Ludwig slams Twitch for \u201cpredatory\u201d features after stream Boost announcement Twitch\/Twitch: LudwigAfter Twitch\u2019s recent paid stream boost announcement, Ludwig slammed them for releasing \u201cpredatory\u201d features despite noting his love for the platform. The Amazon-owned platform recently announced viewers will soon be able to pay money to boost their favorite streamer\u2019s channel to the \u201crecommended\u201d section of the front page. The news quickly spread around social media and became widely criticized by creators and viewers alike. In a video highlighting his thoughts on the feature, Ludwig moved to criticize Twitch for constantly releasing features that only seem to benefit bigger creators with large communities. Ludwig Slams Twitch He said: \u201cI love Twitch. I feel like I\u2019m very critical of them, but I wanna make it clear I love the platform. It\u2019s the main vehicle I use to consume content, but they are not good at adding new products.\u201d As Ludwig gives examples like the existing gifted sub leaderboard and hype trains, the creator explained that he feels that the features added by the platform have just provided the existing community ways to give the streamer more of their money instead of providing ways to bring more people into the channel. Quickly switching over to the recently announced stream boost announcement, Ludwig explained: \u201cIt\u2019s just so weird that everything Twitch does require viewers to use their money and resources to promote streamers rather than them being the one promoting and some of them I think are predatory.\u201d While Ludwig is critical of features like the stream boost, sub-gift leaderboards, and hype trains, he does think the streamer sub badge is a good feature as it promotes people who have been a part of the community a long time. The creator does go further into why he thinks the new feature will be a \u201cflop,\u201d as he believes most viewers only spend their time on channels they already enjoy with the exception of raids happening on a channel the viewer already enjoys. He may be right, as Twitch announced a similar feature using channel points almost a year ago and it was never widely adopted. We\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ludwig slams Twitch for \u201cpredatory\u201d features after stream Boost announcement Twitch\/Twitch: LudwigAfter Twitch\u2019s recent paid stream boost announcement, Ludwig slammed them for releasing \u201cpredatory\u201d features despite noting his love for the platform. The Amazon-owned platform recently announced viewers will soon be able to pay money to boost their favorite streamer\u2019s channel to the \u201crecommended\u201d section […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}