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> Price-averse? There are people literally throwing (digital) money at streamers just for fun, or to troll them, or to get their message announced on stream, or
by pdpi 8y ago
> Price-averse? There are people literally throwing (digital) money at streamers just for fun, or to troll them, or to get their message announced on stream, or any number of random antics a streamer sets up.
The magic of twitch (and league of legends, and a few more) is that this is indeed a very price-sensitive crowd, but one that is willing to engage in a steady stream of frequent capex-style microtransactions while refusing to touch opex/subscription-based models.
- keerthiko 8y agoMost of these people also have $5/mo (or 'prime subs' that are free with amazon prime) subscriptions to one or more content creators in the community. I don't even have netflix or spotify or any subscription service, but I find it worth my $5/month to support the one streamer I enjoy tuning in to whenever I want some background entertainment while doing things around the house, and I think that's not an uncommon usecase.
- spdionis 8y agoIt's just that some of the streamers' content is so good that you don't need to pay them, you want to. It's also about personal connection with a community, which is something that was lacking on the internet after the era of forums died out.