A few viewers cheered tonight with this new system, and it didn't kick off a hype train (3 events usually sets it off, around 6 people cheered and no hype train). It also didn't activate my cheer alerts. My viewers and I both had negative reactions to this, especially since you can't pre-buy these cheers like you can with bits. I like that I can buy however many bits (and get a discount depending on the amount) and then hand them out as I see fit. Instead, they have to give full dollar amounts, and pay for it each time, instead of buying a bulk. Very inconvenient and definitely dissuades viewers from cheering. Please go back to bits. This also feels disingenuous, with bits viewers know up front that they are paying a chunk to twitch in order to have and use bits. This makes it look like they're actually giving that dollar or 5 dollars or so on to the streamer, but its not. You're skimming it from the streamer after the fact instead of getting the money up front from the viewer. I do not like this at all. And the fact that it doesn't help hype trains makes zero sense to me.
A few viewers cheered tonight with this new system, and it didn't kick off a hype train (3 events usually sets it off, around 6 people cheered and no hype train). It also didn't activate my cheer alerts. My viewers and I both had negative reactions to this, especially since you can't pre-buy these cheers like you can with bits. I like that I can buy however many bits (and get a discount depending on the amount) and then hand them out as I see fit. Instead, they have to give full dollar amounts, and pay for it each time, instead of buying a bulk. Very inconvenient and definitely dissuades viewers from cheering. Please go back to bits. This also feels disingenuous, with bits viewers know up front that they are paying a chunk to twitch in order to have and use bits. This makes it look like they're actually giving that dollar or 5 dollars or so on to the streamer, but its not. You're skimming it from the streamer after the fact instead of getting the money up front from the viewer. I do not like this at all. And the fact that it doesn't help hype trains makes zero sense to me.