Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
www.nytimes.com
The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes’ contracts, and is another sign of Twitch’s tense relationship with its top streamers.

After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes

  • honk@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I mean yeah Twitch definitely needs competition. It’s just kinda sad when the compition is even shadier than twitch lmao

  • dart@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is actually good. Twitch has become just as anti-consumer as Reddit ever since Mixer shut down.

  • pirategoddess@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Maybe it’s just me, but something always seemed sketchy about Kick. Their ability to throw around hundreds of millions of dollars without any clear ownership smells fishy. I personally wouldn’t be surprised if in 5 years there was an in depth Coffeezilla video exposing the platform.

    • Psuhke@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I believe they are have been heavily invested by the owners of Stake.com the gambling platform. Pretty sure when Twitch banned gambling streams that was their cue to start or invest heavily in Kick.

    • 0xtero@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      great that there’s a Twitch rival trying to get serious

      Kick is not it though.
      Their mothership Stake is crypto gambling casino and it’s shady as fuck