Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
www.nytimes.com
The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes’ contracts, and is another sign of Twitch’s tense relationship with its top streamers.

After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes

  • pirategoddess@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Maybe it’s just me, but something always seemed sketchy about Kick. Their ability to throw around hundreds of millions of dollars without any clear ownership smells fishy. I personally wouldn’t be surprised if in 5 years there was an in depth Coffeezilla video exposing the platform.

    • Psuhke@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      I believe they are have been heavily invested by the owners of Stake.com the gambling platform. Pretty sure when Twitch banned gambling streams that was their cue to start or invest heavily in Kick.

    • verysoft@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think it’s gonna be a gambling cesspool. Given the investors, that’s the goal of it anyway.
      It’s a shame mixer had such a shit user experience, that could have been a proper twitch competitor without the sketchy gambling.