An Update on Twitch in Korea

Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea by jonchurch_ on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:57PM (#38540341)

I think that would decimate their user numbers, which is a bad deal for the streamers too since they make money on sponsorships/ads and based on audience size. Hard to grow an audience when folks have to pay for the service. No idea how much of an average size streamer's income is based on donations on stream compared to brand deals. I wouldn't expect the average user to both pay for a sub to twitch, and also donate to the streamers.

I won't pretend to know what Twitch knows, but watching for free is definitely integral to how Twitch acquires users.

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Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea by acchow on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:49AM (#38540829)

Doesn’t shutting off the service decimate their numbers more?

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Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea by thaumasiotes on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:59AM (#38542137)

That's not obvious. If the pay-to-watch version of Twitch isn't viable, it will have no streamers and no users, but it will cost more than the we-no-longer-exist version.

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Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea by chii on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:15AM (#38541239)

A fixed price tier cannot cover the full cost of that user's variable stream usage.

Twitch is unable to charge per hr streamed - nobody would accept that pricing, esp. if it was originally free.

Removing twitch from korea is the best move, since koreans are the ones losing out - which hopefully as a democracy, they elect someone to change this sort of lobbying from the ISP industry.

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