lfg

Stream to site, viewers watch on site, viewers are served ads and site gets 50% of donations/subs

that seems like a transactional relationship

You'll always have quality switcher no matter the view count, you get emotes and priotrity in support, a partner manager, twitch bounties, etc

>stream quality switcher is a perk

really?

Yes and no

twitch needs to strongarm people to stay

if you reach a certain view count

you automatically get it

Tiwtch spending 50 cents on a CDN to downencode a stream

or you're a partner

you'll notice like

if i stream

you'll only see the quality i stream at

I get that, my point is that the cost is negligible

you also get huge vod storage

even using their weird hybrid HLN-DASH encoder they use now

like insane

they store all your vods

all?

I thought it still was 30 days

Yes as long as you mark it

Nope, partners get infinite

I thought it was 90 days for partners

unless they increased it

you can highlight it

and it'll stay forever, for normal users there's a limit to how much

partners get infinite

You also get the ability to VIP people

So explain to me the tiers Nothing --- affiliate --- partner

I think you get ad free twitch too

those three?

Yes

can affiliates serve ads?

ad free twitch is free to begin with

Dunno really

only retards do not run some form of adblock

The reason I think the rule is TREMENDOUSLY dumb is it's anticompetitive

multistreaming should be enocuraged

especially by big channels

they want people to use twitch

which is a good idea

Twitch MAKES money on each of these channels

localize it to a singular site

from a consumer point of view

there is nothing to gain for us from that

^

for them, sure

yeah fuck that

If anything we loose out

make chat all a singular place

let our chat perks be more deserved and important

twitch is good anyways

it's not like twitch is shit

I thought you supported capatilism

let twitch have its monopoly

this is anti that

no

monopolies are capatilism

they are the bad kind of capatilism

the good kind

if a better service existed twitch should have to improve their service to compete

I'd find it hard to improve on twitch in any way

other than its iffy rules

twitch is very good

yeah there you go, better service exists, then twitch could make their rules more appealing

yeah but

there's nothing for it to change

it's pretty much as good as possible

if someone had the infrastructure to set up something exactly as good as twitch, but none of the fucky rules

they should dominate

yeah but

they would lack; the userbase, the community, bttv and the likes, and the people

hard for you to have that

hard for you to have that when twitch forces users to stay with them or risk losing their income

well yeah

1) I think the """value""" that Twitch places upon itself; beside being a big platform, is minimal at best I don't think they really provide partners that much more value over any random streamer to 5 viewers 2) I think the concept, that Twitch will restrict entering into a business relation with somebody, because they enter into business relations with other companies is bad and a failure of capitalism 3) I like monopolies a lot, I like Twitch a lot, I'd rather they became a monopoly off of the service they provided and not by bullying streamers 4) I think it's gay VODs aren't saved by default, forever (requiring highlights is dumb) 5) I think Twitch culture is pretty cancer at this point, I get that you're way more into the site than I am, but I don't like that they've become so corporate as a company.

there's no other place where they can make as much

I also don't

want to check 10 sites