I'm forced to use Stream Elements loyalty points for rewards (charity incentives, community engagement and goals). I named them CatNip Nuggies.

Chatters love gambling with them and other silly games (Stream Elements modules) WAY more than I expected. I would also love to give them out for the people that want to feed/interact with the Pando pet.

Maybe allow it, but with some limitations?

If the problem is that they might become worthless due to being 'free' vs. earning them (lurking/subbing)? Something like how the Community Goals limit per day contributions. <3

Being able to give points to other viewers would be great too. A lot of times in channels where there aren't many options for point redemption viewers just ask if they can give points to someone. It's a fun idea

I would love to see this get added. as a relatively new affiliate myself I was disappointed to see that this was not a system already. Now i have to go out of my way and setup a custom points system with streamer.bot that somehow links back to channel points

I wanted to make a mini-game and allow members to "cash in" the points earned via that to the Twitch reward points... I suppose I'll have to scrap this :') Too bad I spent hours working on it before I realised this wasn't a thing haha. Should really be implemented, how is it we can't give channel points as streamers? Silly.

this would be an amazing feature! please implement it! you could give points to a winner of a marbles race or hold channel point giveaways, could set up all kinds of games with chat with channel points being given as prizes

WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY A THING :( Allow me to gift points, on the fly, live. I could make my own personalized games, verbal agreements or bets, ie: "streaming with a friend, post your bet in the chat to see who wins this challenge (which would be something I made up on the fly, live, just talking to my viewers). I shouldn't have to have a pre-made streamelements or streamlabs game to make my own random verbal agreements or bets during my stream. It would be SO much more engaging then having to go through the motions of people typing "! {whatever the challenge is}". Streamlabs is wayyyy ahead of the curve on this, and Twitch points have been around for 4 years now.

WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY A THING. Please please please allow me to gift points, that way I can make my own personalized games, ie: "streaming with a friend, post your bet in the chat to see who wins this challenge (which would be something I made up on the fly, live, just talking to my viewers). I shouldn't have to have a pre-made streamelements or twitch game to make my own random verbal agreements or bets on the fly during my stream. It would be SO much more engaging then having to go through the motions of people typing "! {whatever the challenge is}"

I'd like to be able to award a few channel points to people for answering a trivia question correctly.

Bonjour, j'ai intégré un jeu pokemon à ma chaine ou les viewers utilise leurs points pour acheter des pokeball et attraper les pokemon qui pop.
Il serait super que je puisse donner des points de chaîne comme je le souhaite afin qu'ils puissent être récompensés par moi-même.
En plus d'attrapé des pokemon, ils peuvent faire des combats pvp entre viewers mais pour activer cette fonction il leur faut églament avoir des points de chaînes, le souci, c'est que les nouveaux viewers, on peut de points quand ils arrivent cette fonction pourrait me permettre de dynamiser l'attraction avec mes viewers .
J'ajouterai également une fonction pour racheter des points de chaînes avec les bits.
Pour le moment la seule astuce que j'ai trouvée et de ne pas valider les points de chaîne afin de les rembourser… cette action et très fastidieuse et me fait perdre beaucoup de temps pendant mes lives.
SVP Twitch donnais nous cette fonction !

I would love this. i would like to do chat challenges and be able to reward viewers a small amount of additional channel points. Great for celebrations steams too.

I do believe this could be a thing. If only Twitch could see this.

!givepoints

I do like this idea and I believe that this feature would change the overall content dynamics for everyone. The amount of things you can do with this as a feature is amazing.

Until this feature is added, you can use StreamElements (and I am sure there are other sites) to reward viewers. The only thing is that I believe you have to do it one person at a time rather than giving rewards to everyone viewing like was mentioned in the OP.

Twitch is sleeping on a great idea here and I think, eventually, it will be added.

I wanted to make a mini-game with channel points as rewards then I found out how limited Channel points API is, it should be called Channel rewards API. Please, implement the real Channel points API.

I Googled this this hoping it was already a feature 😭 today is my first stream as an Affiliate and I wanted to give 1,000 points to all of the followers who helped me reach this point.

I priced all my redemption really low so 1,000 points would give them 10 sound alerts, let them guide the raid, or get halfway to my biggest reward which is me playing a ghost hunting game without my glasses for 5 minutes. It would have made my Affiliate debut that much more fun.

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I agree with what some people are saying about relying on 3rd party applications for loyalty points. Having an option for streamer (and perhaps even mods) to give out channel points would be good. I'd like to expand the suggestion by adding a new API endpoint for channel-point management. That way 3rd party developers will still be able to hook into a loyalty system.

Points are absurdly restrictive. Awarding points to viewers at will could allow us to move our point systems from StreamLabs or StreamElements to Twitch for good. Or reward behaviors. Create award-winning channel minigames, or whatever we came up with. But if we can't program our own points, they will still suck compared to much older Loyalty services on other platforms.

This is a great idea to increase engagement! I had this idea and it only works if I’m allowed to reward chat some channel points in the future

I do multiple things in my stream. And sometimes I forget to turn off for the actual stream irrelevant rewards, so if they redeem that reward, they just lost the points. This time it would be great if we could add points back.

Or in scene X there is cam what you can redeem via channel points, but not on scene Y. If they redeem when scene Y is on, they lost the points. We can not control fast the rewards (turn off automatically on scene Y for example).... But there will be no change here (very fast) I think. Channel points are introduced almost exactly 1 year ago...but not really changed there anything.