Many streamers have a feature where if you donate a certain amount of currency, whether that be bits or the local currency the streamer has setup on their streaming provider, your message will come up on stream and get read aloud by a voice that the streamer can customize. Because there is generally a minimum amount to get this text-to-speech feature (TTS), and it is a big moneymaker for some people, I don't know how many people would use this feature, but I think it would be a good idea to allow channel points to pay for TTS messages. I know of one or two streamers, in particular, that would benefit from this because they use TTS messages to make streams more fun and create content. People now make memes all the time using the feature, it is very entertaining. Unfortunately, I think that there are so many people that would be really good at crafting excellent messages, but they are unable to afford to donate so their messages are never heard. This would be a great outlet for them, and one that I think is realistic. Although it may take some work because Twitch would need to work with the streaming providers on this, it's something that is absolutely possible and should be investigated.

Moderators have access to view the reward requests view of the twitch streams they moderate for and accept or reject the reward redemption. Can broadcaster have more control over this capability?

While it is awesome our mods have the ability to do this, some moderators may exploit the ability to approve and reject requests, while rejection means the channel points go back to the person. For custom rewards this means they can keep accumulating points and redeeming them on custom rewards and then rejecting and giving themselves the points back.

As broadcasters, we do not have the ability to see what our moderators have approved/rejected in the rewards queue. While this is great, broadcasters have no idea what was approved or denied/given back in points and what moderators are accessing when. This means, moderators may be approving or crediting the channel points they redeem back to themselves, or wiping queues before the streamer has a chance to action anything (like gifting subs).

Yes we should entrust our mods to do the right thing, but the principle is for rewards (which could come with out of pocket expenses) broadcasters whould have the ability to make sure moderators are not exploiting.

Can we please have the option to toggle the reward request queue to:
Off - Moderators and Editors do not have access
On - Moderators and Editors have access
Editors - Only editors have access

This would allow broadcasters to have the ability of what mods/editors can do on their channel with rewards.

Note: Having and auditable log would be great too. Being able to see what was redeemed, who cleared the reward and how (accepted/declined).

I would love to see a redeemable Channel Points reward that would be locked in at a certain amount that CANNOT be changed by the streamer, that could be redeemed for an actual subscription. It can be treated much the same as a Twitch Prime subscription, where it has to be renewed monthly, as well as supports the streamer as a normal subscription would.

This could enhance viewer times for those less fortunate that may not be able to afford subscriptions to their favorite streamers, and reward them for spending time watching their favorite streamer.

It can also pay off for Twitch, as this would have to equate to ad revenue in some way and that would be where determining the channel point amount that still develops a profit for Twitch so that this can be afforded while still turning a profit.

This entire idea of Boost this stream is amazing. As a content creator I am more than happy and ecstatic at the thought of maybe having this on my own channel. Although I see this tools usefulness in aiding smaller streamers grow I feel that certain criteria should be in place before becoming eligible to have access to a boost. For example: You can't get boosts on your channel unless you are an affiliate, You can't buy boosts in anyway shape or form for yourself and you can't get boosted if you are a partner. I feel the most important is the partners not having boosts. People that are partnered on twitch are no longer small streamers. They have come to a point where they are instantly taking more seriously by twitch and by companies. This tool should be restricted to smaller streamers and not accessible to big streamers who already dominate whatever sections they stream in. Overall I am happy with this idea and excited to see what it does
Sincerely Scottdoggie

Show live via a Twitch Ambassador streamer or another Twitch official channel how this works.

If the boost system in any way can be used to over take those with a smaller audience, by having a 200+ viewer channel boost it's way in front of a 45 viewer channel, then there lies an issue.

I wanna see what it does before making assumptions if it's a positive feature or not; whether I want to support the feature or not. As of now, it seems fine but I would love a live feed demonstrating how it functions, and answers to questions I'm seeing via a demo.

I will preface this suggestion that I am comparing twitches current channel point system to Streamelements since twitch feels very limiting and we could do so much more with it instead of resorting to a 3rd party to use channel points which makes it inconvenient for viewers. With that being said comments saying just use Streamelements isn't helpful, i'd love everyone's actual thoughts towards this.

Currently Twitch's channel point system feels very limiting overall especially when compared to other channel point systems aka streamelements.

Part 1: Issue with Current Twitch Channel Point Earned System

With its current setup Twitch unfortunately fully controls how many points are collected for different actions and also controls how many points different subscriber levels receive instead of giving that control to the streamer. Which lets all be honest are terrible, the fact that tier 1 which tends to be the large majority of streamer subscriptions only get 1.2x and Tier 3 which is a whopping $24.99 only gets 2x channel points while being 5x more expensive.

Other 3rd party software (streamelements for example) on the other hand gives the streamer full control of how your points can be used and allows the streamer to manually change every value whenever they'd like. Let's be real who wouldn't love the ability to increase channel point during special event streams to promote more follows, subscribers, hosts ect.

Lets Compare:
Watching Stream (10min watched): Twitch - 10 points vs Streamelements - Any
Follow Bonus: Twitch - 300 points vs Streamelements - Any
Hosting: Twitch - None vs Streamelements - Any
Subscribing: Twitch - 500 points (Only Gifting) vs Streamelements - Any
Tips/Bits: Twitch - None vs Streamelements - Any

Are we seeing a trend at this point? Overall the fact that Twitch controls how many points OUR own viewers are receiving and doesn't allow the streamer to control it manually really feels unfair and ends up forcing some of us to go to 3rd parties instead of using the integrated features.

Part 2: Issue with Current Twitch Channel Point Redemption system

This one is a bit shorter and to the point since I've seen people mention similar things but to me it feels like it needs to be included in the same issue overall.

With the current twitch redemption system it feels limiting since we currently can only create channel point redemptions for things the streamer needs to do.

When it comes to the following things:
-Gifs/images popping up on screen
-Sound effects happening
-Ability to use commands to redeem channel points
-Subscriber Only Redemptions
-Ability to use Bits to redeem instead of channel points when you don't have enough.
-Ect.

We are unfortunately forced to use other platforms like Lioran Board, Stream Elements, Triggerfyre, ect to make all these cool unique things happen. It would be so much easier to have all this built into twitch so it can all be integrated together with the channel points instead of resorting to 3rd party software.

I'm curious what else everyone else things and what else could be tied into this idea!!

Thanks for reading through this entire rant! <3<3<3

I'm in the process of developing a game designed to use channel points (CP) as a means for viewers to interact with it. I however have encountered a couple of minor issues that would be detrimental or unintended side effects of the game due to limitations in the channel point system.

Firstly, there is no way to order CP rewards manually. Since the CP rewards are the viewers interface and resulting action, it would be much better to have them ordered by type of action rather then the cost of the action. In addition I wanted to use a "NOTES" reward to give the viewer basic information about the game, but in order to make it appear first I have to make it cheaper then all the other actions, which may result in people wasting there CP on something that doesn't do anything.

Secondly, as implied by the above, CP rewards are the viewers actions in the game, but there is no way to disable the chat message for rewards redemptions, in small to medium channels, this probably isn't going to be too big of an issue, but with the cheapest action currently being 50 points, when you get to 200+ viewers it's going to be a major issue. As such a toggle to not show reward redemption publicly would be nice (the viewer should still see the redemption).