Thank you twitch, thank you Amazon ... - a blog lost among the other

Strangely, I did not see anyone talking in the corner. Or, I missed the conversations. Anyway, I'm ever invited to evenings. Yet it's something huge that happened yesterday at 18h.

Twitch has decided to lower subscription rates in France (and globally worldwide) to align them with $ 4.99 in the USA. In France, we went to 3; € 99 against € 4.99. It's good for consumers, will you tell me? Certainly yes. But for creators, it's another pair of sleeves.

Yes, because the conversion, she, for the creators has not changed. As an affiliate, the share of revenues is supposed to be 50%. In reality, when a creator affects a sub, he wins about $ 2.20 or the equivalent of 1.80 €. With this rates upgrade, it will affect less than € 1.50. For small and medium chains, so it's an even more marked precariousness. The very large streamers will be less impacted by these changes but of twitch laws, this should allow each streamer to have more subscribers ... so ok. More subscribers. But more income too? However twitch, _en grand prince that he is, decided for 1 year to help bearing creators with this shortfall through a revenue adjustment premium (which is called RSA Twitch for the rest of this mood ticket) that will be decreasing every quarter (100% 1T, 75% 2T, etc., you understand the logic?).

But to be eligible for this TWITCH RSA each month until July 2022, you must now make a period of hours of stream. And obviously not to exceed the average estimated by the Bots of Twitch of your income. So now, the more the right to have medical worries, the necessary breaks for creation or simply a vacation. We return to a performance era (for those of the bottom that do not follow, it is not surprising when we know that Twitch belongs to Amazon). And what does that change? Bah everything, precisely. And most certainly other excesses that we imagine the outlines today. Especially since the stories of burn out or health degraded by the streams are not rare. They will certainly be even more numerous.

The problem with all this is especially that as an affiliate or partner, we sign contracts with Twitch. Contract whose ins and outs can be modified by the platform according to their desires and without taking into account our consent. All you can do is aquesce and get used to these new rules. And it's serious. Because we depend on the American law that is much more lax than our right to work and right to syndicate. In short, to summarize, it's shit. And it will not get started.

Who guarantees us that after this year of RSA Twitch, the platform will not impose a period of hours of stream to be paid, to keep his affiliation or his partnership? Who guarantees us that we will not increase this hour quotat (currently representing 85% of the hours of stream on average). Especially that be serious 2 min, if twitch / amazon had decided to help the streamers, they could, without putting in place such devices. It's not at all as if the business was one of the wealthiest in the world.

In short, this decision looked like the consumer but for the creators, it will only happen the ditch between the already precarious streamers and the big streamers who will get much better. Like what, it is always dangerous to depend on a 100% platform that has a monopoly.

Kiwikrykry, Streameur with a quotat of 91h / month