[Experiment] Making Cheering Easier
For a limited time, within a select number of channels, we’re testing a different way to Cheer through direct purchase Cheering.
Direct purchase Cheering allows you to unlock a fun community benefit through monetary payment, rather than through Bits. This experiment is only available to select creators and you must be located in the U.S. to participate. If you have any further questions please refer to our help article (https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/cheering-experiment-2022?language=en_US)
We look forward to hearing your feedback on this!
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just_some_donkus commented
6 vote? My feedback is no thank you. This looks like a way to take revenue away from streamers. Twitch already takes a huge cut of bits and subs (especially for affiliates and non-partners). This doesn't make cheering easier, it makes it easier for twitch to steal money from the content creators.
This is a terrible system that is rife for abuse by Twitch. If people want to send money directly to a streamer, they should do so via direct donation. The only benefit of using bits is that if you purchase in bulk, you can get a discount.
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lynamorim commented
Sistema horroroso. Quero os bits de volta!!
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ProblyVibin commented
Just wanna make sure I'm reading this right... So Twitch hasn't implicated any of the extremely high voted ideas, a Twitch admin puts in this lame idea nobody wants, it gets a total of 6 votes (probly other Twitch staff) and immediately goes to testing? Does Twitch staff actually sit around wondering why the platform is dying when this is how you treat the community?
Oh, my feedback on this? Yea, its terrible. Pretty much broke everything on my stream, no one likes it because they enjoy using their bits in weird numbers (69, 420, 666) but since yall know what's best for us, you just give us solid numbers because our little brains are too stupid to comprehend typing out a specific number. I also use my own software to regulate bit rewards and the like, and none of that's working anymore.
Only implementing ideas that you hope will bring you money is a good way to continue the downward trend of this platform.
Just when you thought Twitch couldn't care about its users any less...
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KGxH commented
bad bad bad
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dragons_king1 commented
As a viewer, I love being able to donate a select amount of bits of my choosing to a streamer, not to mention when the streamer offers fun sound effects for certain amounts cheered. Now with this new way to ‘cheer,’ it makes it increasingly difficult to be able to enjoy donating to a streamer and have a blast doing it. It, in a certain way, takes away the enjoyment and only provides a mean to not cheer at all, seeing as I can’t choose how much I want to cheer compared to bits, or what sound effects I want to play based on the streamers options with bits. It also makes it increasingly frustrating to buy bits, just to not be able to use them on certain streamers of my choosing without having to jump through hoops to do so.
If this new way to ‘cheer’ does fully go into effect and I can no longer use the bits that I have bought and was not able to use, then I will be expecting a refund or some kind of compensation for those said bits.
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iamKyLuYa commented
I have to say, I do understand the idea of this. but I do not think this is making anything easier. Bits allow me to distribute the amount I want to spend as I see fit, and I usually purchase 20$ in bits at a time to spread around to the viewers I see fit instead of making multiple purchases. This set up is forcing me to make a purchase every time i want to cheer and I dont like it.
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KoraKorok commented
Do not go this route, please.
Streamers are getting a HUGE hit in their pay, and viewers are being deceived. Bits were clear - 100 bits = $1 that the streamer RECIEVES. The UI is extremely misleading.
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xuxuuliaa commented
horrível.
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BlueFootBirdie commented
Who thinks this is a good idea?! Do any of the decision makers ever look or use their own product?? You could increase the amount of pay a streamer gets from bits instead of whatever this is supposed to do or replace or whatever. I am almost certain I have NEVER heard a streamer ask for such a thing like this; when we asked to make BITS better, this isn't what we were talking about.
Can you perhaps make actual improvements on the platform please.
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ronnyhugo commented
You know you broke the minimum time in Norway with that e-mail about opting out, right? Its 10 work days that's the standard, and that's the standard pretty much all over Europe. Otherwise it is suspect, sort of like ringing a door-bell and running off. You allowed 3 work days for the e-mail. That can be pursued in Norway under various legal clauses of unreasonable and predatory practices. You better hope no European streamers in general realize, and then you better back out of that terrible deal before you get heaps of bad press. Twitch lives only from streamers, if you don't treat them well you have no product to sell anymore. Just stick with what worked for years and don't start chopping down more trees than the forest can replenish just to boost a quarterly stock price (that is also sometimes pursued in Norway, we don't like businesses that eat their own feet to appear fatter before slaughter, it is stock market manipulation).
So sitrep, get real, back down from this BS and praise the lord it didn't cost you more to learn this lesson.
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phiguygaming448 commented
With changes such as this, I am wondering if the decision makers at Twitch have ever spent any time on the site. The complete lack of anything that even closely resembles improving the platform screams that those in charge really have no clue how content creation works. At least with these recent changes you should release partners from their exclusivity clauses. If you truly believe you are providing the best platform for creators, then you should have nothing to worry about. Cowards.
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Automatedlasermonkey commented
This is dumb. Previously, you could either do something for the community by gifting subs or do something for yourself by using bits to unlock bit emotes, so it was a nice balance.
But with the new system there isn't really any incentive to cheer.
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8lbs7oz commented
This test has has not unlocked any “fun community” as far as I can see. You really didn’t think this through did you? It seems like all you do is find more ways to crush the souls of the streamers that I enjoy watching the most.
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omarack commented
This is an extremely frustrating change, and I think it was very poorly implemented. I believe the changes are unnecessary and add nothing to the cheering experience. Do not implement this change permanently.
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ARK1974 commented
Tell us you don't give a **** about medium and small streamers without saying you don't give a **** about medium and small streamers.
So instead of 100% of cheers now Twitch is going to take "Fees" off of the top and then give the streamer 80% of what is left.
You would think with as much bad publicity and major streamers they have lost or ran off in the past year Twitch would have more consideration for their smaller streamers instead of trying to gouge them.
Whoever is coming up with these ideas needs to quickly be a Former Twitch Employee.
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exemplary_vegetable commented
So far in 2022 I've cheered more than 120,000 bits.
I will NOT be participating in direct cheering.
Please put it back the way it was before.
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CoyoteAllen commented
Stop this now! I buy bulk bits monthly and spread them out to channels. This is an awful awful program. Now my favorite streamer is involved in the program unknowingly and I can't support.
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wisoutlaw41 commented
As a viewer, I do not enjoy this at all. Bits are fun, just leave it alone
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Crowbeard81 commented
Twitch, you need to fire whoever came up with this idea and revert back to what you had before the weeks end. This will DEFINITELY make you lose more content creators to other platforms.
What were you thinking? This will destroy ALL small channels. You want to make changes like this...Do it to the Big streamers....see how well they like it.
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cybordemon commented
I wasn't invited, I was literally forced. I have no emails from Twitch "inviting" me to this $#itty program and no way to get out of it. LET ME GET BITS!