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Real Talk... Why do Gamers Pay other Gamers to Play Games (Streaming Discussion)
- Thread starter GoldenGlove
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It's so fukking fake too. They act so shocked, but in reality, they probably can't believe some lame out there really just forked over that much bread for them essentially sitting on their ass doing jack shyt. I guess you have to be fake as shyt when people are literally just giving you money and act all touched and shyt.
Right when they cut the cameras off, they probably hitting up their friends like, "some loser just donated a few hundred dollars"
EDIT: Just watched the rest of that video... ol girl couldn't even muster up some fake tears for that reaction.
AFAIK they're separate though. subs are free, and people have the option to donate
The sub buttons I've seen say, "4.99"... I think some are free, but the channels I've run across for the guys with big followings all have a 4 or 5 dollar sub fee.
thing is it's kind of a community, kinda like The Coli. yeah there's only one person playing the game, but everyone else is in the chat buggin out. and there's 'regulars', 'trolls', etc in the chat. people like that 'community' and donate to keep it going
I like it to check out games I don't have or watch the better players to apply skills to my gameplay...but...
I'd never pay them though. I seen some dude cake like 28 grand in 45 minutes streaming PC games.
I'd never pay them though. I seen some dude cake like 28 grand in 45 minutes streaming PC games.
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The sub buttons I've seen say, "4.99"... I think some are free, but the channels I've run across for the guys with big followings all have a 4 or 5 dollar sub fee.
You can follow any channel for free(updates you when they go live).
Twitch subscriptions start at 4.99 and go up to 9.99 (tournament channels). Majority of them are 4.99 though. The common theme now a days is "sub mode only chat" so only subscribers to the chat can chat and people non subscribed can only view. Another thing is partners with twitch can make it so full HD is only view-able to subscribers.
Twitch partners get $2.5 out of the $4.99. Someone like Lirik with 10,000 subscribers, gets $25,000 a month from Twitch at the minimum. I have heard that some of the more popular streamers (like the top 20 streamers or so) get even more cut from the $4.99.
This doesn't count donations. A lot of people donate because it gets a message across on the stream and to the streamer ($3.00 minimum donation to be read on stream to popular streamers and shows up across their stream). Since chat is moving so fast with 10,000+ people chatting at once, this is the best way to directly contact the streamer so they can read what you are trying to say.
Other donations are usually from people with too much money on their hands and since they watch hours and hours of the streamer a day they are just supporting them, since a lot of top streamers treat streaming like a job (a very well paying job) and stream 8-10 hours a day 5-6 days a week and have a set reliable schedule.
I personally have never donated or subscribed to anyone and ive used Twitch since it was created (literally). But while ive only streamed a little bit, people donated money to me various reasons that even I found odd
one person donated $25 to me because I was one of the few channels that played rap 
no bull shyt, that was his message "me and my wife like the music on your stream, finally a channel that plays hip hop" or some shyt and one donation was $10 followed by a $15 donation after.its just some people way of saying thank you and or supporting the streamer
The real money is still in youtube and youtube has now added a donation button as well.
this is true as well. People treat it like a forum. I dont see anyone here talking shyt about people with "supporter" tags under their name. Its the 100% same concept as donating to a streamer.
Actually kind of ironic someone thats donated to this site, is asking why its strange people would donate to a streamer
@GoldenGlove you my patna, but its the same concept
I'm in the wrong business.
nothing stopping you from doing it
its really not as easy people think it is. For every streamer out there making a living off it, theres 10,000 streamers who make nothing from it. Its literally no different than the rap game.. Market is saturated.
I can see this point, but then I kind of don't see this point
Mainly because when you say "keep it going" I think you're saying continue to pay the streamers bills for them. They aren't using their own streaming site, so regardless of them getting donations, twitch will work for whoever wants to go there and watch footage.
Same concept but it's not the same thing IMO.this is true as well. People treat it like a forum. I dont see anyone here talking shyt about people with "supporter" tags under their name. Its the 100% same concept as donating to a streamer.
Actually kind of ironic someone thats donated to this site, is asking why its strange people would donate to a streamer
@GoldenGlove you my patna, but its the same concept
I noticed how streamers title their streams and when they choose to stream certain games can really affect the success of their channel.
For instance this one guy waited til PAX to stream Binding of Isaac. All the known Isaac streamers were at PAX, all their subs were looking for an Isaac stream to watch.
Bada bing, this guy titles his stream similar to another popular streamer and what happens? he starts getting dozens of subs and has like 1,000 people watching him.
Supply and demand, might have to formulate my own plan
For instance this one guy waited til PAX to stream Binding of Isaac. All the known Isaac streamers were at PAX, all their subs were looking for an Isaac stream to watch.
Bada bing, this guy titles his stream similar to another popular streamer and what happens? he starts getting dozens of subs and has like 1,000 people watching him.
Supply and demand, might have to formulate my own plan
