truktrukconductorTwitchTVJohnOur standard requirements are 300 + concurrent viewers
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AFAIK you get access to a custom icon next to your name on the specific stream along with access to custom emotes associated with that stream that you can post anywhere. Which is way better than donating directly because it gives the streamer incentive to stream as much as possible rather than just take your money and potentially completely stop streaming as soon as they reach their "goal".
Either way I think subscriptions are pretty neat I guess. I've ranted on stream as to why I don't like the idea of asking for money a few times, but at least with subscriptions both parties get something out of it.
I really dislike how often this community tries to leech money, but I'm going to treat that as an entirely different topic since just having a donate button is differently from actively asking people to give you money. The main incentive as far as I'm concerned is still supposed to be supporting your favorite streamers, and I'm just saying that the subscriptions don't have much added benefit with just the baseline features considering that they chop the money received in half (no beef with twitch themselves for this obviously since the sub features can be really cool on larger channels)
You do get an icon if you're a channel sub and you get side wide smileys, but that's hardly an incentive for anyone unless you either live in their chat or the channel has really good smileys (people are surprisingly uncreative with these, the only channel I only ever considered subbing for an emote was levelup just to spam hype and divekick). Subscribers would probably be feasible for a handful of tf2 streams, but if it actually happens I'd like to see people really try to take advantage of it and not just treat it as an alternative to the donation feature they had before is what I'm trying to say I guess.
[quote=truktruk][quote=conductor][quote=TwitchTVJohn]Our standard requirements are 300 + concurrent viewers[/quote]
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AFAIK you get access to a custom icon next to your name on the specific stream along with access to custom emotes associated with that stream that you can post anywhere. Which is way better than donating directly because it gives the streamer incentive to stream as much as possible rather than just take your money and potentially completely stop streaming as soon as they reach their "goal".
Either way I think subscriptions are pretty neat I guess. I've ranted on stream as to why I don't like the idea of asking for money a few times, but at least with subscriptions both parties get something out of it.[/quote]
I really dislike how often this community tries to leech money, but I'm going to treat that as an entirely different topic since just having a donate button is differently from actively asking people to give you money. The main incentive as far as I'm concerned is still supposed to be supporting your favorite streamers, and I'm just saying that the subscriptions don't have much added benefit with just the baseline features considering that they chop the money received in half (no beef with twitch themselves for this obviously since the sub features can be really cool on larger channels)
You do get an icon if you're a channel sub and you get side wide smileys, but that's hardly an incentive for anyone unless you either live in their chat or the channel has really good smileys (people are surprisingly uncreative with these, the only channel I only ever considered subbing for an emote was levelup just to spam hype and divekick). Subscribers would probably be feasible for a handful of tf2 streams, but if it actually happens I'd like to see people really try to take advantage of it and not just treat it as an alternative to the donation feature they had before is what I'm trying to say I guess.
I agree with you, Conductor. 50% is a pretty big chunk. But considering that most people streaming TF2 aren't doing this for money, it's probably not a big deal.
Honestly it just seems like a way to show support for the streamer, which is really cool. And if it continues the trend of the other subs, it would be cool to have site-wide Twitch faces.
Also based Ruwin he streams for 3 days, gets a billion concurrent viewers, and allows John to go to his boss and be like yo check this shit out TF2 is goin HUGE get him, that b4nny guy, and kurt a sub button eh?
I agree with you, Conductor. 50% is a pretty big chunk. But considering that most people streaming TF2 aren't doing this for money, it's probably not a big deal.
Honestly it just seems like a way to show support for the streamer, which is really cool. And if it continues the trend of the other subs, it would be cool to have site-wide Twitch faces.
Also based Ruwin he streams for 3 days, gets a billion concurrent viewers, and allows John to go to his boss and be like yo check this shit out TF2 is goin HUGE get him, that b4nny guy, and kurt a sub button eh?
Does b4nny plan to start streaming again?
Does b4nny plan to start streaming again?
Ggglygywould be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!!
Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O
[quote=Ggglygy]would be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!![/quote] Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O
KanecoGgglygywould be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!!
Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O
If twitch is taking 50% it's $1600
[quote=Kaneco][quote=Ggglygy]would be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!![/quote] Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O[/quote]
If twitch is taking 50% it's $1600
KanecoGgglygywould be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!!
Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O
ggglygy's figures would be $38,300 a year so half of that is $19,150 which seems right
[quote=Kaneco][quote=Ggglygy]would be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!![/quote] Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O[/quote]
ggglygy's figures would be $38,300 a year so half of that is $19,150 which seems right
cheeseburgersKanecoGgglygywould be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!!
Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O
ggglygy's figures would be $38,300 a year so half of that is $19,150 which seems right
still freaking huge compared to over here
[quote=cheeseburgers][quote=Kaneco][quote=Ggglygy]would be cool if it was a variable subscription amount.
Fun Non-Researched Fact : At $4.99 / mo, you only need about 640 people to subscribe to make the equivalent of minimum wage! Dark days are over for us Dad!!![/quote] Is the minimum wage in america 3200$ ? o.O[/quote]
ggglygy's figures would be $38,300 a year so half of that is $19,150 which seems right[/quote]
still freaking huge compared to over here
This might be the wrong idea, but why doesn't twitch add a tip jar?
This might be the wrong idea, but why doesn't twitch add a tip jar?
I want to subscribe to memphis "memphis von" von.
I want to subscribe to memphis "memphis von" von.
http://www.twitch.tv/memphisvon/b/421434248
Look how terrible this is! I didn't drop any frames and its this laggy even when I just preview so it has nothing to do with upload. I've added John. Now we wait.
http://www.twitch.tv/memphisvon/b/421434248
Look how terrible this is! I didn't drop any frames and its this laggy even when I just preview so it has nothing to do with upload. I've added John. Now we wait.
Ggglygy
Fun Non-Researched Fact
also memphis maybe your upload is too high??? i'm an expert on stream quality so, i know what i'm talking about.
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also memphis maybe your upload is too high??? i'm an expert on stream quality so, i know what i'm talking about.
I'd sub people with the best custom icons. Go for it john!
I'd sub people with the best custom icons. Go for it john!