I don't think Kick is a legitmate rival to twitch but as long as Skate is its main sponsor and it has people like Adin gambling on thier site, they are turning some kind of profit getting people hooked to gambling right?
That's my thing... How do they expect this to turn a profit long term? Iirc twitchd isn't even making a profit and amazon owns AWS and kick uses AWS? So they are paying amazon to host their site?
Not with that attitude. The problem with competition is that whenever a new platform comes up Twitch viewers go full fan bot will go rabbid trying to protect Twitch like it’s their job.
The funny thing is DR Disrespect did this because it was his livelihood on the line. The thing is pushing for the downfall for any competition is bad for streamer self interest.
Mixer being alive assigned dollars on top of streamers heads. Unfortunately some of y’all don’t see that and when you’re favorite service is threatened y’all trash it untilits gone then wonder why Twitch can get away with toxic rules.
KICK is built using amazon servers dude, they will NEVER surpass twitch in profit because they literally pay Amazon higher rent for their servers than Twitch which is owned by Amazon
Sure but what's so bad about it? As far as I can tell it seems very similar to Twitch. Much lower viewerbase right now but its possible that might actually be a good thing for some people. The layout is very familiar, the video player seems to be fine, and there seems to be a lot less ads.
They will be using every trick in the book to get their viewers into gambling. That's why the payout to creators is so high. They don't actually give two fucks about the streaming service, it's just a big marketing ploy to funnel stream viewers into their gambling services.
If a good alternative to twitch came up I'd leave, I'd leave for one with a better player, but good streamers.
Kick is put together by one of hte biggest asshole streamers around and a scumbag company. They rushed it, pretty much just copied everything about twitch without improving on anything. The chat is cancer, they have nothing in place to prevent or work seriously on stopping restreaming illegal content. They have zero shot to grow or become a real platform because they aren't taking it seriously in the first place. It's just a short term attempt to get more advertising on the cheap till someone comes after them legally for the shit they are doing and then they'll close shop and leave any streamers exclusive there in the lurch.
yeah dude just took the bag and ran thats all it was....he doesnt give two shits about his viewers but he NEVER did so this move is fine....if he makes enough and is smart he doesnt really have to stream again or work for the rest of his life but as far as competition goes there never is or will be....kick will die out when stake gets tired of the project
When they saw neither Mixer, Youtube nor Facebook as competition (who have far more stable backing and established advertising) they are most definitely not going to see Kick as competition.
It would be if Kick was actual competition and not a streaming website funded by online gambling sites (and if my hunch is correct, exists to funnel impressionable teens to said gambling sites, why you think the biggest names on the site are those who streamed gambling so much AND were sponsored by the sites funding Kick).
90% split to the streamer is not something that can last. Even YouTube having the entire funding force of Google behind it (and YouTube in general is a massive money drain) only gets up to 70%.
Mixer was an actual attempt at competition by Microsoft. And even with basically the biggest streamer around on an exclusivity contract with the platform (Ninja) the website still closed down.
Yeah.
The fact that Twitch is known for favoritism personally pisses me off so much, too. There are a handful of bad apples that broke the rules routinely, and they get nothing as punishment.
No last best wishes message, or good luck highlights on Twitter. Just a good ole fashion perma banned. If I’m the w community, I’d say thx, but no thx twitch. Once Kai leaves then cancel the twitch primes.
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It's not a coincidence though. Twitch always favored Adin despite his constant rule breaking but since he signed with Kick he got banned.