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A comment on Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21.

Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 by smhinsey on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:30PM (#2907119)
He just stopped the stream due to the cost. I'd be very curious to know what the actual numbers were.
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Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 by baseonmars on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:34PM (#2907139)
Going by their pricing page and the 17000 viewer hours he mentioned before cutting out, I'd guess a couple of thousand dollars, ouch! http://www.livestream.com/platform/premium_features_and_pric...

edit: it's more like $8000-15,000 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907135)

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Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 by metel on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:34PM (#2907138)
http://www.livestream.com/platform/premium_features_and_pric...

There are various plans, but 17000 viewer hours at 3hours per dollar ish? Not cheap.

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Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 by wmeddie on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:34PM (#2907140)
He said he was at 17,000 viewer hours. I'm not sure what plan he's using but if it was the professional one that'd be

17,000 * $0.27 = $4590!

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Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 by JoeH on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:31PM (#2907124)
He stopped and restarted at a lower quality
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Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21 by smhinsey on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:33PM (#2907136)
Ah, that makes sense. Too bad that I could really only see what was going on in HD mode.
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