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Changes to Twitch Prime, No more no ads
- Thread starter Gowans
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Good luck with that!
Mobile browsing twitch is a woeful experience
For desktop viewing I'm good for reasons...
For mobile and console Twitch viewing? I will be spending a lot less time due to ads. I mean, Amazon Prime is $120 a year. Let me choose no ads instead of a surplus of indie games I'm never gonna play. This is getting ridiculous.
For mobile and console Twitch viewing? I will be spending a lot less time due to ads. I mean, Amazon Prime is $120 a year. Let me choose no ads instead of a surplus of indie games I'm never gonna play. This is getting ridiculous.
That's awful. I use mobile and on the PS4 a lot so no uBlock Origin in these cases....
I hope people just start thinking of moving to mixer.
I hope people just start thinking of moving to mixer.
Good ole twitch having huge changes without actually telling it's streamers, not to mention a change that is one of the main motivators for getting prime.
I don't use Amazon Prime for anything else, so hey I get some savings I guess.
edit: Fuck, looks like my annual subscription just passed and the bastards don't let you cancel without losing your benefits.
I don't use Amazon Prime for anything else, so hey I get some savings I guess.
edit: Fuck, looks like my annual subscription just passed and the bastards don't let you cancel without losing your benefits.
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Until I saw it mentioned here I completely forgot about all the free games they offer that I really don't care about.
Glad I already pre-ordered all I wanted for the rest of the year, so I will just use my remaining GCU time for all games next year I guess. But since that will eventually expire...full digital might make more sense at this point with the rewards points that Nintendo/Microsoft give back.
Gotta pay somehow for those free Twitch hoodies and socks they accidentally gave away last month...
https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1014190183539884032?lang=en
https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1014190183539884032?lang=en
No. Only streamers who became partnered before a certain time period (long long ago) can disable ads for their subscribers. Horrible way they have it set up since it makes some streamers second class citizens, and people will naturally not subscribe to streamers who have to show ads.
At least that's how it used to be setup.
Twitch Turbo is $8.99 a month to cease ads on Twitch and get some features I don't care about.
What Twitch Turbo should really have is its own member-only chat in massive-view streams so I don't have to deal with terrible, spammy, racist plebeian Twitch chat (like the Overwatch All Access perk). Even with that, $9/month is asking a lot. That's money that could be spent on Hulu or something else with objectively more streaming value.
What Twitch Turbo should really have is its own member-only chat in massive-view streams so I don't have to deal with terrible, spammy, racist plebeian Twitch chat (like the Overwatch All Access perk). Even with that, $9/month is asking a lot. That's money that could be spent on Hulu or something else with objectively more streaming value.
Those large streams are typically run by companies that don't want subs. Riot, Blizzard, etc. want you to spend money on their games, not buy a subscription to their streams (which they would have to share). Linking chat moderation to subscriptions in the first place was a blatant cash grab that is a large part of why twitch chat is the cesspool it is today.
On topic, people will just go back to ad blocking, and they know it. They are just taking money out of the pocket of the streamers.
I had thought Twitch Turbo were separate from individual channel subs in this case since that service is site-wide.
Cool. Yet another service I don't feel bad about dumping. I don't use Twitch nearly often enough to get mad about this, but I'm less likely than ever to bother with using it from here on out. Thanks for saving me the trouble, Twitch.
Amusingly, Valkyria doesn't offer a discount on any platform. The discounts in general have been inconsistent over the last few months (MegaMan X Collection never offered a discount for PS4, while it did for Switch and XB), which was probably leading up to this.
just re-upped so I'm good till next year. Then back on ublock they go.
Also: is no one going to call them out on the lie of this being for the streamers? Before they said that even if someone with Prime watches a stream, the streamer still gets credit for the ad that person didn't see. Now they say they have to go to this model because streamers weren't making money. Which is it? Were they lying then or are they lying now?
Also: is no one going to call them out on the lie of this being for the streamers? Before they said that even if someone with Prime watches a stream, the streamer still gets credit for the ad that person didn't see. Now they say they have to go to this model because streamers weren't making money. Which is it? Were they lying then or are they lying now?
I dunno, I'm kinda okay with it... Thought the other day it was weird how my Twitch Prime sub benefits only one streamer, but other people I frequent don't get any benefits from me taking Twitch Prime. I don't watch too many people, and those that I do watch have been extremely reasonable with ads, I'll happily watch them if it directly benefits them. But I hope they got rid of those stupid long ads, some had a duration of up to 30 minutes (though I can skip them, but who benefits that?)
So I guess any streamer I follow that runs adds gets unfollowed. Sucks but dems da breaks for working with a shit company.
Until now, streamers would get paid for any ads that they rolled with a prime subscriber watching, even though the subscriber wouldn't see it. Now they don't. Amazon has taken away a key benefit of your subscription and given nothing in return. Streamers will make less money, because a significant number of their ads will be blocked, and they no longer have any protection from that.
This is bad for everyone except Amazon, and honestly I think it may end up being a very bad decision on their part as well over the long term.
Also there will be less Prime people overall, and the prime subscriptions were a huge boon to streamers due to the free subscription a month. They're going to get hit hard once people's subscriptions start falling off.
Well good thing my Prime renewed last month so I won't get any ads for a year but after that I think I'm done with Prime. I don't use it enough to be worth it anymore, especially when they keep killing features off.
Edit: Yeah I agree I'd rather get no games than no ads, I'm not even using the games they give out anyway.
Edit: Yeah I agree I'd rather get no games than no ads, I'm not even using the games they give out anyway.
It was I believe. It looks like they are bringing it out for another revenue stream because Bezos is hurting for cash.
No more ad free you say? You're wrong. Because I have U-Block Origin and you're off the whitelist.
Terrible move - seems like Prime is getting gradually worse and worse at the moment. Over promising and taking stuff away is never a good business move from a sentiment perspective. The opposite is how it should be.
