Does Twitch/Amazon ever worry about their competitors poaching their big streamers, I wonder? Seems to be getting more common.
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Smash Pro/Twitch streamer ZeRo now moving to Facebook Gaming
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I'll never fault anyone for getting their money. Butttt I feel like with a situation like this, they give you the contract, you get the money. Then, when it comes time to renew the contract, they'll be like 'well your viewership greatly decreased, here's a whole lot less money.' Maybe I'm off on it but *shrug*.
I'm sure they do but Twitch has WAY more big streamers (and more streamers in general) and people watching than anywhere else and it's not even remotely close.
He sure does love Ultimate for money anytime an update happens.
Was disappointed when DisguisedToast moved, especially because he made it pretty clear he made enough money to already to the point where he would refund donations and whatnot. That he would drop basically his entire fanbase for whatever money Facebook offered is disappointing.
I'm looking at Facebook's livestreaming page, and it looks awful: https://www.facebook.com/gaming
Nothing is sorted. Games aren't sorted by most viewers. Streamers aren't sorted by most viewers. Hell, streamers aren't even sorted based on whether or not they're currently live.
If you just click on League of Legends, the first page of streamers all have less than 20 viewers.
Maybe they'll eventually realize they can't compete by throwing money at people like this.
I'll never understand why they don't introduce these moves by throwing a celebrity at it or something. Ninja's career peaked when he streamed with Drake.
I'm looking at Facebook's livestreaming page, and it looks awful: https://www.facebook.com/gaming
Nothing is sorted. Games aren't sorted by most viewers. Streamers aren't sorted by most viewers. Hell, streamers aren't even sorted based on whether or not they're currently live.
If you just click on League of Legends, the first page of streamers all have less than 20 viewers.
Contract ends, announce you're moving back to Twitch, viewership spikes again or something.
It's like Epic's approach toward having a competitive storefront, except we can see that people aren't actually following these streamers to their new platform.
Maybe they'll eventually realize they can't compete by throwing money at people like this.
I'll never understand why they don't introduce these moves by throwing a celebrity at it or something. Ninja's career peaked when he streamed with Drake.
I can see myself moving to Mixer in the future if the content improves but I'll never move to Facebook. I hope Zero continues to publish his archived videos anywhere else like Youtube.
Honestly I don't see Zero losing much here. He's not really much of a popular variety streamer, and I don't see him losing clout in the Smash community. In fact if he can get half the views he usually gets when a Smash character comes out, that would be a huge win for Facebook.
Zero is all about the money. He's not gonna care about his viewship if it means more money in the long run. Offer was probably a lot more then sticking to see what happens at twitch for a while.
pulling out a dictionary to justify harmful stereotypes never makes sense.
gamers, man.
Who is actually using this platform to watch anything though. For instance this is the first time I'm even hearing of it.
He doesn't even do that though. His best streams were Persona related and they are all on Twitch only.
After his accusing reviewers of being paid off and his thoughtless statement on mental health this doesn't surprise me. Maybe he will sell more waifu merch on facebook.
I don't use FB but from what everyone says online about it nowadays it is basically just boomers who use it which seems an odd audience for video game streams. Just go read the comments of that tweet posted. It's basically all boomer jokes.
Zero is one of the most fun streamers out there.. I'll check him out on facebook.. no big deal since I check it daily lol
I know TheMexicanRunner took one of these Facebook deals a month or two back, wonder how that's been going for him. One interesting thing there was that he said it was only Gaming content specifically that would exclusively be on Facebook, he would still be allowed to stream cooking or other things through Twitch even though it's a competitor.
ZeRo is an unpleasant person with a history of misusing his influence particularly on younger viewers so hopefully this cuts down his audience significantly
ZeRo is an unpleasant person with a history of misusing his influence particularly on younger viewers so hopefully this cuts down his audience significantly
Imagine Persona 6 coming out, wanting to watch his playthrough, and having to make a fucking Facebook account for it. Fucking hell lol.
Yeah, the Smash ultimate release boosted his numbers (along with a bunch of other people) that I think got to his head. I can't tell if he's changed or this is the real Zero, but dudes been saying some dumb stuff lately.
It's clearly bothering him. He doesn't want to play Smash but his audience only wants to watch Smash.
I guess that's what happens when you build up your community by calling yourself the best Smash 4 player in the world. He set himself up to being identified with Smash and not as a variety streamer.
Makes sense for him to cash out, the viewers aren't there for his variety streams and he doesn't like Smash anymore.
I sometimes get the FIFA world cup finals streams advertised on facebook (probably because I follow the facebook FIFA UT page) and the viewers are always around 3k which is terrible. Where are these "facebook gaming is bigger than you think" stuff coming from?
Facebook is so god damned ugly.
Why is it when I go on there with my desktop, it treats it like I'm on a fucking mobile screen?
Why is literally half the screen just gray space? Everything is just on this narrow column.
Why is it when I go on there with my desktop, it treats it like I'm on a fucking mobile screen?
Why is literally half the screen just gray space? Everything is just on this narrow column.
He looks quite a lot like the "only problem with Gears 2 is that it's too good" guy
I can see people doing it, his persona playthroughs were fucking excellent.
^ This was during the final boss (SO SPOILERS TO THOSE WHO HAVENT PLAYED P3) and his chat WENT CRAZY it was an amazing moment.
