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He just ended the stream when he checked his usage report on Livestream.com. Apparently he had racked up 17,000 viewer hours so far and said the cost was gett

by Simucal 15y ago

He just ended the stream when he checked his usage report on Livestream.com. Apparently he had racked up 17,000 viewer hours so far and said the cost was getting way out of hand. I'm trying to see how much that is going to cost him. It would be cool if we could get Livestream to sponsor him perhaps as a way to promote their service?

citricsquid 15y ago
http://www.livestream.com/estimator http://www.livestream.com/estimator Enter "mojang" there to see the cost.
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- Madsn 15y ago
  Thats pretty crazy. over 15k USD
  - marcog1 15y ago
    He makes about €172,493 in sales a day (source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp). $15,000 is relatively nothing to him.
    - bradtgmurray 15y ago
      He makes a lot of money, therefore he should throw money into a fire.
    - nknight 15y ago
      Snarky remarks aside... The cost estimator basically says the incremental cost is $0.27/hour. That's pretty expensive for what is, in this case, basically bare streaming infrastructure (livestream adds some value, but not much for this particular use case). The essential functionality could be easily replicated on e.g. Amazon EC2 at less than half, maybe even 1/3rd, the incremental cost even as a one-off thing. Even now, as a not-particularly-wealthy person, I'm often willing to pay extra for convenience, but I just don't see ever being willing to pay 3x the cost of doing it myself for a non-mission-critical application, especially when there are even cheaper options like twitch.
- inportb 15y ago
  or see http://www.livestream.com/estimator?channel=mojang http://www.livestream.com/estimator?channel=mojang
- jonursenbach 15y ago
  Holy shit.
emmett 15y ago
We're offering him 100% free service on TwitchTV. In fact, he'll MAKE money through our partner program. Since we already have a massive Minecraft casting community, I think it's a logical place for him to do it: http://twitch.tv/directory/Minecraft http://twitch.tv/directory/Minecraft
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  - mukyu 15y ago
    He mentioned getting an email from them on stream.

by Simucal 15y ago

citricsquid 15y ago

http://www.livestream.com/estimator http://www.livestream.com/estimator Enter "mojang" there to see the cost.

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Madsn 15y ago
Thats pretty crazy. over 15k USD
- marcog1 15y ago
  He makes about €172,493 in sales a day (source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp). $15,000 is relatively nothing to him.
  - bradtgmurray 15y ago
    He makes a lot of money, therefore he should throw money into a fire.
  - nknight 15y ago
    Snarky remarks aside... The cost estimator basically says the incremental cost is $0.27/hour. That's pretty expensive for what is, in this case, basically bare streaming infrastructure (livestream adds some value, but not much for this particular use case). The essential functionality could be easily replicated on e.g. Amazon EC2 at less than half, maybe even 1/3rd, the incremental cost even as a one-off thing. Even now, as a not-particularly-wealthy person, I'm often willing to pay extra for convenience, but I just don't see ever being willing to pay 3x the cost of doing it myself for a non-mission-critical application, especially when there are even cheaper options like twitch.
inportb 15y ago
or see http://www.livestream.com/estimator?channel=mojang http://www.livestream.com/estimator?channel=mojang
jonursenbach 15y ago
Holy shit.

emmett 15y ago

We're offering him 100% free service on TwitchTV. In fact, he'll MAKE money through our partner program. Since we already have a massive Minecraft casting community, I think it's a logical place for him to do it: http://twitch.tv/directory/Minecraft http://twitch.tv/directory/Minecraft

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- mukyu 15y ago
  He mentioned getting an email from them on stream.